January 5, 2017
The coming climate under President Trump is no ordinary political context, and it will require no ordinary activism. Here we gather some resources to help targeted communities protect themselves, and to help us all do the organizing we must do over the next four years, which must be nothing less than outright and sustained resistance.
Resistance organizing • Organizing tools and trainings • Know your rights materials • Hotlines • Cyber security • Food for thought
Resistance organizing
- #DisruptJ20 (actions and planning for protests around the inauguration)
- Women’s March (January 21, in Washington, DC; CCR is an official supporter)
- Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting The Trump Agenda (breakdown on how to make Congress listen, from former Hill staffers)
- What Do I Do About Trump (a guide designed to help people plug into actions and efforts they are interested in)
- Movement to Oppose Trump (an email sign-up for a weekly list of actions you can take)
- Action Group Network (sign-up form to connect with people in your area to organize)
- Refuse Fascism (focused on mass resistance efforts before as well as after the inauguration)
- Rise and Resist (NYC-based direct action group)
Organizing tools and trainings
- Southerners On New Ground: Core Organizing Tools
- #SolidarityIs: Five ideas to lift up and support Muslim, Arab, Sikh and South Asian communities
- Showing Up for Racial Justice: Resources
- Get Equal: Organizing tips and best practices, including nonviolent direct action planning
- Immigrant Defense Project and Center for Constitutional Rights: Defend Against ICE Raids and Community Arrests (toolkit)
- Immigrant Defense Project: Know your rights with police and ICE trainings, Deportation 101 workshops, workshops at Rikers Island (NYC)
- CUNY CLEAR: Know your rights trainings (NYC)
- NYC Chapter National Lawyers Guild: What to Do if You’re Stopped by the Police workshops (NYC)
- NYCLU: Trainings and workshops on multiple issues (NYC)
- Center for Anti-Violence Education: Self-defense and upstander/bystander trainings (NYC)
- Race Forward: Racial justice trainings
- #IamNotAfraid curriculum for educators
Know your rights materials
- ACLU: Know Your Rights guides (multiple issues; some in Spanish as well as English)
- Muslim Advocates: Got Rights video
- Immigrant Defense Project: Know Your Rights: ICE Home Raids and Community Arrests (multiple languages)
- Center for Urban Pedagogy and Immigrant Defense Project: Don’t Get ICEd - A guide to protecting immigrants from deportation after an arrest (Spanish and English)
- National Lawyers Guild: Know Your Rights Guide for Law Enforcement Encounters (multiple languages)
- Communities United for Police Reform (NYC): Help end discriminatory, abusive, and illegal policing (Spanish and English)
- Center for Constitutional Rights: If An Agent Knocks – What to do if you or your organization is targeted by federal law enforcement (Spanish and English)
- INCITE! Women and Trans People of Color Against Violence: Know Your Rights In Case of Immigration/Police Raid
- Get Yr Rights – Resources by and for LGBTQ youth
- National Network of Abortion Funds: Need an abortion?
Hotlines
- Anti-Violence Project: 212-714-1141
- Immigrant Defense Project helpline: 212-725-6422
- Trevor Project Lifeline Chat: 866-488-7386
- National Women’s Law Center CoverHer hotline for issues with insurance coverage of contraception: 866-745-5487
Cyber security
- A beginner’s guide to beefing up your privacy and security online (short, with links if you want to go deeper)
- Activist or protester? How to keep you and your communications safe wherever your campaigning takes you (long, but well organized in sections so you have an overview)
Food for thought
Last modified
January 13, 2017