1. Easy – Donate to one of these local agencies to help feed our neighbors who are facing food insecurity. Frederick Food Bank, Frederick Community Table, Frederick Community Fridge 

2. Medium – Using Spotify or Pandora? Change how you stream your music. They are broadcasting ICE recruitment ads. Known blue-leaning streaming alternatives are Tidal and YouTube Music.

3. Heavy – Get ready for the economic blackout on Black Friday. Big box stores/large retailers are the targets. On Black Friday, buy local only and support our community businesses. (Prevent surge spending the days before by preparing for this day.)

1. Easy – Help feed your neighbors who are facing food insecurity. The government shutdown is dragging on, with many furloughed or working without pay, and SNAP benefits will not be distributed for November. Here are a few of the places that you can donate, volunteer, get involved.

• City of Frederick Food Bank Program (https://www.cityoffrederickmd.gov/462/Food-Bank-Program),

• Maryland Food Bank (https://mdfoodbank.org/)

• Capital Area Foodbank (https://www.capitalareafoodbank.org/)  

• Other ways to help/give

o   Info on food resources in Frederick County

(https://bit.ly/Frederick-Food-Resources)

o   Helping Hands and Caring Hearts (https://helpinghandsandcaringhearts.org/about/)

o   Blessings in a Backpack 

(https://frederick.blessingsinabackpack.org/get-involved/)

o   Frederick Community Fridge, behind ERUCC (https://www.facebook.com/frederickcommunityfridge/)

o   Additional ways to give

(https://mdfoodbank.org/ways-to-give/)

2. Medium – Join a group that’s organizing for something you believe in. Here are some options: 

o   Indivisible - https://indivisible.org/

o   A local mutual aid network - https://www.mutualaidhub.org/

o   A group planning more protests in DC such as https://refusefascism.org/

o   Use https://www.mobilize.us/ to find an event to take part in

o   Rise Up Frederick – riseupfrederick.com 

3. Heavy – Write an op-ed or letter to the editor of the local paper (here’s a how-to guide). Here’s the link to the Frederick News Post to submit a letter to the editor- https://bit.ly/LTE-FrederickNP 

1. Easy – Attend the No Kings post protest call. What do we do next? Tuesday, October 21 at 8 p.m. Sign up here for the link: https://www.nokings.org/

2. Medium - Sign the letter to Governor Moore to kick Avelo Airlines, the airline making the ICE flights, out of BWI Airport. https://bit.ly/No-more-ice-flights 

3. Heavy – Take action to combat the cuts to special education. The Council for Exceptional Children lists actions you can take. https://exceptionalchildren.org/takeaction

1. Easy – Join the Indivisible Weekly Chat. Every Thursday, Indivisible co-founders help wade through the week’s news, answer your questions, and provide timely calls to action. October 16 at 3pm EST - REGISTER FOR EVENT (https://bit.ly/Indiv-Chat)

2. Medium - Blessings in a Backpack is a national organization that helps prevent weekend hunger in US schoolchildren. If you live in the Frederick area, check out the FB page for volunteers, the sign up list of upcoming volunteer opportunities, or the food donation wish list.

3. Heavy – Reach out to your Senators and Representative and demand the impeachment of RFK Jr. as head of HHS using the 5calls.org app. For good measure, get your Covid booster and flu shot this week. We need to stay healthy in spite of him! (ALL Maryland residents can get the Covid booster.)

Pick your task for this week, at whichever level of effort suits you best, and work at that this week. Make your voice heard.

1. Easy – Attend the school board meeting on Wednesday, October 8 to support diversity! (191 South East Street, 6 pm, https://bit.ly/BOE-MTG)
   And/or support a local non-profit; they are hurting right now! Here are 2 links to help support local food pantries. Fight Hunger in the City of Frederick: https://bit.ly/help-Fred and help fill the Community Fridge in the heart of Frederick: https://bit.ly/Fred-comm-fridge  

2. Medium - Plan to attend a No Kings II rally near you on October 18. Now is a good time to create signs. Local Rally (Baker Park): https://bit.ly/NK-Fred Find another location: https://www.nokings.org/  

3. Heavy – Reach out to your Senators and Representative; Democrats need to hear from their constituents. We must let them know that we want them to fight! Here’s a script from the Indivisible website to make it easy! https://bit.ly/call-now-Fred
   Then, call out the Republicans for their responsibility and cowardice for this shutdown! Spread the word with people you know, and write an op-ed or letter to the editor of the local paper (here’s a how-to guide) and post on social media (here’s a toolkit). Here’s the link to the Frederick News Post - https://www.fredericknewspost.com/site/forms/online_services/letter/

Pick your task for this week, at whichever level of effort suits you best, and work at that this week. We must all be heard.

1. Easy – Buy only local this week, no big chains. Keep your dollars in your community. Need help finding what you need locally/from small businesses versus the mega corporations? Check out alternatives here: https://bit.ly/bigcorp-alt

2. Medium – Register and attend (virtually) Taking Back Our Power in 2025 with Stacey Abrams, Thursday, October 2, 7:30 PM ET – VIRTUAL. Hear from a great organizer what we can do to fight back against authoritarianism. (If you register but cannot attend, this may give you access to the recorded event.) https://bit.ly/FightAuthoritarianism

3. Heavy – Support Planned Parenthood by calling your reps (5calls.org makes it easy) and demand that Congress use their power to protect Planned Parenthood patients and defend our right to control our own bodies, lives, and futures, free of government interference and/or make a donation to Planned Parenthood. https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/support

Pick your task for this week, at whichever level of effort suits you best, and work at that this week. No act is too small. If we all work together, we will succeed.

1. Easy – watch this short video from @amandasmildtakes here https://www.instagram.com/p/DNau5yqAVAw/ and choose one of her suggestions for your 1 to do this week. (Note: you don’t have to be on Instagram to watch the video.)

2. Medium – Make sure you are registered to vote. All elections are important, but our local elections are especially important. Here’s the link where you can check that you are registered, and if not, you can get registered. There are other voter tools here as well. https://voterservices.elections.maryland.gov/VoterSearch

3. Heavy – Check out the boycotts on our web site and implement them. Dollars and how we spend them are our power. Don’t give your money to the large corporations that are enabling this regime to destroy our democracy and take away our voice. And then send the link to three of your friends to follow these boycotts. Community is the way we will succeed. https://bit.ly/PoP-boycotts

Not sure what you can do to fight back against this regime? Beginning on September 15, every week we'll publish a short list of tasks ranging from easy to heavy lifting. Pick a task, at whichever level of effort suits you best, and work at that this week. No act is too small. If we all work together, we will succeed.

1. Easy – Text 2 people you know and encourage them to sign up for our newsletter. This is a great way to get information, especially for people who are not on social media. Here’s the link:  https://riseupfrederick.eo.page/newsletter

2. Medium – Text or call 2 people you know and challenge them to take part in the Economic Blackout of the System. (See all the info in #3 below.)

3. Heavy – Economic Blackout of the System. Buy nothing! By peacefully shutting down the economy, we reclaim our power and force the system to listen. If you can choose only one day to do this, make it September 17 – Constitution Day. More info: https://blackoutthesystem.com/

Not sure what you can do to fight back against this regime? Beginning on September 15, every week we'll publish a short list of tasks ranging from easy to heavy lifting. Pick a task, at whichever level of effort suits you best, and work at that this week. Not all of us are able to attend protests. Some of us can donate money. Others can donate their time. No act is too small. If we all work together, we will succeed.

1. Easy - don’t buy anything from Amazon this week.

2. Medium - Share this link for getting accurate information and checking facts with your clan - https://bit.ly/RUF-justthefacts

3. Heavy - use 5 calls and call your reps. Yes, we have democratic reps, but they need to hear from us, and with information they can use. Tell them about how current policy is negatively affecting you. Examples - groceries are more expensive, fear of international travel, employment or income losses, unavailability of social security offices, loss of school or community programs.