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
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
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: YouTube, 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.
- Heather’s conversation with Vanessa Williamson.
- Searchlight Institute (a policy centered think tank framing a new understanding of democratic issues “new ideas have spelled the end of one era and the beginning of another, rearranging political coalitions and sparking realignments. Today, we at the Searchlight Institute believe that a realignment is not just possible, but necessary.”
- John Pavlovitz
- Thom Hartmann.
- William Barber & Jonathan Wilson Hartgrove
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