• Redistribute your wealth to individuals in need.

• Donate to Mutual Aid Groups.

• Organize fundraisers for local groups.

• Knit or crochet items for your houseless neighbors.

• Participate in #Warm Holidays 2024.

• Organize local free stores to distribute needed items and supplies to community members. Can’t do a whole store, how about a free table?

• Help with disaster relief.

• Organize a childcare collective. Another example here.

• Start your own automotive free clinic.

• Create a tool library in your neighborhood.

• Start a repair cafe.

• Read about mending circles here and here. Create your own.

• Set up a listening booth.

• Organize or participate in community clean-ups.

• Start a POD.

• Start a bike library.

• Donate to food programs (for example this one and donate to them here).

• Cook and bake for community group meetings.

• Organize a bake sale.

• Start or join Food Not Bombs.

• Set up a Free Fridge in your community.

• Start or join a local community garden. Benefits of gardening are here.

• Start a Meal-Based Residency Program.

• Organize or participate in political education. Here’s a helpful guide. Some study guides.

• Facilitate a local or virtual teach in about the attempted privatization of the post office. Join with others to do this on May 3 and beyond.

• Establish ongoing study and book groups - sign up for a training on how to facilitate reading groups.

• Organize a monthly community film screening & discussion.

• Participate in skill-sharing and trainings.

• Offer skill-sharing and trainings.

• Get involved in Citizen University.

• Join or start a union.  

• If you’re a young person interested in unions, get involved with Gen Union.

• Form an affinity group.

• Participate in consumer boycotts. Check out #TeslaTakeDown

• Organize or attend neighborhood assemblies and people’s movement assemblies

• Attend community board and other local meetings.

• Organize response and support for survivors of violence. Sign up to be trained as a volunteer with domestic violence and sexual assault organizations/groups.

• Run for or seek appointment to your local library board.

• How to Fuck Up an Asshole School Board.

• Organize community freedom schools (the Children’s Defense Fund offers one model but there are many others too: here and here).

• Here’s a list of 10 ways to support your local public libraries.

• Request and read diverse books by BIPOC and queer authors. We Need Diverse Books is a great resource to find titles.

• In the US, EveryLibrary fights censorship, supports grassroots advocacy for libraries, fights anti-library legislation and helps libraries seek necessary funding. They have more specific and timely calls to action on their site.

• Push back against book bans and the groups that ban books by requesting banned and challenged titles.

• Libraries can also be great places to host a book group or community support gathering, like some of the other meeting and mutual aid ideas shared elsewhere in this list.

• Start a healing justice lending library.

• Start your own version of the Library Dads.

• Film the police AKA copwatch.

• Monitor court cases [courtwatching and participatory defense hubs]

• Financially and emotionally support detained and incarcerated people  

• Start or join a jail support project  and here’s a jail support zine.

• Organize or attend neighborhood assemblies and people’s movement assemblies

• Consider jury nullification.

• Signal-boost & support prison strikes and abolition efforts.

• Sign the Solidarity Pledge.

• Learn about and practice community self-defense.

• Learn about Community Defense Zones and also check out this excellent resource Defend and Recruit for learning about creating rapid response networks.

• Learn about deportation defense through this new resource by Make The Road and this one by Mijente.

• Donate and/or volunteer with abortion funds and practical support organizations.

• Escort people to abortion clinics when needed. Also you can reach out to your local PP/indie clinic to ask if they have an escort program use this link to find them: ineedana.com.

• Adopt a clinic.

• Train to become a practical support volunteer and support people traveling to access abortion care.

• For youth who want to fight for abortion rights.

• What does it look like to start or join a trans youth emergency project in your community?

• ACT OUT is a national network of young people fighting back against LGBTQ attacks.

• Contribute to Trans Healthcare Travel

I created a “steps to action: reproductive justice” guide to share with my Goddaughter and her friends. It is intended to help them as they’ve been extremely worried about how to actually take some action around an issue that they care a lot about. Perhaps it might be helpful for others too. Link is here. Make your own focused “steps to action” guide and share with your loved ones and community members.

• These thinking and steps from The Revolution Will be From Bed

• 26 ways to be in the struggle not in the streets

• Cripping the Resistance

• A suggestion offered: “Provide caregiving help for disabled folks, help us with daily tasks so we can have more energy to organize, & if u have more cognitive & physical capacity u can volunteer to help us plan direct actions (this one’s personal, I really need someone who has done projections onto buildings)”

• Garrett Bucks recently created a useful list of actions you can take on your own.

• Volunteer your art, technology, design, legal skills to local efforts, organizations, groups.

• Watch this and write letters to the elderly also here.

• Make zines and pamphlets on various topics and distribute them in your communities [laundromats, cafes, public libraries, schools, etc…]

• Start a community newsletter or bulletin to share information about local mutual aid.

• Create or redistribute art and media to counter mainstream propaganda.

• Amplify the calls for support from people of color, disabled people and others.

• Uplift queer and trans voices.

• Share vital info online and in person.

• Support friends who are attending/planning actions/protests