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“We have someone dead in their car for no reason whatsoever,” — Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz |
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“ICE Out For Good”Sunday, Jan 11, at 1 pmOrganizer: Indivisible Brattleboro and Brattleboro Area Action Location: Pliny Park
Brattleboro locals will gather again on Sunday at Pliny Park in conjunction with a wide coalition of groups calling for a nationwide weekend of action. We will protest the broader pattern of unchecked violence and abuse leading to all of |
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I-91 Sunday Overpass ProtestSunday, Jan 11, 1 pmOrganizer: Indivisible Greater FallsLocation: Westminster, Kurn Hattin Road I-91 overpass south of Exit 5
Weather and roadside conditions permitting, we gather every Sunday afternoon on the Kurn Hattin Road I-91 overpass. If you can’t stay for a full two hours, no problem. Come join us for whatever time you can, engage with others who share your feelings about this out-of-control regime, encourage others to hold them accountable, and make some new friends along the way.
We face north to engage with travelers heading south, many returning from a weekend in Vermont, as well as locals out enjoying their weekend. It’s really important to always think of safety first for our members and the drivers passing to keep us in good standing with the whole community.
For weather related updates contact samaher@vermontel.net.
Read the full text as submitted here.
Contact: indigreaterfallsvt@gmail.com Other Indivisible chapters listed below after meetings.
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| Tuesday Protest on The CommonTuesday, Jan 13, at 10:30 am Organizer: Vera Riley Location: The Common, Park Place, Brattleboro
On every Tuesday at 10:30 am for a half hour, there will be people to protest the illegal actions of the Trump administration at both the East and West ends of The Common 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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| Vigil in PutneyThursday, Jan 15, at 12 noon every Thursday Organizer: Janet LangdonThe Green, Putney
Vigil 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 Brattleboro area overpass protests cancelled until further notice.
Organizer: Indivisible Brattleboro
These include: Vernon, Tyler Hill Road overpass Brattleboro, Western Ave. Exit 2 overpass Brattleboro, Black Mountain Road overpass Putney: Exit 4 overpass
Roads are are too snowy and icy for people to safely stand with banners or signs into the foreseeable future.
Contact: indibrattleboro@gmail.com Other Indivisible chapters are shown here.
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Friday Protest on The CommonFriday, Jan 16, at 3 pmOrganizer: Vera RileyThe Common, Park Place, BrattleboroNote the time change: On every Friday at 3 pm for a half hour, there will be people to protest the illegal actions of the Trump administration at both the East and West ends of The Common 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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| Gaza ProtestSaturday, Jan 17, at 12 noon Organizer: Bert Picard and Nancy Braus Location: in front of Brattleboro post officeThis 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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I-91 Sunday Overpass ProtestSunday, Jan 18, 1 pmOrganizer: Indivisible Greater FallsLocation: Westminster, Kurn Hattin Road I-91 overpass south of Exit 5
Weather and roadside conditions permitting, we gather every Sunday afternoon on the Kurn Hattin Road I-91 overpass. If you can’t stay for a full two hours, no problem. Come join us for whatever time you can, engage with others who share your feelings about this out-of-control regime, encourage others to hold them accountable, and make some new friends along the way.
We face north to engage with travelers heading south, many returning from a weekend in Vermont, as well as locals out enjoying their weekend. It’s really important to always think of safety first for our members and the drivers passing to keep us in good standing with the whole community.
For weather related updates contact samaher@vermontel.net.
Read the full text as submitted here.
Contact: indigreaterfallsvt@gmail.com Other Indivisible chapters listed below after meetings.
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Since it appears that feeding the hungry is now an act of political resistance, WeCAN has rounded up information on food resources in the Brattleboro area. Most of these sites could use your support. Also see the Saturday SNAP note below. |
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| | | | Citizens Bank: STOP Financing ICE PrisonsSaturday, Jan 24, at 11 am Organizer: Indivisible Brattleboro Location: Putney Road near the Citizens Bank
Citizens Bank says it’s committed to strengthening communities. But as nine other prominent Wall Street banks have ceased financing private |
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| prisons, like CoreCivic and the Geo Group, Citizens Bank has deepened their funding relationship.
Stand up with groups at dozens of Citizen Bank branches across the region to send them a clear message: financing The GEO Group and CoreCivic is bad for business.
These notorious for-profit prison companies are being called on to be part of an unprecedented expansion in capacity as part of the current administration’s mass detention, deportation, and surveillance policies. They are poised to make huge profits as the system grows. Since 2019, most lenders have cut ties with these two companies due to allegations from forced labor to securities fraud. Not Citizens Bank.
We won’t quietly stand by as Citizens continues to finance the private prision and ICE detention companies that are harming our communities.
The 2019 exodus of banks from the private prision industry in respone to activism should be a reminder to us that our voices matter.
Now it’s time to use them.
A core principle behind all Indivisible Brattleboro events is a commitrment 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.boycottcitizens.org/ |
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| Nonviolent Direct Action at ICEDate TBDOrganizer: Justice For All Location: planning via Zoom
A small group of experienced activists are meeting this month to discuss organizing a nonviolent action outside the CBP or ICE offices in St Albans sometime later this winter or early spring.
We anticipate it being a large, legal action that would also include a component that may be risking arrest. We would appreciate having participation from around the state and would like to gauge interest. Please reply about your interest in participating in such an event, including potentially risking arrest. We will schedule a video meeting with interested people in January.
Contact: justice4allvt@proton.me
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| Meetings, Education, etc. This Week |
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Come sing with the Good Trouble Street Choir
Friday, Jan 16, 7 pm
Organizer: Becky Graber
Location: All Souls Church, 29 South St., West Brattleboro
Have you heard the Good Trouble Street Choir at a rally or vigil in town recently and wondered if you could join in? We invite you to drop in at the next gathering and rehearsal this coming Friday to do some singing led by Becky Graber and some guests.
Whether you want to officially join us or not, everyone is welcome and encouraged to come learn some of our core songs.
Contact: ragtime@sover.net |
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Saturdays 10 am – 2 pmLocation: On the Winston Prouty Campus, 60 Austine Dr.
Every week 3SquaresVT/SNAP shoppers can turn $20 into $60 for local food. Are you in the SNAP GAP? Come talk to us.
Contact: farmersmarket@postoilsolutions.org |
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Table at the Farmers’ MarketSaturdays 10 am – 2 pm
Organizer: Sherry MaherLocation: On the Winston Prouty Campus, 60 Austine Dr.
The market invites community organizations in for outreach in the later part of the season when there is available space. If you’d like to get on the schedule between now and the end of March, send us a few possible dates and we’ll take it from there.
As usual, vendors have priority, but the likelihood is high for room to get 1 or 2 organizations in most if not all weeks. No merchandise sales or direct fundraising are allowed, but share all the information you want!
Contact: farmersmarket@postoilsolutions.org |
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Tech, AI, and the Infrastructure of FascismSunday, Jan 11, at 1:30 pm Organizer: Southern Vermont for Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace of VT/NH Location: Register online
This workshop will introduce the growing problem of Big Tech’s entanglement with |
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| fascist/authoritarian governments, particularly in the U.S. and Israel.
We will start with a broad overview of the current events and consequences of this collusion, especially as it relates to the surveillance and persecution of activists working for Palestinian liberation. What are the ultimate goals of these techno-fascist players? What tools do they use to spy on and censor us? How does AI fit into this picture? And what precautions can we take to protect ourselves and our communities as we take action both online and in the streets?
Omar Zahzah is a writer, poet, organizer of Lebanese Palestinian descent, and Assistant Professor of Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies at San Francisco State University. Omar has covered digital repression in relation to Palestine as a freelance journalist since May 2021, with work appearing in such outlets as Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, CounterPunch, and more. Omar holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA. His latest book is Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital Settler Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle, published by Seven Stories Press Sept. 2025.
Mica is a community organizer in central VT concerned about digital security and privacy, surveillance capitalism, and the rise of techno-fascism in the U.S. and beyond. They teach workshops on the political and practical aspects of these issues, and volunteer with the Privacy Possums, a collective that helps individuals improve privacy and security protocols on their devices.
Contact: info@sovt4palestine.org
Register here: https://actionnetwork.org/events/tech-ai-and-the-infrastructure-of-fascism
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| | Ready Response Team MeetingWednesday, Jan 14, at 5:30 pm Organizer: The Root Social Justice Center and Lost River Racial Justice Location: The Root Social Justice Center 28 Williams Street in Brattleboro |
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| Join us for our next Ready Response Team (RRT) pot luck and meeting, either in person or virtually at this link: tinyurl.com/RootRRT . Masks on at 6 pm when the meeting agenda begins. For the potluck, bring a dish to share!
The Ready Response Team (RRT) is a multiracial collaborative initiative of The Root Social Justice Center and Lost River Racial Justice dedicated to supporting BIPOC, Immigrant, QTBIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ individuals and families facing identity-based harm or harassment. We are actively working to address important needs in our community. While we are not able to publicly share all the details of our organizing, we want you to know that meetings are happening, planning is underway, and meaningful work is being done. To ensure the safety of those we serve, much of this work must remain confidential and protected.
For more detailed information about current initiatives and organizing call (802) 416-1563 or email HIP@therootsjc.org
Learn more about Lost River Racial Justice at lostriverracialjustice.org
Website: https://www.therootsjc.org/calendar#calendar-35bcdf5e-f730-4d23-b1f2-909b20c24a6e-event-8603a451-65af-5e54-b550-b7bf99b8e874 |
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| NAACP Freedom Fund BrunchSaturday, Jan 17, at 10:30 am Organizer: Windham County NAACP Location: North Barn of the Retreat Farm, Brattleboro
The NAACP will host a Freedom Fund Brunch to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.’s weekend and honor local social justice heroes.
Tickets are $25 to $75 and can be purchased here.
Contact: Ann Schroeder, schroeder.ann@comcast.net Website: https://windhamnaacp.org |
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| | MLK Annual Speak Out Saturday, Jan 17, at 2 pm Organizer: Brattleboro Solidarity Location: Brooks Memorial Library
Join Brattleboro Solidarity for our annual Martin Luther King Day Speak Out for Hope and Courage at Brooks Memorial Library.
Bring your poems and short readings to share and speak out for hope and courage. There will be musical performances, sing alongs, poetry, |
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| and short historical quotes and readings shared. We will have extras if you forget yours! In these dark winter days, it’s important for us to continue looking forward and come together to create better days for all humans.
Contact: rlpolk@gmail.com |
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| | | | | Wear your IB hatOrganizer: Indivisible BrattleboroIndivisible Brattleboro now has hats available for $25. Cash and VENMO accepted. Send an e-mail to indibrattleboro@gmail.com |
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| Signs availableOrganizer: Indivisible Brattleboro |
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| | Another 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. |
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| | | Some generous donations have covered our costs. At the start of December, thanks to donations, we were ahead by $140.43. During the month we had expenses of $36.99 leaving us with $103.44 to apply to coming months. Thank you all.
WeCAN Calendar is goneWe tried a calendar you could view and/or embed. However, since it did not see much use we have discontinued it. If someone feels strongly about it and wants to volunteer to maintain it, please contact WeCAN. |
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Indivisible BrattleboroBrattleboro Indivisible is 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.
Contact: indibrattleboro@gmail.com
Website: https://groups.indivisible.org/?keywords=05301
Indivisible Greater Falls
A local Indivisible group for pro-democracy activists in Rockingham, Westminster, Athens and nearby towns. We are working in the areas of migrant support/rapid response, elections, education & outreach, and protests/visibility.
We welcome anyone who wants to help build a strong local presence in a national strategic movement to build a real democracy that upholds progressive values of inclusion, respect and fairness. Our group collaborates with other Indivisible and allied groups in Vermont to extend our reach and effectiveness. If you want to find hope in these difficult times, join us!
Contact: indigreaterfallsvt@gmail.com
Website: https://groups.indivisible.org/?keywords=05101
Indivisible All-In For Action, Putney, Vt.
For folks in Vermont who live in rural areas or places where there are no active Indivisible groups and/or cannot attend in-person meetings. Virtual meeting once/month, with weekly emails/calls to action.
Contact: allinforactionVT@gmail.com Website: https://groups.indivisible.org/?keywords=05346
Deerfield Valley IndivisibleWe are a group of concerned citizens and community members of the Deerfield Valley in southern Vermont. We are committed to giving voice to those who are marginalized, at risk, worried, etc… and to provide peaceful avenues for expressing our concerns and making change in our community, state and country.
Contact: DVVT.indivisible@gmail.com Website: https://groups.indivisible.org/?keywords=05342
Supporters of Democracy, Grafton, Vt.
Supporters of Democracy is an Indivisiible linked group that will work to protect the elections, work against the implementation of Project 2025, and support Democratic candidates for office.
Contact: supdems2025@gmail.com Website: https://groups.indivisible.org/?keywords=05141
Lean Left VermontJoin Lean left in the fight for free and fair elections! We do phone banks and other important work. If you have never done phone banking or don’t even like the idea, we invite you to come, watch, and listen as volunteers make calls. We guarantee you’ll be surprised.
Website: www.leanleftvt.org Contact: leanleftcvt@gmail.com |
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