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Making Congress Listen: INDIVISIBLE: A PRACTICAL GUIDE for RESISTING THE TRUMP AGENDA
Former congressional staffers reveal best practices for making Congress listen. View and Download full PDF
Matthew 25 Movement Immigration Toolkit
A resource describing why immigrants might need our defense and tools for protections and standing as an ally. Download full PDF
On Being: Civil Conversations at Home and in Community
Krista Tippett discusses civil conversations. Download full PDF "This is civic work and it is human, spiritual work – in the most expansive 21st century sense of that language. We can learn for our time what moral imagination, social healing, and civil discourse can look like and how they work."
Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Implementation Guidebook
TRHT and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation provide a useful resource. Download full PDF "Participating communities should understand that they are beginning a long and complex journey, but one of deep societal transformation that promises rich personal and community rewards. These rewards may include economic growth, political stability, tranquility, pride and a sense of common humanity… Continue reading Truth, Racial Healing & Transformation Implementation Guidebook
Useful Books for Organizing
Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer: The Gardens of Democracy: A New American Story of Citizenship, the Economy, and the Role of Government Available at Amazon Miki Kashtan: The Little Book of Courageous Living Available at Amazon Adrienne Maree Brown and William Upski Wimsatt: How to Get Stupid White Men Out of Office Available at Amazon
Articles for Organizing
Activists way in on organizing against the Trump administration and post-march action plans.
Timothy David Snyder on Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Timothy David Snyder is an American historian, author, and academic specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe, and the Holocaust. See original Facebook post here
Mastering Respectful Confrontation
"Americans are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism. Our one advantage is that we might learn from their experience. Now is a good time to do so. Here are twenty lessons from the twentieth century, adapted to the circumstances of today."
Resources to Build a Progressive Movement 