By Robert Reich
Trump’s First 100 Day agenda includes repealing environmental regulations, Obamacare, and the Dodd-Frank Act, giving the rich a huge tax cut, and much worse. Here’s the First 100 Day resistance agenda [with thanks to Alan Webber]:
1. Get Democrats in the Congress and across the country to pledge to oppose Trump’s agenda. Prolong the process of approving choices, draw out hearings, stand up as sanctuary cities and states. Take a stand. Call your senator and your representative (phone calls are always better than writing). Your senator’s number: http://www.senate.gov/senators/contact/. Your representative’s number: http://www.house.gov/representatives/
2. March and
demonstrate—in a coordinated, well-managed way. The “1 Million Women March” is
already scheduled for the Inauguration —and will be executed with real skill.
See: http://www.commondreams.org/news/2016/11/15/counter-trump-women-are-mobilizing-massive-march-washington. There will be “sister” marches around
the country—in LA and elsewhere. They need to be coordinated and orchestrated.
And then? 1 Million Muslims? 1 Million Latinos? What would keep the momentum
alive and keep the message going?
3. Boycott all
Trump products, real estate, hotels, resorts, everything. And then boycott all
stores (like Nordstrom) that carry merchandise from Trump family brands.
See: http://www.racked.com/…/136239…/grabyourwallet-trump-boycott. See also: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vu0Y0HvadMgG_LN7dF8W7M66oPCcx_nmSARQWirV7iY/htmlview?usp=drivesdk&sle=true
4. Letters to Editors:
A national letter-writing campaign, from people all over the country, every
walk of life and every level of society, from celebrities to sports heroes to
grassroots Americans. In most papers, the Letters to the Editor section is the
most-read part of the paper.
5. Op-Eds: A steady
flow of arguments about the fallacies and dangers of Trump’s First 100 Day
policies and initiatives, from name-brand thinkers and doers to ordinary folk
writing for their city’s or community’s newspaper.
6. Social media: What
about a new YouTube channel devoted to video testimonials about resisting
Trump’s First 100 Day Agenda? Crowd-sourced ideas, themes and memes. Who wants
to start it?
7. Website containing
up-to-date daily bulletins on what actions people are planning around the
country, and where, so others can join in. Techies, get organized.
8. Investigative journalism:
We need investigative journalists to dig into the backgrounds of all of Trump’s
appointees, in the White House, the Cabinet, Ambassadors and judges.
9. Lawsuits: Our
version of “Drill, baby, drill” is “Sue, baby, sue.” Throw sand in the gears.
Lawyers, get organized.
10. Coordinated
fund-raising: Rather than having every public-interest group appeal on their
own, have a coordinated fundraising program to fill the coffers of the most
endangered and effective opposition groups. Is there a way to do a televised
fundraiser with celebrities raising money for the Resistance?
11. Symbolic
opposition: Safety pins are already appearing. What else? What more? Make the
resistance visible with bumper stickers, a label pin, a branding campaign that
has great language, great logo, great wrist band (remember the Lance Armstrong
“Livestrong” yellow wrist band—it sold millions!).
12. Intellectual
opposition: Take Trump on where he’s weakest—with serious ideas. I’ll try to do
my part. You do yours, too.
13. Serious accountability:
Establish performance metrics to evaluate his delivery on his campaign
promises. An updated web site of promises made and not kept. This is one
especially suited to public policy students.
14. Your idea goes
here. Call a meeting of family and friends this weekend. Come up with to-dos.
The First 100 Days
Resistance Agenda. We’re not going away.
ROBERT B. REICH is Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at
the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center
for Developing Economies. He served as Secretary of Labor in the Clinton
administration, for which Time Magazine named him one of the ten most effective
cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fourteen books,
including the best sellers "Aftershock", "The Work of
Nations," and"Beyond Outrage," and, his most recent, "Saving
Capitalism." He is also a founding editor of the American Prospect
magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, INEQUALITY FOR
ALL.