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Vote locally
Run locally
If you can rally people behind a cause, go for it.
Other than that. Nothing really. Try to spend money with those that align with your values.
Unrelated, but likely more important. Donate to charity, or help the homeless in your own community.
Vote with your wallet. Money is the only thing that matters to the people in charge here
This but big. Large scale disruption to the economy would do a lot toward fixing problems.
Exactly. Here's a thought... and I'm just spitballing here: tariffs. Then take them away. Then add them again. Then take them away. Then add them again. /s
Someone get this chap to run for office!
Look, we don't just elect anyone, here. How many pussies have they grabbed? How many bankruptcies? These kinds of things are the bedrock of our election standards, established in 2015, and cannot, in good conscience, be unanswered.
Voting with your wallet is a lie, like recycling plastic
You can't do collective action individually. You can make the house hurt a little bit, but you'll never force them to change through what you buy. The house always wins, unless you get together to change the rules
join your local protests today :)
if protests didn't work they wouldn't try so hard to fight it/buty it
they say violence is never the answer but historically, well, history disagrees.
My issue is I never know there ARE protests until like 4 days after it happened.
ugh. for real though lol
I've been recommended 50501 and mobilize.us
there's also !50501@piefed.social and !Mirror@50501.chat on lemmy
Unless you're a billionaire or willing to go full Player 2, there's nothing you can do on a macro scale.
You can, in your little slice of the world, do good things. When ICE asks you if you've seen someone, you tell them you haven't. If you're walking past a business getting raided and see a brown person, you tell them to turn around and get away. If you run a school and ICE shows up, you stand up for the kids they're trying to kidnap. If you see ICE kidnapping someone, at minimum, film and post it. If there's a group of people willing to physically intervene, join them.
That's it.
Voting doesn't solve this because all Democrats have to offer is strongly-worded letters, and Donald uses those letters to wipe Elon Musk's ass. Their choice was aiding and abetting fascism or getting richer, and they chose the money.
The Spanish went on general strike to stop their country's complicity in genocide, but failing that you can start with these guys. You can just write BDS on Wikipedia if you want to know what they're about, but this site has plenty of concrete, actionable steps you can take to reduce your, your community's, your workplace's and—with enough people on board—your country's complicity in genocide. I'd suggest looking into apartheid-free zones as a start. I also want to note that the best thing you can do for Palestinians is to spread the word and get more people on the side of humanity.
Also, if you're not already doing so, organize in your community and workplace, and use your collective leverage to push for causes you care about. Be an active participant in the fight against fascism and for democracy, equity and solidarity. These values, I should add, are already mutually exclusive with Zionism, so you'd be hitting two birds with one stone.
Edit: In case anyone wants assurance that this works (or just wants to enjoy some economic schadenfreude), enjoy.
Spain did not go to general strike.
A general strike was convoked by a small union (as it is their right) and basically no one seconded the strike.
I don't think I could, on good faith, call it a general strike if basically no one stopped working. Was a very minoritarian thing. General strike was called as it is a right unions have, but if workers decide not to follow there's not a real strike to talk about.
Source: I'm Spanish and I clearly remember first hand what happened.
Second source: https://funcionpublica.digital.gob.es/dam/es/portalsefp/funcion-publica/dialogo-social/seguimiento-huelgas/27_9_2024_Datos_Huelga_General_convocada_por_CGT_y_SUO.pdf Strike supporting numbers for AGE workers. As you see about 1% of public workers followed the strike.
Become Luigi.
Buy a gun, and start learning to use it. Now is not the time, but be prepared should it.
Stop supporting the right wing duopoly that enabled it
On an individual level one should also start getting fit and learning basic defensr/boxing.
E: To be clear I am not saying we should start fights, but fitness is overall useful and healthy. Being able to defend oneself is important to confidently defuse a situation too.
Fuck I'll say that. The best thing for everybody is if Nazis are physically afraid to walk the streets.
Talk with people! Discuss it with your friends! Be aware that they might have a very different outlook on this, so be patient with people. Here is a list of things to do when discussing this with people supporting Israel:
Example of Israeli disinformation: They created a fake hamas website (hamas dotttt com) whereas the real website was taken down from all of internet (hamas dottt ps). The fake one was heavily promoted by Israel's official twitter acc and several Israeli government officials on twitter and recieved heavy traffic during Oct 2023-end of 2024. Use the wayback machine or similar for this, I believe both sites are down now.
There has also been many, many other lies by the Israeli government. Find proved examples and show.
Speak up, tell people what you think and why.
If that doesn't work: something was added to your constitution for this situation, the second amendment. You can use your six shooter to go up to the government's tank and gunships. Good luck.
General strikes
Tax strikes
____ing politicians who support the genocide
When the government is powerful enough to cause genocides, that's a problem. It's far easier to just not give your money to a business that engages in such practices.
Not giving money to your government, however, is considered tax evasion.