The plan
protecting the elections
Here is a proposed plan for protecting the elections including a shutdown if necessary.
Action plan
1
Sign the pledge and ask others to sign.
2
Vote early. Encourage your family and friends to do the same.
3
Help grow community by volunteering with a Tucson Shutdown committee. Help create the momentum required to SHUT IT DOWN! Join our weekly meeting every Sunday at 7:30 pm to learn how you can help. Join at 7:00 pm to observe an open session of the Steering Committee.
4
Attend trainings to learn how noncooperation and nonviolence techniques can help support a local shutdown.
5
General shutdown if any of the “Red Lines” are crossed.
No work! No school! No shopping!
Please note that we are asking Tucsonans to avoid shopping at national, corporate chains. We encourage you to frequent local businesses that support the shutdown movement in whatever way they can.
6
Daily protests during the two-week shutdown.
7
Nonviolent direct actions with varying degrees of risk. We do not harm human beings or other living beings. We do not damage property. We know our nonviolent sacrifice will reach out to the undecided.
8
Mutual aid for food distribution and possible financial aid.
SChoOLs
Tucson teachers, parents and students shut down 20 schools on January 30, 2026 in response to the call from MN. We want 50 this time!
With the grassroots involvement of individual teachers, we need to shut down all of the high schools in TUSD, some in surrounding Districts, and a large number of the other schools in TUSD and other Districts. Groups of teachers, parents and students in each school will be in touch with peers in other schools and with our coalition. (Teacher organizations are not legally allowed to support a strike or shutdown.)
BUSINESSES
Fifty Tucsonan busineses shutdown in Jan 2026.
Our goal is to recruit 100 small to medium businesses to support the shut down. Some will sign an initial pledge to oppose cancellation of the mid-terms.
WORKPLACES
With the grassroots involvement of individual workers in unionized and non-unionized workplaces, we seek to shut larger businesses down or slow them down for a number of days.
WORKErS
Using individual outreach and social media, we intend to get 5,000 workers to stay home from work for a number of days (for as long as makes sense given their circumstances).
Faith
Working with the faith community, we will enlist at least 20 Congregations to endorse a shutdown, mobilizing their members and providing mutual aid to their members and others affected by the Shutdown. Our goal is to get 5,000 individual, faith-based signers to the general pledge.
Community
Community organizations, with help from consulting organizations, will mobilize activists in Tucson. Together they will identify and train leaders who will in turn identify new leaders using one-on-one, relational techniques. Our initial goal is 5,000 signers of a Shutdown Pledge. In addition, we will reach out to people who sign the pledge to get more involved. We will use small house parties to develop neighborhood “Shutdown Support Committees.”
NO BIG BUSINESSES / CORPORATE INTERESTS
Avoid big box stores, restaurant chains, franchises, grocery stores, major brands, and super corporations. We will focus on those targeted nationally.
SUPPORT THE BUSINESSES THAT HAVE PLEDGED TO SHUT DOWN
Buy local, shop small and support businesses that are aligned with the Tucson Shutdown movement. As we reach out to individual business, we will list the supportive businesses here. Please do your shopping with them now! And in the future.
Want to join the movement as a business, organization, coalition, or group?
Our goal is to direct our dollars to local businesses that support the shutdown.