Image via Somerset Bean, used with permission.

One of the most common questions we receive during the weekly Unity4J vigils goes something like: "how can I help? I feel powerless" or "what can I do?"

While it is impossible to provide a comprehensive list of all possible actions, I am creating this basic inventory of examples and ideas to provide some kind of answer for those who ask similar questions now and in the future. The following is my own opinion and is not endorsed by anyone outside of myself.

Join in at a vigil/protest in your area, especially if you are in the UK. You can find vigil times and locations in the UK via Wiseupaction.info, and in locations around the globe via the Socialist Equality Party, Unity4J and many others.

Image via Kayesem on Twitter, used with permission.

If you create a new event in your area, use the hashtag #FreeAssangeRally on social media so that others can find you more easily. Other relevant hashtags to use include #FreeAssange and #NoUSExtradition. Remember to make the time, date, city, and meeting place clear when organizing and advertising your event, and if possible, try to contact the media to gain coverage of the action.

If there are no vigils near you and you feel a new stand-alone event in your area would be unsuccessful, you can always raise your voice by participating in other events, like Pride Parades, as Shona Davidson effectively did! Piggybacking onto other established gatherings/marches/celebrations may be helpful in spreading awareness to a large group of people. Other events to join in with could include music festivals, agricultural events, marathons or athletic events, etc.

Image via Shona Davidson, Twitter. Used with permission.

Shona wrote of the above picture via Twitter:

"Kind lady sent this one 2 me. Difficult/take my own photos. Sunshine to celebrate #Pride in #Winnipeg on Sat. so we're party mode. @ topleft-Canadian MuseumofHuman Rights #AtCMHR so wish Julian could walk in sunshine/smile/health #NoExtradition @AssangeMrs #FreeAssange #Unity4J"

Christine Assange echoed this sentiment, writing via Twitter: "Join another rally on another issue & carry your FREE ASSANGE sign! OR Put a FREE ASSANGE sign on the BACK of another sign!"

Shona is not the only supporter to take to the streets: Truthisall1 has posted many images of her activism on Twitter, as noted by Christine Assange.

Image below via Truthisall1 on twitter:

Write, email, and call your political representatives and demand they stand up for Assange. Also call on UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid to refuse Assange's extradition to the United States, whether directly from the UK or onward from Sweden.

Defend WikiLeaks (run by the Courage Foundation) suggests that supporters donate, challenge false reporting in the media, write to their political representatives, write to human rights organizations and Unions, sign petitions and join letter campaigns, and keep themselves informed.

Christine Assange, Julian Assange's mother also said via Twitter: "You will get MOST impact for #FreeAssange If you write to OWN Federal MP, Senator, Congress Rep, Assembly Rep! Their job security depends on YOUR vote! You can always depend on a politicians self interest! They will in turn out pressure upwards on their higher ups & leaders."

Image via WikiLeaks shop on Twitter.

Write (short) letters to Julian Assange attached to documentation of an action you've done or been a part of.

Visit WriteJulian.com for more information. You can also find more information and helpful instructions from them on Twitter: "Write Julian."

Image via WriteJulian.com

Image via WriteJulian on Twitter.

Independent journalist Gordon Dimmack also received an extensive list of advice from a listener, which can be found in a Twitter thread posted by Gordon recently. The thread states in part:

"Just spoke to Belmarsh Prison 0208 331 4400 and was told the following:

You can send Mr Julian #Assange a money order of up to £250.00, out of which he will be allowed £15.50 a week for in prison purchases and this: phone calls.

You must make the money order out to HM PRISON SERVICES

Mail the money order in an envelope addressed to: Mr Julian Assange DOB 03/07/1971 HMP Belmarsh Western Way London SE28 0EB

You must write on the money order your name and address, most important. Ensure you write for Mr Julian Assange’s Account DOB 03/07/1971 on the actual money order.

He is not allowed [loose] stamps to be sent. You can write to him in the prescribed manner including a stamped self-addressed envelope for your own personal reply, but your name and address on the reply envelope must be in ink, not pencil. He is not allowed [loose] stamps or stationary etc from outside sources but must buy the items from the prison shop itself.

The prison receptionists I spoke to were most helpful and pleasant. They said to please phone for any further information.

All letters to him are read before he receives them.

Message thanks to Pam K and Gordon Dimmack

You can buy UK stamps here, and to my knowledge you will need two first-class stamps or three second-class stamps to attach to a self-addressed envelope, for return postage from Assange.

Sign the numerous online petitions in support of Assange, and the Open Letter to President Trump run by the Courage Foundation.

I won't share too many petitions here, as they are always changing/being created, and are time-sensitive, so any that I list will soon be out of date.

If you are musical, consider dedicating a song or album to Julian Assange/ WikiLeaks/Chelsea Manning. An album, Beat The Blockade, was produced in 2012 and “Donated by a range of artists and make a creative, enjoyable way for people to Beat the [financial] Blockade.”

As an example of this, @JamesGetsIt and @v4vapid created the song, "Kill the Messenger," about the persecution of Assange, which is available on Soundcloud.

The Outer Light (@theouterlight) then created the following music video of the song, which I share as an example of the way that multiple people can have a hand in the creativity and creation of material in support of Assange.