Tag: Resistance Resources

Read, Memorize, and Act on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s 10 Ways to Fight Hate
Community Activism · Fighting Bigotry, Racism, Sexism, Homophobia, Transphobia... · Use Your Power, Recruit Friends

Read, Memorize, and Act on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s 10 Ways to Fight Hate

otycd

This OTYCD entry originally posted in August 2017.

 

Read, memorize, and act on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s piece, 10 Ways to Fight Hate.

 

Posted after the events of Charlottesville, the SPLC piece gives you ten things you can do to resist the cultural changes that neo-Nazis and white supremacists are trying to create with the passive, if not sometimes active, help of Trump and his administration.

 

The full list is:

Act

Join Forces

Support the Victims

Speak Up

Educate Yourself

Create an Alternative

Pressure Leaders

Stay Engaged

Teach Acceptance

Dig Deeper

 

The most important thing is to act–to do something, to not sit mute in the face of hate. The SPLC put “act” first on the list for a reason. Silence reads as compliance and even approval to those who want to advance hate and intolerance. You have to say or do something when it shows its face to you.

 

If you are white, it is double-super-extra-mega-important for you to act. People of color and minorities have been carrying the burden of pushing back for too long. It is on white people to wield their privilege like a weapon for dismantling this corrosive bullshit.

 

You cannot stand by and assume someone else will pick up the slack. It is on you to do something. It is always on you to do something. Always. 

 

Know also that the Nazis did not stop until they were stop. Remember appeasement? Think of how we remember Neville Chamberlain? Yeah, don’t be Neville Chamberlain. You lose now AND you lose later.

 

The only way you win when dealing with Nazis, fascists, and those who would carry their banners is to stop them right away. Give them no quarter and no comfort. Shut them down, just like the people of Boston shut down the so-called Free Speech Rally on August 19, when at least 20,000 anti-racist protestors showed up to find 20 neo-Nazis, fascists, and white supremacists.

 

Read the SPLC’s Ten Ways to Fight Hate: A Community Response Guide:

https://www.splcenter.org/20170814/ten-ways-fight-hate-community-response-guide

 

Donate to the SPLC:

https://donate.splcenter.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=463

 

Like its Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/SPLCenter

 

Follow the SPLC on Twitter:

@splcenter

 

Subscribe to One Thing You Can Do by clicking the button on the upper right of the page. And tell your friends about the blog!

Check Out Resistance Near Me
Marches and Protests · Save These Tools

Check Out Resistance Near Me

otycd

Check out Resistance Near Me, a web tool that shows you Resistance-related events near you.

The website works in partnership with the Town Hall Project to find protests, town halls, public meetings, Congressional district office hours, and other events near you where your MoCs will appear. On plugging in your zip code, it will pop up a map with several options.

Resistance Near Me will tell you how many events are within a 75-mile radius of you, and will give you full details on the site of the event and the nature of the event, with options to add it to a calendar, RSVP, and get directions.

 

Subscribe to One Thing You Can Do by clicking the button on the upper right of the page or checking the About & Subscribe page. And tell your friends about the blog!

 

Visit the Resistance Near Me webpage:

https://resistancenearme.org/#home

 

 

Check Out Action Alliance, a Mega-Mall of Resistance Resources (Now Including OTYCD!)
Action Alerts · Community Activism · Read, Educate Yourself, Prepare · Use Your Power, Recruit Friends

Check Out Action Alliance, a Mega-Mall of Resistance Resources (Now Including OTYCD!)

otycd

Bookmark and visit Action Alliance, a web site that catalogs dozens of resistance resources.

In an earlier blog post we described What Do I Do About Trump as a supermarket of resistance resources. If What Do I Do About Trump is a supermarket, then Action Alliance is a mega-mall of resistance resources–story upon story of outlets dedicated to helping you push back against Trump.

One Thing You Can Do is proud to announce that it is now a member of Action Alliance. Hooray! But if our blog is not enough for you, please visit Action Alliance to find other things that you can do to help push back against Trump and his ilk.

See the Action Alliance web site: https://www.actionalliance.co/#about

Help OTYCD Build a Page of Resistance Market Links
Action Alerts · Vote with your Dollars

Help OTYCD Build a Page of Resistance Market Links

otycd

Help us build a page of links to Resistance-themed merchandise that benefits worthy causes.

 

Recently we posted a story about “Nevertheless, She Persisted” products that directly benefit Massachusetts Senator Elizabeth Warren.

 

We would like to build a page of links to merchandise–hats, t-shirts, pussy hats, tote bags, and the like–that devote 100 percent of their profits to Resistance-relevant causes.

 

Examples of worthy beneficiaries would be the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, and the Southern Poverty Law Center.

 

If you know of any products that fit the brief, please email:

onethingyoucando    @   gmail.com

…and let us know about them.

 

Subscribe to One Thing You Can Do by clicking the blue button on the upper right or checking the About & Subscribe page. And tell your friends about the blog!