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ATTEND MEETINGS

• Guardian: Want to get involved in party politics? It costs less than you think
• Indivisible Guide: A practical guide to resisting the Trump agenda

BE A RAGING GRANNY

• International Raging Grannies

BE A TRUFFLE PIG

• Wild Food UK
• Woodland Trust: foraging

BE AN INTROVERT

• Activism needs introverts video

BE SOMEONE TO LOOK UP TO

• Centrepoint (UK): volunteer
• Generations for Peace (Jordan)

BE SOMEONE’S VOICE

• Advocacy Focus: What is advocacy?
• Independent Advocacy
• The Advocacy People
• Speak Out

BE WHO YOU ARE

• Black Lives Matter

BREAK THE CARTELS

• Wikipedia: list of energy co-operatives worldwide
• Switched On London

BROADCAST

• Refugee Radio (UK)
• Refugee Radio Network (Europe)

BUILD A WALL OF KINDNESS

• Wall of Kindness video
• Making It AOK Facebook page

BREAK THE LAW

• The Plowshares

CALL OUT

• Bye Felipe
• Everyday sexism
• For Exposure

CARRY WATER

• Border angels

CHANGE YOUR BUSINESS MODEL

• The Robin Hood homeless cafe

CHECK FACTS

• Full Fact (UK)
• Channel 4 Factcheck (UK)
• Politifact (USA)
• Les Decodeurs (France)

CHECK YOUR VOCABULARY

• Alternet: 11 things white people can do to become real anti-racist allies

CRAFT YOUR PROTEST

• The Art of Gentle Protest by Sarah Corbett (video)
• Craftivist Collective

CRANK UP THE SINGER

• Ivy Arch: the year I stopped buying clothes
• How I gave up retail therapy (Guardian)

DONATE SKILLS

• CHIRLA provides immigration legal services at low cost
• Reach Connects charities and skilled volunteers in the UK
• Catchafire connects social good organisations with pro bono professionals who want to donate their skills in the USA
• Computer Weekly: Charities need donations of IT skills

DONATE YOUR WASTE GOODS

• Give A Car
• Little Lives
• Recycle Now: what to do with…
• Recycling for charity

EAT LESS MEAT

• Climate change: why meat is a bigger threat than cars

EDUCATE YOURSELF IN BLACK HISTORY

• British Library: Windrush Stories
• The Guardian: Black history
• Black History Month UK resources
• Black history milestones

EMPLOY THE LESS EMPLOYABLE

• Why you should consider hiring ex-convicts
• ProBaristas
• The business benefits of hiring disabled people
• Companies fear employing people with learning difficulties
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation: Employing people with learning difficulties (PDF)

ESCHEW THE NEW

• Fashion Revolution Thoughtful fashion
• Charity Fashion Live

FOLLOW THE LEADERS

• My Weekly Resistance: Actions US citizens can take if they wish to protest the current administration
• Teen Vogue: 20 Small Acts of Resistance

FOLLOW THE MONEY

• Sacred Stone Camp
• New Money: ethical banks
• Curiously Conscious guide to ethical banks
• Ethical Consumer: Is there an ethical bank?

FORM A POSSE

• Indivisible: A practical guide for resisting the Trump agenda

GIVE MINDFULLY

• Jezebel: a list of pro-women, pro-immigrant, pro-earth, anti-bigotry organisations that need your support

GO CROSS-COUNTRY

• The Man In Seat 61: Information on how to get almost everywhere without flying

GO LARGE

• Ethics of Design: Stonewall
• Digital Buzz: The social swipe charity donations billboard

GO REUSABLE

• Recycling Guide: reuse everyday items
• Growing a Green Family: 50 reusable goods that easily replace disposable goods

GO SLOW

• Love Your Clothes Reducing the impact of clothes on the environment
• Ethical Consumer Clothing Report
• The Ethics of Fast Fashion

GROW WILD

• Bumblebee Conservation Trust
• Friends of the Earth Save Our Bees campaign
• Greenpeace Bees In Decline

HACK THE GOVERNMENT

• Sinar Project (Malaysia)
• g0v.tw (Taiwan)
• Ciudadano Inteligente (Chile)

HACK THE STREETS

• Street hack idea
• Guerilla public service
• The efficient passenger project
• Councils get citizens to fix minor potholes

HANG UP A WELCOME SIGN

• Oregon Live: Portland retailers declare stores ‘safe spaces’ in response to Trump
• We Welcome All letterpress poster
• Refugees Welcome posters
• Mainstreet Alliance: Hate Has No Business Here

HAVE YOUR DAY IN COURT

• Kottke: Important victory for the kids suing the US over climate change

INTERPRET A NEW LIFE

• Refugees lost in translation: “In Hungary, Central European University has set up a database of volunteer translators from its students, staff and alumni. Translators can translate by Skype, telephone or email if they are not local to the area”
• Germany’s refugees: shaping the future of translation
• Translators without borders
• Red Cross: refugee support Volunteer vacancies: offer practical support and advice to refugees and asylum seekers to help them settle in to a new environment.
• Asian Association of Utah refugee and immigrant center RIC-AAU provides medical, educational, occupational, and court interpretation or translation services to clients, organisations, and private individuals in need of language support.

KICK IT OLD-SCHOOL

• How to make a zine for the internet age
• How to make a one-page zine
• Make a Zine! book
• Bristol zine scene

KNOW THE AGENDA

• List of websites which monitor parliaments
• Software for setting up parliamentary monitoring websites

KNOW YOUR REPRESENTATIVES

• TheyWorkForYou: UK site that makes it easy to see who your MP is and what they’ve been up to

LEAVE A DEPOSIT

• The subversive art of reverse shoplifting

LISTEN, PAY ATTENTION, & RESPECT

• Tips for Allies of Transgender People
• Sexuality and Gender Activism: Gender-Neutral Pronouns
• SETA: Finnish organisation dealing with LGBTIQ human rights issues internationally
• Trasek: Finnish association for transgender and intersex rights

LOOK TO YOUR BATHROOM

• Earthwise girls: Reusable sanitary towels
• Telegraph: Sanitary pads you can reuse
• City To Sea: Reducing plastic pollution

MAKE A JOKE

• Chequeado (which means “Checked Out”) in Latin America is a fact-checking service which sometimes creates funny songs based on politicians’ lies.

MAKE A NOISE

• Feminist library campaign
• Greenpeace: Volunteer to take non-violent direct action
• King Institute: Six Steps for Nonviolent Direct Action
• Rising Up: Guide for nonviolent direct action
• Extinction Rebellion: Non Violent Direct Action training
• Beyond Intractability: Nonviolence and Nonviolent Direct Action
• Peter Tatchell Foundation: Non-violent direct action & civil disobedience gets results
• The Change Agency: Nonviolent direct action (NvDA) and civil disobedience

MAKE BETTER USE OF YOUR PRIVILEGE

• Time magazine: Black Lives Matter protest at London Airport leaves some confused

MEET THE NEIGHBOURS

• The Whistler: meet your neighbours
• Smart Cities Dive: The Brighton Placemaking Project With a Mexico City Twist
• Trending City: Ideas, inspirations and trends for urban living

MONITOR YOUR PARLIAMENT

• Software for setting up Parliamentary Monitoring sites from mySociety
• TheyWorkForYou, the UK’s Parliamentary Monitoring website

PART-OWN YOUR STUFF

• Goodnet: Five cool websites for sharing things with your neighbours
• Digital Dudley: Sites and apps to help lending and borrowing
• Streetbank
• Do Nation: start sharing
• Weeshare: The sharing app

PAY WELL

• What is Fairtrade?
• Living Wage Foundation
• Labour Behind the Label
• Share Action

PLANT A TREE

• The Woodland Trust: why plant trees?
• Plant a billion trees
• One tree planted

PLANT RADICAL ROOTS

• Community Food Growers Network
• Federation of City Farms and Community Gardens
• Brighton & Hove Food Partnership: community gardens

POP YOUR BUBBLE

• Reddit: Ask Trump Supporters: “Q&A subreddit to understand Trump supporters, their views, and the reasons behind those views”
• Wired: How to Break Out of Your Social Media Echo Chamber
• Politics.co.uk: You can break out of your echo chamber – and here’s how
• Huff Post How To Break Out Of An Echo Chamber – Your Bubble

PRINT MONEY

• Laissez Faire: Create your own currency in four simple steps
• Shareable: How to start a community currency
• The Ecologist: Ten steps towards creating your own local currency
• Chiemgauer (Wikipedia): a regional local currency started in 2003 in Prien am Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany
• Chiemgaur official site
• BerkShares
• Independent: They don’t just shop local in Totnes; they have their very own currency
• Telegraph: What is the point of a local currency?

PUT IT LIVE

• Witness: collaborating with activists, human rights lawyers and international justice organizations to enhance the evidentiary value of video captured in the field.

PUT OUT A WELCOME MAT

• Jewish Voice for Peace
• Citylab: How a simple graphic poster takes a stand against Islamophobia
• HIAS works around the world to protect refugees who have been forced to flee their homelands because of who they are, including ethnic, religious, and sexual minorities. For more than 130 years, HIAS has been helping refugees rebuild their lives in safety and dignity.
• UK government: how to help refugees
• UN Refugee Agency: get involved

PUT THE PRESSURE ON

• A beginner’s guide to getting your voice heard in the UK
• Write to UK politicians, easily
• The Sunlight Foundation, USA

PUT UP A UNITED FRONT

• New York magazine: How Obama’s female staffers made their voices heard
• Fawcett Society (UK)
• Naisunioni (Finland)

QUESTION SOURCES

• How to spot fake news
• Media Bias/Fact Check

QUESTION THE NARRATIVE

• First Draft News: dedicated to improving skills and standards in the reporting and sharing of information that emerges online

RECLAIM THE NIGHT

• Take back the night
• Reclaim the night

REPRESENT EVERYONE

• It’s time to get real about diversity in comics
• New Yorker Cartoon Characters Are Largely Male And White
• Lighten up by Ronald Wimberly

REQUEST TRUTH

• Muckrock: a list of some things you can ask the Trump administration right now
• mySociety: FOI uncovers dubious practices by the UK government
• WhatDoTheyKnow: UK site which makes it easy to submit an FOI request
• Muckrock: US site which makes it easy to submit an FOI request
• Frag Den Staat: German site which makes it easy to submit an FOI request
• Alaveteli: FOI sites in many other countries

REREAD HISTORY

• Black History Month
• African American History Month

RESIST IMMIGRATION RAIDS

• AntiRaids network

SEE PEOPLE AS PEOPLE

• St Mungos: Attitudes to homeless people
• Anawim: How are the homeless dehumaised
• Gina Ryder: What if we treated homeless people like potential friends?
• Streets of London

SEND A LETTER

• Befriend a child in detention
• Australian campaign to send letters to asylum-seekers

SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCES

Here are a couple of blogs that show people trying to give up plastic:

• Plastic free Lent
• Plastic-free July

SHARE YOUR SKILLS

• How to start your own skillshare
• Volunteer to share your skills with your local community

SHOP LOCAL

• Guardian: Seven reasons to shop local
• Institute for Local Self-Reliance: Why support locally-owned businesses?
• Entrepreneur: 6 benefits for you and your community from supporting local entrepreneurs

SHOUT TO THE STREET

• Refugees welcome posters
• A poster campaign that gave immigrants a voice
• Free peace posters to print out
• Posters for tomorrow
• Stamp out homophobia printable posters

SIGN, SEAL, DELIVER

• Change.org impact
• Successful 38 Degrees petitions
• E-petitions get 6.4 million signatures in a year
• Right to petition in the USA (Wikipedia)
• Petition the UK Parliament

SLEEP OUT

• Sleep out for Centrepoint

SORT IT OUT

• Cooking for Calais
• Feathery Travels: a first person account of helping out in the Calais Jungle
• Calaidipedia: Now archived, but standing as a record of the voulnteer effort
• Care4Calais
• Calaid
• Help Refugees (UK)
• L’auberge des migrants (France)
• Threads: Kate Evans’ cartoon about volunteering at Calais
• Choose Love: Volunteer in Calais
• Eco-age: A week in Calais helping refugees
• Infomigrants: Those two days changed my life

SPEAK UP AGAINST BULLYING

• No Hate Speech Movement

SPEND WISELY

• Shop Ethical app
• MakeUseOf: Save the world with these 5 ethical apps
• Guardian: New app launches for ethical shopping
• Shop Ethica: Ethical shopping apps
• Open Corporates: making information on companies more widely available, particularly to tackle the use of companies for criminal or anti-social purposes, for example corruption, money laundering and organised crime
• Global Beneficial Ownership Register: publishing thoughts, analysis and new around beneficial ownership transparency
• Stop Funding Hate: UK campaign to stop big companies advertising in newspapers which encourage division and discrimination

STAND UP

• UK Parliament: Standing for election
• UK Parliament: Who can stand as an MP?
• Electoral Commission (PDF): Can you stand for election?
• Crowdfunder: A now-finished campaign funding MPs dedicated to uniting and representing all types of people, beyond party politics. You can still read about it.

START A CLUB

Do something great with an extra plate.

• Casserole Club (UK)
• Casserole Club (Australia)

START A COLLECTION

• No hungry Child (India)
• Trussell Trust (UK)
• 2HJ (Japan)

START A PETITION

• Change.org: victories
• 38 Degrees: successful petitions
• BBC News: e-petitions get 6.4 million signatures in a year
• Right to petition in the United States (Wikipedia)
• Petition Parliament (UK)
• Metro: Parliament to consider debate for second EU referendum as 100,000 back petition

STAY ANGRY

• NY Times: Here’s an example of a very polite message that was dismissed by the then President Elect Donald Trump as ‘rude and insulting’

STOP THE ROT

• Bagelman: bagels to beer
• Foodcycle: communities unite to make sure no good food is wasted
• Real Junk Food project: turning supermarket waste into meals for the needy
• Feeding back global: Gleaning network

SUPPORT A FAMILY

• Apply for Full Community Sponsorship (UK government): Full community sponsorship is a way that community groups can be involved in supporting the resettlement of vulnerable people fleeing conflict.

SWAP SKILLS

• The Guardian: Forget money, pay with your skill
• Lets Local Exchange Trading system (Wikipedia)
• Lets Forum Lets groups in the UK
• Mother Earth news: Community Currency System
• The Guardian: A barter way of doing business

SWITCH TO GREEN

• Compare green energy suppliers in the UK
• Green electricity marketplace

THROW A HASHTAG OUT THERE

• Non-profit hub: The Best Nonprofit Media Campaigns of 2018
• UK Fundraising: Hashtag campaign raises £20,000 for arts charity
• UK Fundraising: Fundraising campaigns using selfies

TELL STORIES

• Knoozroom
• Us and Them project
• Well Told Story

TRANSITION YOUR TOWN

• Transition Towns (Wikipedia)
• Transition network

VOTE, VOTE, VOTE

• Heavy.com: Over 90 million eligible voters didn’t vote in the 2016 presidential election
• Vote Or Vote None: Why be silent in the election?
• Gov.uk: How to register to vote in the UK
• Report the Vote
• Independent: How to encourage young people to vote
• Electoral Commission: Community organisations unite to encourage voter registration on National Voter Registration Day
• Rock the Vote
• Particip8

WRITE SONGS

• Chequeado sets to music the lies his politicians have told