“I’m convinced that if the world survives these dangerous times it will be the tens of millions of small things that do it. Keep on!”― Pete Seeger |
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Rally to Protect USPS from PrivatizationSunday, 3/23/2025, at 3 p.m.Organizer: NALC Branch 37 with NALC nationally. Brattleboro Post Office- 204 Main Street The United States Postal Service is a public service that is able to be utilized by everyone in the nation. Protecting it is a completely non partisan issue. In fact, rural areas like our region stand to be impacted the most by any moves towards privatization.
If you are a union member, if you rely on the Postal Service to receive free speech information and news, if you believe in the power of the United States Constitution to guide an ever-improving nation, if you think it’s important for veterans to be given useful employment in civil service, if you use your post office as a community gathering place in your small town, or if you like being able to send a birthday card to your grandchild who lives 2,000 miles away for less than a dollar, please show up to support this unique institution.
Contact: vivlyle@gmail.com
Website: https://www.nalc.org/news/fight-like-hell |
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Tuesday Protest on the CommonsTuesday, 3/25/2025 at 10:30 a.m.Organizer: Vera Riley The Commons, Park Place, Brattleboro
Every Tuesday at 10:30 for a half hour join us 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: iamaminimarch@gmail.com |
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Vigil in PutneyThursday, 3/27/2025, 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
Contact: jliesl@myfairpoint.net |
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Join Your Neighbors ~ Use Your Voice!Friday, 3/28/2025, at 3:30 p.m. Saturday, 3/29/2025, at 10 a.m.Organizer: Chris Scypinski I-91 Bridge at Exit 2
If you believe in the Power of Free Speech and Peaceful Protest If you believe in Remaining a Democracy instead of having a King If you believe in Supporting your Fellow Community Members and ALL Americans impacted by current DC Policies NOW is the time to voice your concern. Join Us in Protest of What’s Happening! Please do not park or stand anywhere near the deli. Find parking on Brattle Street and areas east of the overpass on Western Ave.
Full text of the announcement can be found here.
Contact: cmscypinski@gmail.com |
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Friday Protest on the CommonsFriday, 3/28/2025, at 4:30 p.m. Organizer: Vera Riley The Commons, Park Place, Brattleboro
On every Friday at 4:30 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: iamaminimarch@gmail.com |
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| Sign-Making Party Sunday, 3/30/2025, at 4:00 PM Brattleboro Area Action Location: Centre Church in Memorial Hall downstairsThere’s work to be done: let’s keep going forward! Bring your ideas, your creativity, and sign-making supplies if you can contribute. And bring the family! Popcorn for all plus songs and more.
Join us to make signs (and maybe banners) for upcoming rallies, marches and actions TBD. For one, a nationwide Mass Mobilization is being held on April 5th. |
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There will be a rally in Bratt that day in addition to others in Vermont and beyond. (See Indivisible Brattleboro’s listing.) And there will be plenty more marches to come–having signs ready-to-go helps get people out.
We’ll also have postcards to write thank yous to Vermont legislators and other postcards if you’d like to give some governmental fool a piece of your mind. No need to RSVP but please let us know what supplies you can contribute to the afternoon’s efforts.
Let’s gather to talk with each other and soak up the encouragement and strength that connection brings. We all need it. Contact: BrattleboroAreaAction@proton.me
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Local Information Sessions |
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Lost River Gear Up MeetingSunday, 3/23/2025, at 1 PM Lost River Racial Justice Location: The Root in Brattleboroor on line via zoom |
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If you would like to join the “Gear Up” circle, we are still inviting new folks to work on this important initiative. Whether you would like to join for the first time or have been before, please email us so we can contact you separately about our next meeting.
We call us together to continue to work alongside one another with patience, persistence, and strength. We must be in it for the long run — replacing oppressive systems with collaborative, relationship-building, mutually-supportive initiatives to build what we want to see and exist in.
Click here to see the full announcement.
Join Zoom Meeting using this link., Meeting ID: 846 1452 5296, Passcode: 628212
Contact: lostriverrj@gmail.com
Website: https://lostriverracialjustice.org/
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Future Actions and Activity |
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| Hands Off! Saturday, 4/5/2025, at 12 noon Brattleboro Indivisible Location: Downtown BrattleboroNationwide Mass Mobilization Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. Brattleboro is fighting back!
They’re taking everything they can get their hands on— |
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our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to stop them. This is a crisis, and the time to act is now. On Saturday, April 5th, we’re taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off!
This mass mobilization day is our message to the world that we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies. Alongside Americans across the country, we are marching, rallying, and protesting to demand a stop the chaos and build an opposition movement against the looting of our country.
A core principle behind all Hands Off! events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values.
Contact: Indibrattleboro@gmail.com
Website: https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/765117/ |
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HANDS OFF!Saturday, 4/5/2025, at 12 noon50501 Vermont, Vermont Indivisible Groups and Indivisible New England Location: Montpelier in front of the Statehouse
WE THE PEOPLE reject the Trump-Musk Coup. Join us in our peaceful dissent. This is a nationwide mobilization to stop the most brazen power grab in modern history. Trump, Musk, and their billionaire cronies are orchestrating an all-out assault on our government, our economy, and our basic rights—enabled by Congress every step of the way.
They want to strip America for parts—shuttering Social Security offices, firing essential workers, eliminating consumer protections, and gutting Medicaid—all to bankroll their billionaire tax scam. They’re handing over our tax dollars, our public services, and our democracy to the ultra-rich.
If we don’t fight now, there won’t be anything left to save.
Contact: info@50501vt.com
Website: https://50501vermont.com/
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Brattleboro Indivisible Group MeetingOrganizer: indivisible.org |
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Saturday, 4/5/2025 (But not in conflict with the Hands Off action)
Brattleboro Indivisible is having its next group meeting on Saturday April 5th. Time and location provided to group members. Please reach out to us at indibrattleboro@gmail.com to sign up as a member with us!
Indivisible Brattleboro launched in Jan 2025! We started as a small but mighty group and are slowly building out the infrastructure and culture. Our focus is on creating actionable impact during two-hour in-person monthly meetings. We share the responsibility of leadership, research and execution among all members. Welcome to anyone with a progressive mindset and a willingness to collaborate!
Contact: indibrattleboro@gmail.com
Website: https://indivisible.org/groups?terms=05301 |
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Earth Day EventTuesday, 4/22/2025, 5:30 to 6:15 p.m.Harmony Lot, Harmony Place, Brattleboro
Do you want an easy way to help our planet this Earth Day? Bring your Earth Day spirit on April 22nd at 5:30 to downtown Brattleboro! We will be sharing how the community-based Adopt-a-drain program can help keep our water clean.
This project is a community-wide effort in the Brattleboro area to connect volunteers to our storm drain systems. These drains provide a means for water to travel across the land and into our rivers and/or lakes. We want YOU to adopt a catch basin, culvert, or pipe outlet to monitor and remove debris before heavy weather events!
Please RSVP by filling out this form or emailing sullivan.wcnrcd@gmail.com.
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Support Groups and Similar |
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| Action Support GroupWeekly at 6 p.m.Organizer: Inclusion Center, online At our weekly Action Support Group we meet to discuss individual non-violent actions we took during the past week, and to receive technical or emotional support related to those actions. We prioritize the discussion around questions and issues that arose from our actions. |
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Palestine Film SeriesSunday, 3/23/2025, at 4 p.m.Southern Vermont for Palestine & Latchis Arts Latchis Theatre, Brattleboro |
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The Oscar-winning documentary ‘No Other Land’ will be presented as the first in a four-part series. Other acclaimed films will be screened on March 30, April 6 and April 13. A facilitated discussion will follow each screening. Admission by donation.
Contact: Shana Frank, shanaf@sover.net
Website: svt4palestinefilmseries.org |
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Is there a better publication day?We have been publishing about a month now. We normally publish Saturday evening. We would like your opinion about the best time to publish. Please let us know here. |
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Local and National Organizations |
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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. |
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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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