Resources
Protester Resources
- No Kings Resource Guide:
- Digital Security Guidelines for Protests
- Ready Now! app – one click emergency alert system for immigrant families:
- Protest Tools from the National Lawyers Guild
- National Bail Fund Network:
- Assertive Intervention // De-Escalation Tools & Tips
- Indivisible’s Commitment to Non-Violence
- Indivisible’s Safety, Security, Rights & Conflict De-escalation resource
- MoveOn’s video on de-escalation and disruptions
- ACLU – Know Your Rights
- What to wear to a protest
Reading Lists
Immigration Resouces
- Immigration Resources
1. toolkit on understanding new Immigration Policies and Know Your Rights & that same toolkit in Spanish
2. A great guide on all of the forms needed for “family planning” from the Women’s Refugee Commission: Detained or Deported: What About My Children - Ready Now! app – one click emergency alert system for immigrant families:
- ISAAC of northern Colorado isaacnoco.org
Links we find helpful, hopeful, and sometimes scary but necessary:
(by the way, please contact us if you we missed something or you would like to add to this list)
- Heather Cox Richardson: You Tube, Facebook, Substack, Threads
- John Pavlovitz (website, The Beautiful Mess on Substack). Also on social media
- Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American on Substack, also on social media
- Robert Reich on Substack. Also on social media.
Unbiased News
- BBC News US/Canada / World
- Contrarian alternative news source covering the Democracy Movement (at the time of this posting the cost is $70.00 per year to sign up.)
- The most unbiased news sources in the U.S. often include PBS News, Associated Press (AP), and NPR, which are frequently cited for their fact-based, non-partisan journalism and broad appeal across the political spectrum. Other highly-rated sources for neutrality are C-SPAN for its unfiltered coverage of government, and the Christian Science Monitor for its analytical, in-depth reporting.
Combating Disinformation
- If you hope to help combat disinformation – Truth Brigade
- Additional sources for fact-checking sources (League of Women Voters)
- Snopes
Miscellaneous
- 5 Calls This is an app on your phone. It will connect you to your representative with a recommended script on what to say.
- If you want to get off X to Bluesky
- https://www.youtube.com/@DangerousOnes, Join Jim Drastic, Tiffany Drastic and Nick Knudsen narrate and lampoon the Occupation of Portland