Every Little Bit Helps

Low-Cost, Low-Energy Activism Menu

For people with limited time, money, or physical ability — every action counts.

✅ Show Up Without Showing Up

• ☐ Put a protest sign in your window, balcony, or yard
• ☐ Wear pins, shirts, or hats with slogans
• ☐ Add activism graphics to email signature or Zoom background

✅ 5–10 Minute Actions

• ☐ Call or email your elected officials (use 5Calls.org or CommonCause.org)
• ☐ Sign a vetted petition
• ☐ Make a $3–$5 donation to a grassroots group
• ☐ Share one verified news article on social media

✅ Online & Remote Protest

• ☐ Post solidarity images with hashtags from trusted campaigns
• ☐ Join a virtual rally or livestream
• ☐ Take part in an email blitz with friends or groups

✅ Educate & Inform

• ☐ Host a short kitchen-table conversation with neighbors or friends
• ☐ Hand out fact sheets at a café, library, or laundromat
• ☐ Post quick myth-busting facts online

✅ Accessibility-Friendly Protests

• ☐ Join a car protest with signs in the windows
• ☐ Participate in a coordinated light-up action from your porch or window
• ☐ Write postcards to voters (use PostcardsToVoters.org or VoteFwd.org)

✅ Support Protesters

• ☐ Drop off water, snacks, or masks before/after marches
• ☐ Make extra protest signs for others
• ☐ Share bail fund links (find at Community Justice Exchange)

✅ Behind-the-Scenes Help

• ☐ Volunteer for data entry from home
• ☐ Create protest art, graphics, or memes
• ☐ Do quick research or fact-checking for activist groups

Remember: Small actions add up. Pick one today.

Your voice matters—even from your couch.

ACTIVIST ACTIONS FOR GRANDMOTHERS HOLDING THE LINE

1. Visible Public Protest

• Attend and organize protests, marches, and rallies—especially in local communities and state capitals.
• Create coordinated “GRANDMOTHERS BLOCK” presence at larger protests with signs, vests, shirts, or banners.

Groups to Partner With:

• Indivisible
• Women’s March
• 50501 Movement

2. Speak Loud, Speak Often

• Write op-eds, letters to the editor, or personal essays from a grandmother’s perspective.
• Call and write elected officials weekly: demand accountability, oppose legislation, support investigations.
• Use grandmother credibility to challenge GOP “pro-family” rhetoric.

Use Tools From:

• Common Cause
• Action Network
• Democracy Docket
• Americans of Conscience Checklist

3. Educate Your Community

• Host neighborhood teach-ins, “kitchen table” democracy talks, or civic literacy clubs.
• Hand out fact sheets about Trump’s executive orders, Supreme Court rulings, and GOP actions.
• Create or distribute “Never Again Means Now” or “How Government is Supposed to Work” kits.

Partner With:

• League of Women Voters
• Project Democracy
• Political Research Associates

4. Flood the Internet with Facts & Fire

• Share verified info and GRANite Line-style rebuttals on Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Threads.
• Create or boost videos, memes, or reels countering GOP disinformation or highlighting real-world impacts.
• Organize a team to fact-check and flag propaganda online.

Support or follow:

• MeidasTouch
• Jessica Valenti / Abortion, Every Day
• Truth Brigade (Indivisible)

5. Craftivism: Stitch, Paint, Protest

• Knit pink hats, protest quilts, banners (“We Mend the Fabric of Democracy”).
• Create hand-painted signs, letterpress postcards, or visual art projects about fascism and resistance.
• Mail protest art directly to members of Congress or drop it at local Republican HQs.

Project Inspiration:

• The Tiny Pricks Project
• Craftivist Collective

6. Legal Witness & Court Support

• Attend hearings for immigration, trans rights, or protester trials as moral witnesses.
• Volunteer to observe and document ICE activity, police overreach, and election interference.

Groups to connect with:

• ACLU – state chapters
• National Lawyers Guild
• Immigrant Legal Resource Center

7. Defend Democracy with Your Body and Ballot

• Register voters, especially in marginalized communities.
• Serve as a poll worker, election observer, or voting rights monitor.
• Sponsor or assist young people getting to the polls or accessing IDs.

Use Tools From:

• Vote Riders
• Fair Fight
• Reclaim Our Vote

8. Create Mutual Aid and Safe Spaces

• Offer rides, housing, child care, or emotional support for protesters, immigrants, or LGBTQ+ youth.
• Join or build community protection networks for raids, hate crimes, or bans.

Coordinate With:

• Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ)
• Mutual Aid Hub
• Local chapters of RAICES or Immigrant Justice Network

9. Pressure Through Petitions & Boycotts

• Organize letter-writing or phone campaigns to companies funding GOP politicians.
• Boycott corporations profiting from ICE, detention, fossil fuels, or censorship.

Track Campaigns With:

• Grab Your Wallet
• Open Secrets
• Public Citizen

10. Be the Moral Authority You Are

• Wear shirts, vests, or pins: “GRANDMOTHERS AGAINST FASCISM,” “WE’VE SEEN THIS BEFORE,” or “I’M A NANA AND I VOTE.”
• Speak at school board meetings, town halls, or council chambers as a grandmother defending democracy.
• Call out hypocrisy: “You can’t claim to protect children and ban books, end SNAP, attack trans kids, and shelter abusers.”