justice4mikebrown:

26 ways to support growing movements beyond protesting (Link 1) (Link 2)

1. Host or attend a Know Your Rights Training to educate yourself and your community on their rights when interacting with police

2. Fundraise online/Donate to organizations

3. Spread the word on rallies, actions, events and demands online and in person

4. Offer to be the emergency contact for people attending marches and rallies

5. Attend planning meetings or strategy calls for organizations

6. Support or organize healing justice events

7. Cook a pre- or post-march meal or pack food for people attending protests, marches, and events

8. Coordinate or provide childcare for people attending marches

9. Create and share art, music, poetry, and stories. Create new chants, make signs, reach out to organizers to see what materials they need designed

10. Create a home base where folks who are protesting can take physical and emotional breaks indoors with others

11. Continue to reflect on your privilege, power, and identity. Find like-identified folks to workshop with and have conversations with family, friends, co-workers, and community members to help build awareness and solidarity.

12. Be a grounding or self-care buddy

13. Offer to help create a safety plan for friends who have physical pain, varying mobilities, and/or mental health concerns and want to participate in protests

14. Create intentional spiritual space 

15. Volunteer with organizations to provide IT support, collect supplies for demonstrations, answer phones, do data entry, upload, organize, and archive documentation

16. Work with teachers. Write curriculum, support other educators talking about these issues, organize trainings, teach-ins, and host conference calls with teachers to strategize how to talk with students about what’s happening and how they can get involved.

17. Share skills. Whether that means organizing demonstrations, being a medic, providing jail support, or being a legal observer, then host trainings, create educational documents and support people in building their skills.

18. Make space to process everything that is happening

19. Hold space and/or organize events centering the experiences of people directly effected

20. Skype, text, visit, and show love for those who are managing trauma

21. Help amplify the protests

22. Translate documents, media, and support being circulated about protests to international press and other outlets

23. Support people with disabilities and multiple cognitive experience by writing captions for images to convey messages in photos and footage. This amplifies these messages and increases information sharing.

24. Attend and/or circulate events/panels that are central to the issue

25. Start conversations about the importance of the issues in your workplace, school, library, church, family, etc.

26. Take care of yourself! Take a break from social media and the news. Allow yourself to feel, express rage, cry, and experience joy.