Phone Security
Before traveling or attending a protest, review your phone security. Simple steps include using a passcode (not thumbprint or facial recognition) and removing apps or content you wouldn’t want scrutinized. Click through for details.
Protest Safety
if you (or your partner) are worried about protest safety Oct18th, start small. Find a corner or overpass event today and drive past, honking encouragingly. If it looks fine, park and walk by to get a feel for it. Stop for fifteen minutes, or say hello and make new friends. Click through for much more.
Characters
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!
Strengthen connections
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 »
Document Resistance
If we don’t document what’s happening, who will? Take pictures of resistance: protests, graffiti, or things you witness.
When possible take pictures from multiple angles — it helps establish legitimacy. Post your pictures with a few words of context.
Document Resistance Find Out How »
Protest Skills
Big groups of people can be unruly. There have been plenty of riots after sports games. To protect yourself and present peaceful resistance, learn new skills.
The ACLU, Indivisible, No Kings and others have online trainings about your rights at a protest, how to de-escalate, and more.