"Assume every word you write on a device - including every text - can be read by the regime."

-From:  'Survive the Tyrant!'

"At protests and other gatherings, nonviolence is more effective than the alternative. If the regime initiates violence, then responding with violence only gives them license to escalate further."

-From:  'Survive the Tyrant!'

"The regime may coerce ordinary people into becoming informants or posing as people who need help, or they may play other dirty tricks to try to catch us. Be careful about who you trust. If something doesn’t feel right, trust your instincts."

-From:  'Survive the Tyrant!'

"Communicate with people using texts and social media the way you normally would. That way, when you do need to communicate with someone and meeting in person is not an option, a coded message might be missed in the sea of other communications you sent."

-From:  'Survive the Tyrant!'

"Assess the security of your home and your other personal spaces. Good locks are important, as are good window shades and fences that obscure sight lines. The regime may use drones, so think about what it looks like from above."

-From:  'Survive the Tyrant!'

"...don’t tell people in your network who else is in your network, unless they need to know for some reason. Everyone in your adventuring party stays safer if they don’t know each other’s identities."

-From:  'Survive the Tyrant!'

"If you can, one of the most direct ways to help people in your network is with money. Cash is best because it’s hard to trace. Maybe you can’t provide transportation to someone in need, but if one of your friends asks for gas money, your financial help can make a huge difference to someone in need of refuge."

-From:  'Survive the Tyrant!'

"Politics still matters, even in corrupt regimes that skew election results. Local elections are especially important. You and your network can support your community by taking part in local politics, or even running for a local office. Your community would benefit from having you or a friend of yours in office instead of some Quisling."

-From:  'Survive the Tyrant!'

"Use cash when you can. Every form of digital payment creates a trail that can be followed. Your credit cards, debit cards, and digital payment apps are constantly snitching on you."

-From:  'Survive the Tyrant!'

"Face to face meetings are the best way to keep things secret. A message delivered by hand on paper, a flash drive, or an SD card is also fairly secure as long as it is destroyed after the message is received. The greatest risk happens any time a message is transmitted through wires or over the air."

-From:  'Survive the Tyrant!'

"The location of every mobile device is constantly tracked. When you’re carrying your phone, the regime knows where you are."

-From: 'Survive the Tyrant!'

"Protest can be an effective tool against an authoritarian regime. People need to be reminded that there is an alternative to complying with the regime...This can be a dangerous role - by its nature it draws the attention of the regime. So it’s important to be thoughtful, careful, and strategic, and to stay within the bounds set by the regime."

-From:  'Survive the Tyrant!'

"Local government officials, business owners, religious leaders, and other community leaders can play an essential role in protecting their communities. But because they do their work in public they are often placed in difficult position - squeezed between demands made by the regime and the duties they feel to their constituents, customers, and congregations...One of the most important things the Community Leader will do is connect people...make the connection or pass the information and then step away and not involve themselves any more than necessary...Community Leaders can’t save everyone, and they shouldn’t try to. Their community already benefits tremendously from having the Community Leader in place instead of a Quisling."

-From: 'Survive the Tyrant!'

"Access to health care resources may degrade over time. If you have essential prescriptions or other medical needs, get extras. Learn first aid and how to take care of simple procedures yourself if possible."

-From:  'Survive the Tyrant!'

"Those who survived ... stress the importance of art, gardening, music, and beauty. Get outdoors into nature! Finding joy and living a meaningful life while under the shadow of oppression gives the strength and resilience necessary to overcome tough moments."

-From: 'Survive the Tyrant!'

"...if you work for the regime, a billionaire-owned business, or a large corporation, and you don’t choose to leave that job, then slow down. Every bit of extra productivity you provide strengthens the regime. Work to rule: do exactly what is required and no more."

-From: 'Survive the Tyrant!'

"...you should not try to be a hero, and you should take care not to overextend yourself. Regimes are defeated by millions of small acts of resistance by ordinary people. And regimes may be especially dangerous as they begin to fail. Always keep your own safety as your top priority. You’re incredibly valuable in your own right, and we’re going to need you to help rebuild when this all ends."

-From: 'Survive the Tyrant!'

"Since the regime does not allow free expression of negative information, the media will not provide a clear and accurate picture of current events. The Journaler keeps a record of important incidents and of what daily life is like, so people in the future can understand what happened."

-From: 'Survive the Tyrant!'
 

"...authoritarian regimes are susceptible to people avoiding immoral orders as long as possible by moving slowly, seeking unnecessary clarification, expressing confusion, redirecting attention to solve nonproblems, and otherwise slowing down the process."

-From: 'Survive the Tyrant!'

"Every authoritarian government selects groups to demonize. Regimes target racial, ethnic, and religious minorities; trans and other LGBTQ people; immigrants; the disabled; and political opponents. These people risk being harassed, intimidated, placed in internment camps, or killed. They often desperately need safe passage and a safe place to stay. By providing Transport and Sanctuary, you can directly save lives."

-From: 'Survive the Tyrant!'

"If you’re being questioned, the regime already knows something, but they may not know very much. You can’t make things better by talking, but people frequently make things worse. Just shut up."

-From: 'Survive the Tyrant!'

"History is full of dissidents who were captured because they broke laws unrelated to their opposition to the government, or because they slipped up while drunk or stoned in public. Don’t drink in public, don’t fight, and obey the traffic laws."

-From: 'Survive the Tyrant!'

"Tell people only what they need to know. Then, if they’re questioned by the regime, they can honestly say they don’t know what you didn’t tell them, which protects both you and them." 

-From: 'Survive the Tyrant!'

No Pasaran!

"No Pasaran! is an anthology of antifascist writing that takes up the fight against white supremacy and the far-right from multiple angles."

The Origins of Anti-Authoritarianism

"Discusses the ongoing revolution of dignity in human history as the work of 'humanist outliers': small groups and individuals dedicated to compassionate social emancipation."

Higher Education for Democracy

"Uses a cross-national comparison of Los Angeles, New Delhi, and Hong Kong to develop strategies universities should employ to strengthen democracy and resist fascism."

Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse

"A collection of essays written in the midst of the largest resurgence of the far-right in fifty years, and the explosion of antifascist, antiracist, and revolutionary organising that has risen to fight it."

Confronting Totalitarian Minds

"Confronting Totalitarian Minds examines Czech activist Jan Patočka's legacy along with several contemporary applications of his ideas about dissidence, solidarity, and the human being's existential confrontation with unjust politics."

Anti-Fascism in European History: From the 1920s to Today

"The increasing radicalization of political life in most countries in Europe lends special relevance to studies of the antifascist legacies on the continent. This insightful collection of essays is an in-depth review of antifascism in Slovenia, setting it in the context of related movements elsewhere in Europe."