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Minority Voices
One of the most powerful ways to defuse fascism’s imposed uniformity is to actively add minority voices to your feed. We’re building out sections with our recommendations and currently have lists of transgender, Black and Jewish voices you could follow.
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…
Audit your TV
Write down every radio, TV and cable source you get news or programming from. Now look up who owns them. It may be that your diverse news sources are all Sinclair-owned! If you don’t like the answers, or you don’t have much diversity, replace some of your sources.
Buy Bling
You have your protest sign…but do you have your protest outfit? From t-shirts to pins, wear something that takes the protest from the streets to wherever you go the rest of the day. Visit nearby businesses impacted by the protest and buy something. Tip well. If you have extra stickers or pins, pass them out…
Teach Something
Community building is key to resistance. When we’re connected, plucking one of us out makes the whole web vibrate in response. A great way to connect is to share skills. We all have areas of expertise. Find a way to teach others through mentoring, show-and-tell or even a free class at a library!
Fix Brake Lights
For vulnerable populations a simple mechanical issue can turn into a police stop, and then sometimes an ICE encounter. A simple repair can cascade into life-changing events.
Donate to NorCal Resist’s clinics to fix small vehicle issues, or learn how to start a program where you live! https://www.norcalresist.org/donate.html
Amazon tips
Amazon Tips Amazon’s Holiday tip program is underway!Type “Thank my driver” into the app or web site (while logged in) and your most recent delivery driver gets a $5 tip, paid by Amazon. It’s that simple! The program is capped at $10 million in tips, so let’s make sure they spend it all. There is…
Take a Class
Take a class to build resilience (cooking, sewing) or meet people (art, sports) to build community, defeat burnout, and keep the local economy going. Start at your library or community college and look for something interesting! Many classes are sliding scale and taught by local people.
Weekend Warrior
Life gets busy. Dump the guilt and make make a plan! Whether you do one big thing like join a standing protest, or several small things, schedule what you’ll do to push back against the fascists next weekend! (Visit SimpleResistance.US for hundreds of ideas.)
No Melania
Don’t go see Melania’s documentary. Don’t let your friends go see it. If it hardly feels like resistance, donate the price of a ticket to the ACLU.
See how easy resistance is?! 😉
Commission art
Artists drive resistance, so support the local arts community! Find a small-time artist who accepts commissions for bespoke work, and have something created for someone you love—or yourself! Commissioning art takes some faith and flexibility, but it creates a truly meaningful gift or memory.
Protest Safety
Every No Kings! people are nervous about violence, or trying to reassure partners. Practice protest safety skills from phone security to de-escalation! Ready makes steady! Click through for information and links to online resources and recorded trainings.
SAVE voting
The SAVE act is stalled in the Senate, but it isn’t dead yet. A LOT of disinformation about it exists. Many people think they’ll be able to register and vote with just a driver license, but that’s not true. Meanwhile a new executive order seeks to limit mail-in voting. This is the steal you’re worried…
Cookies!
Nobody deserves a cookie for just doing the right thing…wait…what are we saying! Of course you deserve cookies! Buy your girl scout cookies from transgender or unhoused scouts for extra brownie points.
Boycott Fatigue
Three well-known Black leaders say Target is off the hook. Organizers of the original Target boycott say “Nope!” If you’re confused and exhausted, shift to sustainability: rank the places you shop from best to never, based on your own personal math. Your values and needs go into the math. Then shop as high on the…
Self Care
Your exhaustion is part of the plan. Constant crisis wears you out—they hope you’ll give up. Schedule half an hour to sit quietly with a cup of tea or a cocktail. No phones, no news. How are you feeling? What do you need? Schedule more of that. Self-care is resistance.
Turn off tracking
The only truly secure way not to be tracked is to leave your phone at home. The easiest quick option is to put your phone in airplane mode. Research and practice the right level of phone security now, before you need it, with Electronic Frontier Foundation guides for iPhone, Android, and general security.
Fight antisemitism
On this, the last night of Chanukah, the internet is swarming with claims that the massacre one week ago on Bondi Beach was a false-flag operation. This is the kind of obviously false propaganda we laugh at MAGA believing, yet some anti-Trump groups have hundreds of comments insisting Israel killed Jews in Australia. Disinformation fuels…
Confront Online Abuse
If you’re public or political online, eventually you’ll be experience or witness online bullying. Ranging from a single person persistently stalking your comments to a coordinated swarm of AIs, the effects range from frustrating to dangerous. Learn what to do if someone is targeting you, and how to safely support targets.
Fight Lies
Truth matters, but it’s harder to identify than ever before. Learn tactics for vetting sources, and how to use a “truth sandwich” to debunk false information you encounter. Fascism tries to get you to give up on the truth, and it’s never had better tools…but objective reality exists! Learn how to defend it.
Memorize one Phone Number
Remember how we all learned our home phone number as kids? Today, I couldn’t call my own mother from memory. Choose one person you could call in an emergency and memorize their number. Choose someone who isn’t likely to be with you. The perfect person lives far enough away not to be caught up…
Tithe for Change
If you are a member of a religious organization call the office and ask how to get involved with the program feeding and housing people in your area. Volunteer or donate to that committee or group.
If your religious organization isn’t helping struggling people divert your usual contributions to a group that is. Tell them…
Wayback Machine
Fascists scrub and revise history. What we don’t know, we have to rediscover. Librarians and archivists are the quiet heroes of liberty, securing records we would otherwise lose. The internet is particularly easy to edit, but scrubbing it is a whole lot harder. The Internet Archive (AKA the Wayback Machine) has been quietly documenting the…
Hiding people
Today we build relationships and resources for targeted neighbors. Whether you have “a guy” who does the yard, or a roofing crew coming in, day-labor professions are being targeted and citizenship is ignored in ICE sweeps. Today we prepare: give some thought to your resources and connections and what you can do to be ready…
Help others vote
Voting is confusing, until you know how to do it. Help a first-time voter research issues and candidates, or offer rides to the polls for people who struggle with transportation.
Once a person votes, they are far more likely to vote again. Find your starfish, and help them vote!
Document Resistance
If we don’t document what’s happening, who will? If you enjoy photography, videography, or writing, practice your craft. Learn how to use your phone without unlocking it, when to film in vertical or horizontal format, or take an art class! Practice, so you’re ready when an important moment happens.
Witness Our Crimes
CONTENT WARNING : there’s nothing simple about reading a torture report, but we think it’s important for every American to know our taxes are being used to actively torture people into “self-deporting.” If you are able, be a witness and spread the word, call congress, and fund the ACLU.
Toiletry kits
Looking for a good community-building activity? Throw a toiletry kit “potluck.” Decide how many kits you’ll make, then ask each person to bring one travel-sized item in sufficient numbers. If you have extra people, throw in a treat or some cash. Click through for lists and more ethical places to buy. Keep them in the…
Track Trump
You’ve probably forgotten more of Trump’s awful actions than you remember, but it’s important we remain aware! A UK researcher has built a Trump Tracker organized by “domain” of action. Browse through and share specific details where they might shift people towards resistance.
Phone Bank
Did your candidate just win a primary?How exciting! Did you lose? Pick a race somewhere else — it’s time for all of us to get geared up for the midterms! If your local candidate inspires you, reach out to the party. If you’re looking further afield, check Mobilize for phone bank opportunities, and get the…
Micro-protest
If you’re disappointed June 14th isn’t another massive turn-out day, take heart! there are protests happening nearly everywhere, to support the house-organizing push. Click through for tips on how to find an option near you!
Postdate
For 250 years the post office stamped mail the day you dropped it, then delivered reliably. Now, if you need a postmark by a specific date, you have to have it hand-stamped. Learn about the decade-long effort by the GOP to kill the USPS, and spread the word about these changes.
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!
Committee for the First Amendment
The Committee for the First Amendment is hosting a free concert June 14th at 7:30pm Eastern Time (4:30pm Pacific.) The goal is to exceed attention for Trump’s birthday bash, and to encourage local connections and organizing. Look for local gatherings, or invite a few friends over to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uxap5XA61ng
Defend Wildness
Alt National Parks has been leading the resistance for years, and now they want your help. The ask: call REI, Patagonia and other businesses that rely on wild spaces to demand they speak up against the Trump administration’s land grab. Visit their facebook account, or click through for links to help you get through the…
Protest funding
From permits to porta-potties the logistics of gathering people together is significant. Add in security, medics and legal observer programs, and organizing protests is full-time activism with a significant budget. Donate the price of a movie ticket or dinner out to whoever is organizing No Kings III in your area. Especially if you can’t go!…
National Action
Saturday, January 31st there is a nationwide call to hit the streets and make noise : ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE. Join a protest (or be one), chalk sidewalks, or decorate your car windows with “ICE OUT” messages. Make it loud!
Friday January 30th’s Blackout is short notice for a national strike. Do what you can. We’re…
Update Avatars
Change your social media images to posters or maps of No Kings III to help build awareness. Make this Saturday the thing people don’t want to miss — it’s ALL about the numbers. They can pretend it’s only a few people standing up to ICE or that a hundred protesters are being paid, but if…
FCC: People Belong!
The FCC wants to slap warning labels on people. This is pure fascism, and the comment period ends May 22nd! Visit GLAAD for information and a link to comment: https://glaad.org/fcc
Gift the News
It’s graduation season! Gift new grads a year’s subscription to a local newspaper, national magazine, foreign paper, or the PBS station! Learning doesn’t have to stop when the classes do!