get involved/stay safe

Aid

• Find Food Pantries in Your Area (USA)

General Activism & Activist Safety (USA-focused)

• ACLU Protesters' Rights (EN / ES)
• Activist Checklists for digital security
• De-Arrest Primer
• Directory of Community Bail Funds
• A Field Guide to Wheatpasting
• Protesting as a Wheelchair User
• Protest Safety Tips a good general overview
• Security Culture: A Handbook for Activists
• Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting
• Street Medic Handbook

Immigrant Rights in the USA

• Bystander and Observer Guidelines/Las Directrices de Testigos y Observadores
• Family Preparedness Plan/Plan de Preparacion Familiar
• Immigration Advocates Network Legal Services Directory find legal resources in all 50 states/encuentre recursos legales en todos 50 estados
• Know Your Rights With ICE/Conozca Sus Derechos con ICE
• Online Detainee Locator System for finding where a person is being detained/para encontrar dónde la persona haya detenido
• Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition
• Rapid Response Hotlines to Report ICE Activity/Líneas Directas de Respuesta Rápida para Reportar Actividad del ICE
• Red Cards/Tarjetas Rojas printable know-your-rights cards in 30+ languages

Free Palestine

• BDS Movement
• Connecting Humanity (eSims for Gaza)
• Ele Elna Elak (group that provides food & water to Gazans)
• Institute for Palestine Studies
• Librarians and Archivists With Palestine
• Operation Olive Branch
• Refaat Alareer Mobile Library
• The Sameer Project

Queer Rights in the USA

• DIY HRT Archive (if this site is taken down at any point, send me an e-mail, I have some of the webpages saved locally).
• Trans Continental Pipeline: this organization helps trans people relocate to Colorado.

AI Refusal & Resistance

• AI Refusal in Libraries: A Starter Guide
• The Glaze Project

Freedom to Read

• Alabama Books to Prisons Project

Environmental Activism

• Wildfire Messaging Guide (Pacific Northwest)
• Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance

Misc.

Look at art!

• A Guide to Slow Looking
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere
• WikiArt
• WikiMedia Commons

Zines

The Book of Zines

huge collection of links & resources about making, collecting, perusing, and learning about zines and zine culture.

Electric Zine Maker

a nifty resource to help with formatting zines.

Zine Map

a crowdsourced map showing places around the world where you can find and/or share zines.

Tumblr Blogs

• Enchanted Book, rare book illustrations.
• Having a Poem With You, poems.
• Historical Book Images, illustrations found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library's collection.
• Radical Graffiti, anti-capitalist/anti-fascist graffiti from around the world.
• Daily Sea Slug
• Unteriors, interesting, often desolate or kitsch, interiors from real estate listings.
• Vintage Wildlife, wildlife photography from before the 21st century.

Other fun stuff & interesting Internet finds

• 19th Century Medical Glossary
• 32-Bit Cafe
• Are.na, a good place to store & organize boards of images & ideas that isn't the ad-filled hellscape of Pinterest.
• Dracula Daily
• Every Noise at Once, a music genre map that is unfortunately no longer able to be updated but is still really fun to peruse
• Gardenate
• Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase
• The Kosmos Assignment
• Media Bias/Fact Check
• Melondy
• The Phrontistery, obscure words and vocabulary resources
• Pub Meeple Ranking Engine
• Radio Nudista
• Wildflower Search

Free Software & Programs

all of the computer programs I use regularly which are available for free or have robust free versions which get the job done for average personal use

• Asunder audio grabber (for ripping CDs)
• Audacity audio editing
• Firefox web browser
• Kid3 audio tagger
• Krita digital illustration software
• Lightworks video editing
• Obsidian note-taking
• OpenOffice open source word processor, spreadsheets, slideshows, etc. (seriously recommend this one, I've been using it for a decade)
• VLC Media Player media player
• yt-dlp command line audio/video downloader