How to Resist

HOW TO RESIST

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

― Margaret Mead

1. Build The Network

By sharing this message only with people, you care about, and you are sure you can trust, let's establish a new community, Braveheart Network - a network of local chapters of trust and mutual support. People in our network would help each other to create a safety net, and it will help advance our goals together much faster. We should identify experts in relevant fields and bring them together.

2. Safeguard Financials

We need to defund all the scam organizations and corporations involved in this and move money away to create a better future. Get your money out of the corrupt system. To do this, we should switch to economic agorism and use transactions hidden from governmental control as often as possible. Protect yourself from the bank and economy collapse, buy some physical silver/gold, some international stocks, some cryptocurrency (not Bitcoin, Ethereum, XRP - they are not privacy-friendly). There are some decentralized cryptocurrencies based on MimbleWimble protocol, like Epic Cash (epictech.com), that seem much more private. Another possible alternative might be projects like Veracash and stablecoins backed with physical metals or Safecoin from Maidsafe Foundation.
Check SovereignMan, Nomad Capitalist, TrendsReport there are many tips to protect yourself. Check What Happens Next document. Prepare for possible food/water and electricity shortages. For financial advice, check George Gammon and Real Vision Finance channels on Youtube.

3. Deplatform Yourself

Remove yourself from social media and use alternative decentralized, encrypted platforms so corporations would not have control over your data. Instead, we should corrupt all the data and fake our identities as much as possible. Learn privacy strategies and tools.

4. Raise Awareness

According to science, only around 3.5% of the population is enough for the revolution to happen. I propose using civil disobedience, nonviolent protests, and actions online to bring the problem into the public consciousness. Creative protest ideas are strongly encouraged. As a protest, I propose groups of people who chain themselves together, maybe tie with ropes, so police can't take one out of the crowd. It would also prevent any possible looting since everyone is chained together.

5. Revolt Online

The government always tries to subvert any movement and hijack those who challenge their power. They did it with many social movements, they buy or kill leaders, they use the media to ridicule the message or to transform it into a commodity similar to what happened to the photo of Che-Guevara on T-Shirts. Guy Debord, the author of the Situationist movement, called this strategy "Recuperation." This happened many times before. For example, when corporations use LGBTQ themes to increase sales and present themselves as if they care about the cause. This happens with many movements like Occupy and often is created in advance to advance a particular agenda in the name of a noble cause: Extinction Rebellion, BLM, Antifa, Anonymous. This phenomenon is also called "Controlled Opposition" and involves many popular individuals and some whistleblowers.

For the government, anything that causes a threat to the status quo should be recuperated. Works of the situationist movement propose a strategy of "detournement" - turning slogans and logos of advertisers and political agents against themselves. Social engineering, pranks, intentionally feeding the mainstream media with false narratives and then calling them out, culture jamming, hacktivism, campaigns like "Nobody For President" would be relevant for creating such type of protest that is so ridiculous and absurd by itself so even the media can't spin it. For example, instead of creating movement about what we stand for, we can protest as if we are for everything the elite wants us to become to expose them, and if they critique us, they will critique their plan. We need to take those claims to the extreme, something like "Save the planet - kill yourself" or "Free Usury for all," It would help gain hype.

I encourage to restrain from using a specific name for the movement as it allows the media to smear the campaign. Instead, maybe a word that they can't pronounce or some links to the specific information they want to hide. Another way is to use some words that, when pronounced, ridicule the pronounced, like "welietoyou" to be used as counterpropaganda. Similarly, any use of symbology should be limited to the movement's QR code to prevent "recuperation" by the media.

Other online actions might involve the use of deepfakes with government officials explaining their real agenda or, on the contrary, telling what we want, but they would never decide to do. Deep-fakes can make our message more viral. "Yes Man" did pranks like this for years impersonating officials at conferences, news, and shooting documentaries. Now they also created a Yes Lab to share their strategies.

To resist censorship, I suggest using IPFS technology combined with QR-codes instead of links. Recently the art gallery opened in Belarus with QR-codes instead of paintings. We can use similar ideas by uploading videos to popular internet platforms with QR codes with a short URL in the video's description/name linking to its permanent storage link. You can upload them to ipfstube.erindachtler.me. When you deplatform yourself from social media, you can use QR codes instead of your avatar to inform people where to find you. To host a static website, upload it to ipfs.casa. If you would need to update the website, use services like rebrandly.com just to change the link.

6. History & Antipropaganda

Dig deeper and learn real history. Crowdsource evidence so we can create a documentary and can share it with the world. Another idea is creating a "Wall of shame" website or an app analogous to Pratham Mittal's "Neta" political rating app. All the corruption related to the powerful elite would be there open to see and track their movements - a counter-surveillance. But we must remember that they are also just people who weren't educated properly, and we shouldn't blame them as the enemy. We should be wiser than them. Additionally, I propose a list of all brain-washing\propaganda techniques and all nonviolent ways of protest, studying the history of protest. A separate documentary about brain-washing techniques would be beneficial to help people resist it. Learn some of these techniques here. There is also a game.

7. Contribute

Reach out to find financial support for the initiatives you like or for local chapters. Creating a crowdfunding platform might help focus on initiatives and solutions where people may donate or join the working group to contribute their work to the cause they find meaningful. There might be an additional fund for investigative journalism and rewards for whistleblowers, revelations of corruption.

To start developing these projects, I suggest organizing and creating groups tailored for each goal to discuss details in the secure chat and plan the future steps.

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