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How to protect your device, your accounts, your contacts, and other people connected to your activism.
Your phone is one of the most information filled objects you carry. If you’re an active-activist, it carries organizer names, group chats, volunteer info, photos, documents, calendar info, passwords, account recovery access, and years of location, message, and photo history. More importantly, you’re not only putting yourself at risk if your phone is compromised, it’s…
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What Happened in Minneapolis When Jake Lang’s Rally Met Spider-Man and What Organizers Can Learn From It
Hundreds gathered outside of Minneapolis City Hall on Saturday to oppose far-right provocateur. Jake Lang is already familiar to Minneapolis activists, he spent four years in prison for his role in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol before receiving a presidential pardon in 2025. Earlier this year, he organized an anti-Islam rally outside…
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How to Investigate Your Local Flock System
***Use the printable worksheet at the end of this article to track what you find. Step 1: how to Find Local Flock information Start by finding the agency that operates Flock cameras near you or in your city. The Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Atlas of Surveillance lets you search by city, county, and law-enforcement agency. DeFlock…
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How Portland Organizers Rebuilt Through Election Defense, Collaboration, and Mutual Aid
Portland has lost organizers, public interest dropped, and the chapter came close to ending. “We have struggled and almost broke.” -PDX Organizer The chapter serves what organizers describe as a very liberal population in a blue bubble, and works to push that base toward meaningful action to dismantle authoritarianism and build true democracy. The challenge…
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Every 50501 Chapter Has a Story
What began as one collective call to action became a national demonstration of how quickly we could all turn shared concern into organized peaceful power. 50501 began with a Reddit post calling for 50 protests in 50 states on 1 day. Local volunteers built chapters, coordinated peaceful protests, and turned a one-day mobilization into a…
