Minnesota is engaged in the largest general strike in eighty years, today. A General Strike takes organizing and preparation, and ICE’s brutality there has mobilized them to do that work. Click through to learn how general strikes work, and sign up for the national General Strike, called when we hit 3.5% of the population participating.
Looking for instructions to create and distribute whistle packs in your area? Find everything you need here.
Whistle Resistance Find Out How »
Learn to use ICEout.org today. Check for local activity in your area. Learn how to filter by date to get a sense of changes over time. Find out what you’ll need to collect to submit a report, and how to do it. This is a quick, simple step you can take right now from wherever you are.
Reach out to someone you’re overdue to touch in with. Make amends over something that feels impossible. Tell someone how much they mean to you. Take a social risk. Build bonds.
Strengthen connections Find Out How »
Behind all the problems we face is an underlying thread: corporate power. Fixing things instead of replacing them is one way to take back control. Many areas have fix-it events now, where people with skills and tools make themselves available for everything from patching clothes to soldering connections. The Right to Repair movement thinks when you buy something, you should be able to keep it functioning. Fixing what we can is the first step.
Funding runs out again JAN 31st. ICE funding is on the line, and ACA subsidies are stalled in the Senate, so we need another shutdown. SNAP won’t be on the table this time thanks to some savvy negotiation by the Dems, but it’ll still hit the economy hard, and government offices will close or be on thin staff. From taxes to Medicare issues, do what you can now and prepare for economic wartime.
Shutdown (FEB 1st likely) Find Out How »
