do MORE than vote!
ACTIVISM IS: HELPING YOUR COMMUNITY
AND YOUR DEMOCRACY
Ask yourself how many hours per week before Elections should you designate to helping others, your community and your democracy?
Small investment time
Political Sign in window/yard/bumper
Wear button/bumper sticker for cause/candidate
Sign digital petition social / political cause
Sign paper petition for political candidate
Send letter to government official
Contact government official about an issue
Call your representatives - daily/weekly
Follow / reposting a politician/candidate on social media
Write OpEd
Checkbook activism
*Making a political $ financial investment/donation (the only easy and quick civic activism that has cumulative large effect)
Invest/donate to political organization
Invest/donate to social cause organization
Decide what fraction of annual salary (1%, 1<3%, 3<5% ?)
Invest in a candidate
Invest in a ballot item, party, PAC etc.
Invest in a house of worship
Invest in a social cause / activist group
Donating in the name of someone else to spur activism
Donate + attend fundraiser/book signing
Medium Investment time
Phone bank for candidate
Text bank for candidate
Canvas for candidate/cause
Fundraise - dinner party, concert, performance
Send postcards to voters
Artivism - political/social statement through artS
Boycott AND Tell others about your boycott
BUYcott AND Tell other about your BUYcott
Post/comment/photos regularly about political or social issue
Blog consistently about politics / social issues
Attend political meeting local, town, school affairs
Active member of a group
Attend a political rally or speech
Volunteer for candidate or political party
Volunteer for election / census / governemnt institution
Make a public speech about community / local / political
Attend organized demonstration/march/protest
Active member of political/social group
Work with fellow citizens to solve a problem in your community
Active member of a group that requires physical participation
Prepared for mass action
birddogging representations
birddogging enablers
recruiting other activists
organize fundraising event / dinner party / candidate
High Investment time / consequence
Start / co-found a activist group
Sit-ins
Civil disobedience
Hunger strike
Strike / work slow-down
**Be alert for hollow activism "Slactivism" which undermines energy for meaningful activism: tweeting, social media, Watching news, reading, Facebook communication (meaningful only for organizing)