TOOLS & RESOURCES
TOOLS & RESOURCES
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5 Quick Actions that Make a Real Impact
5 Quick Actions that Make a Real Impact
5 Calls is a fast, easy, and highly effective way to make a real impact every day by connecting you with your elected representatives on the issues you care about most. Learn more at 5calls.org, or download the app for iphone or android.
2. Contact your university president.
This is one "pillars of support" that many of us belong to, as alumni, annual donors, tuition-paying parents, or all of the above. You can help stop the Trump administration’s attempts to take over higher education by letting your alma mater know exactly where you and your wallet stand. Visit: https://indivisible.org/resource/stop-spread-authoritarian-power-campus for a call script and email template.
3. Use Goods Unite Us to shop with purpose.
Goods Unite Us allows you to easily align your everyday purchases and long-term investments with your politics. Visit: https://www.goodsuniteus.com to learn more or download from the app store.
4. Join the Eyes on ICE Text Network.
The Illinois “Eyes on ICE” Text Network is a text alert system around verified ICE activity from ICIRR (Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights). Network participants receive:
Verified reports of local ICE activity near your area as soon as possible
Tips and reminders to keep yourself and your neighbors safe
Ongoing updates related to Know-Your-Rights information
Opportunities to organize, advocate and take action
5. Tune in to Indivisible's What's the Plan?
Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin every Thursday at 2pm CT as they unpack the week's top political news and outline next steps for action. Real people, real talk, real action. Submit your questions live via Q&A. Sign up here - or listen any time. What's the Plan? is now a podcast. New episodes drop on Fridays and are available on all major podcast platforms. You can also view the latest and revisit previous episodes at lemonada.Ink.
For more daily actions, visit:
https://indivisible.org/take-action-now
https://indivisiblechicago.com/daily-actions
Safety & KYR Trainings
Safety & KYR Trainings
Assertive Intervention & De-Escalation Tools & Tips
– beautifultrouble.org
Streetwise & Steady: Peacekeeper Training Workbook by Daniel Hunter & Eileen Flanagan
– choosedemocracy.us
Safety, Security, Rights & Conflict De-escalation
– indivisible.org
Shareable KYR Resources
– icirr.org [Illinois Coalition for Immigrant & Refugee Rights]
Recommended Reads
Recommended Reads
On SUBSTACK
Letters From An American, Heather Cox Richardson
Robert Reich, Robert Reich
Chop Wood, Carry Water, Jess Craven
The Parnas Perspective, Aaron Parnas
Old Goats, Jonathan Alter
Hopium Chronicles, Simon Rosenberg
Civil Discourse, Joyce Vance
On SUBSTACK
Letters From An American, Heather Cox Richardson
Robert Reich, Robert Reich
Chop Wood, Carry Water, Jess Craven
The Parnas Perspective, Aaron Parnas
Old Goats, Jonathan Alter
Hopium Chronicles, Simon Rosenberg
Civil Discourse, Joyce Vance
In PRINT
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century, Timothy Snyder
+ Check out this list of book recommendations from Suzie Garfield
Peaceful Resistance & Noncooperation
Peaceful Resistance & Noncooperation
Targeting Pillars of Support: from One Million Rising
"One Million Rising" is a grassroots, pro-democracy initiative launched by the Indivisible coalition that focuses on teaching strategic, nonviolent noncooperation to peacefully resist authoritarianism. It draws on the concept of "pillars"—the vital social, civic, and economic institutions that prop up a regime's power—and organizes local communities to disrupt and withdraw support from them. The key to stopping any momentum toward authoritarianism isn’t to attack the would-be ruler at the top, but to chip away at the vital institutions and communities that uphold their power, causing the entire house of cards to come tumbling down.
We call these institutions and communities pillars of support and there are many, including faith, labor, business, civil servants, police/military and more.
These pillars of support are much closer to us as everyday Americans than they are to any leader or regime, which means we have the ability to shift them from compliance to defiance. Each time a pillar institution yields to or supports the regime, the regime grows stronger. In contrast, noncooperation–refusing to do what is expected, disrupting the normal course of events, and withdrawing support from unjust or illegal policies–weakens the regime and creates cracks in its foundation of power.
This is how we fight back against an authoritarian takeover — by identifying our influence within the pillars of support that the regime depends upon, and convincing those pillars to participate in strategic non-cooperation. Noncooperation is the act of refusing to cooperate or comply with requests, demands, or orders.
Enough noncooperation will cause a pillar to completely defect — or at least be unreliable in the autocrat’s aims. Individuals, groups, pillars, and entire societies can engage in noncooperation!
Ask yourself: What pillars am I part of?
How are those pillars upholding the regime?
In those pillars, what kind of defiance is already happening and what could more look like?
Who are key decision-makers in those pillars who could be influenced, pressured, or persuaded to support more noncooperation?
Participate in acts of noncooperation by:
Brainstorming, planning and holding actions of noncooperation, individually, in groups and mass actions
Working within or with other organizations and initiatives to chip away at the pillars.
Hosting Resistance Gatherings—small groups of people to discuss what’s happening and what each of us can do to break the pillars of support holding up the Trump regime.
The session recordings from One Million Rising below are filled with useful info and practical steps we can all take. Each 1-hour session builds on the one before..
One Million Rising Session Recordings:
One Million Rising Links and Documents:
How to Start a Courage Collective: Work within a pillar you’re a part of. Join forces with others to crack that pillar.
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