Sponsor Repair Cafe's where strangers help each other repair electronics, appliances and chairs. Hold repair clinics at schools.
Check out ifixit.com, which offers 117,892 free repair manuals.
CONSIDER DIGITAL DISOBEDIENCE
In her April 8, 2025 TED talk, "This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like," investigative British journalist Carole Cadwalladr says, "We are watching the collapse of the international order in real time, and this is just the start." She illuminates a fast-moving technological coup and the rise of an unprecedentedly powerful class of tech executives who dismantle democracy and enable authoritarian, international control through runaway corporate power, data harvesting and mass surveillance. Then, she introduces digital disobediance.
Resist upgrades as long as possible-- and then, if you must, buy used equipment.
Avoid cryptocurrency. If you have cryptocurrency, expect no protections. (The Trump administration is disbanding a Justice Department unit that investigated cryptocurrency crimes; it criticizes the Biden administration as too aggressive against the fast-growing industry.)
Share cars, housing, gardens, child care and elder care.
Backup your contact lists on paper.
Backup any writing you're working on"on paper.
Essential Services Must Be Accessible-- even offline A group of Belgian and French sociology professors and a Spanish doctor have drafted a letter to the European Commission, Council and Parliament. They call for human, non-digitized access to civil, postal and other services since 40% of the European population lack digital skills. They call for a democratic debate to decide to what extent and to what degree digitalisation should be used.
CONSIDER BUYING IN TO A CORPORATION
Corporate shareholders (including those of privately-owned utilities) have rights that customers may not have. An individual who owns one share of a corporation is considered a shareholder and can influence corporate decisions. In 2013, an AT&T shareholder got telecom corporations to stop exporting used lead batterie s from the U.S. to other countries with weaker environmental controls; to conduct third party audits of lead battery manufacturing facilities; to track shipments of used lead batteries and obtain receipts from smelters showing receipt at the recycling facility.
AIM TO LIVE WITHIN YOUR BIOREGION'S OFFERINGS
Survey your community for skills in growing, cooking and preserving food; in practicing self-help health care, midwifery and burial practices; in identifying edible weeds; in restoring watershed ecosystems; in repairing tools; in building shelter. Aim to live within your watershed's offerings of fuel, ores, water and food.
In Kentucky, activists bought a prison site to rewild the land.
CHANGE YOUR NARRATIVE
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