Noisey, “Don’t Just Sit Back and Hope Metal and Punk ‘Get Better’ Under Trump”

There are so many ways to help even just here in New York City—from providing women who are forced to travel here for second-trimester abortions with a place to stay during their trip via the Haven Project, to joining Make the Road‘s fight to build the power of Latino and working class communities, to showing up for a Black Lives Matter Peoples’ Monday protest or donating books to a chapter of Books Through Bars. Send supplies to the Native American water protectors at Standing Rock. Get involved with your local leftist, anti-fascist, or anarchist group. If that’s not your speed, get involved with your community; volunteer for a cause you care about, whether it be prison abolition, or suicide prevention, or LGBTQIA youth. Join a union, or organize your workplace. Offer to accompany your Muslim friends on errands if they feel unsafe. Make sure your female-identified friends make it home safe. Accompany your friends to and from Planned Parenthood appointments to make sure they’re okay. Do. Something.

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