Scroll down for important and very useful links. One Million Rising is using proven methods of resistance. This is an important and easy framework to follow. Indivisible and its partner organizations have provided everything you need to take next steps to stop this regime’s takeover of our democracy.
One Million Rising: Next Steps of Resistance
The key to stopping any momentum toward authoritarianism isn’t to attack the would-be ruler at the top, but to chip away at the vital institutions and communities that uphold their power, causing the entire house of cards to come tumbling down. Trump cannot consolidate power without well-maintained roads to transport his military muscle, vendors who sell to his detention facilities, and educated workers to fill in for his decimated federal workforce, just to name a few.
We call these institutions and communities pillars of support and there are many, including faith, labor, business, civil servants, police/military and more. These pillars are holding up the regime.
These pillars of support are much closer to us as everyday Americans than Trump is himself, which means we have the ability to shift them from compliance to defiance. Each time a pillar institution yields to or supports the regime, the regime grown stronger. In contrast, noncooperation–refusing to do what is expected, disrupting the normal course of events, and withdrawing support from unjust or illegal policies–weakens the regime and creates cracks in its foundation of power.
This is how we fight back against Trump’s authoritarian takeover — by identifying our influence with the pillars of support his regime depends upon and convincing them to participate in strategic non-cooperation.
Noncooperation is the act of refusing to cooperate or comply with requests, demands, or orders.
Enough noncooperation will cause a pillar to completely defect — or at least be unreliable in the autocrat’s aims. Individuals, groups, pillars, and entire societies can engage in noncooperation!
Ask:
● What pillars am I part of?
● How are those pillars upholding the regime?
● In those pillars, what kind of defiance is already happening and what could
more look like?
● Who are key decision-makers in those pillars who we could we could influence, pressure or persuade to support more noncooperation?
Participate in acts of noncooperation by
- Brainstorming, planning and holding actions of noncooperation, individually, in groups and mass actions
- Working within or with other organizations and initiatives to chip away at the pillars.
- Hosting Resistance Gatherings—small groups of people to discuss what’s happening and what each of us can do to break the pillars of support holding up the Trump regime.
The recordings are phenomenal—good info with practical steps we can each take. Each builds on the other and is only one hour.
One Million Rising Session Recordings:
- The Moment & Your Mission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4496VWDjwS0
- How to Make it happen : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLB5Fre7nI&t=2s
- What Now? : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMrfl07wX00
- Updates & Next Steps: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vv4t_N4mBY
One Million Rising links and documents:
One Million Rising Website: https://tinyurl.com/4vzuytmk
Resistance Gathering Toolkit: https://tinyurl.com/yppykesv
Host Guide: https://tinyurl.com/4aaw4pmh
Flyers, Rally Signs, Printed materials: https://tinyurl.com/464rkdvy
Slides from the first call: https://tinyurl.com/djznb43u
Slides from the 2nd call: https://tinyurl.com/yta544ey
Slides from the 3rd call: https://tinyurl.com/36sr4t8t
Slides from the 4th call—Updates & Next Steps: https://tinyurl.com/2n5j2zr3
Start a courage collective: https://indivisible.org/campaign/courage-collectives. Work within a pillar you’re a part of. Join forces with others to crack that pillar.
