Now maybe more than ever, acting on your personal and political beliefs is important.
But if you've never considered yourself and activist or gone to a protest or done some
other kind of action, it can be a little difficult to know where to start.
And this is true for environmental activism or whatever you want to get involved in.
In light of that, Taylor made a fantastic video called Resistance Challenge.
Which is five ways to fight back in under five minutes?
So, I'm going to attempt to do her tag.
I've got a timer, that I'm going to start right now for 5 minutes.
Boom.
It's going.
Legit.
If you want to follow along, which I highly encourage you to do, or you can make your
own video and tweet about it and tag me and Taylor who goes by itsradishtime.
Instructions are down below.
So, number one is to save the phone numbers of you representatives into your cell phone.
I've already got both my reps and the reps from where I used to live in Maine and the
rest of my family still lives.
Because it is super easy to pester them with those numbers if I need them to call somebody.
So instead, I'm going to look up some scripts and/or what I should be calling my representatives
about right now.
And I'm going to leave some of that information down below.
Spoiler alert, it is probably going to be about the Keystone Pipeline.
Oh man, It is real sad because there are so many scripts about the Keystone Pipeline from
like 2013... oh well.
Alright, so, number 2 is to set up a recurring donation.
I've been meaning actually to donate to Earthjustice for a long time now.
I made a video about them last year.
So, I'm going to set that up right now.
Alright, number 3.....
Hi, Darce.
Alright, number 3 is find a protest.
Taylor recommends searching through your Facebook feed which is a great place to start.
Uh, if you're interested in Environmental Actions, I'm on a ton of listserves and that
is how I normally hear about things that are going on.
So I'm going to link some of those down below that you can join if you want to hear about
them.
It's worth seeking out the local activists in your area and following them on Twitter
or Facebook because oftentimes they're going to be going to the kind of events that you
might want to join.
And also, there are two huge marches coming up in April that if you want to get involved
in climate action.
On April 22nd, is the Science March in DC.
And there is going to be satellite marches across the country, perhaps the world.
And on April 29th is the People's Climate Movement march, also in DC.
Again, also going to have satellite marches.
If you can get to DC that would be great, we're looking to try to make as big of an
impact as we possibly can.
But just getting out to your local march, also wonderful.
Additionally, I believe there's going to be some online activism you can do if you're
not able to go to a march.
If you want more information on those particular marches, also this description, it is going
to be so full of good, juicy, little tidbits for you.
So.
Go.
Click.
Click Away.
Oh, and for the Climate March, they are still looking for volunteers so I'm going to drop
the link for how you can sign up and different ways you can get involved down below.
There's a slack, its great.
Okay, and number 4 is to run for office.
Which obviously takes longer than 5 minutes.
But I'm going to sign up for some of the great organizations that give more information if
you want to run for office or how to encourage your friends to run for office.
Taylor recommends Run For Something.
Which I'm going to do right now.
And I'm also going to do 314action, which is the group that is trying to get more scientists
involved in running for office.
Okay so I am, /wicked/ over time so I'm not going to do number 5 on camera.
Which is fine because its going to take me awhile anyway.
Number 5 is to Listen.
Which is definitely something that I'm working on every single day, and is probably going
to take me a lifetime, so, maybe there is some kind of metaphorical resonance in not
having time in this challenge.
But to make up for that, I'm going to right now, once I turn off the camera, go make a
YouTube playlist and a twitter list of environmental justice advocates, and food justice advocates
who are saying some incredible stuff that is definitely worth listening to.
Yeah.
So I'm just gonna do that.
Alright, so before I go I just want to say that, yeah, these are all kinda small actions.
But the beauty of this tag is that these small actions can spark the motivation to get involved
if you haven't been before.
Or support the actions that you're already participating in.
I didn't get properly tagged in this, so I'm going to do the annoying thing where I just
tag you.
Yeah you, whoever you are.
Yeah no, you.
You're tagged now.
Figure out what resistance means to you, and figure out how to channel that into action.
Good Luck.