To support President Obama’s agenda to rebuild and renew America, join The Organizing for America Project at my.barackobama.com.
Be Informed. For a network of independent media organizations spanning the globe, seeindymedia.org) Don’t forget en.wikipedia.org for a global internet encyclopedia.
Share Stories - at the kitchen table, the water cooler, your neighborhood bar and coffee shop.For the power of storytelling see www.storytellingfoundation.net, http://www.storynet.org/; http://www.storytellingcenter.com/.
Fight Apathy.http://www.antiapathy.org/aims to get cynical and disengaged people to connect with key issues and organizations. Join earthaction.org, a worldwide social justice movement.
Express yourself.Help shape the public debate on important global issues..Publish your opinion and read those of on OpEd.com.
Raise a Ruckus!For a resource center for organizers of nonviolent direct action, see ruckus.org or greenpeace.org. For a game of nonviolent strategy: aforcemorepowerful.org/game
Try 'guerilla communications.'Stick notes on products produced or marketed unethically. Write messages in red ink around the edges of bills to be passed on from person to person as money is spent. Use pavement chalk as a protest tool.
Tell your elected representatives what you think.For the U.S. Capitol Switchboard: 202-224-3121 or usa.gov/contact/elected.shtml. Check out http://www.congress.org/ to see how your elected officials voted, to send a letter, join an advocacy network and more.
Vote!For resources on participating in elections, see League of Pissed-Off Voters: http://www.indyvoter.org/.
Bea shareholderactivist.Buy a share of a public corporation, go to the general meeting, speak out and vote. For information and ideas on shareholder activism see http://www.coopamerica.org/.
Download free postersto hang, email, send as postcardsfrom Insta-Protestat 64.70.140.219/feb15/ or create your own at http://www.zazzle.com/.
Petition the world.Create and distribute a petition: thepetitionsite.com; petitiononline.com.
Pledge to do something.Pledge to change the world through Pledge Bank (pledgebank.com) ; promise to do something but only if a certain number of other people join you.
Check out these idea websites:whynot.net; globalideasbank.org; ideaexplore.net; idea-a-day.com; creativitypool.com; premisespremises.com; shouldexist.org; halfbakery.com; http://www.365act.com/ .and these idea blogs: worldchanging.com; globalideasblog.com; newcafe.org
Practicebeing thechange. “You must be the change you want to see in the world,” urged Mahatma Gandhi. And less famously, “I believe it to be perfectly possible for an individual to adopt the way of life of the future – without having to wait for others to do so.”
Are you done waiting??
