Fighting fascism

Suggestions for a rational response to the outrageously anti-democratic authoritarian U.S. government. 

 

Activism – Reclaiming Democracy:

* Become active in local political organizations, volunteer and provide support.

* Identify your personal interests and find an organization to work with on related goals.¹

 

Tax resistance:

*Withhold tax return and/or refuse to pay federal taxes, and advocate for same.

* Include protest statement with your return. * Or just ignore them.

 

Advocate for unionization of workforce

* Unions provide community, solidarity, and democratic control of workplace.

* Support striking workers * Participate in general strikes.²

* suggest unionization to workers you encounter and provide resource materials.³⁴

 

BDS: (Boycott, Divest, Sanction) US+state Governments, For-profit Corporations, politicians, Academic Institutions, Media Corporations and Personalities which are fascism complicit … and, call them out!

* Have a retirement investment account? Discover how your money is used.

* Research anti-BDS stipulations in your state, employment, school, associations.

* Discover what corporations or politicians you wish to support – or not⁵

 

Find trustworthy media:

* Do not rely on profit driven corporate entities; NYT, ABC, CNN, CBS, etc.

* Investigate the many independent media sources on YouTube, SubStack, MeansTV, and among the many independent journals online such as Common Dreams, Truthout, In These Times, Truthdig, or Responsible Statecraft.

 

* See below for additional recommended news sources.

1 RepresentUS: https://represent.us/about/

 

2 Support Social Security workers: https://www.afgec220.org/ https://socialsecurityworks.org/

 

3 Labor Now Needs to Be an Anti-Fascist Movement https://inthesetimes.com/article/trump-maga-labor-fascism

 

4 Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee: https://workerorganizing.org/. 

 

Union organizing videos with more information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2vRd5S2BFg&t=19s

 

Unions Are Good And Cool, Second Thought, organizing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHOGRhBkWOE

 

5 Politicos’ funding: https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress An APP: https://www.goodsuniteus.com/

Wayne’s favorite news journals and YouTubers (search)

 

https://www.commondreams.org/ Second Thought

 

https://truthout.org/ Geopolitical Economy Report

 

https://www.truthdig.com/ Chris Hedges

 

https://jacobin.com/ The Analysis News

 

https://inthesetimes.com/ The Humanist Report

 

https:/responsiblestatecraft.org/ Jeffrey Sachs

 

https://means.tv/ Zeteo

 

https://www.counterpunch.org/ Real News Network

 

Trustworthy news sources suggested by social media communicants from around the world and assembled by a friend of Fighting Fascism. 

 

Aljazeera (world news) https://www.aljazeera.com/

 

CBC (Canadan public media) https://www.cbc.ca/

 

The Globe and Mail (Canada) https://www.theglobeandmail.com/

 

Common Cause https://www.commoncause.org/

 

The Post (Copehagen Denmark) https://cphpost.dk/

 

The Guardian (UK) https://www.theguardian.com/

 

The Irish Times, https://www.irishtimes.com/

 

RTE (Ireland National media) https://www.rte.ie/?v=1.0.24

 

Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Human Rights https://civilrights.org/

 

Lenkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (US) https://www.lemkininstitute.com/

 

Radio Free Europe https://www.rferl.org/

 

NZ Herald (New Zealand) https://www.nzherald.co.nz/

 

RNZ (New Zealand) https://www.rnz.co.nz/