Introduction
Accessible digital security and physical safety advice for people resisting authoritarianism. These checklists share practical insights to help inform your decisions and stay safer. The guides draw from organizing work and direct feedback from activists.
Check the Activist Checklist website for updates.
Checklists
- Security essentials
- Signal security checklist
- Prepare for a protest
- Action Organizer Checklist
- Prepare for a direct action
- Action Research and Scouting
- Doxxing defense checklist
- Travel & flight security
- Emergency planning
- Secondary phone
- Spyware protection
- Federal Workers
Zines

- Security Essentials Checklist: Printable / Readable
- Signal Security Checklist: Printable / Readable
- Secondary Phone Checklist Zine: Printable / Readable
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Explore Further
- Movies, Books & Podcasts About Surveillance
- Surveillance Self-Defense
- Anti-Doxing Guide
- In-A-Box
- Holistic Security Manual
- Digital Security Basics for Campaigners
- Power and Protect Safety Library
- Keeping Each Other Safe When Virtually Organizing Mutual Aid
- Digital First Aid Kit
- Staying Safe: Protective Strategies for Activists
- Protests: Start Here
