January 2026

bookstores

Small Bookstores

Ordering books online is a convenience many of us are reluctant to give up. Bookshop.org lets you leverage your purchases to support local bookstores. If you’re trying to quit Amazon, create a Bookshop.org account for your next purchase. Find a Minneapolis bookshop to support for extra resistance value.

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Activist Training

States at the Core was created by experts in resisting authoritarianism. They are holding a training for community organizing to resist ICE on Sunday January 25th, 12pm Pacific Time.

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Erica Chenoweth

Non-violence

Do you trust science? It tells us that sustained, widespread non-violence has the strongest rate of success. Not armed resistance. Not civil war. Non-violence isn’t always legal, and it takes real courage. And it works.

In this short video from 2013 Erica expands on this research to explain why it works, what to do when protests are met with violence, and why it’s the best path back to a democracy.

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Have some fun!

Buy tickets for yourself (and a friend?) and attend a local entertainment event, especially if it’s a benefit for a cause you value! Musicians, spoken word poets, theater—joy is resistance!

Choose venues and artists who live in your region, and spend what you can to bolster the local community. The economic downturns hit artists hard.

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Cookies

Cookies!

Nobody deserves a cookie for just doing the right thing…wait…what are we saying! Of course you deserve cookies! Buy your girl scout cookies from transgender or unhoused scouts for extra brownie points.

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Minnesota

Today Minnesota strikes. You can support them by donating to one of the many mutual aid organizations. Or place an order online with a business that’s closed today, to help them make up the lost revenue.

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