The First 100 Days Resistance Agenda
By Robert Reich
To watch this video on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sueka7aZLsg
Trump’s First 100 Day agenda includes repealing environmental
regulations, Obamacare, and the Dodd-Frank Act, giving the rich and big
corporations a huge tax cut, and putting in place a cabinet that doesn’t
believe in the Voting Rights Act or public schools or Medicare or the Fair
Housing Act.
Our 100 days of resistance begins a sustained and powerful opposition.
Here’s what you can do (it will take about an hour of your time each day):
1. Get your senators and representatives to pledge to oppose Trump’s agenda. Reject his nominees, prolong the process of approving them, draw out hearings on legislation. Call your senator and your representative and don’t stop calling.
2. March and demonstrate.
The Women’s March on Washington will be the day after the Inauguration. There
should be “sister” marches around the country. And then monthly marches against
hate. Keep the momentum alive and keep the message going.
3. Make your city and state
sanctuaries that
won’t cooperate with federal immigration authorities in deporting undocumented
immigrants, especially people who have been here since they were very young.
4. Boycott all Trump products, real
estate, hotels, resorts, everything. And then boycott all
stores (like Nordstrom) that carry merchandise from Trump family brands.
5. Write letters to the editor of your
newspaper and op-eds, with a steady flow of arguments about
the fallacies and dangers of Trump’s First 100 Day policies and initiatives.
6. Contribute to social media with
up-to-date daily bulletins on
what Trump is up to, and actions in your region in opposition.
7. Contribute to the most effective
opposition groups. The American Civil Liberties Union, Common Cause, the Southern
Poverty Law Center, the Economic Policy Institute, Inequality Media, MoveOn,
and others.
8. Make the resistance visible with bumper stickers, lapel pins,
wrist bands.
9. Push progressive causes at your
state and local level –
environmental reform, progressive taxes, a higher minimum wage, ending
gerrymandering, stopping mass incarceration. Make your state a model of what
the federal government should do.
10. Start a move in your state to
abolish the electoral college by
committing your state’s electors to vote for the presidential candidate who
wins the popular vote.
11. Reach out to independents and even
Trump supporters who agree with this agenda,
and get them involved.
12. Your idea goes here.
Meet with family and friends this weekend, and decide what you’ll contribute.
The First 100 Days Resistance Agenda. An hour a day. Send a
powerful message. We aren’t 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.
