Make Your Damn Bed

There are thousands of alternatives and accommodations for those of us who can't physically attend a protest or rally. Some are less glamorous than others, but some will feel like the right fit. It's a long haul. Don't give up on the fight, just keep moving forward. Add a little good where you can and reduce a little bad where you can, but don't be too critical on yourself (or your community) if you're unable to do it all at once, or you need to take breaks. We will need breaks. We will need self-care. We will need community care. We will need to be patient and kind to ourselves in the process.

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Ways to Protest from Home by Chico Democracy: https://chicodemocracy.weebly.com/protest-from-home.html

@mochaeinstein27 thoughts on the Bake Sale: https://www.instagram.com/p/DF_TKjPP0NH/?locale=es_ES%2F

Reddit for filing a complaint with the Attorney General: https://www.reddit.com/r/50501/comments/1j5i2ag/we_the_people/

More Ethical Investing: https://www.ethic.com/

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Remember, if you stay prepared, you don't have to get prepared.

If you're tear gassed:

Get out of the cloud of tear gas and away from the general area as soon as you can. Seek high ground.

Walk, don’t run. Running may cause you to breath more heavily, filling your lungs with more tear gas. Try to keep breathing even.

If your eyes have been exposed and are burning or blurry, flush them with water immediately. Try not to touch your eyes, nose, or mouth. Use water from your water bottle to flush. If you can find an open drinking fountain or sink in a public restroom, flush your eyes with water for 10 to 15 minutes.

There is no evidence that baking soda or milk is better than cool water alone. There is one small randomized controlled trial that found that baby shampoo is no better than water. Using baby wipes or makeup wipes if water is not immediately available may cause increased irritation.

If possible, and you are not affected yourself, help others by moving them to a clean and ventilated area.

Do not try to remove the tear gas canisters, as doing so may put you at an increased risk for further harm and injury.

Protest Preparedness: https://www.hrc.org/resources/tips-for-preparedness-peaceful-protesting-and-safety

Know Your Rights: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights 

Digital Security Checkup: https://securityinabox.org/en/

Tear Gas Protocol: https://phr.org/our-work/resources/preparing-for-protecting-against-and-treating-tear-gas-and-other-chemical-irritant-exposure-a-protesters-guide/

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Before the Protest:

• Burner Phone: Ditch smartphones (or remove batteries, use Faraday bags). Use encrypted apps (Signal, but assume it’s compromised).
• Buddy System: Assign check-in times with someone not at the protest. Share arrest plans (e.g., lawyer’s contact).
• Write Emergency Contacts on Skin: In Sharpie, under clothing. Cops tend to confiscate bags/phones.

During the Protest:

• Masks & No Distinctive Clothing: Cover tattoos, wear generic attire.
• Hands Visible, No Sudden Moves: Assume any interaction with police could escalate.
• Locate Medics: Find them early. Know basic first aid for tear gas (cool, clean water works best).

If Arrested:

• Say ONLY: “I want a lawyer.” Never talk to cops.
• Expect Isolation: Authorities aren't the good guys, designate an external person to sound alarms if you're arrested.

Protest Preparedness: https://www.hrc.org/resources/tips-for-preparedness-peaceful-protesting-and-safety

Know Your Rights: https://www.aclu.org/know-your-rights/protesters-rights 

Digital Security Checkup: https://securityinabox.org/en/

Tear Gas Protocol: https://phr.org/our-work/resources/preparing-for-protecting-against-and-treating-tear-gas-and-other-chemical-irritant-exposure-a-protesters-guide/

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"There are no exact guidelines. There are probably no guidelines at all. The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance. Awareness of all the most dangerous kinds of vanity, both in others and in ourselves. A good mind. A modest certainty about the meaning of things. Gratitude for the gift of life and the courage to take responsibility for it." - Václav Havel

“Nothing can burst the balloon of pomposity and dictatorial rhetoric better than comedy. Comedy brings religious persecutors, dictators and tyrants to their knees faster than any other weapon.” - Mel Brooks

THE RESOURCES:

Mel Brooks Interview: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/podcast/comedy-writer-mel-brooks/

The Politics of Humor: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/whose-laughter-which-comedy

Theories of Humor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theories_of_humor

Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Front: https://cales.arizona.edu/~steidl/Liberation.html

Václav Havel: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/V%C3%A1clav_Havel

Whimsy in the Face of Fascism: https://pshares.org/blog/domestic-whimsy-in-the-face-of-fascism/

Humor against Hitler: https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20190829-how-britain-fought-hitler-with-humour

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This month's patreon episode is about: Raw milk, Instagram Face, and Manufactured Consent:  The relationship between the rise in homogeny, purity culture, and conservatism; and how we can reclaim our agency. The culture of “anti-cringe”, leads to a fear of standing out, which pushes us towards not just one type of look, but one type of ideology as well.

This pipeline, which mass-produces conformity, is exactly what authoritarian systems crave. Purity politics and rising conservatism aren’t just eroding individuality—they’re manufacturing consent for control. When we dress, look, crave, and think the same, we become self-policing agents of the authoritarian state. They don’t need to enforce rules; we do it for them. And when we do the work for them, we become much easier to control. 

“THE MASS MEDIA SERVE AS A SYSTEM FOR COMMUNICATING messages and symbols to the general populace. It is their function to amuse, entertain, and inform, and to inculcate individuals with the values, beliefs, and codes of behavior that will integrate them into the institutional structures of the larger society. In a world of concentrated wealth and major conflicts of class interest, to fulfil this role requires systematic propaganda.”

These 5 filters (ownership, revenue, sourcing, flak, and fear) ensure that the media marginalizes alternative viewpoints and reinforces the status quo and though they were talking about television media, news, advertisements, and movies, much of the same implications can be applied to the media we consume on the internet. In a lot of ways, the internet didn’t just continue the propaganda model—it optimized it.

Edward S. Herman + Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent: https://chomsky.info/consent02/

Wiki for Manufacturing Consent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

Buy the book: https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/78912/manufacturing-consent-by-edward-s-herman-and-noam-chomsky/

Olivia Petter's article: Are we all going to end up with the same face? https://www.the-independent.com/life-style/beauty-features-same-face-instagram-b2534111.html

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The Fable: https://read.gov/aesop/005.html

The Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fox_and_the_Grapes

A post about it: https://medium.com/@alankay/sour-grapes-cognitive-dissonance-e21245597cb6

The Study: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022103119305967

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Would you go along with the group consensus, even if you knew they were wrong? Psychologist Solomon Asch wanted to find this out (in an experiment on college boys) and the findings were enlightening, to say the least.

The source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asch_conformity_experiments

The other source: https://www.simplypsychology.org/asch-conformity.html#Factors-Affecting-Conformity

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We all love the public library, so today we dig into how we can protect them given the current attacks.

The Source:

For the People: Libraries 101: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/64063be39637e16c30d774ef/t/67303df9932af1200bf3aeef/1731214855888/Public+Libraries+101+v2+%28digital%29.pdf

Addiitional FTP Resources: https://www.librariesforthepeople.org/resources

Get involved in libraries: https://substack.com/home/post/p-153870103

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We all love the public library, so let's dig into the history of it here in America so we can continue to preserve this valuable institution.

The Source: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-19/how-american-cities-got-their-libraries

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Timothy Snyder's website: https://timothysnyder.org/

By the book: On Tyranny: https://timothysnyder.org/on-tyranny/

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