WormMoon

Make your work a form of protest.

Do you have some flexibility with where or when you work? Some ideas: Organize a "work-in" somewhere like your city hall, capitol, ICE building, court, town square, etc. Bring signs and flyers.

Do you work onsite somewhere but have a lunch break? Some ideas: Organize a lunchtime demonstration with your coworkers outside or a reading or action group.

You're a homemaker, stay at home parent or caregiver? Some ideas: Have sign making parties with the kids, build collectives to help each other with childcare and collectivize tasks, have phone call action hours where you take turns caring for the kids while some of you call your elected officials.

Have flexibility with what you can wear? Some ideas: wear your support as tshirts, pins, hats, etc.

Have any kind of job? Some ideas: talk with your coworkers, figure out actions you can take within your organization to protect your community from the trump regime, create resistance in your organization, unionize.

Thanks to @Taste-T-Krumpetz on reddit and many others saying individual protests are not enough and for pushing us to think further. Many folks are seeing the necessity of more impactful and sustained action, including and beyond street protest, and more sustained economic disruption.

It's also really important to disrupt all business as usual. Every day that goes by where we function like it is business as usual, going to work and shutting up while we're there, is normalizing this in our bodies, hearts and minds.

And, since they're flooding the zone, we can't all act on every single thing that pops up on the regime's timing. We have to be strategic and already in action. We know exactly what they're doing and what they're aiming for, so, we don't need to wait for them to do it before we act. Plus, they've already done enough that there are plenty of places to start.

So. I have been thinking along the following principles as far as guiding action:

1. No business as usual (economic disruption through boycotts / stopping spending, visibility, protest, vigils, sit ins, slow downs, stoppages, disrupting the systems that feed the regime's power in any way and making asks and demands that weaken the pillars of power.)
2. Building movements (Ongoing, cross-sector, based in class struggle and mutual aid. Weaken the pillars of power by reducing people's reliance on it and strengthening the people's reliance on each other. Connect with one another. Everything you do, invite at least one person to do it with you.)
3. Starting and acting from where you are (Your current roles and positions in the social order and what is important to you. For example, I am a white person, a higher ed instructor, adjunct laborer, union member, student debt holder, parent, caregiver for someone with a disability, live in low income housing, neighbor to many immigrants, etc. Any / all of these can be places I start and focus on and build from, and notice the connections between. Action is available to everyone, all the time.)
4. Our work as our power (And work as widely understood and including all forms of unpaid labor / social reproduction. Make our work benefit the people, democracy, pressure our institutions and workplaces, build workplace power, and take away any support we can from the regime in our work.)
5. Everyday / Every day action (Again, action is available to everyone all the time. Commit to acting every day, even in everyday ways.)

For me, as an adjunct professor, currently teaching online, I realized I have a lot of freedom about when and where I work. And, especially since Covid started, many other professors do as well. What is to stop us from starting to build power with daily or weekly "work-ins" at strategic locations, to bring visibility to the issues that affect our students and us and everyone in higher ed or education more broadly. This could be City Hall, courts, ICE buildings, etc. There could be one for each city. These could be a whole day with a clear schedule and people could come and go as they needed. There could be things like teach-ins, reading groups, work-ins, demonstration, dance parties, etc. In addition to building power and visibility in resisting the Trump regime, these could be access points for building power and organizing about workplace issues like bargaining and the budget, and cross-organizing across workplaces and sectors, taking further collection action, sharing calls to action, etc. Additionally, students could be invited so we could build different, new relationships of solidarity with our students. This also helps us build organizing power towards larger actions like work stoppages and strikes and also has the potential to bring media attention. This could provide us an opportunity to connect different things that are under attack by the Trump regime (trans rights, dept. of education, student debt, immigrant rights / deportations, , by explaining how all of these issues connect and impact students and our communities.

I'll also direct folks to the Repository of 50501 Related Resources (https://50501.chat/post/23757)