The Beautiful Solutions Gallery and Lab is an interactive space for sharing the stories, solutions and big ideas needed to build new institutional power and point the way toward a just, resilient, and democratic future. Developed in partnership with This Changes Everything, this is an open-ended project that will continue to evolve based on the ideas you submit to the Lab, and the ongoing contributions of the thinkers and practitioners on the forefront of building alternatives.
Resist Trump Links
Brand New Congress is recruiting and running more than 400 progressive candidates in a single, unified, national campaign for Congress in 2018. Their objective is to build the Democratic party from the grassroots on up.
This is a Seattle-based (and expanding) group of older and newer activists, with an idea that together we can be a network of neighborhood-based groups that will create actions and develop ideas that can, we hope, shape the world and the future in ways that benefit people, planet, and all living things. Each neighborhood has one or more point persons. The website includes a guide to help neighborhood groups, a list of some of their local and national collaborators, and links to resources, including articles, inspirational material, and videos.
America's Third Reconstruction depends on a moral movement, deeply rooted in the South, emerging state by state throughout the nation. It does not depend on a single leader or organization to orchestrate such a movement, but relys on the power of fusion organizing seen in North Carolina in 2014 and the lessons of Moral Mondays. In order to move forward together, they’ve outlined fourteen steps to mobilize in the streets, at the polls, and in the courtroom.
Common Dreams staffwriter Deirdre Fulton reports on the various strains of "resistance from within" that may be "potentially more troublesome to the administration" than airport protests or call-in campaigns.
This practical guide compiled by former congressional staffers offers best practices for making Congress listen. It's a step-by-step blueprint for individuals, groups, and organizations looking to replicate the Tea Party’s success in getting Congress to pay attention to a small, vocal, dedicated group of constituents. The guide is intended to be equally useful for stiffening Democratic spines and weakening pro-Trump Republican resolve.
The next step for the Bernie Sanders' movement is Our Revolution, which will fight to transform America and advance the progressive agenda that we believe in. Our Revolution has three intertwined goals: to revitalize American democracy, empower progressive leaders and elevate the political consciousness.
OurStates connects communities to actionable information and tools to reject the Trump / GOP agenda in every state and protect communities from harm. OurStates is a project of StayWoke, an organization that engages thousands of learners, builders, and activists in the work of creating solutions to advance equity and justice in America.
PopularResistance.org seeks to aid in bringing movements for peace, justice, economic fairness and environmental protection together into an independent, nonviolent and diverse movement that can end the power of concentrated wealth, shift power to the people and put human needs before corporate greed. Their website is a resource and information clearinghouse for this movement. You will find links, tools and other resources to help you connect with groups and organizations in the movement. They also provide a daily stream of relevant news articles from around the web,
The Resistance Agenda seeks to cover the bases in the resistance against Trump, the alt-right, and the GOP's inauguration.
RootsAction is an online initiative dedicated to galvanizing people who are committed to economic fairness, equal rights, civil liberties, environmental protection -- and defunding endless wars.
- We will not be silent as Congress and the president continue to squander billions of dollars on foreign wars, causing destruction and hatred overseas while failing to meet the needs of the vast majority of people in our country.
- We will not stand by as people lose their jobs and homes due to Wall Street schemes abetted by both major parties.
- We will take action -- independent of both party leaderships.
The five speeches presented in this free e-book are taken from “The Anti-Inauguration,” held on inauguration night 2017 at the historic Lincoln Theatre in Washington, DC. They include speeches by by Anand Gopal, Owen Jones, Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. The Anti-Inauguration event and ebook are joint projects of Jacobin, Haymarket Books and Verso Books.
Authors Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers examine the long-term trends of a failing democracy manifested in the Trump presidency. Available in a daily email news digest, their website, PopularResistance.org seeks to aid in bringing movements for peace, justice, economic fairness and environmental protection together into an independent, nonviolent and diverse movement that can end the power of concentrated wealth, shift power to the people and put human needs before corporate greed.
A calendar where one can find resistance events across the U.S. or list their own.
First We Marched, Now We Huddle - Next Up Huddles are part of the 10 Actions for the First 100 Days campaign, which launched at the Women’s March, and is working to mobilize millions to win back the country and world we want. The Huddles will visualize what a more equitable, just, safer and freer world could look like four years from now -- and we’ll work backwards to figure out what we need to do, starting today, to get there. Huddles are meant to be positive, inclusive, action-oriented and grounded in the tradition of nonviolent resistance.