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

[redbird]

Mine is partly opportunistic: if a rally is announced, can I reasonably get to it, and can I tolerate being outside that long? (The latter is based on a combination of the weather and how I'm feeling that day.)

This may not be the best approach, but it's what I'm doing now.

Also, keep in mind that some of what we're already doing counts: I was talking to my mother yesterday, and she was saying that she wished she had the energy for phone calls or rallies. I reminded her that she is doing important political work that very few other people can: Holocaust education, telling people about her personal experiences as a survivor. She has been doing that work for a long time, and plans her schedule around it, but wasn't thinking of it as political/resistance work.