How will you resist in 2026?
What are your New Year’s resolutions? Join the gym? Learn to bake? Start journaling?
Those all sound great, but this year we need to set our sights a bit higher – because now it’s more important than ever to unite to protect people and the planet.
If we resist together, we win together!
Corporations and authoritarian governments are increasingly trying to take away our rights and freedoms and putting our planetary health in peril.
Will you join us by pledging to resist as your New Year’s resolution this year? It only takes a few minutes to write your resistance list and then post it to social media to spread the word with friends and family.
We enter 2026 with a climate denier in the White House, Big Tech companies ripping up the rules, and big polluters raking in more profits than ever before. Now more than ever we need to do whatever we can to resist.
Resistance takes many forms. We can put up posters, sign petitions, email politicians, go to demonstrations and speak to those around us about the need for urgent change. Whatever you feel comfortable doing is enough. Because if enough of us take small actions to resist, we can turn things around.
Corrupt governments and climate wrecking corporations are afraid of people power – so let’s build our power this year. You can start today by writing the ways you plan on resisting in 2026 and posting them to social media. Your post will inspire your friends and family to resist with you – and together we can turn the tide.
Share a New Year’s Resistance List
- Create your list using a notes app (or similar) on your phone
- Take a screenshot of it
- Post it on Instagram, or wherever you digitally socialise
- Use hashtags #NewYearResistance and #TimeToResist
- Tag @greenpeace
- Tag a friend and invite them to share their list too
What’s on your Resistance List?
There are many ways you can resist corporate and billionaire bullies in 2026 and of course it’s completely up to you what to put on your list.
Here are some ideas to get you started:
- Buy local or second hand
- Vote! (if you have elections coming up)
- Choose facts over fiction – subscribe to a reliable newspaper or podcast
- Talk to your neighbours
- Choose hope over fear – share stories of resistance and free speech
- Connect with your local community
- Stop ordering from climate and nature wreckers
- Resist governments who steal our rights and freedoms
- Choose courage over comfort – call out injustice whenever you see it (if it’s safe for you to do so)
- Campaign for a tax on billionaires
Using creativity and conversation, we can challenge the billionaires and companies trying to silence us. Here are a few ideas.
Take your pick