Just in case you ever need this in the future..
Actual wide-scale resistance groups operating under a repressive regime rarely look like what many movies have led you to believe.
What they look like are a lot of normal people who maybe lose a document, maybe forget to latch a gate, maybe take a little longer to do a task than they would otherwise.
It requires no command and control, no leaders, no connections to be compromised. For most, it is not the work of great measures, it is the thousand.. million.. cuts that grind the oppressor to a halt while never being something they can prove.
Think less about secret handshakes, and more about an unfortunately bad case of ADHD at an inopportune time.
@ra6bit this is what people try to point out when they also talk about covert racism and other forms of oppression. Things suddenly go missing, take longer to do, are overlooked or completed in an inadequate way all for whatever reason someone can muster.
Seeing to happen to an oppressor would be a sight indeed!
@LevelUp @ra6bit Yup. There's compelling evidence that it's happening with abortion care in Australia - one major hospital was recently caught out with documentary evidence pointing to hospital executives as the source of the problem, after years of staff and doctors noticing concerning changes. And there's enough similar cases from other states and hospitals that it's probably happening there too, which is concerning. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-08/orange-hospital-directs-staff-to-stop-providing-some-abortions/104537862
Fortunately, someone on the staff leaked that document to the media, and others spoke to the journalists who broke the story to back that person up. The hospital has been very publicly reprimanded, and there's been ongoing discussion of starting a more serious inquiry into what's going on with abortion access (especially in regional areas) and what needs to change.
And that's how someone can help against this kind of structural oppression - if anything is put in writing this blatantly, leak it. Record meetings or interactions where it comes up, and leak it. Document everything, and leak it. If someone else gets that opportunity, back them up any way you can - speaks to journalists, provide corroborating evidence if you have it, etc. Anonymously, of course, and still do what you can to help the affected parties - but leak it. Make it publicly known what's going on behind the scenes. It's not a risk-free move, but if it's something you care about, well...
You might not be lucky enough to live somewhere that anything would be done about it but at a minimum you can show people which businesses or services aren't going to help them, or are even actively preying on them or people they care about.