things you can do

[gorzek]

This thread is meant to collect info, articles, etc. of things you can do in these shitty times.

Please, post anything you think might be helpful: infosec/opsec articles, mutual aid info, you name it. If you think it'll help, share it.

How to start an ICE Watch group in your community: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-watc...w-to-start

This post was last modified: 01-23-2025, 04:24 PM by gorzek.

[antipelican]

Here are some books and essays I particularly like and try to re-read every so often. I am probably on many watchlists.

Black Skin, White Masks by Franz Fanon. https://monoskop.org/images/a/a5/Fanon_F...s_1986.pdf

Blessed is the Flame by Serafinski (I find this one quite useful when I am feeling especially nihilistic) https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/...-the-flame

Armed Joy by Alfredo Bonnano (RIP) https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/...-armed-joy

Assata: an Autobiography by Assata Shakur https://www.akpress.org/assata.html

No Selves to Abolish: Afro-pessimism, Anti-Politics and the End of the World by K. Aarons https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/...-the-world

Ur-Fascism by Umberto Eco https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/...ur-fascism

[gorzek]

Some acts that are not protesting or voting:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OSWx...it?tab=t.0

(Locally mirrored on this post as well.)

[Aloria]

[gorzek]

A good suggestion I saw was to contact (write, call, hell, visit!) anyone with a megaphone bigger than you and express your concerns about what's going on. You don't have to do it in a partisan way, though if you think that angle will work, go for it.

But an example would be, your town has some municipal projects? Call the mayor. Ask how the funding freezes affect that. Got a local university? Ask what's going on with student loans and grants. Ask the schools superintendent what's happening with education. And don't forget your county, state, and federal officials.

A lot of people with power to act are frankly cowards, but they can be compelled to grow something of a spine if they feel like the public is behind them, and that's what matters about this approach.

I wouldn't say this is all people should do, but if you keep asking yourself why no one with the power to do anything is doing anything, remember that they are easily swayed by public sentiment and you are "the public"! So give them your sentiment!

Again, I am not giving a simple "write your Congressperson" here, because I agree that in and of itself isn't likely to do much. It's more making noise at every level you can so those people will make noise on up the chain to a point where somebody, somewhere will have to respond to it.

[Aloria]

https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/is-some...-something