5 Minutes

Are you a busy person who wishes you could resist more? Start where you are and take one step forward. Choose a schedule you can keep and commit to one five minute act of resistance. It can be daily (while you wait for the coffee to perk) or weekly (during your lunch break Wednesday) or even monthly. It can be five minutes of a larger task, or discrete, individual actions. What’s key is this: do just a little more than you were doing.

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Postcard Protest

Use leftover holiday cards to create a “Mail Storm” to Congress with this demand: repeal the USPS Prefunding Mandate. Learn more here: https://apwu.org/the-usps-fairness-act/

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Join a BuyNothing Group

Shift away from the capitalist mindset and build community by joining the local gifting economy! The holiday shopping season is a particularly good time to shift items you don’t need to homes that do need them. And get ready for post-holiday regifting! One person’s singing bass is another person’s ironic art project component!

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Analog Addresses

The holiday season is a great time to rebuild non-digital contact lists. Imagine you lost your phone and you couldn’t get online. Who could you reach? Begin with family and expand until you have an old-fashioned paper contact book again.

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