This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Columbia Barnard chapter.

By: Ruby Samuels

Trump’s first 10 days in office have sent shockwaves through America. Protesters continue to march through the streets of hundreds of cities, from New York City and Washington D.C. to Key West, FLa., where 2,000 people out of the town’s 25,000 population marched on inauguration day, according to police.

Mayors of sanctuary cities (cities that pledge to harbor refugees) all over the country are pledging to resist any new federal immigration policy that they deem unjust. These include mayors from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Austin. Mayor Rahm Emanuel of Chicago, whose grandfather escaped prosecution of Jews during the Holocaust in Moldova, announced: ““I want to be clear: We’re going to stay a sanctuary city. There is no stranger among us.” In response to this overt political opposition, Trump has threatened to punish sanctuary cities who do not comply with his new immigration policies by taking away billions of dollars in resources from police department budgets, a large portion of which is used for counterterrorism.

Donald Trump has also fired acting Attorney General Sally Yates after she announced the Department of Justice’s refusal to defend Trump against legal challenges regarding his new immigration policies, which limited the immigration of people from 7 muslim majority countries until a wave of opposition from lawyers and laymen in airports and townhalls across the country convinced Congress to scale back the executive order. Under the creation of the “dissent channel,” which was intended to allow foreign servicemen to voice concern about U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War without fear of retribution, should have protected Sally Yates against her removal. Early Tuesday morning, Trump also fired ICE Chief Daniel Ragsdale, without giving a reason to the public. The retaliation that Trump has dealt in the face of opposition, however, is not stopping the American people, who are still chanting in the streets every night and writing petitions every day.

Journalists, political pundits and social media posters are comparing the anti-Trump masses in America and all over the world to the 2011 Arab Spring; the 2008 Occupy Wall Street Movement; the 2013 rise of Black Lives Matter and the 2016 protest at Standing Rock, which successfully resisted federal approval of the Dakota Access Pipeline after thousands of people stood outside for weeks through brutal winter conditions in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux. That pipeline, as well as many other liberal legislative moves made during the Obama administration, have been quickly overturned in the slurry of executive orders signed by Donald J. Trump since his inauguration.

Liberal Americans are so stressed by the proposition of having Trump in such a position of power that in addition to the town halls, protests and petitions, they have been a boon to therapists and have created a website that counts down the days, hours and minutes until the end of Trump’s term (the homepage is titled “Four More Years Bitches”). The formal acts of resistance that are being organized all over the country, however, are proving to be both popular and effective. The Indivisible Guide: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda, was created almost simultaneously with Trump’s inauguration as a step-by-step playbook for how to organize legally, politically and socially against the new administration. The Indivisible guide, created by anonymous former Congressional staffers and represented to the media by spokesman Ezra Levin, was inspired in part by certain strategies of the far right Tea Party Movement, which successfully used grassroots organization to slow or halt Liberal agenda in Congress. Levin told Mother Jones that “The tea party had a lot of nasty tactics that were needlessly aggressive and petty and scary. But they proved it is indeed possible for a committed, relatively small number of folks across the country to make Congress listen to them and to slow and stop an agenda.”

This 23-page document is being used by millions of Americans to organize protests in solidarity with immigrants, people of color, LGBTQ and other groups in a stunning wave that is reminiscent of Dumbledore’s Army. The Indivisible Guide has also been shared by celebrities such as George Takei from the Star Wars Enterprise, who tweeted: “Welcome to the resistance. Required reading against the darkening tide. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DzOz3Y6D8g_MNXHNMJYAz1b41_cn535aU5UsN7Lj8X8/mobilebasic …,” including a link to the Google Doc that is the Indivisible Guide. Any concerned citizen can take action and join the resistance with this guide.

Here is a list of the executive orders that Trump has signed since he took office (compiled by USA today):

Proclamation 9570: National Day of Patriotic Devotion

Executive Order 13765: Minimizing the Economic Burden of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Pending Repeal

Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies: Regulatory Freeze Pending Review

Presidential Memorandum: Withdrawal of the United States From the Trans-Pacific Partnership Negotiations and Agreement

Presidential Memorandum: Mexico City Policy

Presidential Memorandum: Hiring Freeze

Presidential Memorandum: Construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline

Presidential Memorandum: Construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline

Presidential Memorandum:Construction of American Pipelines

Executive Order 13766: Expediting Environmental Reviews and Approvals for High Priority Infrastructure Projects

Presidential Memorandum:Streamlining Permitting and Reducing Regulatory Burdens for Domestic Manufacturing