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r c n's avatar

Good list. As you know, I'm deeply involved in resistance/solidarity right now, and have ideas from the struggle. Some may include or overlap what you already mentioned. Some are for/by those directly attacked by authoritarianism, some for those in solidarity, some for both.

Video documentation (add to camera & photos), graffiti, murals, barbed wire, makeshift solar energy sources (greatly needed when power is cut), water desalination methods (when water infrastructure destroyed), hunger fasts (by those in solidarity, not those suffering from forced starvation), spoken word, rap, poetry (add to art), labor union activity, mutual aid campaigns (in addition to charitable/political giving), etc. You might also peruse some sites like https://sashakurmaz.com/Tools-of-Resistance (which includes an image of a Molotov cocktail but I don't know whether you want to keep this strictly nonviolent). Hope there's something in here that helps.

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Lia Gary Books's avatar

I would add financial documents: checkbook, mortgage/lease, credit card, business loan, stock portfolio, IRA/401k, etc. My mother was born in 1936 and she reminds me about how she couldn’t open her own checking account or get a credit card in the 1960s unless my father co-signed. The power of financial freedom, something banks today still give freely to some and not others.

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