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RESISTANCE
RESOURCES.
Useful beats performative. Learn your rights, make a safety plan, find direct help, contact power, and put free tools into more hands.
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Make good trouble this week / rotates weekly
Protect the ballotCHECK YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.
Confirm your status now, then text the official link to one person you trust.
01 / Know your rights. Guard the pond.
INFORMATION
IS ARMOR.
Start with organizations that maintain current, scenario-specific guidance. Save the pages you may need before an encounter—not during one.
PROTEST & ASSEMBLY
Permits, public spaces, counterprotests, photography, and police encounters.
ACLUSTOPPED OR DETAINED
Scenario-based guidance for stops, questioning, arrests, and searches.
ACLUIMMIGRATION ENCOUNTERS
Rights guidance for encounters with immigration agents and law enforcement.
ACLURED CARDS / TARJETAS ROJAS
Free, wallet-sized immigration rights cards available in dozens of languages.
ILRCLGBTQ+ & HIV RIGHTS
Current information on work, school, health, family, identity documents, and legal help.
Lambda LegalDIGITAL SELF-DEFENSE
Prepare devices, protect sensitive data, and document events more thoughtfully.
EFFICE IN YOUR COMMUNITY
Practical guidance on what to know and consider when immigration enforcement is active in your community.
Guide by Shamieh LawHAVE I BEEN FLOCKED?
Search public Flock audit logs to see whether your license plate appears in known law-enforcement database searches.
Have I Been Flocked?02 / Before you hit the streets
PLAN FOR
REAL LIFE.
No checklist can make an unpredictable event risk-free. This one helps you think through logistics, health, accessibility, and digital privacy before you leave home.
03 / Help the pond
DIRECT HELP.
NO HERO COMPLEX.
Mutual aid starts by listening to what people actually need. Use these directories to ask for help, offer it, or connect someone with a local resource.
ESSENTIAL LOCAL SERVICES
Food, housing, utilities, health care, transportation, and crisis resources by location.
United Way 211COMMUNITY MUTUAL AID
Find grassroots mutual-aid networks across the United States.
Mutual Aid HubFOOD SUPPORT
Search by ZIP code for food banks, pantries, meals, and local programs.
Feeding AmericaABORTION FUNDS
Find organizations supporting abortion access, travel, and related practical needs.
National Network of Abortion FundsLGBTQ+ YOUTH CRISIS SUPPORT
Free, confidential phone, text, and chat support for LGBTQ+ young people.
The Trevor ProjectTRANS PEER SUPPORT
Peer support run by trans people for trans and questioning callers.
Trans LifelineASK.What would be useful?
LISTEN.Believe people about their needs.
FOLLOW THROUGH.Do what you said you would do.
PROTECT DIGNITY.Help without turning people into content.
04 / Call your representatives
RAISE YOUR
CROAK.
A short, specific constituent message is easier to deliver and easier for an office to record. Use the builder, personalize it, and ask for a response.
- Federal: focus on national laws, agencies, budgets, and oversight.
- State: focus on state laws, funding, licensing, and statewide programs.
- Local: focus on policing, libraries, zoning, transit, schools, and city services.
- Always: be truthful, include your ZIP code, make one clear ask, and follow up.
Hello, my name is [YOUR NAME], and I live in [CITY OR ZIP CODE]. I'm a constituent calling your office to ask the official to defend peaceful assembly, free speech, privacy, and due process. This issue matters to me and my community. Please tell me the official's position and what specific action they plan to take. I would appreciate a response. Thank you for your time.
05 / The Rebel Reading Room
READ PAST
THE HEADLINE.
A small, deliberate shelf for reporting, verification, history, and movement thinking.
Borrow first when you can. Libraries are resistance infrastructure.
06 / The Art Department
MAKE IT.
OWN IT.
Practical starting points for independent artists making work, finding opportunities, setting terms, and protecting their voice.
Pitch Rebel FrogCOPYRIGHT BASICS
Understand what copyright protects and when protection begins.
U.S. Copyright OfficeCREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES
Compare ways to give the public permission to reuse your work.
Creative CommonsARTIST LEGAL SUPPORT
Education and legal resources for artists; service eligibility varies.
Volunteer Lawyers for the ArtsRELEASES & AGREEMENTS
Starting points for model, property, and photography releases.
ASMPCALLS FOR ENTRY
Browse public-art, exhibition, and residency opportunities.
CaFÉARTIST OPPORTUNITIES
Jobs, grants, residencies, and open calls across disciplines.
NYFAFUNDING & PROFESSIONAL GROWTH
Opportunities and resources for working artists.
Creative CapitalConfirm scope, deadline, deliverables, payment, revision limits, usage rights, credit, cancellation terms, and who owns the final files—in writing.
General business checklist, not legal advice.07 / Free protest downloads
TAKE IT.
PRINT IT. SHARE IT.
Rebel Frog printables are free for personal, classroom, mutual-aid, and noncommercial organizing use. Official rights materials remain governed by their source organizations.
THE POND.
CROAK.
STAY FREE.
YOUR RIGHTS.
SELF-DEFENSE.
SHOW UP.
THE POND WORKS WHEN WE SHARE THE TOOLS.