If you need a “Doomsday Do Something” that isn’t directly political might I recommend one of these hyperlocal action items for Omaha folks:
Join the Hillside Solutions compost club! For less than the cost of a Netflix subscription Omaha residents can participate in composting without *any* setup on their own properties. Just collect your scraps and find a drop spot close to you to dump it once a week or so. Ya never know what cool person or business might be the closest host to you (ahem…. for Millard folks, it’s me
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Visit a Little Free Library or consider starting one yourself! This is a great way to meet new friends and neighbors, spread a love for reading through our community, and have a reason to patronize local bookshops like The Bookworm more often
Join your hyperlocal Buy Nothing group. These are an amazing way to get to know neighbors and an excellent example of using an unjust system (social media) to build a just world (hyperlocal, anti-consumerist community connections)
Start planning a garden or chicken coop, or check out Whispering Roots as an org to connect with to do food justice work. Grocery angst is super real right now – for good reason – and although “self sufficiency” is a stupid individualistic myth, community sufficiency is not.
Contact me! If you have questions about any of the above things, want to be connected to something else, or just need to feel like it’s going to be okay for a second or two I would love to chat. There’s a lot wrong with this current moment in time, but I promise promise promise – this moment can swing a different way than “the news” is saying. I can’t speak for every place but I am quite confident can speak for this one.
We can reframe this moment from the collapse to the rebuild, and in doing so take back the systems of power that collapsed it in the first place. 