Tools of Resistance

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Resources and tools that people can use to organize, resist, and advocate for change.

Intervening to Stop Everyday Injustices
Intervening to Stop Everyday Injustices

For information on responding to and reporting hate crimes, see our Crisis Resources page.

Volunteering
Getting Started

Find resources here to help you get started in the resistance movement.

Volunteering

See also Organizations Looking for Volunteers.

Advocacy Tools
Contacting Elected Officials

Tips

Senators and Representatives

  • Check out this guide to every member of the 115th Congress.
  • Contacting Congress includes information on each rep, as well as committee assignments and contact info.

Phone

  • Call US Senators and Representatives: tel:(844)872-0234, or through CallGov, a web interface.
  • 5 Calls: a website and mobile app with a constantly updated list of issues, including explanations and call scripts. The app uses your zip code to show you who to call.
  • Agitatr: an app that dials your reps and provides call scripts all in one place.
  • Call Your Reps, a free iPhone app
  • Dial Congress: a Chrome app that displays reps' and senators' phone numbers when you hover over their names in articles online
  • Legi-Share: a Google Chrome extension that instantly displays your congressional members' contact information and lets you comment and share information with them quickly
  • The Loyal Opposition provides all the local phone numbers of your representatives.
  • The Payback Project is a tool for, among other things, helping you contact the reps who voted to approve the AHCA.
  • The 65 offers scripts for more than a dozen issues in the progressive agenda. They suggest a weekly call-to-action.

Fax/Mail

Online

In Person See Upcoming Events and Opportunities for information on upcoming town halls and other events featuring your members of Congress.

White House

Tracking Trump and Congress

Scripts and Alerts

  • Acts of Conscience: aggregates alerts from a range of websites—and they're sortable by issue, type, time frame, and state
  • Action Hub from What Do I Do About Trump has action alerts, mainly legislative-oriented, from 80+ groups
  • Action Alliance, an alliance of 80+ call-to-action sites/organizations
  • Alder, an iPhone app that gives you one relevant political action every day.
  • CallsForChange provides a weekly text and/or email with background on issues, a sample script, and the phone numbers for your members of Congress for one-tap calling from your smartphone.
  • re:act newsletter: calls to action and important political updates
  • Rogan's List, a daily action list sent via email that includes ways to get in touch with your state senators and representatives
  • The Sixty-Five, weekly advocacy calls to action
  • Try Voices, an app for advocacy alerts and help calling reps

Other Officials

Organizing
Organizing

Guides for Organizing

See also Resources For Organizers, organizations offering activism training, and readings on building movements and organizing.

Issue Guides

See also the How You Can Resist sections in the policy pages for specific actions related to the issues. Social Justice/General

Disability Justice

Environmental Justice

Healthcare

  • Stop TrumpCare, everything you need to stop Trumpcare from Indivisible
  • TrumpCare Ten, information on the ten senators whose votes are most needed to stop Trumpcare
  • TrumpCare Toolkit
  • Our Amendments: submit an amendment to Trumpcare, which could slow down the process of passing the bill
  • See how your senator is planning to vote here.
  • Find contact information for your senators' healthcare staffers and information on the bill's impact in your state here.

Immigrant Rights

LGBTQ+ Issues

Reproductive Justice

Racial Justice See also Intervening to Stop Everyday Injustices, above. Syllabi and book lists for understanding the history of racism in American be found in Essential Readings.

Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence

Policing

Town Hall Guides (meeting your reps in person)

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Communications

Talking to Others About the Issues

Hearing the Other Side

Secure Ways of Leaking to the Press

Communications Platforms

See Digital Security for more information.

  • Cell 411, an app for issuing mobile alerts—iOS and Google
  • Dust, an app for disappearing text messages and photos that is similar in some ways to Snapchat
  • Guerrilla Mail, disposable temporary e-mail addresses
  • WDTM Platform: An organizing, communication, and project management tool for action groups
  • Wire, fully encrypted end-to-end alternative to Skype for every platform (desktop & mobile)
  • Whisper Systems, secure messaging
  • FreedomBox,is designed to be the free, inexpensive, and easy to use server for those who are "not techy". Instead of storing your data with other service providers (e.g. Dropbox, Gmail, Skype etc), Freedombox provides a secure, decentralized replacement with your data right at your own home. It can be used for group chats and audio/video calls from any device, or as a VPN server to protect your browsing session when on untrusted networks. Host your own calendar service to keep collaboration and organizing private or simply use it as a free and private alternative to dropbox.

Working with the Media

Media Literacy

Also check out Digital Security and Media Normalization

Resistance News

This section includes news sources just on the resistance—this is not meant to be a list of nonbiased or endorsed general news sources!

Events, Direct Actions, and Protests
Events, Direct Actions, and Protests

See Upcoming Events/Opportunities and your state page for protest listings.

How to Protest

Protest Tools

Protester Safety

Tracking Legislation / Litigation
Tracking Legislation and Court Cases

Advocating to Businesses / Banks
Advocating to Businesses and Banks

Boycotts

Banking

Elections/Campaigns
Elections and Campaigning

General

Get Involved with Campaigns

Campaign and Election Tools

See also Elections

Political Training
Political Training

Training to Run for Office

See also the Bustle article How to Run for Office for the First Time.

Political/Leadership Training

Self-Care Tools
Self-Care Tools

For Professionals
For Professionals

For Federal Employees

For Journalists and Writers

Guides to Bias-Free Language

Coverage and Journalism Tips

For Lawyers

Pro Bono Opportunities See Crisis Resources and Organizations Working for Justice and Equity for more organizations that may be looking for pro bono help.

For Librarians

For Organizers

See also Guides for Organizing, above.

For Religious Leaders

For Teachers

For syllabi generally, see Essential Readings .

For Tech/Data People

Data Analysis and Visualization
Data Sources

Donating

While there are tons of ways to get involved in the resistance without donating money, if you do want to donate or are willing to pay for resistance-related resources, the links below may be useful. See also Organizations Working for Justice and Equity for organizations that may be accepting donations.

Helping Others

Political Donations

Resistance Resources and Services

  • Safety Pin Box: a monthly subscription box for white people striving to be allies in the fight for Black Liberation

Learning Tools
Learning Tools

See also Essential Readings and Resources for Teachers.

Podcasts

Videos

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