This short book can be read in an hour, but it provides a great deal of historical insight and advice for how to engage in a post-truth (or as Snyder calls it, “pre-fascist”) society.
If you’re not entirely sure what fascism means, or whether we’re already there, start with this quick read.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century Find Out How »
A quick read that traces the path of a white Catholic mother of six from her assigned destiny into a world of activism she never imagined. Along the way, pick up practical organizing tips.
What my Left Hand was Doing: Lessons from a Grassroots Activist Find Out How »
This is my favorite book about activism and uprising. It’s where I first encountered Erica Chenoweth’s 3.5% rule, learned about several successful foreign resistance movements, and discovered new details about our own civil rights movement.
This is an Uprising : How Nonviolent Revolt is Shaping the Twenty First Century Find Out How »
Locate minority owned businesses in your area. Restaurants are a good start, but branch out. Create a list of interesting local places and then visit them. Leave reviews (google, facebook, yelp) when you find “local gems.”
Minority Business Find Out How »
Remember how we all learned our home phone number as kids? Today, I couldn’t call my own mother without looking her number up on my phone.
Choose one person you could call in an emergency who is NOT likely to be with you. Memorize their number.
Memorize one Phone Number Find Out How »
Remember paper address books? Begin rebuilding analog records. Imagine that you lost your phone and the data was unrecoverable. What would it take to get back in touch with your people *without* getting online and asking them to ping you?
Analog Addresses Find Out How »
From Portland’s Fearless Frog to historic characters with a message, costumes add spectacle and defray the fear-based messaging of the right.
Create a persona for your protesting activities. Make it silly or pointed — it’s dress-up time!
Signal isn’t suitable for military-grade security, but it’s vastly better than META owned chats like Messenger or Whats App. Install Signal, learn to use it, and begin building your connections there.
Or in this case, books by banned authors. Mark Bray was dubbed “Mr. Antifa” by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA for teaching a class on the history of “Antifa” from WWII to present. So buy his book: “Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook.” Drive it to the top of the lists.
Buy Banned Books Find Out How »
