Know what skills you have, and what you enjoy doing or at least could stand doing for a few more hours a week. Know IT? Offer free tutoring to elders in reentry. Find your local Books to Prisoners chapter and do some mailing. Ask a youth shelter if you can facilitate a craft night. - ThreadSky

edidin.bsky.social • 4 days ago

Know what skills you have, and what you enjoy doing or at least could stand doing for a few more hours a week. Know IT? Offer free tutoring to elders in reentry. Find your local Books to Prisoners chapter and do some mailing. Ask a youth shelter if you can facilitate a craft night.

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mossenj0yer.bsky.social•2 days ago

so much yes to reaching out to youth shelters and offering your skills!!! I work at a shelter, and I know stuff like that would mean the world to those kids. it can be a pain to get onboarded bc you will likely have to pass a background check and become a volunteer but so worth it!!!

dweller42.bsky.social•4 days ago

Also, set up a burner email account to flood the snitch lines, if you know how.

edidin.bsky.social•4 days ago

Know what kind of engagement is sustainable for you. I am not a working-in-big-groups person, for the most part; but I am amazing at coordinating between people, orgs, and resources, and troubleshooting how to build projects and programs from limited resources.

fogurr.bsky.social•3 days ago

someone on my skyline taught me that for every 200 in the streets you need 2000 other people doing admin work and work in smaller efforts to sustain those in the front line.

revanche.bsky.social•3 days ago

I know this already but it really helps to be reminded when things feel so unbelievably impossible.

edidin.bsky.social•4 days ago

Hello slew of people and/or bots to tell me that I am undermining people's hope by saying that it's hard to make a big change as one person. You are missing the point; and I think a lot of people also get discouraged by the scope of problems vs. their individual power.

edidin.bsky.social•4 days ago

This is a thread for people who get overwhelmed at just how much is broken and need to figure out a point of entry. And yes, OBVIOUSLY, individual efforts can scale and create movements. But part of what makes grassroots work is realistically recognizing what each person or chapter can do.

jojofe24.bsky.social•3 days ago

Youre thoughts are appreciated ❤️

davidwynne.bsky.social•4 days ago

Jesus Christ, I would love to know who makes those fucking bots.

(My money is on Elon)

prisonculture.bsky.social•4 days ago

Some people are determined to misunderstand you. This is acute online. Everyone with sense understood what you were posting.

randomjeweler.bsky.social•4 days ago

Yea I felt kinda good being like ' yea I can do some stuff" I'm always overwhelmed by everything

monsterteatime.bsky.social•4 days ago

This. Jay, you know you have my sword in this. Anyone disagreeing with you is being Very Obtuse and also deeply unaware of what sustainable resistance actually is/looks like. ::hugs::

uphoulstery.bsky.social•3 days ago

Most people very willfully misunderstand. As someone who's never been allowed to belong to anything or have belongings and has also been consistently dehumanized and devalued by other activists and victims and survivors, it's important to know each voice matters. I'd be dead if not for me, me only 🫂

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