In the final pages of Ray Bradbury's dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451, small groups of people take responsibility for protecting particular things that they believe must survive if their world is to someday recover its better self. They organize in small groups, with each group committing to a certain focused task. In that dystopian society, each task is dangerous.
For me as a reader, this is one of the most moving passages of the novel. The commitment, yes, but also the planning and judgment. What will give us a chance to rebuild a humane society, they have asked themselves, and they've formulated answers and divided the work into manageable chunks and gotten to it.
We Americans tend to be satisfied if we get around to voting. Now, the present crisis is probably only a more extreme version of the crisis of alienation and disempowerment that many people have been enduring for decades, but anyway, now we are all telling each other to stay informed, to show up and speak up. That's all good. But in Bradbury's novel, more seems to have happened among dissenters. They've decided upon priorities, made judgments about goals, and in practical ways they've divided the work. As a result, they each have focused tasks there in those final pages. They not only know who they oppose and who are their allies, but they also have a vision for the new society and a particular job to help build it. You get the impression that defining conversations have been underway that are now guiding the opposition in practical ways.
What would be an example of that sort of division of tasks today? Let's say, for example, veterans affairs and the policies that belong to that national agency. There's somebody on a campus somewhere who could make a list of seven very knowledgable people who could form a little agency. They could commit to keeping up with their field, which they do anyway!, and taking turns posting links to any news articles and thought pieces. Each one of the seven could post one day a week: every Monday it's Tom's turn, every Tuesday it's Jane's, etc. Every day of the week there would be a very knowledgable person sharing the latest things that folks who care about veterans would want to know. Maybe they'd also post on opportunities for becoming involved in activism, ways to pressure the right elected officials, and so forth.
The seven of them would become the national news agency for veterans affairs. Something like that seems do-able.
Another example would be a small crew of tech folks who advise and support the web publishing needs of a handful of small teams like the seven who are doing the veterans work.