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| “Loyalty to the country always, loyalty to the government when it deserves it.” – Mark Twain. |
| | | Tuesday Protest on the CommonsTuesdays, 6/10/2025, 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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| Sign making for the No Kings / Flag Day rallyWednesday, 6/11/2025, at 3 – 5 pm Organizer: Indivisible Brattleboro and Cerina Hebbard Location: Center Congregational Church
Come one and ALL – make signs to tell everyone there are NO KINGS in America. Bring your own supplies, and we’ll have plenty for those who who need some.
Things you can bring:
poster board, cardboard, fabric, water-based paints, paintbrushes, markers, art smock, etc
Contact: cerinaheartwell@yahoo.com
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| Thursday, 6/12/2025, 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, 6/13/2025, 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, 6/13/2025, 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 |
| Saturday, 6/14/2025, 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 |
| 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 |
| | Pride Whistle Stop EventSaturday, 6/14/0025, at Noon Organizer: Windham County Prevention Partnership, AIDS Projet Location: Brattleboro Amtrak Station This exciting event is part of the broader Whistlestop Movement, a national initiative |
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| inspired by the historic Whistle Stop Tours, reimagined to celebrate LGBTQ+ pride, community empowerment, and the ongoing fight for equality.
Brattleboro’s Pride Whistlestop event invites everyone to stand together in solidarity and welcome the train coming through with smiling faces and waving flags, championing the message that love is universal and diversity is a strength to be celebrated. The train will be coming through Brattleboro at approximately 1:02pm, with performers and speakers beginning at 12pm. This year’s event features a festive lineup of live music, guest speakers, and raffle prizes.
Contact: liz.bapc@gmail.com
Webpage: FaceBook page |
| No KingsSaturday, 6/14, at 12 noonOrganizers: Cyndi Riggalls Miller, Susan BraceLocation: Bellows Falls Train Station |
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| In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings. NO KINGS is a national day of action and mass mobilization in response to the increasing authoritarian excesses and corruption of the Trump administration.
On Saturday we’re showing up in Bellows Falls. We’re not gathering to feed his ego. We’re building a movement that leaves him behind.
On June 14th, we’re showing up everywhere he isn’t—to say no thrones, no crowns, no kings. We’re also going to show solidarity with our LGBTQ+ community for Bellows Falls Pride!
Website: No Kings Bellows Falls
Contact: events@nokings.org |
| | 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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| | Future Actions and Activity |
| | 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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| Resistance Power HourSaturdays, 6/21/2025, 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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| Community PRIDE ServiceSaturday, 6/28/2025, at 2:00 PM Organizer: BAILA Location: All Souls Church UU at the West Village Meetinghouse
A celebration of music, readings and reflection! Sponsored by the BAILA in collaboration with Out In the Open whose mission is to connect rural LGBTQ+ people to build community, visibility, knowledge and power. They are a multiracial, majority working class, grassroots, movement and capacity building organization based in Wabanaki territory throughout the states of Vermont and Maine
Contact: office@ascvt.org
Website: Click here for service or read more at weareoutintheopen.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 |
| Save the USA CroquetSaturday, 7/4/2025, at 10am Organizer: Southern Vermont Sister District Location: Putney Vermont |
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| Southern Vermont Sister District offers this fun and inspiring fundraiser over the 4th of July weekend. It’s patriotic. Bring family and friends to play on our whimsical croquet course in Putney and help raise money for a 2025 Virginia State Legislative Candidate, Joshua Cole. States Matter!
Contact: geoffburgess2@gmail.com
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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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