I live in the boonies about an hour south of Chicago and am still, thankfully, working full time. So driving up and down every single day isn't feasible for me given traffic and roadblocks.
What can I do inside my community to help our cause? It feels like I'm just powerless, watching Twitter and the news in horror, and I hate it. I've always prided myself on the opinion that if I were alive in the 60s, I'd have been out there on the front lines. And here I am, doing dick, tied down by my job that I need to survive. I feel like a fraud and need to change that.
I haven't been out on the front lines either, but what I have been doing is trying to provide y'all with mutual aid, volunteer, and donation resources to help improve the immediate material conditions of those within your communities. Food insecurity and homelessness are majorly on the rise, spread donation links for your local food pantries and homeless shelters on Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, wherever. If you look in the sidebar, I created a state-by-state resource containing links to food banks, food pantries, homeless shelters, and soup kitchens. I'd start by looking in there. Protesting is dank, but there is other praxis to be done too. :)