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“It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.”― Leonardo da Vinci |
| | Tuesday Protest on the CommonsTuesdays, 6/3/2025, at 10:30 am Organizer: Vera Riley Location: The Commons, Park Place, Brattleboro
Holding signs protesting current administration
Contact: Vera2847@gmail.com
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| Thursday, 6/5/2025, at 12 noon every week Organizer: Janet LangdonThe Green, PutneyVigil for Sanity and Compassion in Putney on The Green – Bring signs. Every Thursday from 12-12:30 pm
Contact: jliesl@myfairpoint.net |
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| I-91 Friday Overpass ProtestsFridays, 6/6/2025, 3:30 to 4:30 pm, most, but not all, locationsOrganizer: Indivisible BrattleboroBest location for many people:Brattleboro: Western Ave. I-91 Exit 2 bridge overpass
This is the best location for a large group of protestors. Do not park near the deli
Best locations for banners, flags and fewer people:Vernon: Tyler Hill Road I-91 bridge overpassBrattleboro: Black Mountain Rd. I-91 bridge overpassPutney: I-91 Exit 4 bridge overpass 5 to 6 pm Do not arrive earlier.Putney: Route 5 I-91 bridge overpass near Santa’s LandWestminster: Kurn Hattin Road I-91 overpass south of Exit 5
We are continuing protests every Friday — but no organized bridge protests on Saturdays. Thanks to all for the amazing turnout ! Let’s keep them growing !
Please do not park near the deli or any other business. For example, find parking on Brattle Street and areas east of the overpass on Western Ave.
Contact: indibrattleboro@gmail.com
Website: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/775493
Click here for more detailed information
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| Friday, 6/6/2025, at 4:30 pmOrganizer: Vera Riley The Commons, Park Place, Brattleboro
On every Friday at 4:30 pm for a half hour, there will be people to protest the illegal actions of the Trump administration at the Commons in Brattleboro (which is on Park Place) from Route 30 to Putney Road.
If this time/place is inconvenient for you, consider starting your own protest area/time which works for you!
Contact: vera2847@gmail.com |
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| Indivisible Brattleboro monthly meetingSaturday, 6/7/2025, at 10 am Organizer: Indivisible Brattleboro Location will be shared with membersContact us to sign up for the newsletter Brattleboro Indivisible is having its next group meeting on Saturday, June 7. We’re a local chapter of the national organization – fighting for democracy, combating fascism, and fighting back in defense of our rights, our communities, and our values. We work through five action groups, enabling members to lead and contribute to activities that most interest and energize them. Our action groups focus on: Organizing direct actions such as marches, protests, sit-ins, and strategic boycotts Supporting and partnering with already existing local rapid response teams in response to ICE targeting members of our community Grassroots power-building, voter engagement, local coalition-building, and policy influence Raising awareness within our communities and pushing back against disinformation Building mutual aid networks and support structures
Our monthly meeting is an opportunity for members to connect, share updates, and take action.
Contact: indibrattleboro@gmail.com
Website: https://indivisible.org/groups?terms=05301
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| Gaza Protest Saturday, 6/7/2025, at 12 noon Organizer: Bert Picard and Nancy Braus Location: in front of Brattleboro post office This has happened every Saturday since November 2023 – and will continue as long as people are being killed.
Contact: nancy: vermontactivist@proton.me |
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| | Resistance Power HourSaturdays, 6/14/2025, at 10 am Organizer: Jennifer JacobsBrooks Memorial Library (Meeting Room B) Semi-weekly meet-up to focus your energy and efforts with other Resistors. We gather to exchange resources and ideas, share what we intend to do for the hour, work on our own, then gather to share what we did. This is a choose-your-own-adventure work time for collective action. Meet others, do some resistance work, then go on with your day. Bring laptop, smartphone, paper and pen.
Get on our email list: https://forms.gle/UrRW6V5V8evjiXNq8
Contact: jenniferjacobs14@gmail.com
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| Saturday Vigils for Sanity and CompassionSaturday, 6/14/2025, at 12 noon Organizer: Janet Langdon Location: On the Green, Putney, VT
Bi-weekly Vigil – bring signs. The plan is to hold this vigil on the second and fourth Saturdays, in addition to the Thursday vigils.
Contact: jliesl@myfairpoint.net |
| | Let Freedom Fly!Saturday, 6/14/2025, at 3 pm Organizers: Brattleboro Area Action and Indivisible Brattleboro Location: Centre Congregational Church 193 Main Let Freedom Fly! in downtown Brattleboro on Flag Day! On Saturday, June 14, we’re taking to the streets again nationwide, standing together in love and unity. |
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| Come out and make some noise with us in Brattleboro! We’ll gather at Centre Congregational Church at 3 p.m., parade with The Peoples Resistance Marching Band and the Good Trouble Street Choir and end up on the Common.
Food trucks, community organizations and strolling entertainment! Co-hosted by Brattleboro Area Action and Indivisible Brattleboro, this partnership is bound by a shared commitment to nonviolence, inclusion, and democratic participation.
Full details can be seen in the original submission here.
Website: on www.mobilize.us
Contact: brattleboroareaaction@proton.me |
| | Rural LGBTQ+ Liberation MarchSunday, 6/15/2025, at 12 pm Organizer: Out in the Open Location: Starts at High-Grove Parking Lot in Brattleboro, VT
A political promenade!
Queering Pride through rural revelry & revolution! Join with other rural LGBTQ+ people and our families and friends to defend, |
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| celebrate, & honor our beautiful community’s history, present, & future! LGBTQ+ people have always been and will always be in rural places, let’s get together and to show up for and to show off our incredible community!
Start at High-Grove Parking Lot in front of the Concrete Quilt in downtown Brattleboro. Our snaking route will visit a number of additional local LGBTQ+ community landmarks.
Bring things like signs, puppets, instruments, costumes, bubbles, your fabulous LGBTQ+ self, your friends & family, funky socks , ribbons, signs, & your voice! People of all ages are welcome.
Contact: Diana diana@weareoutintheopen.org and Jake Jake@WeAreOutintheOpen.org
Website: https://www.weareoutintheopen.org/our-programs
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| Juneteenth CelebrationThursday, 6/19/2025 (Juneteenth) 5 pmLocation: Brattleboro CommonThe event will be an outdoor family-friendly event with entertainment, the history of Juneteenth, and an overview of the community work of the NAACP.
Special Feature: Live music including jazz, blues, and gospel. Families are encouraged to bring picnic meals, and food trucks including soul food will be available.
We’re looking for volunteers and donors to help sponsor the event. Please reach out to me.
Contact: Wichie Artu at president@windhamnaacp.org
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| Vermont Canada DayTuesday, 7/1/2025 (Canada Day)Location: State-wideHow about if (just for one day) Vermont became the 11th Canadian province?
Let’s show our friendship and support for our neighbors to the north and celebrate their independence with them by declaring Vermont (just for one day) to be a province of Canada. Let’s welcome everyone arriving in Vermont that day with signs and flags welcoming them to Canada.
Organizer: Franz Reichsman
To get involved contact: vermontcando@yahoo.com |
| | | | Edible Brattleboro Spring KickoffSunday, 6/1/2025, at 5 pm Organizer: Edible Brattleboro Location: 805 Western Avenue, Brattleboro, VT
We have lots in store for our first annual SPRING KICKOFF including
PLANT AND SEED SWAP / GIVEAWAY. If you have any extra seeds or plants please bring them to swap. If not, no no worries. It’s also a giveaway! |
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| SHARE THE HARVEST PREVIEW – We will set up a Share the Harvest Stand to distribute veggies from the VT FoodBank, and from local farmers. Bring a bag and go home with some free fresh veggies!
SOUP-ER BOWL SUNDAY PREVIEW – In celebration of our winter initiative, we will be serving two yummy soup favorites from this program, which is on hold for now, and will re-start in the fall.
LEARN ABOUT OUR FREE SERVICES – Edible Brattleboro offers a variety of free programs related to food: growing, cooking, preserving and eating!
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES – Join a growing number of neighbors helping neighbors by volunteering some time with us. There are many possibilities, and we’re open to suggestions from YOU to help grow our organization!
GARDEN TOURS – Enjoy a guided walk through the Food Forest to see what we’re growing, and come back to harvest when crops are ready.
Contact: ediblebrattleboro@gmail.com
Website: https://ediblebrattleboro.org/
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| Can It Happen Here?Thursday, 6/5/2025, at 7 pm Organizer: We Celebrate Democracy-Civil Rights for All Location: Marlboro Community Center, 524 South Rd. Marlboro Tim Kipp will present a step by step analysis illustrating how the federal government has forcibly transformed the United States from a democracy into an oligarchy. His explanation reveals both the economic logic driving the transition and the political strategy used to effect it. Discussion will follow. Tim taught history and political science at BUHS for 39 years and has been a political activist since the 1960s. As Tim writes, “in fact, we are in a coup d’etat, and in an oligarchy.” Come to hear how and why.
Contact: nickliv4@gmail.com
Website: We Celebrate Democracy | Civil Rights for All and Article in The Commons
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| | Families United Movement Building Sunday, 6/8/2025, at 6:30 pm Organizer: The Root Social Justice Center Location: Virtual |
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Families United hosts a monthly virtual session to help change the DCF foster care system. Many who are familiar, know that the DCF system is broken. If you want to be a part of making the system better for children, youth and families, come join us.
Meets virtually Sunday June 8th 6:30 pm – 8 pm (and every 2nd Sunday of every month)
To register email familiesunited@therootsjc.org or call (802) 451-0468
Website: https://www.therootsjc.org/
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| Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Systems Panel (RDAP) MeetingTuesday, 6/10/2025, at 6 pm Organizer: Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Systems Panel (RDAP) Location: Virtual |
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| Join the Conversation: Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Systems Panel (RDAP)
The Racial Disparities in the Criminal and Juvenile Systems Panel (RDAP) is an open public meeting where everyone is welcome to join the conversation. This panel works to address and eliminate racial disparities within Vermont’s juvenile/DCF and criminal justice systems.
Shela Linton, Executive Director of The Root Social Justice Center, has served on this panel since its inception in 2017. Appointed by the Attorney General, Shela represents Black and BIPOC community voices, ensuring that the most impacted perspectives are central to the discussion.
Community participation is encouraged—whether you’d like to speak, share insights, or simply listen. If you’d like to be added to the agenda, email the panel chair.
If you can’t join the on-line meeting live, it will be recorded by Orca Media TV, and notes will be available for review.
Zoom Meeting Details:
https://tinyurl.com/RDAPzoom
Meeting ID: 893 6160 2448
Passcode: 719234
Contact: If you’d like to be added to the agenda, email the panel chair, Etan, at sarnnidde@gmail.com
Website: https://www.therootsjc.org/ |
| Ready Response Team MeetingWednesday, 6/11/2025, at 5:30 pmOrganizer: The Root Social Justice Center Location: The Root: 28 Williams Street, Brattleboro, VT |
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| Join the Ready Response Team! A collaborative initiative of The Root Social Justice Center & Lost River Racial Justice, working together for community safety, support, and solidarity.
Masking: Masks on at 6 pm when the meeting agenda beings.
In-Person: The Root, 28 Williams Street, Brattleboro, VT 05301
Virtual Option: https://tinyurl.com/RootRRT
Potluck Style – Bring a dish to share!
The Ready Response Team (RRT) is a volunteer-led group dedicated to supporting BIPOC, QTBIPOC, LGBTQIA+, asylum seeker, refugee and immigrant individuals and families facing identity-based harm or harassment. We’re building a safer, more connected community, and we need you to join us!
About Lost River Racial Justice:
Based in Brattleboro, VT, Lost River Racial Justice is committed to rural multiracial organizing to dismantle white supremacy and transfer power and resources to POC communities. As an all-white organizing group affiliated with Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), we focus on education, action, and accountability to support and uplift POC-led organizations, voices, and experiences. Learn more at lostriverracialjustice.org!
For more info: (802) 451-0499 or Contact HIP@therootsjc.org
Website: https://www.therootsjc.org/ |
| | BIPOC Legal Aid ClinicThursday, 6/26/2025, at 2:30 pmOrganizer: The Root Social Justice Center Location: The Root: 28 Williams Street, Brattleboro VT |
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| The Root Social Justice Center, in collaboration with Vermont Legal Aid, is proud to continue to host the BIPOC Legal Aid Clinic, a space offering free BIPOC-centered legal support open to all identities.
These will be he held every last Thursday of the month
Support offered:
✔️ Guidance on tenant rights and eviction support for tenants
✔️ Help addressing unsafe or substandard housing conditions
✔️ Support with clearing criminal records & navigating legal forms
These clinics are here to break down systemic barriers, promote equity, and empower our community with tools for justice, housing stability, and self-determination.
👉🏽 Note: While this clinic centers BIPOC communities, all identities are welcome to access support.
Contact: For more information, call Jeannette at Vermont Legal Aid: 802-885-5181
Website: https://www.therootsjc.org/ |
| Signs availableOrganizer: Indivisible BrattleboroMany have asked for one of the “RESIST” lawn signs that were sold at the Hands Off! Rally. We are putting in an order for 100 signs and will sell them for a suggested donation of $15 a piece ($10 is materials cost, $5 donation to Brattleboro Indivisible).
If you’d like to purchase any, please sign up here so we can reserve one for you. Otherwise first come first serve!
Pre-Order “RESIST” Signs Here
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| | Some generous donations covered our costs for May so far. We’ll update this later.
WeCAN CalendarThere have been some requests to see the WeCAN actions on a calendar. Many of the requests also asked that we not use Google Calendar. We are trying an embedded calendar that you can see using this link: https://www.wecantogether.net/calendar/ You can download each event or subscribe to the calendar on that page. |
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| | Local and National Organizations |
| Resist Tyranny 05344A place to share events, actions, gatherings, happenings & information with our Marlboro VT friends & neighbors. Site covers more than local events. Here is the link. |
| Source for posters, signs and ideasJon Sachs, a Swing Blue Alliance member is pouring energy into a Trump Tragedies website that has a page devoted to free, downloadable 8.5 x 11 in. protest-themed posters. These are protest messaging that can be posted on America’s streets and easily shared by a website link could help get much more protest messaging in the public eye. Eighteen posters are now available on the site. There’s also an online suggestion box for additional posters that people think should be added.
Click here to get to the site. |
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