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A blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy. howtoresist.substack.com #resisttrump #protectdemocracy #buildcommunity

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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
Collectively, we’ve become very good at saying, ‘I don’t like this, I don’t approve.’ But today I want to explore how we move into ‘I won’t do this. I will not participate, and I withdraw my resources.’ Here are 45 acts of non-compliance to help you resist authoritarianism.
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📌 45 Acts of Non-Compliance for Ordinary People
Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
There were two nationwide protests in the last 7 days. Congress might be in recess, but the resistance is keeping up the pressure! Good News from the Resistance is published every Sunday! Subscribe to keep up to date with the latest!
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💌 Good News from the Resistance, July 27 - August 2, 2025
Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
This week, we’re starting off in Scotland, where the beef with Trump is decades deep. Let’s see how the Scots welcome the President! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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💌 Good News from the Resistance, July 20-26, 2025
Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Today, we’re looking at the ‘Wall of Shame’, an incredible art installation by Phil Beuhler that tells the stories of 1,575 individuals implicated in the Jan 6th attacks on the Capitol, and talking about how public memory can serve as a powerful tool of resistance.
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The 'Wall of Shame' and Public Memory as a Tool of Resistance
Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
It was a brutal week, but there was still good news to be had!
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💌 Good News from the Resistance, June 29 -July 5, 2025
Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
💌 This week’s good news comes with a message from Fredrick Douglass and the youth protests of Kenya: silence is submission, and we need to use our voices while we still have them. This week’s news round-up offers hope and inspiration from folks who are finding creative ways to save democracy.
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💌 Good News from the Resistance: June 22-28, 2025
Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
💌 Good News from the Resistance: June 15-21, 2025 Things are getting awfully scary, but there is still good news for people who refuse to give up. ⬇️ Good News from the Resistance is published every Sunday on Substack. Subscribe to get the latest!
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💌 Good News from the Resistance: June 15-21, 2025
Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Now it's time to harness this momentum and turn it into action.
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📌 We made history, now what?
Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
We are getting ready over here at How to Resist HQ to join the mass day of protest on Saturday! There are over 2,100 planned protests for that day-- Where will you be joining from?! app.sosha.ai/s/YXdj5Wsz
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Join me on June 14
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Despite what it may look like, L.A. is setting an example of how to keep things peaceful in a tense, militarized situation. What are some tactics we can learn from those in LA and in other nonviolent movements that can help us stay on track so we can get to where we want to go? Let’s take a look!
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📌 Los Angeles: A time for resistance, not violence
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Alex Callinicos @alexcallinicos.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
This week was packed with actions from people just like you, doing whatever they can to slow the machinery of authoritarianism and cruelty. It was a really tough week, but we know what’s important and we aren’t giving up!! ❤️ ✊🏻
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❤️ Good News from the Resistance, June 1-7, 2025
Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
If Trump wants a party, then we’ll bring the balloons 🎈 Today, we’re talking about inflatables as tools of resistance, just in time for someone’s big day.
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Resistance is in the Air: Balloons as tools of defiance
I hear someone has a birthday coming up...
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
It was one of those weeks that makes me proud to be a part of what’s happening here. Massive wins in the courts and real people—students, veterans, cancer survivors, librarians —showing up for each other and the America we want to live in. 🥺 ❤️ ✊🏻
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Good News from the Resistance, May 25-31st, 2025
Welcome to How to Resist, a blueprint for resistance based on nonviolence, mutual aid, and community building for ordinary people who want to save democracy.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
ICE detention centers CAN be shut down. In Part 1, we examined the blueprint left behind by a successful grassroots campaign. In Part 2, we’re following that blueprint across the country—spotlighting the organizers, communities, and coalitions putting it into action RIGHT NOW.
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📌 Taking Action Against ICE Detention Centers, Part 2
Because no one is illegal
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Justin Jest @justinjest.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
It’s Sunday morning! Time for some good news. This week, the resistance tried some new tactics: a die-in, banner drop, student walkout, and a nearly 30-mile-long human chain. Sometimes, you don’t need a huge crowd to get attention; you just need to do something different— Keep it up!!
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Good News from the Resistance, May 18-24th, 2025
Resistance is everywhere.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
ICE detention centers CAN be shut down. Not by politicians, but by people like me and you. Today, we’re learning how a grassroots movement in Berks County, PA made it happen—and how we can, too.
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📌 Taking Action Against ICE Detention Centers
Because no one is illegal.
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Puka_bear 🌈🧙‍♀️🍉💙📚🌶🐈‍⬛️BLM🇺🇦4B @pukabear.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
May 17th (Saturday) TRUMP MUST GO!- This is a nationwide protest. May 25th (Sunday, day before memorial day)-Vet protest June 6th (Friday)- @fiftyfifty.one nationwide protest June 6th -10th General strike June 14th (Saturday)- Trump's bday/ military parade #protest #resist
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
It’s Sunday morning! Time for Good News from the Resistance! These stories aren’t just headlines—they’re reminders that we’re part of something bigger than ourselves. If you’re looking for hope, this is where you’ll find it. ⬇️
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❤️ Good News from the Resistance, May 11-17th, 2025
Rooted, rising, and refusing to yield.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
📌 Wheatpasting is a form of protest that’s as accessible as it is subversive. Whether you're amplifying a cause, honoring a movement, or making a statement, it's a way to make your message stick (literally).
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📌 The People's Billboard: Wheatpasting as a Tool of Resistance
Like papier-mâché, but for walls.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
📣 This Week in Resistance: May 4–10, 2025 From high schoolers and veterans to faith leaders and mayors, everyday people are rising up to defend democracy. This week’s edition of Good News from the Resistance is packed with powerful stories of protest, legal pushback, and solidarity.
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❤️ Good News from the Resistance: May 4-10, 2025
The ink is still wet on history—we’re writing it now.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Can die-hard MAGA folks ever change? Yes, they can. And we can help them ⬇️
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📌 Helping people leave MAGA
How to Have Better Political Conversations, Part 4
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 05/05/2025
BREAKING: For the second time in two weeks, clergy and faith leaders have been arrested while praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda, part of a larger protest against the GOP-led budget.
Police arrest clergy in U.S. Capitol rotunda. Police arrest clergy in U.S. Capitol rotunda. Police arrest clergy in U.S. Capitol rotunda. Police arrest clergy in U.S. Capitol rotunda.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
📌 Profiles in Resistance: Protesting Senior Citizens Today, we are celebrating the strength and determination of the seniors among us who are standing up and speaking out! Here are just a few examples of the actions that seniors have organized and participated in over the past several weeks.
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📌 Profiles in Resistance: Protesting Senior Citizens
Our country’s elders are turning out in whatever way they can to stand up and speak out.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
'America First', 'activist judges', 'MS-13', 'radical left', 'gender ideology' What do these things have in common? They are all political dog whistles. Today, we’re looking at dog whistles and realistic ways to respond to them in your political conversations.
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📌 Responding to DOG WHISTLES
How to Have Better Political Conversations, Part 3
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
It’s Sunday, and that means it’s time for Good News from the Resistance! Big wins in the courts, massive May Day protests, lawyers and judges take a stand, two unexpected victories in Canada and Australia, and a special message etched in the sand outside a Trump golf course in Scotland.
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❤️ Good News from the Resistance: April 27-May 3rd, 2025
Courage is contagious.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 03/05/2025
We put together a social toolkit that makes it easy to share the truth about Trump’s failures and most unpopular policies: app.sosha.ai/toolkit/trum...
A screengrab of the SoSha toolkit:

(around images of Trump) “Trump is historically unpopular — Trump has broken his own record for the lowest presidential approval rating at the 100-day mark.”

“Economic pessimism at 24-year high — Trump Slump: For the first time since 2001, a majority of Americans say their financial situation is getting worse.”

“Most Americans oppose Trump’s immigration policies — Trump's handling of immigration drops underwater after Democrats fight back against ICE overreach and violations of civil liberties.”
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Protesters (and Pikachu, who must be visiting us from Türkiye!) block rush hour traffic this morning in DC to protest Trump’s first 100 Days.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Protestors in Scotland have etched a massing ‘TIME TO RESIST: Fight the Billionaire Takeover’ message into the sand outside of Trump’s Turnberry golf resort.The piece measured 55m×40m / 180’x131’ ✊🏻❤️ www.aljazeera.com/program/news...
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‘Time to resist’: Protesters etch Trump portrait in sand
Environmentalists carved a huge sand portrait of Donald Trump outside his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
📌 Tools of Resistance: Earthwriting & Skywriting tinyurl.com/bdxbmj3j
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📌 Tools of Resistance: Earthwriting & Skywriting
Going beyond chalk on sidewalks
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
In a particularly heartbreaking example of a human banner, Venezuelan detainees spell out S.O.S. as a Reuters drone flies over the Bluebonnet detention center in Anson, Texas. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Venezuelan detainees at Texas center spell out SOS with their bodies
Men at Bluebonnet fear deportation to El Salvador under wartime law despite maintaining they do not have gang ties
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
BREAKING! Mohsen Mahdawi, Columbia University student and lawful permanent resident has been released from federal detention. Upon his release he remarked, “..to President Trump and his cabinet, I AM NOT AFRAID OF YOU.” www.cnn.com/2025/04/30/u...
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Mohsen Mahdawi: Vermont judge orders release of a Palestinian man arrested at his US citizenship interview | CNN
A judge on Wednesday ordered the release of a Palestinian man who led protests against the war in Gaza as a student at Columbia University and was arrested by immigration officials during an interview...
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Growing list of May Day events ⬇️
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
The resistance is growing, my friends! Mass protests, 11 court rulings against Trump, universities and students fighting back, whistleblowers, sinking poll numbers…HISTORY WILL BE ON OUR SIDE! ‘Good Things’ is published every Sunday. Subscribe to get notified!
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❤️ Good things we made happen: April 20-26, 2025
“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.” - Leonardo DaVinci
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
BREAKING: ICE backs down after terminating the records of ~4,700 foreign students; announces student visas shall remain active or be reactivated.
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ICE backs down, says it will restore status of thousands of foreign students
Hundreds of foreign students in the U.S. on F-1 visas said they were informed their SEVIS records were suddenly terminated by DHS.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Despite a warning from defense officials and school administrators, HUNDREDS OF MILITARY KIDS walk out of school to protest Trump’s anti-diversity policies, which are affecting their access to library books, curriculum, and extracurricular activities. You kids rule 🥹 ❤️ buff.ly/toukBrl
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Hundreds of Students at Military Base Schools Walk Out to Protest Trump Administration’s Anti-Diversity Policies
The walkouts, which included about a dozen schools on U.S. military bases in Europe, Asia and at least one stateside, represent the biggest collective action military children have taken since the…
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Maine farmers bring their tractors to the march to protest the US Department of Agriculture’s cuts to grants and programs.
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With tractor parade, Maine farmers protest USDA cuts that could leave many in debt • Maine Morning Star
Steve Sinisi of Old Crow Ranch in Durham was among dozens of farmers who paraded through the streets of Augusta on Wednesday on tractors bearing signs like “Support Farmers, Not Billionaires” and…
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
BREAKING: Thousands turn out for Earth Day protests across the country. tinyurl.com/y79ee5h7
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
📌 Action Kit: Bystander intervention Today, we're looking at guidance from Right to Be and the American Psychological Association on how to safely engage in bystander intervention.
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📌 Action Kit: Bystander intervention
Be an Upstander, not a Bystander.
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
📌 Another great example of vigils as a tool of nonviolent resistance.
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Activists host vigil at shuttered Dublin prison being eyed as ICE facility
Faith leaders and community activists from a range of backgrounds and affiliations gathered in  Dublin last week to decry potential plans to reopen the federal women’s prison known as a “rape club”…
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
BREAKING: Over 170 university, college, and community college presidents sign joint statement against “unprecedented government overreach” and “undue government intrusion” buff.ly/ZDjTXlv
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
AIDS activists deliver 200 coffins to the U.S. Department of State to protest the interruption of crucial HIV treatment programs in developing countries. tinyurl.com/ycvay87x tinyurl.com/24dnf97k
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Today, we’re talking about the quiet power of vigils
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📌 Tools of Resistance: Vigils
Creating a powerful, peaceful presence that honors victims, raises awareness, and fosters solidarity
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
This week in the resistance… open.substack.com/pub/howtores...
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❤️ Good Things We Made Happen: April 13-19, 2025
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” - Ovid
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
📌 Take Action: 30 Ways to Support People in Need of Shelter Housing Now! National Day of Action is next Tuesday, April 22, 2025. Here are 30 ways you can take action where you are!
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📌 Take Action: 30 Ways to Support People in Need of Shelter
'Housing Now!' National Day of Action is April 22, 2025
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How to Resist @how-to-resist.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
📌 Responding to WHATABOUTISM in our political conversations
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📌 Responding to WHATABOUTISM in our political conversations
How to Have Better Political Conversations, Part 2
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