Welcome to the post 2016 world

[tassosss]

This community is intended to be a place to gather links to resources and step-by-step actions to take to be more involved in various efforts in the wake of Donald Trump's election to the Presidency. It's going to be relatively low-key, focused on simple things you can do and sharing information for larger things you can do to protect yourself and your fellow at-risk Americans.

This is a work in progress, so please add suggestions to comments. Right now, posts will consist primarily of link round-ups and actions you can do from your computer or phone (i.e. donate to causes, call your congressperson)

Your mods are tassosss and tanaqui. Drop us a line if you need anything.

This is a community to support people, especially minorities, LGBTQA+, women's groups, and anyone else who will be negatively impacted by public policy in the next four years. Absolutely no hate-speech will be tolerated.

What you can post to this community
1. Links to organizations, news articles, posts, etc. (mods will add tags/clean-up tags)
2. Actions you are taking - called your representatives? great, maybe it'll inspire the next person to do the same
3. Suggestions for posts that the mods will do a little research on.

Tagging: Please use available tags when possible. If you need a new one or have a tagging question please contact redbird  who is our tag guru.

Community name and title from:

"As long as there is injustice, whenever a Targathian baby cries out, wherever a distress signal sounds among the stars, we'll be there. This fine ship, this fine crew. Never give up... and never surrender." -- Jason Nesmith, Galaxy Quest

Comments

[snickfic]

Just want to say I really appreciate this comm - I'm already learning a bunch of stuff here. Thank you!

[tassosss]

Good! I'm glad it's helpful.

[jjhunter]

It’s been sanity-saving for me so far. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

[tassosss]

<3

We’re glad to be here. Thank you for hanging in there.

[lynnenne]

This is a great idea. Is there a mirror community on Livejournal, by any chance?

[tassosss]

Thanks! We don't have an LJ mirror, but we could potentially set it up if that would be helpful. I'm not really on LJ anymore, though I do still crosspost everything on my personal journal.

[lynnenne]

I created an RSS feed that folks on LJ can follow: http://thisfinecrew-dw.livejournal.com/

[tassosss]

Oh wonderful! Thanks for doing that!

[tsumego]

Hi! thanks for setting this up!

I was thinking there needed to be something along these lines and was tentatively poking at the idea of a forum and feeling very daunted - this seems much more practical :]

I would be interested in co-modding btw

[tassosss]

Awesome! If you PM me your email address, I'll add you to the google doc.

[jazzyjj]

Hi everybody. I just discovered this comm last night, and thought I'd join. I've been looking for something like this, and I'm so glad I found it here on the mighty Dreamwidth. I'm also in talkpolitics , so I think I'm covered. Due to scheduling issues I probably won't be posting here that frequently, but I'll try my best. I was never on LJ due in part to the lack of accessibility over there. But Dreamwidth has served me well since 2014.

[tanaqui]

Welcome -- glad to have you here! (And do let us know if there's anything you think we could do in the comm to improve accessibility for you.)