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One Day Ago:
Hilton Points
Don’t leave credit sitting at businesses we’re boycotting. It’s like an interest-free loan. Put your Hilton points to work: convert them to flights, donate them to charities, convert them to cash, or use them to book and re-book rooms in places ICE is active. Don’t let them sit on your earned value!
Mark ICE
Gestapo-like abductions are happening wherever you are. Bring attention to this fact with signs documenting where people have been snatched. Use chalk, stencils, yellow flowers, posters, or pop-up protests to let passers-by know an atrocity occurred right here, where they live.
Bureaucracy Busting
The GOP steals through beurocracy: they made it harder to keep SNAP benefits, and now they’re trying to make it harder to vote through legal hurdles. Share your hard-won knowledge about bureaucratic tasks. When you check your voter registration, remind others (with instructions!) If you know a friend needs a passport, offer to help them…
Two Days Ago:
Buy Stickers
Have you ever seen a funny resistance sticker and your whole day lifted? That’s the point: normalize criticism of the regime with a bit of humor, and let allied people know they’re not alone. Click through for some sticker sources.
Postcard Protest
Cards and postcards are harder for officials to ignore than phone calls, emails or petitions. If you enjoy writing old fashioned letters, set up your stationary and start telling your elected representatives what you think!
Time Banking!
The idea is simple: trade favors, collectively. Maybe you’re great with taxes, and Julie needs help. You need someone to clean the gutters, but Julie can’t climb ladders. With a time bank you help Julie…and Jim and Joe, then David helps you. He’s happy to do it. Julie, the registered nurse, was a lifesaver after…
Three Days Ago:
Taxes
If you get a big refund April 15th, it means you loaned the government interest-free money. Adjust your W-2 withholding to withhold less. Aim for no refund, and a bill under $1000 next April. This is not a tax protest. It’s your legal right to adjust withholding.
Thank you cards
Do you send physical thank you cards? Whenever you’re writing one, send a spare to a politician or activist group you’re grateful for. Use up leftover seasonal cards (ask buy nothing for leftover wedding cards?) and be specific about what you appreciate! Everyone loves a kudo!
“No ICE, please!”
ICE is surging nationwide, according to multiple reports. Ask local businesses to post signs barring them from non-public areas, and help them learn to recognize non-judicial warrants. Click through.
Four Days Ago:
Digital Defense Fund
The DDF provides digital privacy assistance to progressive organizations. They offer trainings and hands-on technical volunteers to organizations. They are endorsed by the EFF. Donate to digitaldefensefund.org today!
Break ennui
Normalization numbs us. it tells us nothing requires urgency, and we’d be a chump to keep acting like things are on fire. Panic burns us out with the same result: we stop taking action. Click through for ways to re-calibrate, then break ennui by taking action.
Stop the Bleed
One of the most useful first-aid skills to learn, according to every medical professional we talked to, is how to stop bleeding. Stop the Bleed exists to teach you how to save a live. You can take an in-person or online class to learn basic skills that are useful in a crisis.
Five Days Ago:
Fund Free Elections
What could be more patriotic than supporting fair, free elections? If you aren’t feeling celebratory today, take the money you didn’t spend on fireworks and send it to The Election Protection Hub (bit.ly/elect-free)
Flag Resistance
Don’t put your Pride flags away! As we head from Pride to the 4th, push back at the tacky orange man by flying the U.S. flag side-by-side with a second flag that shows your values. Pride, peace, Ukraine, Canada…pick something meaningful to you and make a statement!
Out and Proud!
Will you see family you struggle with, this long weekend? Wondering how so spend the day with relatives you don’t see eye-to-eye with, without feeling grimy tomorrow? Click through for tips gleaned from the queer Coming Out movement.
Six Days Ago:
Phone home
As detention surges again, phone funds will get tapped out. Every phone call costs money, but connection to home can be life-saving. Donate to commissary funds for jails and detention centers. See post for links.
Adopt a corner
ICE is surging nationwide. Groups like NDLON need support more than ever. Click through to learn about their Adopt a Corner program, which puts observers in places like Home Depot parking lots and school pick-up lines to calmly observe, document, and support those left behind. Click through for information and training options!
Whistle Resistance
Alt Natl Parks says there is a nationwide ICE surge in the first week of July. If your community uses whistles to warn vulnerable people to the presence of ICE activity, pull them out of storage. If you need a refresher on the rules (don’t whistle over rapid responders!) click through.
Seven Days Ago:
Join Costco
Costco has re-asserted its commitment to DEI and fair pay repeatedly over the years. It beat the Trump administration over tariffs, too. If bulk buys are too much for your family or space, consider a mini co-op or donate spare units to a food bank.
Good Neighbors
Create relationships in your neighborhood. Do it formally through a neighborhood project, or reach out personally. Wave, borrow a cup of sugar and take back cookies, or invite someone to dinner. Start slow and build.
Travel
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness” – Mark Twain. Make a plan to spend time in another country if you can. Even a lunch trip to Canada can remind you that our nation didn’t always feel like this. If you can’t risk a border crossing, or can’t afford international travel, plan a trip…