Big List of Resistance

Little bits of actions and activism to help you respond to breaking news and keep your members active and effective. This is a kind of brainstorm to help spark ideas that you can elaborate into projects that are appropriate for your local group (CC, chapter) or particular constituency (caucus, interest group).

Add as you like, to the end of the list! (If this works out, I guess we'll need to organize it or something.)

Obvious stuff

1. Postcards to Congress, White House, governors

2. Call your member of Congress or White House
3. Phonebank for a special-election candidate that supports a good position on the relevant issue 
4. Selfies with hashtags, posted locally and sent to DA global comms
5. Photos in front of iconic or unusual views, with hashtags or posters, posted locally and sent to DA global comms

Random actions to start thinking beyond the obvious

1. Call your governors or state legislators, asking them to fill void of leadership at Federal level
2. Make a "contact card" for yourself and two of your friends, with the email address, phone number, and mailing address of your 3 members of Congress. Laminate it!
3. Program contact information for your 3 members of Congress into your phone. Help two friends do the same.
4. Get into the details of your Congressional representatives' history. How do advocacy groups rate them? What side have they taken on controversial votes (like Trump nominations)? Knowing their history – good and bad – will make your voice more effective. If you find something you like, let them know that you appreciate it – positive reinforcement works too.
5. Get fellow Americans to pledge to request their absentee ballot (and then remind them Jan 1): It's early for this kind of action, but repeated written pledges are shown to work. Get their contact details and promise to remind them in January.
6. Identify and boycott selected Trump products (and #DefundDAPL and products from right-wing supporting corporations).
7. Reach out to a Real Conservative: find a resource like conservatives on climate change and match it with a voter you know.
8. Pressure US media: write to them regarding their coverage of an issue – especially misleading coverage or glaring omissions. Media Matters for America and Fairness & Accuracy in Media.
9. Follow-up on outrage: Choose an issue-of-the-moment from more than a month ago and see what actually happened after the outrage faded. Share your findings.
10. Letters to the editors of your hometown newspapers (not DA-affiliated but as someone "from Peoria but living temporarily in Paris")
11. Spontaneous "teach-in" on the issue of the moment: online discussion or in-person gathering (no need to reserve a room just meet in a park)
12. Redirect your energy: ask members to shift two hours of obsessive TV-time or twitter-time to organizing with DA by getting others to join (High Five) or help organizing event
13. What is this Cabinet up to? Dig into the little-noticed actions of Cabinet members like Jefferson Sessions and Betsy DeVos that are degrading our government. Find something that's not on the outrage circuit and inform your network. (e.g. Pruitt hiding from FOIA requests)
14. Make some local friends: expand your in-person social network into a new area (geographic or demographic), which will pay off down the road.
15. Art activism: design a poster, draw a political cartoon, or collaborate with someone who is skilled
16. Make a connection: form a link between DA and another local group, either based on shared issue (e.g. exchange speakers) or just by talking about DA there.
17. Tell your story: take a moment to write up your personal story of how the issue affects you and share it widely
18. Raise money for a targeted NGO (after everyone gives to DA of course)