Surviving and Resisting Fascism: Resources and Actions
Action Opportunities
Join a mutual aid pod! SF Bay Mutual Aid is helping form mutual aid pods—small, autonomous groups of people organizing to meet urgent needs in their communities. These pods will take on projects based on the skills, capacity, and interests of their members. Whether that means distributing food, supporting tenants, offering childcare, protecting immigrants, or something else, these pods will be spaces for collective action and care.
Tell Congress: Stop the Destruction of Federal Disability and Aging Programs The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has recently announced its intention to cut 10,000 jobs and 13 divisions. This will include major cuts to disability and senior services, such as CMS, SAMSHA, and the Administration on Community Living. Tell Congress they must stop these destructive cuts!
Keep up with local Bay Area rallies and protests through Bay Resistance
Caring Across Generations tool - Tell Congress: No Cuts to Medicaid
Plug into local Immigration Response Rapid Response Networks and action pods through Bay Resistance
Mask Together America’s Health Justice Toolkit aims to provide assistance to people in the U.S. who want to take action to fight discrimination and inequity in health care.
Resources
A Cut to Medicaid Is a Cut to Medicare, Justice in Aging
Threats to Older Immigrants in Health Care, Economic Security, Housing, and Elder Rights, Justice in Aging
Understanding Critical Connections Between Immigration and Older Adults, Justice in Aging
Deportation Defense guide from San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network
Northern California Rapid Response Network: use these numbers to report ICE activity and Enforcement Actions
Know Your Rights with ICE resources from Asian Law Caucus
SAGE LGBT Elder Hotline: 1-877-360-LGBT (5428), sageusa.org
Trans Lifeline Peer Support
Crisis services: warm-lines that do not use police intervention
Resources for Our Collective Care from Borealis Philanthropy
Surviving the Apocalypse Together Workbook, Mad Queer Organizing Stragies
Project 2025: Understanding Its Consequences for LGBTQ+ Elders outlines some of the policies in the plan that would have significant impacts on LGBTQ+ elders. via SAGE.
LGBTQ+ Older Adults Can’t Afford Cuts to Medicaid explains why Medicaid is important to LGBTQ+ older adults and why cuts are particularly harmful to the community. via Justice in Aging.
Threats to LGBTQ+ Older Adults in Health Care, Economic Security, Housing, and Elder Rights summarizes the threats from the current administration and the potential harms they cause. via Justice in Aging.
Explaining the Impact of the Federal Funding Pause on People with Disabilities (action links at the bottom)
Autistic Self-Advocacy Network (ASAN) Statement on Updated Autism Diagnosis Numbers Amidst Attacks on Autistic People