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Identify like-minded resisters and meet regularly in secret in order to strategize, possibly under the guise of another purpose, such as a religious study group, a hiking club, or a charity.

Develop codes, signals, and/or private, secure channels of communication among resisters.

With family members, friends, teachers, coworkers, neighbors, or other associates, speak out against positive comments about the regime, sowing seeds of doubt whenever possible.

Praise former loyalists for expressing doubt of the regime, giving them a warm welcome to the resistance and placing the blame for their past loyalty on the regime’s deceptiveness.

Shout at government officials supporting the rise of fascism or a more oppressive government over the phone and at town halls, meetings, and public appearances.

Make public speeches that appeal to religious, moral, and/or patriotic values.

Make public speeches that delineate the ways that the regime is harming the citizens or countrymen it pretends to support.

Deface or tear down propaganda such as statues, signs, and posters.

Post anti-regime signs and posters.

Distribute flyers, pamphlets, and books to stoke revolutionary sentiments.

Purchase copies of banned books and give them away.

Document and provide detailed reports of the regime’s wrongdoings.

Ruin high-profile speeches and events with memorable distractions designed to embarrass the regime. 

Stage protests of the regime at central locations, the palace, government buildings, detention or internment camps, and political prisons.

Combine protests with concerts, street performers, or visual spectacles to attract more participants.

Create popular songs, artwork, plays, poems, novels, and movies decrying or satirizing the regime.

Publicly pray for the persecuted, imprisoned, or disappeared at public vigils with candles and speakers.

Honor the dead through public funeral or memorial services, ceremonies, processions, and motorcades, with or without a body or bodies.

Stage walkouts from schools, factories, and businesses.

Create a new name, a new slogan, a new symbol, and/or a signature color or item of clothing that gives members of the resistance a shared sense of identity and belonging.

Distract the regime and dilute their propaganda by raising public outcry about multiple issues that were previously ignored.

Identify and boycott the businesses that are most supportive of the regime.

Develop a persona that allows one to infiltrate groups of loyalists and sow seeds of doubt and rebellion.

Develop a persona that allows one to befriend or date high-ranking officials and learn about secret plans.

Posing as a loyalist, take a job with the regime in order to document its activities and/or sabotage its efforts from within.

Spread rumors that erode the trust between high-ranking members of the regime, making them suspect one another.

Tempt high-ranking officials into disloyalty by convincing them that this will make them richer and more powerful.

Take advantage of existing social media algorithms and proven social media strategies to amplify reports of injustice and calls to specific political action.

Publicly identify hooded executioners or other secret collaborators, sharing their names, physical likenesses, and addresses.

Identify the locations of the regime’s secret offices, bunkers, storage facilities, camps, or prisons, in order to observe closely, attack directly, or publicize widely.

Shun and shame the regime’s bureaucrats, police force or soldiers, and collaborators, coming up with new names for them and harassing them on or off duty.

Refuse to serve or rent to the regime’s officials and soldiers. If necessary, feign other reasons: the kitchen at the restaurant is closed due to faulty equipment; the villa is being remodeled.

Report the regime’s bureaucrats, police force or soldiers, and collaborators for minor infractions of the law in their personal lives.

Make false anonymous reports to waste the regime’s time and overwhelm their systems.

Make the regime less efficient by delaying the delivery of mail, “forgetting” to respond to a message, or forwarding a message to the wrong person.

Delay following the orders of the regime by asking for clarifications, waiting for a certain person to return to work, obtaining a necessary permit, writing and reviewing a public statement about the activity, or waiting for a certain system upgrade for better security. Pretend to be busy complying while doing nothing.

Organize workers’ strikes.

Secretly offer shelter to people hunted by the regime. Read The Diary of Anne Frank and the history of the German resistance for examples.

Create or obtain false identification documents for people hunted by the regime.

Provide food, supplies, medical attention, and/or legal counsel and representation to people harmed by the regime.

Provide safe passage to those who need to escape the region or country. The history of the Underground Railroad in the United States offers good inspiration.

Facilitate a hornet, scorpion, or rat infestation in the regime’s palace or key government buildings.

Disrupt a government building’s wifi signal by deploying several wifi jammers attached to frequently moving targets, such as small AI-powered robots or rats let loose in the walls.

Sabotage the plumbing or sewage system in the regime’s palace or the soldiers’ barracks.

Block the chimneys of a castle or royal residence so it fills with smoke in the winter.

Compromise a government building’s electrical system so it loses power.

Compromise the transportation of the regime: cut straps on the saddles of horses, mix sugar or urine with the gasoline in the fuel tanks of trucks, block an entrance or route with heavy traffic or a supposedly stalled-out car, or hack the spacecraft.

Orchestrate a cyberattack that destroys the regime’s records, exposes their secrets, or alters, stalls, or crashes their digital systems.

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Make a road needed by the regime impassible: for instance, stage an “accident” with a wagon or a truck, causing a big spill, or secretly damage a levee so the road is flooded.

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Remove street signs, rename streets and buildings, or alter maps to confuse an occupying force.

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