(v29) I decided to start a list of links as I thought that there was no collection of links. We should collect links and images relating to 50501. Please share this list around. If you want to save this repo to your hard drive, click the view source button and copy. Give suggestions to add or edit to the list, via replies or messages, description is not required but appreciated.

If you are creating a guide or list for protestors, lets link to each other so we can get a info network!

Info Network (We are linked to each other!):
- Hold the Line: Options for Resistance (Dead link) Big list of things you can do. Covers from protesting, to boycotting and eliminating big tech, to recruitment and community.

Other lists:
- lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39549401
- buildtheresistance.org/resourc… 's table
- We the People Dissent In the archives tab, there is lists on upcoming protests, where to find them, and other things you can do.
- AgentFlounder's Take Action (Github list) Another list of things you can do.
- A Guide to Guides: Over 30 Activist Guides You Might Find Helpful When Opposing the Far Right
- Do Not Turn On Us (Linktree) "Organizing civilians, veterans and active duty military to refuse fascist orders." Has resources for those who is/been in the army, such as disobedience and oath, flyers, and insurrection act info.
- Resist MAGA Has a couple lists on topics such as Republican lies, ICE and legal trackers, and protest info.
- Revolution Starter Pack! A collection of resources in a similar style of my list. The maintainer wants to collect lots of resources.

Organizing:
- 50501 (Linktree) Protest in every state capitol! Find actions/virtual actions, Flyer templates so you can edit to include details, and some other resources.
- Indivisible Find local groups and find actions to take here. Founded in response to Trump's election. Sign up with your Email and Zip code to receive actions you can take locally. You can also file a form to start organizing in your own area.
- Build The Resistance Find actions, resources, and a hub of content you can contribute to anonymously. /resources contains links to training, mutual aid, know your rights, and a table of user submitted links just like this one.
- Mobilize Events/Actions, Petitions, Volunteering, Virtual events, Organizations, and Groups, in one page. It has a map of protests.
- Political revolution
- Women’s March An organization by feminists. There is an action hub where you can find protests, digital actions, and a People's Toolkit, where you fill out a survey of issues you care about so they can find stuff for you.
- Stand Up for Science Find protests, local rallies, and local events, to stand up for science. Contains a link to protest safety too, and in the FAQs is a Google Drive for flyers and square images.
- Tesla Takedown Protest at Tesla dealerships to hurt Musk's gravy train.
- Americans United Dedicated to the separation of church and state, which means they have to fight Project 2025, which they have a page on. Click on the "GET INVOLVED" button to find events and volunteer.

Protest Events:
- Hands Off! Website for the April 5th DC protest led by multiple protest organizations. Don't know if this is a one-off website.
- Mayday Movement USA (Linktree) Occupy the national mall in DC!

Transport/Protest Tools:
- Rally.co Book bus rides to reach your protests! Search and book.
- Block Posters Useful for making bigger signs by using multiple pieces of printed paper and combining them to form one big image.

Protesting Areas:
- The Big List of Protests Straight to the point, protest flyers submitted by users, in the main page. You can add your own flyer and be able to sort by state and date.
- drive.proton.me/urls/Z4TPY0BBQ… List of DC protests.
- r/OperationEchoStrike's Town Hall Bulletin List of upcoming town halls.
- NoVoiceUnheard Click on a state to find protests near you. Also contains information for attendees and organizers.

Striking/Unionization:
- The General Strike If 3.5% of America's population signs up to this, we can call a general strike and stop the economy if demands aren't met.
- Industrial Workers of the World A grassroots general union that you can join from any job or trade. This union will also help you with forming a union and has resources on how to do so, or you can sign their Red Card for membership. They would be the first to start or join a general strike, and if you want it to happen faster, then start unionizing your workplace.
- Strike For Our Rights A nonprofit that promotes strikes. You can sign a strike card here.
- SPECIFIC SUGGESTIONS Slow down productivity by doing simple mischief to your workplace or possibly any relevant place. Contains advice for the saboteur. Click to get a card.
- National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee Hold off on paying your taxes.
Has some resources, including on motivation and consequences.

Boycotting:

• Goods Unite Us Website and App that lets you search a brand and find out it's political contributions.
• Progressive Shopper Website and extension (Firefox) that lets you search up products and brands by search or category, and it will show how much they donated to what party, the issues progressives would have such as donating to anti abortion or being a tax dodger, and possible alternatives.
• MAGA Trash Search for companies that are MAGA.
• Boycott MAGA Has names of brands and celebrities that are MAGA.
• PublicSquare MAGA website where it has an interactable map full of MAGA companies that have self reported their location to. You even had to sign up to get on this map. You can search with your ZIP code to find MAGA businesses around you. (Note, this is a MAGA website, and someone should archive this.)
• Bankrupt Trump Find alternatives to products made in the US or Russia. You can search, and pick your location to show local options.
• Shop Blue (Google Doc) Regularly updated list of brands that have donated to Democrats. You want to buy from the blue and gray backgrounds, or even green.
• Buy Beaver Website and App where you can search and Buy Canadian. Rates each product by how Canadian it is (Manufacturing, Ingredients, Brand) alongside some pictures. Even includes a scanner.
• Buy European Buy European. Can search, or browse by category, or look for an alternative.
• Go European Switch to European products and services. Also available as a browser extension. Use filters or categories to find physical or digital alternatives to American companies, or even search for a specific country.
• European Alternatives "European alternatives for digital products." Search by category or by alternatives.

Home Actions:
- 5 Calls Helpful website and App that finds your representatives and gives you a script so you can call them on an issue that matters to you.
- Congressional Switchboard: (202) 224-3121. Lets you find your representatives by state and you can choose one to call.
- FaxZero Send free faxes to people, especially your representatives if they are ignoring your calls, which on the home page is links to a list of representatives you can fax to.
- Democracy.io Email your representatives. Put your address, city, and ZIP, and it will find your representatives and you can email more than one at the same time.
- Resistbot Bot you can text to via phone. Can mass email/text/fax representatives. I don't completely understand it's paid content coins and premium stuff.

Anti-ICE

• StopICE.net Website to quickly view and report ICE sightings.
• icelist.info Not sure if this site is up.
• NNiRR's Immigration Hotline list
• Immigrant Justice Network of Massachusetts Report ICE sightings or volunteer for ICE watch.
• theimmigrationhub.shorthandsto… Names and brief descriptions of people who have been disappeared by ICE.

Protestor Guides:
- State Protest Rights Find out your protestor rights in your state.
- ALCU's Know Your Rights Know your rights! This website contains a lot of things to read!
- Activist Handbook "The Wikipedia for activists." Contains a wealth of knowledge for campaigning, from becoming an activist to starting your own movement.
- EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense Project A bunch of guides on how to protect yourself from surveillance.
- Stand Up for Science's Protest Safety Guide Small advice on protesting.
- The Hong Kong Protestor’s Kit: A Packing Guide for Anyone Resisting Police in the Streets The kit used by Hong Kong protestors, should you have to resist violent police forces.
- Beautiful Trouble The toolbox has a ton of stories and strategies that you can use to inspire yourself or others. Also offers training.

Privacy/INFOSEC/OPSEC/OSINT:
- Hitchhiker’s Guide Huge guide by many people on how to be anonymous online, or even offline/IRL. Covers many things. If you want to participate anonymously, or do any kind of activist or whistleblower work, this is worth a read.
- OSINT Framework Big tree of resources for searching and gathering public data for intelligence. Also includes some privacy stuff.
- Intelligence X OSINT search engine. /tools is also worth a try.
- OSINT? WTF?? What is open-source intelligence? Explains what OSINT is.
- EFF's Surveillance Self-Defense Project A bunch of guides on how to protect yourself from surveillance.
- Tails OS The portable Operating System that forgets. Designed specifically for privacy and activists.
- The Privacy Raccoon Privacy software list that I recommend. It has most of the stuff I would recommend to anyone for privacy.
- PRISM Break Another privacy software list that I recommend second.
- Awesome Privacy (1) (2) Cut away from big tech's control and selling of your data with this awesome privacy list.
- Privacy Guides Another privacy list.
- Digital Defense Your own interactable privacy checklist.
- Practical Privacy Choose your privacy goal path, and follow the card's instructions. Each card has resources.
- Digital security for activists Part of the Activist Handbook. Explains why you need security, and how to do it.
- Data Broker Remover Tool Put your email on there, and this tool will tell many data brokers to stop selling your data and remove it.
- IntelTechniques Has some free PDFs in the Resources section, and some Tools.

Trackers:
- project2025.observer/ A website tracking the progress of the Project 2025 agenda, something Trump said he had no involvement with, yet, many of these policies are being implemented right now.
- translegislation.com/ A website tracking anti-trans bills in 2025.
- trumpgolftrack.com/ Your tax dollars at work! Trump spends a big portion of his presidency playing golf rather than working.
- Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes A timeline of 2.0 Trump's offenses.
- realtimefascism.com/ A collection of news articles sorted by the 14 characteristics of fascism. (Performance heavy website for some reason.)
- OpenSecrets "Your home for money in politics." Check a politician's donors, lobbyists, and read about dark money.
- List of people detained by ICE (Google Sheets) (Dashboard) Includes where they are held and information about them.

Communities/Social Medias:
- 50501 (Linktree) (Forum) (Reddit) (Lemmy) (Discord) (Bluesky) (Mastodon) (Facebook) (Instagram) (Threads) (TikTok) (Youtube)
- r/ProtestFinderUSA Find protests on Reddit.
- r/CANUSHelp Canadians and Americans work together against Trump.
- r/CANZUK
- Buy European (r/BuyFromEU)

Media:
- 50501.chat/post/23737 List of Anti-Trump media so you can feed the algorithm your attention.
- Stop Project 20205 Comic Comics that educate you on the policies on Project 2025 and how it will negatively affect us all. Available as a PDF. Hell, "it’s more than fifty times as long as the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution…combined."
- Green card holder from New Hampshire 'interrogated' at Logan Airport, detained Green card holder tortured by border patrol in attempt to get him to give up their green card.

Advice/Writeups:
- The Protest Playbook: How to Win Real Change, Not Just Headlines Small writing on protest strategy.
- Choose Democracy Contains a list of what you can do to stop the Administrative Coup. Tells you to organize, pressure, and devote to a long term plan by picking 1 of 4 paths, by that order.
- Tinker's post on how to find and build community
- The "Do Not Associate" List A small writeup on how to properly counter MAGA's word association game.
- Protests Won't Cut It - The Forgotten Art of Direct Action Examples of direct and escalating action.
- Conservative Archetypes (Google Drive) 4 types of conservative archetypes, and how to reach out and understand them, and encourage reflection. Document by u/Brief_Head4611, who studies human behavior.
- Project 50501 (Google Doc) Agenda/list of demands by the users of r/50501. I don't agree with the name but the policies are good.
- Project 2029 Think they are in collaboration with Project 50501. Progressive anti corruption policies.

Turnout:
- Wikimedia Send your images to Wikipedia! There is a ton in there.
- u/Winkinsburst's Protest Megathread List of links to turnout for 3/14 and 3/15.

Other:
- 50501.chat/post/25853 Proof that Trump is doing what Hitler did to gain power and detain minorities to concentration camps.
- Accusation in a mirror AKA "Every accusation is a confession." One of the tactics the GOP is using.
- Election Truth Alliance A non-profit researching the 2024 election results, which they say they have found concerning patterns. You can volunteer to sign up, and there are resources for flyers, actions, and others.
- Cliff Cash's Nazi/White Supremacist militia database (Facebook) A stand-up comedian is asking for volunteers for a database. Link pulled from this Reddit post. Keep an eye on it and update me on what happens next.
- The Billionaire Plan to End America Incriminating quotes by the billionaires in our government right now.
- donaldstwitterwonderland.net/ (Performance heavy.)
- Run For Something Supports progressive candidates. You can look up progressive candidates that are running in your state. You can sign up if you are thinking of running for office and they will help you.
- Leaders We Deserve Primary Democrats with young progressives. Has a list of 2026 candidates, and you can fill out a form if you're planning to run for office.
- Rise For Freedom Activist trainings.
- Congressional Recall Amendment Pressure congress by telling your state legislators to introduce recall elections for congress members, in the constitution.___

Tinker ☀️

2024-12-03 16:21:46

Folks have asked me how to find and build community.

Here is a very pragmatic and approachable way to find the community in your local town or neighborhood.

A little of bit of the concept with a focus on praxis.

So if you're new to community and mutual aid, don't think about what you can build. You're going to be wrong. People have already tried what you're thinking and dropped it back at version 0.3 - Everyone is on 8.2c right now.

So join what exists. Once you get good at it, then you can build out from there - with the knowledge of what is actually needed and works.

Quick note: Things are working. You're just not hearing about it via corporate news. Because it doesn't make those corps money. But its working and has been working. Glad you are joining us now! I think you'll be very pleasantly surprised as what exists around you and what you've been missing out on. Everyone joins at some point. Glad you're here now.

How do you find what exists?

The simple answer is, via community. But you haven't joined the community, so how do you find community without the community!

Since you're here, on the internet, let's start with the internet.

One thing: Folks building and running mutual aid aren't always building and running websites. They're meeting actual people doing physical things in the world. So their websites suck. Also, putting things out publicly runs the risk of inviting the nose of town government and their police forces. Sometimes posting publicly is a *BAD IDEA*. So they don't. You understand OpSec. They understand it better.

But, you certainly can start on the internet to find a "doorway".

Mutual Aid and community is DISTINCTLY DIFFERENT from charities/non-profits. I won't go into it here, but the two (mutual aid and charities/non-profits) aren't the same and actually opposed to each other.

Buuuuuut.....

Folks overlap between the two.

So I might focus on mutual aid, but I'll work with some charities because their apparatus furthers a mutual aid goal in the immediacy.

With that in mind, you can search out charities on the internet. They are well established there and are often upheld by local govt and churches. So they're protected.

Certainly go find some charities that align with your "one thing" (the thing you'll focus on now until you learn about more).

The big thing though, is the charity is not the goal. The people that work there are the goal. You are building a network. So go and meet people but BE FUCKING CHILL about your goals. You start spouting off mutual aid and bad things happen. So just be quiet and listen (this being quiet and listening is going to be your main skill to develop for a long while... so embrace it now).

You'll mostly find old boomers in retirement and religious folks with some politicians. They are charity folks. Great. But you're looking for folks that don't fit those molds. You're looking for the hippies, the socialists, the anarchists, the folks who have grown up poor and now have some means. "One of these things is not like the other". Find the anomalies and follow *their* lead.

You're going to sit in these charities for months while you meet people. Listen to "small talk". If it's Jesus focused, just smile and nod and praise god.

But if it's apparatus building and working with other groups, those are the conversations you want to join in on.

I'll say that again:

If the conversation is about WORKING WITH OTHER GROUPS on shared goals... get in on that. I don't care if its other charities. Get in on it.

After a while, you'll start meeting folks that are building real mutual aid. Learn the initiatives in your area and you'll find and settle into the groups that are doing work but not advertising on social media about it.

So.

Where to start?

Pick one of the following areas (there are more, but these are entry points):
- Food.
- Homeless outreach.
- Literacy / schooling.
- Political access and voting.

Just pick one area and find groups that do that thing. Don't worry about picking the right one. You're going to be moving around for a bit while you learn, so its fine. They all flow.

For Food: Find your local Food Bank and Food Pantries. Feeding America is a good start. Look there. Food Banks need lots of volunteers. Find a thing you can do and do it. Local churches act as Food Pantries. Go to those and help hand out food. If you're really lucky, find a place that makes and serves hot food. DO THAT!!! You'll get real close to mutual aid right away.

For Homeless outreach, look up local shelters - sure. Shelters tend TO ABSOLUTELY SUCK!!! So your mileage may vary. Look for places that gather up clothes and coats and hand them out. Look for places that serve the homeless communities and do that.

For Literacy and schooling, look up various elementary schools, libraries, and the same. After school programs for children. Boys and Girls clubs and the like as well. If you have kids, talk with your school counselors and ask them about the school programs that serve under-privileged families.

For political access and voting, don't join a political party. Instead find local orgs that focus on registering people for voting. The NAACP shines in this. You don't have to be black to join the NAACP. Local DSA (Democratic Socialists of America) are also a good place to look.

Great. So how do you find them?

A quick note on internet searches just to get it out of the way: Search for "city or town name" and:
- "food bank"
- "food pantry"
- "mutual aid"
- "after school programs"
- "voter advocacy"
- "homeless shelter"
- "women's shelter"
- "town resources"
- "library"

On that last note: The BEST PLACE TO START is your local library.

Just go hang out in the library for a while. They post A LOT of stuff for the town. Classes, resources, groups, events, etc. And by "post" I actually mean physical posts. Fliers on the wall and on physical "announcement boards". The librarians themselves are great. Just ask them. They're there to help. Literally.

In fact, don't approach looking for these groups as a volunteer (I hate that word). Don't approach them as a person looking to contribute and build.

Instead, approach these groups as a person who could benefit from them. So for food, ask the librarians to help you find "food pantries for distributions". The libraries are geared to help the community. So get all the info on that, and then flip it around and go to the food pantries and ask how you can help.

So. Internet search for groups is an okay start. But go to the local library and ask.

All you need is ONE WAY in. Once you find some sort of group doing something - anything... go there. Then meet the people. Find a stray community worker that also works there and learn from them. Then find out about the other groups that meet and are building and doing. Go to those in person meetings and spread from there.

(Ask questions in this thread and I and others will give you ideas.)

Also, if you need help finding those initial groups, DM me with your town name and I'll give you a list of groups that you can start with.

#solarPunk #mutualAid #community