I keep coming back to this list of "some actions that are not protesting or voting," a great assemblage of ways to find actions that you can take geared to your safety, positionality, and privilege.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I cannot stress enough how a legal risk framework is leading to bad decision-making at some campuses. They are going overboard to avoid any questions out of the belief it will keep us safe. It won't! They will move the target. They will push for more based on prior compliance.

even a hostile federal government only has limited enforcement resources, and a government gutted of its personnel and fulled with mistrust even more so. If universities adopt a strategy of collective resistance, and mutual support for those targeted by the regime, they may well be able to protect

TL;DR: universities, like the press and others are at war. We didn't choose that war, it was thrust upon us, but it is war nonetheless. We need to start acting like it. In a war, playing nice with the enemy does not work. And that means choosing bolder strategies, including bolder legal strategies.

Yes. I’ve already cut back any unnecessary spending this year as a form of protest.