Immigration #
Identify the best place to contact if you see ICE detention or illegal activity in your area. Store that phone number under a nickname you’ll remember in a stressful moment. Include the word ICE if the group name is new to you.
Hope Up
If you’re feeling hope, share that as widely as you can. If you’re feeling despair, treat it like the flu: try not to spread it, treat the symptoms, and work to recover. Neither hope nor despair is an objective fact, but despair saps your energy to bring about change. Treat it, don’t feed it.
Public Funding
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting was defunded and is now shutting down to avoid being mis-used. This leaves PBS, NPR, and hundreds of local radio and tv stations in our hands. Donate or buy merchandise to keep them going!
Good Vibes
Sharing stories that remind us that humanity can be as lovely as it is brutal is valuable. Unfortunately ai slop is busy leveraging this genre of storytelling for malign purposes. Fake stories ignore real issues of safety, funding and human limits, an set ideals no real activist could meet. Worse, the agents behind these sites often have malign end goals. Share real stories of altruism, instead. Click through for some we trust.
Insurrection Day
On January 6th 2021, Donald Trump rallied his irregulars to steal an American election. We failed to jail him, then he pardoned 1600 people convicted of serious crimes that day. In 2026 some of them plan to march on DC in celebration, so we counter with an American Guy Fawkes Night. Make sure our grandchildren remember the day we let insurrection pass unpunished, and what happened. Dedicate at least one hour on Jan6 to resistance.
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Resolutions
If making NYE resolutions is your tradition, include resistance! There are hundreds of ways to focus on resistance, or to sneak it into things you already wanted to do. From “call Congress once a week” to looking for a better job, make resistance part of your thinking. Click through for inspiration.