Discussion: how do you choose where to put your energy?

[tanaqui]

I'm sure many of us are feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of different issues being raised by the Minority President's administration: attacks on the media, Russian interference, threats to the ACA and abortion rights, immigration, First Amendment rights and Net Neutrality, dismantling public protections for our environment and our finances....

We've already had a post about how to approach your activism once you've decided which issues you want to work on. But, as sathari said in a comment to the last check-in post:

[T]here are so many things WRONG, which are the MOST wrong that I need to speak up about RIGHT NOW?

So this post is a place for people to suggest ways we can each figure out where we're going to put our energies when so much is wrong but we can't tackle all of it.

Comments

[tassosss]

All of the above comments echo what I was going to say about picking the one or two issues that you care about the most and sticking to those.

I'm wondering if there's a way we can create support groups by topic for this comm - would that be helpful?

I'm thinking of the Land Team model. Like the handful of people who want to focus on Healthcare, for example, can find each other, keep track of the news, post the calls to action for Team Healthcare, make the calls for the wider community if there's a protest/big vote in Congress coming up.

For my own part, I've found that since my job is one that may be in the crosshairs in the near future, doing it well has become one place I put my energy. I live in the bluest of blue states, so I haven't found what I feel is a constructive use of my remaining time or energy, but I'm thinking it might be something hyperlocal that I can physically volunteer for.

[venturous]

excellent plan! our Prog group is evolving in this direction