Resources

"What can I DO?" Here are some effective actions to take right now, wherever you are.

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📰 Diversify Your Media Sources

☑️ Recommended Media: Free yourself from corporate-approved content by seeking out progressive and leftist media sources. Peninsula DSA’s Steering Committee has many recommendations for news, podcasts, video essays, and more. Get started with these DSA-affiliated picks:

🧊 Stop ICE! Protect Our Neighbors

☑️ Rapid Response! If you see ICE in town, please call the San Mateo County Rapid Response 24/7 hotline immediately at (203) 666-4472.

☑️ Know Your Rights! The Immigrant Legal Resource Center has helpful information and printables such as the easy-to-distribute little red cards (available in 39 languages, including Spanish, Tagalog, and Chinese).

🚎 Speak Up for Public Transit

☑️ Stop Highway Widening of 101 / 92! Adding lanes to highways encourages more people to drive and degrades safety and quality of life for everyone living nearby. Let’s demand SMC Transit Authority, C/CAG of San Mateo County, and SFCTA end traffic congestion by investing our transportation funds in fast, accessible, FREE public transit for all!

☑️ Improve Central El Camino Real! Live or work in San Mateo, Belmont, San Carlos, or Redwood City? Suggest ideas or express concerns to staff re: the transit-focused Grand Boulevard Initiative on El Camino Real / Route 82!

☑️ Save Broadway Caltrain Station! Ignoring local opposition, the Burlingame City Council plans to close Broadway station to save money on the planned grade separation at California’s most dangerous rail crossing.

🇵🇸 Free Palestine! Join the BDS Movement

☑️ Learn to spot genocide-enabling products! Capitalists flex their economic power all the time–and so should we! Boycott, Divest & Sanctions (BDS) has partnered with Buycat to make it easy for us to participate in their consumer boycott targets.