As soon as the November 2016 presidential election results became clear, many people were asking for resources. While this list is not meant to be exhaustive, I hope it does provide opportunities for people to learn and to organize.
Resources
- Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda (by former Congressional staffers)
- “10 Investigative Reporting Outlets to Follow” (Moyers & Company)
- “27 Books to Read if You’re Going to the Women’s March”
- Some Organizations to Support in this Post-Election Moment (from Race Forward)
- Post Election 2016 Discussion Guide: Power Point and Resource List, Dec. 7, 2016
- #ImmigrationSyllabus
- #StandingRockSyllabus
- The Stop Trump Reading List from Haymarket Books
Action
- Black Lives Matter Guiding Principles
- Call your Representative and Senators: here’s the main number at Congress 202-225-3121. When you call, give your zip code, and then ask your elected official to take action on supporting the Affordable Care Act, saying no to Cabinet nominees, and otherwise resisting the #TrumpAgenda!
- Color of Change: Campaigns
- Daily Action
- “How to Fight Trump’s Racist Immigration Policies” (The Nation)
- “The First 100 Day Resistance Agenda” by Robert Reich
- Southern Poverty Law Center: Report Hate
- “Civil Discourse in the Classroom” (Teaching Tolerance)
- #RiseUp
- “Trump Reminds Us the Racial Justice Movement Is Growing” by Rinku Sen, Nov. 16, 2016, The Nation
- “An open letter to Our Nation from 100 women of color leaders”
- “Where Do We Go from Here? Former Bernie Sanders Adviser & Chicana Organizer Call for Mass Organizing” Nov, 11, 2016, Democracy Now
- “A 12-Step Program for Responding to President-Elect Trump” by Nicholas Kristof, Nov. 17, 2016, The New York Times
- “America Needs All of Us: A Toolkit for Talking about Bias, Race, and Change”
- “When Trump’s “Deportation Force” Comes for Us, History Can Show Us How to Respond” by Carl Lindskoog, Nov. 13, 2016, Common Dreams
- “As the Pressure to Act Like ‘Real’ Americans Mounts, Let’s Not” by Rinku Sen, Nov. 22, 2016, Rewire
- Watch “Election Night” sketch on Saturday Night Live
- “Hey White People: You Need to Start Doing the Ugly Work that Isn’t Safe for Us To” by Meghna Sridhar, Nov. 11, 2016, Feministing
- “Dear White People: Things you can do instead of cry or try to hug us. Sincerely, People of Color,” Nov. 11, 2016, The Passionate Ethnographer
- “How to Easily be a White Ally to Marginalized Communities” by Christopher Keely, Nov. 12, 2016
- “We’re heading into dark times. This is how to be your own light in the Age of Trump” by Sarah Kendzior, Nov. 18, 2016, The Correspondent
- “How to call your reps when you have social anxiety” Nov. 19, 2016, Echo through the Fog
- International Campaign for Compassionate Communities
- Untrumped Classroom
- SPARKmovement
- Solidarity and Activism Starter Kit (SIUE Women’s Studies Program)
- Jan. 21 Teach-In #WeRise
Articles/videos that analyze the election results from various perspectives
- “Statement from PRA on the 2016 Election” by Tarso Luís Ramos, November 9, 2016, Political Research Associates
- “After Trump” by Robin D. G. Kelley, Boston Review, November 15, 2016
- Aftermath: Sixteen Writers on Trump’s America, The New Yorker, Nov. 21, 2016 (Essays by Toni Morrison, Atul Gawande, Hilary Mantel, George Packer, Jane Mayer, Jeffrey Toobin, Junot Díaz, and more)
- Recorded video of Angela Davis and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor in conversation, “Freedom is a Constant Struggle,” November 16, 2016, University of Chicago
- “Trump: Making America White Again” column by Charles M. Blow, Nov. 21, 2016, The New York Times
- “What Whiteness Means in the Trump Era” op-ed by Nell Irvin Painter, Nov. 12, 2016, The New York Times
- “It was the Democrats’ embrace of neoliberalism that won it for Trump” by Naomi Klein, Nov. 9, 2016, The Guardian
- “Not a Revolution – Yet” by Mike Davis, Nov. 15, 2016, Verso Books Blog
- “George Takei: They interned my family. Don’t let them do it to Muslims.” Nov. 18, 2016, The Washington Post
- “Dark days ahead: American professors on Trump presidency” by Isolde Raftery and Abraham Epton, Nov. 11, 2016 (statements from over 20 professors)
- Video from Facing Race conference: “Multiracial Movements for Black Lives Plenary at Facing Race 2016” Nov. 15, 2016, Colorlines
- “How Trump Won: The Democratic Party’s abandonment of the working class cleared the space for Trump” by Jedediah Purdy, Nov. 11, 2016, Jacobin
- “Trump’s Win Was About Culture. Understand This.” by Jack Schwarz, Nov. 21, 2016, The Daily Beast
- “Autocracy: Rules for Survival” by Masha Gessen, Nov. 10, 2016, The New York Review of Books
- “Shout Out to My Real Ride or Die Chicks.” Nov. 11, 2016, Black & Smart
- “Alice Walker Tells Readers: Don’t Despair,” Nov. 10, 2016, Early Bird Books
- Trump Syllabus 2.0, by N. D. B. Connolly and Keisha N. Blain, Public Books, June 28, 2016
- “The Myth of the Rust Belt Revolt” by Konstantin Kilibarda and Daria Roithmayr, Dec. 1, 2016, Slate
Exit Polls
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