Organize your neighbors • Write a protest song •
Know where your money goes • Confront racist jokes •
Study economics • Demand ramps everywhere •
Teach kids to think critically • Distribute flyers •
Show up at your congressperson's office at least once a month •
Memorize the Bill of Rights • Give gifts of radical poetry •
Work with poor people; let them teach you •
March for a just cause • Write letters to the editor •
Question candidates • Come out •
Refuse to pay war taxes • Circulate a petition •
Protest peacefully • Fight your own privilege •
Learn history • Register five other people to vote •
Deconstruct a popular movie • Wear a button (and mean it) •
Quote Helen Keller, Frederick Douglass, and bell hooks •
Be a proud voice of dissent • Hang in there •
Live what you believe every day •
Think • Speak • Act • Rebel •
Copyright 1998 by Laura Hershey