“Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free…” – Utah Phillips |
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| Edible Brattleboro
Spring KickoffSunday, 5/4/2025, at 5-7 pm Organizer: Edible Brattleboro Location: 805 Western Avenue, Brattleboro Celebrate Spring with Edible Brattleboro, a local nonprofit committed to improving food security. |
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Tuesday, 5/6/2025, at 10:30 amOrganizer: 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: vera2847@gmail.com |
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Homelessness Action Day Vigil Tuesday, 5/6/2025, at 4 pmOrganizer: Community Homelessness Strategy Team Location: Pliny Park, corner of High and MainJoin us in community as we honor the lives affected by homelessness, stand together for change, and celebrate compassion and connection. The event will include a ceremony of remembrance of those who have died unhoused; a call to action; poetry; singing and shared reflections; refreshments and flowers to nourish body and spirit.
This vigil will bring together homeless and formerly homeless Vermonters, service providers, homelessness & housing advocates, faith communities, and other concerned citizens from Windham County. This is one of many events taking place across Vermont on Homelessness Awareness/Action Day.
Click here for more information |
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| The Unfinished Revolution:
The Deep Work of Non-ViolenceWednesday, 5/7/2025, at 6:30 pmLocation: Brooks Memorial Library |
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Thursday, 5/8/2025, 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 ProtestsFriday, 5/9/2025, times and places varyOrganizer: Indivisible Brattleboro 3:30 to 4:30 I-91 Tyler Hill Road I-91 Bridge3:30 to 4:30 I-91 Bridge at Exit 23:30 to 5:00 Black Mountain Rd. I-91 bridge overpass3:30 to 4:30 I-91 bridge overpass near Santa’s Land in Putney5:00 to 6:00 I-91 bridge overpass Putney exit 4 (Do not arrive earlier)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 !
NOW is the time to voice your concern. Join Us in Protest of What’s Happening! 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 (but it may be out of date): https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/775493
Click here for more detailed information
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Friday, 5/9/2025, 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, 5/10/2025, at 10 am Organizer: Jennifer JacobsBrooks Memorial Library (Meeting Room B) 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.
Get on our email list: https://forms.gle/UrRW6V5V8evjiXNq8
Contact: jenniferjacobs14@gmail.com
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| Hands Off Our Mother Saturday, 5/10/2025, at 11 am Indivisible Brattleboro and Brattleboro Area Action Location: The Common in Brattleboro
Hands Off Our Mother: Community-building organizations to bring together
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neighbors in honor of Mother Earth. Residents to gather again, with BYO picnic and food trucks.
As area engagement grows around the devastation imposed on Americans and the environment by the current administration, Brattleboro area locals will picnic together on May 10, the day before Mothers Day, with time to compare notes and enjoy live music. The most recent rallies, which attracted from 500 to 1500, demonstrated the continuing need for people to connect and talk about steps forward. Indivisible Brattleboro and Brattleboro Area Action are co-hosting this event.
Click here for more information.
Contact: Indibrattleboro@gmail.com |
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Gaza Protest Saturday, 5/10/2025, 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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Saturday Vigils for Sanity and CompassionSaturday, 5/10/2025, 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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Future Actions and Activity |
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Ready Response TeamWednesday, 5/14/2025, at 5:30 pmOrganizers: The Root Social Justice Center and Lost River Racial JusticeLocation: The Root Social Justice Center, 28 Williams Street, Brattleboro, VT (also virtual)
Join us for the next Ready Response Team meeting! The Ready Response Team, a collaborative initiative of The Root Social Justice Center & Lost River Racial Justice, 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!
Masking: Masks on at 6 pm (meeting agenda begins at 6 pm!). Potluck Style – Bring a dish to share!
Virtual Option: https://tinyurl.com/RootRRT
Contact: Adriana Negron: BTN@therootsjc.org or (802) 451-0499 |
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Benefit Concert with Joe JencksFriday, 5/16, at 7 pmOrganizers: All Souls ChurchLocation: West Village Meeting House, 29 South Street, West Brattleboro |
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Joe Jencks, an international touring musician and award-winning singer-songwriter, will be performing at All Souls Church on Friday, May 16, to benefit two local organizations, CASP and ECDC Vt. which help asylum seekers and refugees.
Locally, and to the point of the benefit concert, Jencks may be best known for his song “Lady of the Harbor,” a reference to the Statue of Liberty and a lament for the plight of those who have left their home countries to come the the U.S.
The concert will start at 7 p.m. Advance tickets may be purchased for $25 at ascvt.org/JoeJencks . No one will be turned away for inability to pay.
Website: ascvt.org/JoeJencks
Contact: george@carvill.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.
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 |
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Local Information Sessions |
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| Wednesday, 5/7/2025, at 6 pmLocation: online, weeklyOrganizer: Inclusion Center, online
We can ALL do something.
Together, we sort out what actions we can reasonably, realistically, and comfortably take.
At our Political Action Support Group, we also discuss individual nonviolent actions |
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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 March. We’ll update this in May.
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 |
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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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