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CrispyQ

(40,904 posts)
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 11:29 AM Aug 2025

It starts with one.



Resist!

Another DUer recommended the link below. If you scroll down, it's a long, long list of non-violent things you can do to resist. Every action adds up. I have about 10 yard signs & every day I put a different one out & cycle through them. About six weeks ago I was discouraged & thought what good does this tiny bit do, & two days later I found a note in my front door that said, "Thank you for putting your signs out every day. It gives me hope." A couple weeks ago someone mailed me $20 with a note that said, "Love your signs! We want to pitch in!" It doesn't seem like much but sometimes people just need to know they aren't alone in the way they feel.

Some good ideas here! https://commonslibrary.org/198-methods-of-nonviolent-action

Here's a place to look for like-minded activist groups in your area: https://indivisible.org
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It starts with one. (Original Post) CrispyQ Aug 2025 OP
Thank you! Hope22 Aug 2025 #1
I am told daily... Totally Tunsie Aug 2025 #2
That's a really cool graphic jfz9580m Aug 2025 #3
I went to a local markie Aug 2025 #4
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Dec 2025 #5
Hey there! CrispyQ Dec 2025 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author jfz9580m Dec 2025 #7

Totally Tunsie

(11,782 posts)
2. I am told daily...
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 12:11 PM
Aug 2025

"Hey - your flag pin is upside down."

I reply "No. No, it isn't. This is the sign of a nation in distress. OUR nation is in distress."

(Great illustration in your post, by the way.)

jfz9580m

(17,008 posts)
3. That's a really cool graphic
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 02:13 PM
Aug 2025

Did you make it CrispyQ?
Very cool if so ..

About six weeks ago I was discouraged & thought what good does this tiny bit do, & two days later I found a note in my front door that said, "Thank you for putting your signs out every day. It gives me hope." A couple weeks ago someone mailed me $20 with a note that said, "Love your signs! We want to pitch in!" It doesn't seem like much but sometimes people just need to know they aren't alone in the way they feel.


You are far from alone (and not in the creepy surveillance state way ;-/ ..that too probably but that’s less positive ;-/ )..

markie

(23,997 posts)
4. I went to a local
Fri Aug 29, 2025, 02:26 PM
Aug 2025

indivisible meeting a few nights ago... important stuff!!!

I'm pretty isolated where I am (home in Vermont, but sort of living and working in Maryland) and I asked if ICE had been in the community.... hadn't heard anything on news or from neighbors.... oh boy, did I hear stories.... we ALL need to go to these meetings and encourage as many people as we can to do the same... we are in this together and it is going to take ALL OF US






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CrispyQ

(40,904 posts)
6. Hey there!
Sat Dec 6, 2025, 03:51 PM
Dec 2025

I vaguely remember that image, unfortunately, I lost a ton of images recently with a computer SNAFU.

I don't tell my IRL political friend about DU either, but I'm sure some of them are here, even though I haven't a clue what their DU identity is. It's just they know about stuff at the same time I do & I got it here.

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