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USA leftists in favor of voting for Biden: What other direct action should we do? (lemm.ee)

submitted 4 months ago by anarchost@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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A few things that are accessible within the USA include:

Participating in mutual aid programs
Campaigning on the local level, including for positions like poll watchers
Making your voice heard in community events in general
Joining your local DSA, networking

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 30 points 4 months ago

Just in general?

Support FOSS as a creation of digital public goods. Even more so aiming with decentralized networks or user facing projects.

Partipate at municple level for sure. At lot of those positions go unchallenged and the meetings tend to have open comment period to influence them. Its also where ~70% of interaction with the state actually happens.

Help out local unions during strikes (boycotts, donations, spread positive awareness, etc).

Garden plant exchanges or anything that can help people avoid HAVING to buy things to live.

I really like volunteering at Habitat for Humanity, only things I feel like I can afford to do to help with the housing crisis. Pushing for laxing of zoneing laws, more human centric urban planning (public transport, bikes, walking routes), and better legal support cooperative housing are great to me, but also all long long term. I also am trying to my funds situated to try and set up a community land trust to try and great a bulwark against investment housing and landlordism, but that's mid term.

I do some volunteering to with our local coopertivly owned maker space too. It really gives people access to tools that many can't get access to otherwise for a very low monthly rate.