Persistence Resistance

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— All Things Jennifer (@allthingsjennifer.bsky.social) May 6, 2025 at 8:06 AM

Persistence Resistance! Show Your Support! Make your voice heard! Are you sick of hearing “there’s nothing I can do about everything that’s happening”? There’s plenty you can do – big or small, just try to do SOMETHING each day. Please take a few minutes today (and tomorrow, and the next day….and…)

CALL!

• 5 Calls – Download the app to your phone; enter your ZIP code; follow the prompts to call U.S. Senators and your local Congressional Representatives. if you aren’t comfortable speaking to an aide, call after hours and leave a message
• Call on Congress to Fund Libraries in FY26 – The White House proposed a budget for the next fiscal year (FY26) that would eliminate the only federal agency dedicated to library funding, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Members of Congress must demonstrate their support for federal library funding, and the deadline to do so is coming up in mid-May.

SIGN & SEND – A quick entering of your information sends along emails to your officials – or adds your name to a growing list of concerned citizens!

• Tell Republicans on the Energy and Commerce Committee: Keep Your Hands Off Medicaid
• Don’t Eliminate Afterschool and Summer Funding in FY 2026
• Tell Congress: Protect Planned Parenthood Health Center Patients
• Tell Congress – Support & Strengthen Federal Nutrition Programs 
• Please email your Republican representatives now to tell them we won’t pay the price of Trump’s tax cuts for billionaires. If you already called or emailed before, please do so again today!

PARTICIPATE

• Stamp Out Hunger. Leave non-perishable food for your mail carrier for pickup on Saturday, May 10. Support local food access and your local mail service.
• #TruthBrigade New Member Orientation and Message Campaign Launch – Wednesday, May 14, at 6:30pm Truth Brigade’s virtual meetings are open to anyone ready to fight online lies — from brand new members to longtime Brigadiers! 
• The Rise of the Tech Oligarchy: Power, Wealth, and the Future of Democracy – May 15 – 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

READ

• Choose Democracy – But you also cannot be good to the world — or yourself — if you keep your head down and pay attention to nothing… So, yes: these are hard days. But it’s not all bad or good — it’s a force field in motion. Even small acts, strategically placed, can shift the balance. We are not powerless — we are participants.
  
• Waging Nonviolence – If fear is the goal, then solidarity is the antidote – ” Connect with the people in your life who love you — feel that connection and let it touch your fear. Connect with allies in your network, organization or company. And find some outside of those, too, to share in these moments. Whenever you can, send signals out to other sectors that you’re with them in spirit — and look for avenues of allyship.”
• Epistemic Literary- Issue 5: #Resistance. It’s a stunning issue, maybe our best yet. Read, share, #Resist!

SAVE THE DATE

May 17 – WNY Women’s March, LaFayette Square in Buffalo (near the library).

June 14 – No KINGS! Nationwide protests to deny Trump’s fascist birthday wish

Fuck the parade*. Everyone needs to be marching in the streets.

*you know what parade, no need to amplify that garbage.

— All Things Jennifer (@allthingsjennifer.bsky.social) May 3, 2025 at 4:21 PM

As Trump hosts a military parade in DC on June 14, we’re rising up everywhere else to show him, his fascist allies, and our fellow Americans we still have the power to defy and defeat tyranny. Use this link to learn more and make a plan to join us for a national day of defiance.