Urgent Actions
(These actions are chosen by a team of activists from a wide array and deemed to have the most impact in a given week. Scroll down for general actions and resistance strategy.)
Call Senators about protecting the Affordable Care Act
From Mill Valley Community Action Network:
Advocate against hate crimes spreading across the U.S.
TIPS FOR MAKING CALLS TO MEMBERS OF CONGRESS:
1. The scripts are a guideline. Feel free to personalize. If an issue effects you in a personal Way, share your story.
2. CALLS MAY VERY BE BRIEF AS LONG AS YOU IDENTIFY THE SPECIFIC ISSUE YOU ARE CALLING ABOUT.
3. IF YOU ENGAGE A STAFF MEMBER IN CONVERSATION YOU CAN ASK WHERE THE MoCo STANDS ON THE ISSUE, THEN REINFORCE OR POLITELY OPPOSE.
4. LEAVE A MESSAGE WITH YOUR MAIN POINT IF YOU ARE ABLE.
5. IF YOU ARE FROM THE STATE IN QUESTION, OR HAVE DONATED TO THE INDIVIDUAL, IDENTIFY YOURSELF AS SUCH.
Read Shy Person’s Guide to Calling Representatives
Thank you for making these important calls!
Daily/Weekly Actions
Daily Action (do-able daily actions texted to your phone)
Wall of Us (concrete weekly action alerts)
5 Calls (weekly action alerts)
10 Actions for the first 100 Days (actions every 1- days from the Women’s March)
What Do I Do About Trump? (excellent, easy-to-use site with multiple timely actions, including political and organizational advocacy)
Pantsuit Nation (very comprehensive site with multiple support and advocacy actions)
Action Against Trump (multiple links to concrete daily action alerts and other resources for contacting elected officials and resistance activities)
Weekly Actions to Resist Trump (very easy to use concrete actions and phone scripts)
7 extremely useful sites and apps to help you organize in Trump’s America, Mashable
Call You Next Tuesday (weekly actions and resources involving elected officials)
Additional Specific Actions
Flippable Actions (act now to elect opponents to Trump’s agenda)
What Do I Do About the Environment and Public Lands? (extremely comprehensive resource for information about public lands and the organizations and actions that support them)
Holy Fuck, The Election (volunteer/donate by issue)
How to Channel Your Post-Election Anger, Sadness and Fear into Action, Slate (volunteer/donate by issue)
7 extremely useful sites and apps to help you organize in Trump’s America, Mashable
Economic Actions
Grab Your Wallet (list of companies to boycott and support)
A List of Pro-Women, Pro-Immigrant, Pro-Earth, Anti-Bigotry Organizations That Need Your Support, Joanna Rothkopf, Jezebel
What Do I Do About Trump? (Multiple boycotts and other economic actions)
If You’re Overwhelmed by the Election Here’s What You can Do Now, Jenna Amatuli, Huffington Post
7 extremely useful sites and apps to help you organize in Trump’s America, Mashable
Political Actions and Organizations
Organizing for Action (Training Manual)
Wellstone Action (Tools and training for progressive action)
Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda (extensive site from Congressional staffers about pressuring elected officials)
Indivisible Crib Notes here: The resistance of “Indivisible” is taking off. In fact it may well already be working!
What Do I Do About Trump? (Multiple political initiatives)
What Can I Do? (Additional progressive groups)
Courage Campaign (CA)
General Actions and RESISTANCE Strategy
10 Points for Democracy Activists, George Lakoff
If You’re Overwhelmed by the Election Here’s What You can Do Now, Jenna Amatuli, Huffington Post
5 Keys to Taking Down Trump, Andy Hicken, Daily Kos
Autocracy: Rules for Survival, Masha Gessen, New York Review of Books
Dear Liberal Friends: You Do Not Have the Tools to Fight Trump, Elena Popova
Dan Rather sounds the alarm: ‘Now is a time when none of us can afford to remain seated or silent’, Jen Haydon, Daily Kos
The slow-motion decline: Resisting the gradual erosion of democratic institutions under President Trump, Simon Maloy, Salon (multiple informational links)
Preparing for President Trump, Peter Dreier, Moyers & Co.
The Pendulum Swings Both Ways, Alex Young, Medium
How to Turn Protest Into Positive Change, Eric Liu, TEDEd
How We Resist Trump and His Extreme Agenda, Jerry Nadler, D-NY
Bernie Sanders Calls for a National Movement to Stop Trump’s Threat to Democracy, Politicus
To Stop Trump, Democrats Can Learn From the Tea Party, (Indivisible Guide) Ezra Klein, Leah Greenberg and Angel Padilla, New York Times
Three steps for progressive resistance and rebuilding as Trump era launches, Katrina vanden Heuvel, Washington Post
Resistance Manual, Stay Woke
Meet Ups
What Do I Do About Trump? Action Pods
