A monthly round up of Resistance Research, including quotes, news, analysis, inspiration, and action items. Let’s break this regime down into actionable items and take it down, bit by bit!
This Month’s Action:
This month gun violence is at the forefront of everything. If you are American, it’s time to do your part to make sure change really does happen:
Look up your nearest association that is fighting for gun control (possibilities include Giffords, Eveytown, and Sandy Hook Promise). Join them. Ask how you can help.
Contact politicians. If you saw the John Oliver video about the NRA, you know that your representatives hear from NRA supporters in overwhelming numbers. Make it a habit – set reminders on your phone for daily, weekly, or monthly calls and then just do it. Call. Repeat.
For the rest of us, we can spread support on social media and keep working on decolonizing our lands. Read Whose Land is it Anyway? A Manual to Decolonization. It’s a book, and it’s available for free as a PDF or ePUB file.
This Month’s Reading:
WTF List (Keeping Up With the News):
What the Fuck Just Happened Today: Because you might still want to keep in the loop on what is going on in the Whitehouse.
Six Minutes and Twenty Seconds: This month was the March for Our Lives, and Emma Gonzalez’s speech is everthing.
One School District’s Plan to Stop Mass Shootings: Arm Students With Rocks: It appears to be a genuine suggestion.
Rex Tillerson’s Rise and Fall As Told by Trump’s Tweets: The whole story is right there, from the first complimentary tweet to the confusing message of his demise.
Action Inspo and Instructionals:
Let these alternate guides and examples of resistance inspire you!
Anti-Trump Mural Sparks ACLU Lawsuit and Public Art Dispute in New Orleans.
Landmark US Federal Climate Lawsuit: A group of youth are suing the federal government for violating their right to life, liberty, and property by actively making climate change worse.
Small Victories: A collection of small wins for the good guys that might give you some ideas.
Q&A With 11 Year-Old March Organizers in Alexandria, Virginia: The Parkland kids are incredible, and so are these kids organizing dissent on a smaller (and younger) scale.
When Gun Violence is a Daily Threat: Here’s how the teens in Chicago facing gun violence every day partnered with the Florida kids to change the conversation.
Analysis, Opinion, and Enrichment:
These will help you better understand how what’s feeding the madness and expose you to perspectives different from your own (regardless of their direct connection to Trump’s madness).
These Magic Kids: Here is the power of what the kids from Parkland High are doing. Read the article to the end – it is not up to the rest of us to watch the kids clean up our mess. We need to be inspired by them and help out. We created this world.
Poll: More View the NRA Negatively Than Positively: It’s possible that the moods are FINALLY shifting.
Could Trump’s Tariffs Unravel the World Trade Organization?: The WTO may be far from perfect, but what will happen if the US steps out of the pivotal role it plays?
How Might Trump’s Food Box Affect Health? Native Americans Know All Too Well: “Nutritional” food provisions wind up having a devastating impact on people’s health.
24 Things NOBODY Does Better Than Trump: It would be funny if it wasn’t ruining everything.
Trump’s Proposal to Arm Students Would Endanger Students of Colour: Because biases exist everywhere.
We Can’t Fight Rape Culture Without Fighting Mass Incarceration: Prison is where the most people, per capita, are raped, and yet it comes up in society as a joke more than anything else.
