Find out who organized a protest that you would have wanted to join, start following them on social media, they will usually announce any upcoming protests there.

You can also try Googling to find organizations in your area that match your ideologies by entering {ideology} + {location} in Google, e.g. “BLM San Francisco” and sign up for newsletters.

In the beginning it will be a lot of active looking but once you start following the right accounts on social media and you’ve signed up for some newsletters/mailinglists, you should be able to passively consume what’s happening next and where.

it raises an eyebrow or two if the other person doesn’t associate the two conditions.

I don’t get it. It raises an eyebrow if you don’t link encephalitis and HIV? I’m about 90% sure I must be misunderstanding you…

Of course they do. It’s madness that you’re at the mercy of an employer who decides how many vacation days you get if you get anything at all.

General well-being, physical and mental shouldn’t be left to employers. A certain minimum should be mandatory, if an employer wants to be attractive, they can add more instead of pretending two weeks is generous. No one can recover from work (or life) related stress in just a week or maybe two, it’s insanity.