98 ideas you can steal (I know because I stole them)
1. Crickets for cops: Get hundreds of crickets (use cash to buy them from a pet store) and release them into cop cars or police stations. Annoying for them. Fun for you.
Side note: The CIA recommended releasing moths in movie theaters showing propaganda during WW2. Take that idea and run with a version that fits our current period! Releasing skunks into Turning Point conventions? You tell me.
2. Skip-a-thon USA: Protests full of people skipping around. Adults skipping is funny and also mildly menacing. Plus cops arresting people for skipping makes them look stupid.
3. Gilded invitation: If you are a visual artist, create gilded invitations to the revolution/resistance. Mail them to people who have shown backbone. Mail them to people who need courage. They got a gilded invitation to a better world.
4. Tell me a joke: Go to an ICE detention center or prison or somewhere else state powers keep humanity in captivity and yell the start of knock-knock jokes. Jokes will bring us together and highlight the inhumanity of keeping us apart.
5. The great American slowdown: Chile already had their own great American slowdown. It is time for us to step up (or slow down). Walk slow. Drive slow. Gum up the works. If you drive for Uber or Lyft or a cab company, get your entire crew to engage in this. (Again, Chileans did this and it was very effective.)
6. Passing the buck: Start using cash to cut down on the powers of the surveillance state. Write a message of resistance like “fascism sucks” on each bill, maybe!
7. Dance party discord: Blitz-style protests. Cars converge on a public place, play music loudly, release people clown-car style to dance for three songs and then vanish again. Hard to catch, fun to attend, gives protest a real “you need to get on that email list” vibe.
8. Bring someone else to work day: A workplace protest where you show up to someone else’s job and have them show up to yours. Capitalists treat us like cogs in the machine, so what does it matter who shows up?
9. Hula hoop protest: Everyone shows up to a protest with hula hoops. Everyone hula hoops. Cops arresting hula hoopers looks stupid. That’s the whole idea.
10. Stay at home strike: We go on strike by… staying at home.
11. Mascots for change: As many people as possible show up in costume to a protest. Think about how much joy Pikachu at the Turkish protest brought us all. Again, cops will look stupid arresting you dressed as a dinosaur or a Minion.
12. Recording our dissent: Everyone in the US of A owns a recorder for whatever reason. We all show up to drown out hateful people with recorder music (or chaos). Or we get together and play just as a protest. Either way, it is a pun!
13. Big box USA: We all show up to protests dressed like big box store employees (Target, Best Buy, Wal-Mart). If the USA is just capitalism, let’s not pretend any longer. [This one I stole directly from Improv Everywhere. They annoyed me in the aughts but their prank-style actions, I think, are perfect to be used for political action now. Prank-style protests are attention-getting and comedy is legal, so they say.]
14. The great American sleepover: We’re closer to living on the street than we are to scaling the walls of power. We sleep in the streets. We eat popcorn. We play movies. Let’s turn capitalism’s biggest threat into a moment for community.
15. Vuvuzela day: Where did all the vuvuzelas go? Bring them out and use them to make noise in the street. Bonus: the vuvuzela is associated with South Africa and this may bring attention to how many of those who dream of apartheid are at the top of this whole scheme.
16. Dear future friend: Locate a white pages. Write a letter to a random fellow American, telling them your fears, your hopes, your dreams. Fascism is about keeping us apart, about keeping us scared. Pour out your heart, keep kindness alive.
17. Empty building bingo: Create a database of vacant buildings in your area. As people go unhoused, we shouldn’t allow buildings to sit empty.
18. Name & shame: Who is bringing shame to your area? Print out a picture of your local shameful person, your local Big Balls with the word “shame” at the top and post it around town.
19. A protest of crows: We all dress up like crows for a protest. This is just because I love crows, but maybe if you’re reading this you love crows too.
20. Big hat day: Who can have the largest tricorne hat at the protest? It’ll be hard to decide on big hat day.
21. America’s next top model: Let’s set up runways in the street. They want to erase so many Americans from our own history. Let’s highlight them instead. Strut your stuff and show there’s more than one way to skin a cat (be American).
22. Constitutional hack-a-thon: Most Americans agree the Constitution isn’t doing enough to protect us from authoritarianism. Imagine the future with friends and neighbors. What would you put in your Constitution? Dream it, write it, and maybe one day we’ll be able to see it come to life. [This is the kind of human interest story a local news team would feast upon like carrion. A deeply political “apolitical” idea that can get people in the door, but also be coopted by those in power. Think hard, act bold.]
23. Online, outdoors: It can feel like we only exist online. Let’s stage large LAN parties in public locations so we can make the internet feel visible IRL and remember we all live outside algorithmic bubbles. Set up DDR on an inflatable movie screen. Whatever this means to you, take it!
24. D&D 4 U & Me: D&D is a great way to imagine new futures. Design a D&D campaign that discusses the moment in which we live, and helps us imagine how to move beyond. Share your campaign online and with local D&D groups to create conversation and help people plan for revolution in fun ways.
25. Cookies for comrades: Set up a table on your street with cookies and a zine (or any political material). You can have a cookie, but you need to take a zine.
26. Hyperlocal news: Create a physical newsletter of news in the three blocks around your house. Put it in a folder labeled “free newsletter!” taped to your street pole. Create a shared reality, interview your neighbors, learn the name of your mail carrier, etc!
27. Canadian tuxedo day: The current admin might hate Canada, but I love it. A big protest where we all wear our best Canadian tuxedo (aka denim pants with a denim coat).
28. Soup or bowl Sunday: Everyone brings soup or a bowl to this free food event. Form community, and share resources. Capitalism hates that!
Bonus: Pair with a local mutual aid for unhoused people and collect donations. You can reference Trump’s “soup for my family” line at will.
29. Really really free market: I was involved in one of these and it was one of the coolest days of my life. The name tells you the idea. Set up a market where everything is free—free books, free food, free haircuts, free medical care, free joy.
30. People’s concierge: Thank you to Mina on Bluesky for the name. Set up a table labeled “information.” Give people directions. Let people know what time the library closes. Share your knowledge with those who need it.
31. Name tag nation: Fascism wants to keep us feeling scared. Alleviate the fear by wearing a name tag. A name tag says, “I’m friendly! Hello! I am open to talking to you!” (This also draws attention to how much those who seek to terrorize us—ICE agents, DOGE staff—refuse to identify themselves.)
32. Zines!: You’ve read them, but could be making one! Have better protest ideas than I do? Share them in a zine! Have feelings you need to get out? Zine! Want to document the current moment for future generations? Zine!
33. Bring your wife to work day: Pete Hegseth (the secretary of defense as of this writing) cannot stop bringing his wife to work, and including her in top-secret text messages. We should all get to bring wives to work. Bring your wife to work! (“Wife” can mean whatever you’d like it to mean; my wiiiife etc.)
34. History ha-ha’s: Are you a cartoonist AND a history nerd? Well, friend, I’m tasking you with breaking down history in funny comics to share and be shared. In the 2000s, we had a good base of history-related jokes (Kate Beaton, Drunk History) and they reminded us that history is just people doing things (good or bad). Digestible info!
35. Tipping the scales: The government is looking to get people to rat their fellow citizens out. If you are a coder, see if you can write a code to flood snitch sites and hotlines. Imagine millions of tips about Elon Musk’s ketamine dick (look it up).
36. Literal phone bank: Unable to attend protests but want to materially contribute? Offer to register pre-paid phones to your name and give those phones to active protest groups.
Other banks you can start:
Mask! See more info at https://maskbloc.org/about/
Time! See more info at https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/planning/sustainability/toolkit/time-bank.cfm
Seed! See more info at https://shop.seedsavers.org/site/pdf/Start-Seed-Bank.pdf
37. Landlord reveal: Who owns the buildings in your area? It can be impossible to know, due to LLCs on top of LLCs. Try to identify landlords and create a local database, so tenant unions can more effectively organize.
38. Library protection league: Join the “Friends of” library group for your local library. Get on the board. Protect your libraries from moms for book banning and other bad time dudes. (Check out librariesforthepeople.org for specific library-related actions.)
39. “I’m the Santa now”: My dream in life is to take over SantaCon (a drunken bar crawl of frat bros dressed like Santa) for political purposes. Dress as Santa. Go to SantaCon. Make it a protest. Non-political Santas may find themselves in their first political moment. Cops will have a hell of a time figuring out who is a true drunk Santa and who is a political operative in a beard. [If you like this one, check out the Orange Alternative. There’s a two-part Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff on them.]
40. Banned book club: Start a book club where you read banned books or convert your already-existing club into a banned book club. Keep on top of book bans and support school board candidates who will fight bans.
41. Food for friends: Create a neighborhood food train to help those who are going through it, and create stronger bonds with those around you.
42. Town crier: Set up spaces to grieve. This is a hard time, and we need time to grieve as much as anything else. Process in community, so you don’t fall to doom. [See Kate Schapira’s booth if you need an idea for what this might look like.]
43. News! News!: Worried we all live in a separate realities and we’ll never come together? Stand outside places people gather - train stations, bus stops, events - and yell news headlines. Hand out political zines. Don’t stew in your worry, create a shared reality.
44. Hatchback orators: When running for mayor of NYC during the Gilded Age, outsider candidate Henry George was driven around the city in a wagon. He’d roll up outside factories and train stations and give speeches. You can do that too! Bring your message to people, rather than hoping people find your message. [Watch PBS’ American Experience: Gilded Age, available on YouTube, for more.]
45. Letter-writing group: Form a letter-writing group with friends. Write letters to the editor about issues. Write to companies about the importance of diversity in hiring. Send postcards to prisoners. Write, write, write.
46. Film group: Screen interesting and important films (Alex Gibney’s Taxi to the Dark Side or Workman & Pritsker’s The Encampments or Hal Ashby’s The Landlord or whatever!). Line up speakers to give context after the screening.
47. Dog day and/or afternoon: Americans are really into their dogs. Use the local dog park to find community, share resources, and perhaps create protests or give away pet supplies to those in need. Have a dog costume contest portion. Call your group “Democracy Dogs” or the “Anti-Deportation Dog Squad” or something. Cutesy protest ideas like this are honeypots for local news looking for human interest stories. Hit ‘em where they hurt.
48. Bingo!: Instead of saying “this wasn’t on my bingo card” every time something batshit happens, create your own bingo card with friends. Each space is something YOU can do to create positive change in the world. The first person to reach bingo gets a cute dinner out or a surprise party or something.
49. Mutual aid sugar mama: Become a donor to a local mutual aid or abortion fund. They need the money, and you have the funds. Encourage friends to do the same!
50. Neighborhood super PAC: Create a group of likeminded individuals who will band together to bother local officials. For example, I want to ban so-called “cashless businesses” in my area. I can show up to my council member’s office to annoy him and leave a letter about it once a week. But if I get four friends to show up the other four days in the week? Salt & Straw will be forced to accept legal tender.
51. Clown cars: Clowns should be showing up to protest en masse. We can all dress as clowns. We can all try to escape invisible boxes. We can roll out of cars 200 at a time. This protest would be fun, funny, and—again—would make the cops look stupid arresting you.
52. Knitting you in: Have we considered encasing ICE offices in a giant scarf? I would like us to consider it. If you are a fiber artist or a group of fiber artists, consider interesting ways to “yarn bomb” local offices trying to terrorize others. How can you best make these dum-dums look stupid using fiber arts? There is a way (or 700). This, I know for sure. Maybe we can make pom-poms or amigurumi ice cubes with sad faces. Attach them to ICE surveillance vehicles or something. You’d look stupid complaining about sad-faced crochet ice cubes. Maybe we can make a giant straw and use it to spit pom-poms at fascists. I don’t know. Spitballin’ (pun intended) here.
53. Darn it, we’re working together!: Create a local mending workshop to help people learn valuable mending skills and mend the clothes of others. Mending clothes can lead to mending relationships and mending communities and mending the nation.
54. Dance party!: We all know how to Dougie and do the the electric slide. Why are we not doing this as a form of protest? I do not know! We should be. Moving in unison is terrifying to the powers that be, and dancing is fun.
55. Fitness for the revolution: Public, free fitness classes so we can get fit for running from cops is helpful, hopeful, and another place you can hand out political zines.
56. Talking club: This was a joke in Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar but I also think it is just a good idea. Create a talking club. Have an expert present on a topic and then… talk about it! This is so much better than posting online. I promise.
57. “I love the…”: If you are a content creator, I implore you to remake “I love the…” series VH1 used to run. I worry people younger than me do not know anything about how bad the George W. Bush years were and this would be a fun way to communicate the info.
58. Tag, you’re the revolution: Have we considered giant games of tag as forms of protest? Tag people INTO the protest. This would be fun and is summer appropriate. (If you were the kind of person who went to sleepaway camp, there are 100,000 ideas I hope this is inspiring in you.)
59. Donald Duck day: We all get geared up for “Donald Day.” We’re so excited. But then we hold a parade all dressed like world famous no-pants Duck, Donald. I think this one would really get under his skin. And not wearing pants? Now that’s going to get eyes on your protest.
60. Middle manager malaise: We need to get middle managers to realize their own complicity. (Billionaires were largely radicalized by white collar employees asking for recognition in the work place and for their humanity to be honored.) Write middle managers at Amazon and ICE and Palantir and Northrup-Grumman and other humanity-destroying organizations. Ask them to recognize their own complicity, to take action, or to quit their jobs. This WILL filter up the chain AND drive billionaires insane. [This rolls into “3. Gilded invitation” but is perhaps a little more aggressive.]
61. Monologue mania: Actors give monologues outside of buildings where evil dwells (ICE detention centers, prisons, deportation courts). Or they give comedic monologues OVER bad actors (forced birthers, neo-nazis, etc.). Bring some flair!
62. Loser behavior: Do you have a loser coming to your town? Consider going and holding up a sign that says “loser” and shouting “loser” and emphasizing they are a loser. Fascists want to be feared and what they are doing is scary, but it is also complete loser behavior. Create stickers that say “LOSER MOBILE” and stick them on Cybertrucks if you’re nasty. [Note: If you use micro-suction stickers, you won’t even damage the cars so that’s… something.] Create unable-to-be-removed stickers that say “LOSER STUFF” and stick them on advertisements for AI products. There’s lots of loser energy out there. No more fighting, just labeling the truth.
63. Panopticonned: We’ve all been conned by the surveillance state. It is time for us to admit it. Hold a public meeting where we admit the ways we’ve been conned by the surveillance state. (“I, too, fell for pivot to video.” “I installed a Ring camera and didn’t know Amazon had to pay a $5.8 million fine because they let randos and police access private footage without permission.”) Let’s all get together IRL and admit how we’ve been duped. We brainstorm ways to fight back. Get a digital privacy expert to give a talk or a 101 session on how to start to fight the all-seeing digital eye.
64. Million mini marches: Neighborhood-by-neighborhood protests will keep the cops distracted. Which protest should they disrupt? They can’t hit all of us at once!
- Side note: If you haven’t already started, your neighborhood is where you should start organizing. If we want a general strike, we need to go neighborhood-by-neighborhood. We need to talk face-to-face. We need to meet and plan and create connections.
65. Awards: If you are part of some sort of small business coalition or own a business, consider having your group or store sponsor an award focused on an issue facing people today. It is exactly the kind of story local news loves and can be a good way to smuggle in your political message and remind people kindness (not money-hungry fascist greed) is something to be rewarded.
66. Kill phony: Is there a terrible person (maybe a hatemonger who moonlights as a standup comedian like Tony Hinchcliffe or Tim Dillon or Andrew Schultz or Shane Gillis, etc.) coming to a club near you? Bring the roast comedy to THEM. Have your group buy single seats to their show. One of you stands up and heckles (brings the roast to them). Once you are expelled from the club, another person stands up and heckles. And on and on and on… Maybe, if you’re nasty and rich, buy out the whole place. [They did this during vaudeville to get comics to change their material, so don’t let them tell you that you don’t respect the art form. This is the most respect you can give it. You can read about something similar in Outrageous by Kliph Nesterhoff.]
67. Musty ideas: Print out old posters about issues that we’ve decided to reintroduce for no reason. (For example, pro-vaccine posters from when the polio vaccine was rolling out or pro-pasteurization posters from the turn of the century. You can use the local library to find them. Ask your reference librarian for help!) Hang them around town with the date of the original poster clear. These losers are peddling gross, rotten, old-ass ideas. It is the same racist, sexist, anti-intellectualism bullshit as 100 years ago.
68. Ben Franklin hates your fucking virgin asses: If you are an artist, please make me a series of posters of Ben Franklin kicking the asses of Elon Musk, Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, JD Vance, Scalia, etc. Hang them up in your town and I’ll see them through the global network we got going. Ben Franklin is our Founding Slut and if we’re going to have to pick one of these motherfuckers to use in iconography, he’s our guy. Ben Franklin was the president of a college, invented a zillion things, was pro-vaccine, a literal soy boy (aka vegetarian), founded a library, created the U.S. Post Office before the U.S. even existed, ended his life as an abolitionist, and fucked everyone worth fucking in France.
— Brief note: One of the reasons Ben Franklin was estranged from his wife is because she didn’t want to vaccinate their son against smallpox and Ben did. She won the fight. Then their unvaccinated son died of smallpox in 1736.
Side note to my brief note: Ben Franklin asked a merchant about “tofu” in a letter. (He wanted to make some.) It is the first documented use of the word in English. In the 1700s.
69. I’m rubber, you’re glue: We should just do what they do, to the nth degree. Do what they do back at them. Examples of what this might look like:
Stolen from Dan O’Sullivan: The US Attorney in DC keeps sending threatening letters to businesses and organizations based on Trump’s will. Sullivan sent him a letter directly, based on letters Ed Martin had previously sent.
They want to ban books? Launch a campaign to ban reading. Letters are incredibly woke.
Put up signs about how the American Dream is working in a mine at the age of 7. Let’s be real about their aims.
Put up signs about FEMA should be defunded because if you can’t survive a tornado you’re a woke cuck or something.
70. Standup to power: Standups (I’m one so don’t @ me) are part of the reason fascism gained a toehold in the United States. Standups, or those claiming to be standups, mainstreamed fascist ideas and eroded the public discourse. They brought back old-timey slurs, which dehumanized marginalized groups in the past and helps to dehumanize them in the present. (This is especially relevant with the r-word, given how much eugenics movements often begin by going after disabled communities first.) I think it is important for standups to create their own protest movements. We should all get bullhorns and start doing our tight five in the street. This is annoying, funnier than anything Joe Rogan has ever done, and will be pandemonium.
71. Vandalism everywhere: If you can see it, vandalize it with an anti-fascist message. Anti-fascist vandalism lets people know they aren’t alone in their feelings. It is also an easy way to out who in your community you will not be able to rely on. If you’re more upset about vandalism than you are about fascism, get out of my way and out of my movement. Personally, I think we should choose a smiley face with a tongue sticking out as our symbol. Americans created and popularized the smiley face, there is an emoji for it, it can be drawn by literally anyone. Plus, they are trying to make an absolute joke of us, so we might as well pull a face about it.
72. Whack-a-Don: Paint a trash can (or oil drum or whatever) with a picture of Donny. Set it in a public place with an attached stick and a sign reading, “Free smacks for Donny” or whatever. You could do some variation of a couch for JD Vance as well (fart on it?). [Stolen from Otpor!, the movement that took down Milosevic. Read more about them in Blueprint for a Revolution.]
73. Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation reps: Pretend to a be a Federalist Society representative or Heritage Foundation representative who wants to lower the age of consent to zero. Hang up signs about it. This is what they really want, so let’s make it clear. [Stolen from a combination of the Yes Men and from a suggestion Peter Shamshiri made on“The Free Speech Warrior’s Guide to Fascism” episode of If Books Could Kill.]
74. Sewn together: Are you a quilter? Now is the time to get together with your fellow sewists. Make a quilt about those who were disappeared by the U.S. government. Hang it in public. Remember we’re stronger together. [This idea obviously taken from Cleve Jones and the AIDS quilt.]
75. Waiting for change: It seems like no matter what side of aisle, government officials think we should be serving THEM rather than the other way around. OK, fine. Let’s do it. I suggest we all dress up like waiters or butlers and flood their office or town hall meeting. Let’s get them a glass of water. See if we can top them up. Take their order, as they demand. Again, this is hard to arrest: “The cops arrested the group of people who were aggressively refilling the congress person’s water glass.”
76. Fascist defense league: I think we should send out millions of press releases about the fascists. Make up some fake Stephen Miller letterhead and send out letters to newspapers, TV stations, etc. saying, “Despite reports, it is not true Stephen Miller was hit in the head with the ugly stick. He is actually very beautiful.” “Many people say Pete Hegseth’s mother never loved him, but I’ll have you know she has retracted her statement saying he was a bad husband.” Etc.
77. Panic—we’re Satanic: Have we considered doing an exorcism on the members of this administration? Evangelical Christians love to accuse people of being possessed, knowing the devil, being seen with Goody Proctor, etc. I think we should launch public exorcisms for them. Again, this one is hard for them to counter because they sincerely believe in the devil so, we’re just agreeing with their proposition. [Stolen from the Yippies who once tried to do an exorcism on the Pentagon.]
78. Donald Rump: We should dress a pig up as Donald Trump and people can pay $$$ to have (vegan) dinner with the pig. We can use the funds for mutual aids. [The Yippies ran a pig for president in the 60s.]
79. Crying babies: In the 1930s, mothers left crying babies on desks of caseworkers in Cleveland, refusing to remove them until they got free milk. Have we considered the power of a baby crying? We could bring our crying babies to closed Head Start offices. We could bring our crying babies to SNAP offices. We could bring crying babies to Medicaid offices. We could play the sound of a crying baby outside of HHS for hours on end. There are many uses for crying babies in the revolution. [You can read about this for free on JSTOR: ‘We are that mythical thing called the public’: Militant housewives during the Great Depression” by Annelise Orleck]
80. Egg strike: We need to announce strikes on eggs. We’re not buying eggs. Eggs are over! [This one is also stolen from housewives of the 1930s. You can find more info here: https://wams.nyhistory.org/confidence-and-crises/great-depression/militant-housewives/#]
81. Tenant union: Do you live in an apartment building? Now is the time to form a union with your neighbors. Get repairs done, get organized, and keep each other from the threat of eviction. [Find more information here: https://www.tenantstogether.org/resources/form-tenants-union]
82. Coordinated fare evasion: Everyone needs to stop paying for public transit. It should be free anyway. [Chilean protestors engaged in massive, coordinated fare evasion which started their protest movement and led to a leftist government and a rewriting of their constitution.]
83. Show trials: Trump and his whole crew need to be impeached, obviously. But our government is very fine with bribery, corruption, and greed so long as they get to keep their seats in the halls of power. We should stage public reenactments of trials in other countries where justice was actually served. For example, the impeachment of Yoon Suck Yeol in South Korea or the prosecution of French president Sarkozy for corruption. Lots of other places have managed to do what we refuse to: hold people in power to account.
84. Planking: When store shelves go empty due to Trump’s regressive tax on the poor, I think we should bring back planking. Plank on some empty shelves, I say! Plank it up. (“That’s so corny.” Yes, that’s the point.)
85. All Jokers: I think we should all dress as the Joker for a protest. Pick your favorite Joker because fascism officially Jokerfied the nation. If you are a cosplayer, you’re in charge of this one.
86. Shoe protest: If things get really dicey with the police, it might be a good idea to do as France did in 2015. Large-scale demonstrations were banned so climate protestors put out 10,000 pairs of empty shoes as a sign of protest.
87. Olympics and World Cup action: The United States is not safe at the moment—for citizens or travelers. We should petition the Olympics to stop promoting the United States. [South African anti-apartheid activists successfully got South Africa banned from the Olympics until apartheid ended in 1992.]
88. Thank you, Mr. Trump!: I think we should start posting “thank you” signs for Trump around. “Thank you for getting rid of childhood cancer research, Mr. Trump! Now my 7 year old enemy will finally die.” Or “Thank you, Mr. Trump, for getting rid of food safety regulations. I wanted to shit myself to death and now I finally will!” Stuff like that. We’re still saying “thanks Obama” sarcastically, y’know?
89. We all live in Alcatraz: If Trump wants to reopen Alcatraz (???), I guess we should reenact history and occupy it for 19 months. From November 1969 to June 1971, a protest group called Indians of All Tribes (IAT) occupied Alcatraz to demand the government return out-of-use and retired federal lands to indigenous tribes. At its height, Alcatraz had 400 protestors living within it. They also made themselves a super sick flag.
90. Robots are the enemies: Could we direct those delivery robots to drive themselves into a ditch? All these automation tools feel like alienation tools to me and I think we need to destroy them.
91. Walking tours: Love public speaking? Cherish history? Consider starting some historical walking tours of your town or neighborhood! Or, join an org that is already doing that. You can discover new ways to connect history to the present moment and make sure those who the government is trying to erase are remembered. [See a great guide here: https://activehistory.ca/blog/2013/10/21/a-step-by-step-guide-to-historical-walking-tours/]
92. Know your rights: They are trying to take our rights away from us and—unfortunately—are often succeeding. But let’s demand them so long as we have them. Hang “Know your rights” posters up around your neighborhood, ask stores to put them in bathrooms, etc. [The Immigrant Defense Project has some great resources: https://www.immigrantdefenseproject.org/know-your-rights-with-ice/]
93. Silly unions: I wrote this idea in a novel I’ll never complete so the provenance is… bad. But! I think trying to start silly unions (unions of guys named Ben, unions of mimes, unions of people who hate bowling) is a fun way to expand ideas of union power, create connections, and mobilize people. Bonus: This one is also more likely to go viral. A union of guys named Jason getting together to demand paternity leave for all Jasons is the kind of weirdness people like to talk about.
94. American Girl dolls on strike: I think we should start picketing outside of American Girl doll stores/with American Girl dolls/place American Girl dolls in dioramas of revolution. The implication of “girls need 3 dolls, not 35 dolls” is that complaining about right wing-caused deprivation is “feminine.” So, let’s get it girly in here. (You can see this “it’s feminine to care” narrative in so much of the right wing.)
95. Rent strikes: If you’ve completed #81, consider going on a rent strike. Ideally, we should be getting French up in here and we should all be going on strike. A rent strike is a great way to begin. [Learn more about rent strikes: https://crimethinc.com/2020/03/30/rent-strike-a-strategic-appraisal-of-rent-strikes-throughout-history-and-today]
96. Learn together: Learning new skills together is a revolutionary act! Get together with friends and learn how to use Narcan, learn how to do basic first aid, learn how to identify ICE. Bring these skills to your community. The more we know, the more we can grow our movement.
97. Energy freedom: Consider ways to create energy freedom for your area. Climate disasters will continue to happen and, it is clear the government is less than interested in mitigating the crisis. Mutual aid can be applied to electrical power! Get together interested folks to brainstorm ways to make sure you have power, even during a crisis. [Start with Dean Spade’s Mutual Aid.]
98. Community defense: Defend your community from state actors by starting a phone tree. Learn to identify ICE and call them out when you see them. Defend neighbors from eviction and unhoused neighbors from sweeps. Get each other’s phone numbers and start texting. We’re stronger together. [The Tenant Power Toolkit (https://tenantpowertoolkit.org/) can help you with eviction defense, to start. But there is likely a mutual aid in your area which can assist.]