On February 17, the day before Presidents Day, a general strike shall be held against any and all things Trump. If Boise is having an activists workshop, then there are plenty of tranches of fertile ground nationwide to plant Tor browsers, relays, and exit nodes.
http://sfist.com/2017/02/02/nationwide_general_strike_gains_tra.php
https://www.facebook.com/events/1756631744665376/
There's activism, and then there's activism. I would steer clear of actual OpSec unless you're in the right milieu.
I have been told in introducing Tor that it can be difficult to conceptualize. I always tell people that your privacy is more configurable than you may realize, and that privacy horizons differ.
Get down. Get encrypted.