*Tools & Strategy to Solve 5 Existential Threats

• AI & Data Centers
• Climate Chaos & Mass Extinction
• Wars: Cyberspace, Nuclear, Biological
• Genetic Engineering
• Rising Authoritarianism (amplifying 4 threats above):
  See Elections & Voting, ChoosingDemocracy.US,
  “5 Elements of Fascism” & related Robert Reich videos 

View timely training videos at ChooseDemocracy.org (5-mins.)

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‘American Crisis’ at 250: Danger & Opportunity

This Princeton Study (PDF) proved Americans have a near-zero impact on public policy, and that politicians represent only the most wealthy and powerful (“The 1%“). View Strategy to End Corruption below by Represent.US

“Follow the money!” – Deep Throat, the Watergate whistleblower 

“America’s a great country [but not a democracy]. Now it’s just an oligarchy [or plutocracy] with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting nominated for president… governors, U.S. Senators and Congress members.”– President Jimmy Carter 2016
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Many Ways to Volunteer,
Vote & Support Elections

Best actions, videos & resources to protect democracy & fight authoritarian coups

• ChooseDemocracy.US:
  4 Paths to Resist &
  10 Ways to Ground
• Indivisible*
• Mobilize.US*
• MoveOn*
• Working Families Party*
• ActionNetwork
• CodePink.org
• DemocracyUprising.com:
  Mark Engler & Paul Engler
• Nonviolence International
• Waging Nonviolence:
  200 pieces on Gaza & Nonmilitary alternatives
• ACLU & Amnesty International: Know Your Rights and Campus Resolution Tool Kit

*Four election sites to volunteer canvass or phonebank to GOTV

Middle East Actions & Analysis:
Phone/Email Congress, President.

Experts/Authors Videos

• Naomi Klein: Journalist/Climate Justice Professor;
  videos, The rise of end times fascism, TheGuardian
• Erica Chenoweth: International Relations,
  Political Violence, and Civil Resistance,
  Harvard Kennedy School; more
• Heather Cox Richardson: historian, videos; more
• Noam Chomsky: MIT Professor Emeritas,
  author 150 books; war, politics; chomsky.info
• Mark & Paul Engler: Are we
  in a ‘movement moment’?
• Yuval Harari: historian, AI expert, videos
• George Lakey: Nonviolent Strategy; more
• Ralph Nader, books: Radio Hour; videos
• U.S. Rep. Jamie Raskin
• Maria Ressa, Nobel Peace Prize, videos,
  author, “How to Stand Up to a Dictator“
• Robert Reich: Secretary of Labor/economist; more
• Jeffrey Sachs: global sustainable development; more
• U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
• Edward Snowden: NSA whistleblower; more
• Rebecca Solnit: “Hope in the Dark”; videos
• Yanis Varoufakis: Greek Finance Minister; more
• US Rep. Alexandria Occasio Cortez (AOC)
• Ezra Klein: NY Times columnist
• Richard Wolff: Economic Update/Democracy at Work
• Stephen Zunes: Middle East, Western
  Sahara Nonviolent Action; more

More Actions, Trainings, Resources

• Join 350.org and Third Act for seniors
• BeautifulTrouble.org & TrainingForChange.org Webinars
• Showing Up for Racial Justice
• RobertReich.org & InequalityMediaCivicAction
  offer inspiring, timely videos and archives
• How Agent Provocateurs Harm Our Movements: Free PDF
• Ukraine: Analysis, nonviolent resistance, strategy
• The Movement and the ‘Madman: How activists thwarted Nixon’s plan to nuclear bomb Vietnam
• Resources from Movement for a New Society alums
• Princeton Study (of 1800 policies) finds US public opinion has no impact [5-min. Video]
• Help Black Lives Matter end systemic racism
• Climate justice for black lives [ 350.org]
• Justice during 2 crises: Covid & Climate
• How to Win through Escalation & women’s suffrage
• TED: Intersectionality Videos: 3-min. and 30-min.
• Naomi Klein’s new ‘Doppelganger‘ &
  ‘Hope Trumps Nope: Blueprint for Resistance’

Plus lessons from the “Progressive Era,” the 1930s New Deal, and later movements.