“Without due process and the right to free speech, this is not the America we thought we lived in.” – Rep. Becca Balint |
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| 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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Medicaid Monday Speak-outMonday, 6/16/2025, at 5 pm Organizer: Vermont Workers’ Center / Nonviolent Medicaid Army Location: Brattleboro Main Post Office, 204 Main St. |
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Are you unable to get the healthcare you need? Do you or your family use Green Mountain Care or Dr. Dynasaur? Do you rely on Medicaid to live independently? Are you concerned about cuts to Medicaid, rising health insurance costs, and medical debt?
Join the Nonviolent Medicaid Army / Vermont Workers’ Center for a speak-out about the crisis in our healthcare system and the current assault on Medicaid, and to come together with others who are organizing for a healthcare system that puts people before profits.
Website: https://www.ibrattleboro.com/living/activism/2025/06/medicaid-monday-speak-out/
Contact: windham@workerscenter.org |
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Tuesday Protest on the CommonsTuesdays, 6/17/2025, 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, 6/19/2025, 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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| 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. |
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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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I-91 Friday Overpass ProtestsFridays, 6/20/2025, 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, 6/20/2025, 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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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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Saturday, 6/21/2025, 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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Future Actions and Activity |
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Saturday Vigils for Sanity and CompassionSaturday, 6/28/2025, 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 |
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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 |
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Save the USA CroquetSaturday, 7/4 & 7/5, at 10 am Organizer: Southern Vermont Sister District Location: Putney Vermont |
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| 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/ |
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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 CalendarWe 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. However, it is not seeing much use and we may discontinue it as it is a fair amount of work to maintain. |
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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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