Breaking it Down-"Upstream Alliance"
Just the list of ideas.
I’m calling it the Upstream Alliance—because fuck trickle-down anything. This system has been pissing on us from above for decades and calling it rain. This? This is about climbing upstream and burning the damn dam down.
What you’ll find here is a blueprint. A battle map. Something to slice through that paralyzing feeling of "Where the fuck do we even start?" Revolution isn’t clean or convenient, and it sure as hell isn’t a solo project. This breaks it down. This makes it real. This shows how easy revolution can be.
Every link here goes to a national org that can help you build locally. I didn’t slap this together overnight. I hunted these down like my life depended on it—because, it does. If something in here grabs you—don’t just scroll past it. Click it. Follow up. Reach out. Start something.
And don’t get it twisted: no one’s asking you to save the whole damn world alone. That hero shit is a trap. This isn’t about martyrs—it’s about movement. It’s about community. It’s about rage and rebellion with direction.
So yeah—be inspired. Be fired up. But don’t fucking give up. Not now. Take that No Kings energy to the next step.
Here we go!
🧺 🧺 Direct Material Aid: Start Here
These actions meet essential material needs and often require minimal specialized skills.
Redistribute your wealth to individuals in need
Donate to Mutual Aid Groups
Organize fundraisers for local groups
Cook and bake for community group meetings
Organize a bake sale
Start a Meal-Based Residency Program
Help with disaster relief
Donate to food programs (for example this one)
Knit or crochet items for your houseless neighbors
Organize or participate in community clean-ups
🛠️ Local Infrastructure – Community Skill-Building & Resource Sharing
Builds long-term sustainability by sharing tools, skills, and labor.
Organize a childcare collective. Another example here
Create community schools for children
Start your own automotive free clinic
Create a tool library in your neighborhood
Set up a listening booth ( American Press Institute ) (Galaxy Digital )
Start a POD
Start a bike library
🩺 Community Health
Centers collective care and harm reduction in the face of state neglect.
Organize or join a Clean Air Club (JUSTICE40 ) (The Human Element)
Create an airborne illness Mitigation (accho) Tools Library
Establish community pop-up clinics
Drug Harm reduction education / overdose prevention centers
Enroll individually or as groups in intersectional liberation training(My recommendation)
Harm reduction & overdose prevention centers. Link here to a story about this
📚 📚 Political Education: Unlearn, Learn, Teach
Empowers communities to understand root causes and build solidarity. (specific media suggestions after the postscript.
Organize or participate in political education. Here’s a few helpful starter links (Abolitionist starter) (En Español) (Defense Community) (1:1 no cops)
Facilitate a teach-in about privatization of the post office (APWU)
Establish ongoing study and book groups. Training here (Another Resource) ( UpEND ) ( Abolitionist Sanctuary )
Organize a community film & ongoing study and book groups screening & discussion. (Starter Reference) (Bedford)
Offer and Participate in skill-sharing and trainings
@moreperfectunionKilmar Abrego Garcia was in the first year of a sheet metal apprenticeship in Baltimore when he was deported because of an “administrative error.” His union @SMART union says, Garcia “was literally helping to build this great country.”
📢 🌱 Long-Term Organizing: Grow Where You’re Planted
Strengthens democratic action and collective power. (Movement offerings Starter)
Join or start a union
Form an affinity group
Attend neighborhood & people’s assemblies
Support survivors of violence. Volunteer training links: (Hope Alliance) (Victim Assistance Training) (Safe House)
📚 Libraries & Schools
Critical hubs for free knowledge and resistance to fascist censorship.
Run for or seek appointment to your local library board
Organize community freedom schools (CDF model and others)
Start a healing justice lending library (Healing library) Start a healing justice lending library.
🔒 Anti-Criminalization
Actions to resist carceral systems and support those targeted by them.
Support detained and incarcerated people
🛡️🛡️ Community Safety: Show Up When It Matters Most
Prepares communities for proactive and protective action.
Learn about and practice community self-defense(LGBTQIA+)
Learn about Community Defense Zones (PB Training Org) & (Immigration 101)
⚧️ ⚧️ Reproductive & Gender Justice
Fights for bodily autonomy, access, and survival.
Escort people to clinics – ineedana.com (Planned Parenthood Training)
Trans youth emergency projects & Trans Youth Emergency Project
♿ ♿ Disability Justice: Inclusion Is Non-Negotiable
Ensures all organizing includes and uplifts disabled folks.
Provide caregiving & support for disabled organizers
🌈 Other Individual Actions
Volunteer your art, tech, legal skills
Make & distribute zines (One Example)
Start a local bulletin or newsletter
Counter mainstream propaganda through creative media
Uplift BIPOC, disabled, queer voices
Share vital info online & in person
Support friends planning/attending protests
Still not sure how to help: Time is priceless, give it to those in need with Volunteer Match.
No more excuses.. This is how we make a GAS succeed!!
DENY, DEFEND, DEPOSE…
Liberté, Égalité, Solidarité
We will not go back ✊🏽 🤘🏽
~~☘️ Ginge ☘️
Thank you for this. It’s amazing. I’ll be sharing it with my Resist and Restore group.
This is such a great list of suggestions. I appreciate your time and work on these topics.
Lots to learn and I’ll be sharing with others.
Thank you 👊🏼✊🏼