📌 Take Action: 100+ Acts of Nonviolent Resistance, Mutual Aid, and Community Building
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Welcome to How to Resist, a newsletter that shares acts of nonviolent resistance, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary folks.
I hope this newsletter brings you new ideas and helps you find ways to engage that are right for you. If you like this content, act on it! Find something that speaks to you and take those first steps with confidence, knowing that you are part of a rising tide.
In the words of Anne Frank,
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
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100+ Acts of Nonviolent Resistance, Mutual Aid, and Community Building
Learn who your representatives are
Call your representatives regularly
Register to vote
Learn de-escalation techniques
Cancel Amazon
Tell your story
Know your rights
Visit libraries
Write a sidewalk message with chalk
Make a protest sign
Create political satire
Know how to disrupt ICE
Volunteer at a local food bank
Attend a protest
Wear political/social symbols
Grow your own food
Remember to rest
Download Signal app for your phone
Run for office
Volunteer at Planned Parenthood
Shop at your local farmer’s market
Boycott billionaire-owned platforms
Get vaccinated
March
Organize a seed swap
Be someone’s protest emergency contact
Attend virtual training
Make a zine
Visit your local park
Educate yourself
Shop at your local independent bookstore
Make art and share it
Write letters to people in detention/prison
Consider joining or starting a union
Learn to protect your privacy at protests
Delete Twitter/X
Form an affinity group
Be joyous
Have tough conversations with your relatives
Learn to mend your own clothing
Pick 3-4 issues you care deeply about and focus on those
Reduce food/ water/energy waste
Do something nice for a stranger
Love freely
Shop at your local ethnic grocer
Wear a mask
Be a legal observer
Organize an event
Support LGBTQIA+ and trans folks
Start a repair cafe
Remember to play
Donate to mutual aid groups
Stock up on Plan B
Take care of one another
Film the police
Start/join Food Not Bombs
Help with disaster relief
Create a tool library
Learn psychological first aid
Feed people for free
Get to know your neighbors
Establish a pop-up clinic
Organize childcare networking
Attend neighborhood assemblies
Keep an activism diary
Gather your friends for political action
Support friends attending actions
Provide tenant support and help with rent strike organizing
Run for your local library board
Organize a political action study group
Volunteer as a poll worker
Redistribute wealth to individuals in need
Support, listen, and advocate for folks with disabilities
Organize toward general strikes
Participate in community clean-ups
Share vital info online
Commit to a long-term project
Carry a first-aid kit
Celebrate, listen to, amplify, and advocate for trans folks
Gather your friends for political actions
Step outside of your comfort zone
Disrupt and disobey
Learn how to protest safely
Organize or participate in political education
Vote with your wallet
Cook and bake for community group meetings
Share your skills
Run for school board
Donate to a local grassroots organization
Build relationships with those who share your values
Take time to process, mourn, and grieve
Sign a solidarity pledge
Start/join a rapid response network
Participate in mutual aid activities
Act with compassion
Spread the word through social media, text, email, phone, and in-person
Organize healing justice events
Create a safety plan for actions
Bring your spiritual practice into your political practice
Conduct care calls to folks in your community
Translate documents and media
Take care of yourself
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