Indivisible Mass Coalition's Racial Justice and Equity Team works with Indivisibles and allies at the intersection of advocacy, education, community organizing, and political activism to support anti-racist policies & legislation and support organizing from a racial justice framework at the group level. Sign up to join the Team's meetings HERE.

From Greater Andover Indivisible:

The media landscape has changed dramatically since the presidential election, and there are more news sources than ever, but mis-information is rampant.

Where can you find the truth?

Join us for this in-person discussion to learn:

• Where to look for the most reliable news

• How to differentiate between news and noise

• How you can take an active role in disrupting the flow of mis-information

Led by a panel of experts:

• Tom Melville, former executive news director at WBUR

• Mary Robb, social studies teacher at Andover High School;

• Joshua Dyck, Director of UMass Lowell's Center for Public Opinion

• Dan Kennedy, Professor of Journalism at Northeastern University.

Topics include:

• How the media landscape has changed since Trump took office

• Whether the rise of independent media has helped or hurt voters’ search for the truth, and

• What additional changes in the media landscape voters expect before the next election cycle

There will be time for Q&A. Bring your questions! We'd like to hear from you!

Registration required. Location will be disclosed after RSVP is confirmed.

IMC's Feminist Action Team provides an intersectional feminist space to discuss fighting for a democracy that values and ensures equal rights for women. Sign up to join one or more of the meetings HERE. 

From Our Community Indivisible:

We are hosting an important session about Marshal and De-escalation training at protests and rallies. 

The training on Thursday, June 5, from 6-9 pm, will be led by Rebecca Riccio, who is the Khaled and Olfat Juffali Director of The Social Impact Lab at Northeastern University. 

Riccio will teach attendees how to marshal at protests and how to de-escalate situations with counter protesters or other agitators. This training will help all be better prepared at rallies and protests. 

Registration link.

Seating is limited and available on a first-come first-served basis. Sign up soon!

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back.

The antidote: Coming together in community to process what’s happening, to sift through what’s important and what’s just noise, and coalesce around strategies for fighting back.

Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin each week, as we carve out an hour to discuss what’s happening and – more importantly – what’s the plan.

Registration link.

Unions stand on the front lines of against tyranny. Join the North Shore Labor Council and the University of Massachusetts Lowell Labor Education Program to hear from labor leaders on how they’re fighting against mass layoffs. Learn how unions are resisting Trump’s mass deportation scheme, and discover new ways to get involved in your community.

Open to the public. Lunch and breakfast provided. Childcare and Spanish interpretation available upon request.

Pre-register online or onsite.

IMC's Feminist Action Team provides an intersectional feminist space to discuss fighting for a democracy that values and ensures equal rights for women. Sign up to join one or more of the meetings HERE. 

Join ACLU Managing Attorney Adriana Lafaille for a virtual one-hour webinar about Trump v. Casa, a case heard by the Supreme Court on May 15 that challenges Trump's Executive Order on birthright citizenship. 

Registration link

Indivisible will be hosting phone banking sessions to fight the Trump tax scam every Wednesday and Thursday throughout the month of June. Volunteers will be calling people residing in Red states to educate them about what’s in the proposed budget and then they will connect them with their Senators’s offices.

Interested in volunteering but not quite ready to hop on the phone? Join us for a virtual phonebank training session designed for first-timers and seasoned activists alike—no calls required!

This hands-on workshop will walk you through everything you need to feel confident and prepared for your first (or next!) phonebank shift. We’ll cover:

• What phonebanking is and why it matters

• How our calling tools work

• Tips for effective conversations with voters

• What to expect during a live phonebank

Whether you're brand new or just need a refresher, this training is a great way to get comfortable before making your first call. Come as you are—no experience necessary.

We won’t be making calls during this session so we can take our time, walk through the process step by step, and answer all your questions along the way!

Registration link.

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back.

The antidote: Coming together in community to process what’s happening, to sift through what’s important and what’s just noise, and coalesce around strategies for fighting back.

Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin each week, as we carve out an hour to discuss what’s happening and – more importantly – what’s the plan.

Registration link.

Join Progressive Massachusetts at the State House to lobby for key bills in their legislative agenda, especially those that raise revenue and protect our immigrant communities. Connect with fellow progressive activists and meet with your state legislators.

For tutorials on lobbying state legislators, visit the Progressive Massachusetts website.

Registration link.

Indivisible Mass Coalition's Racial Justice and Equity Team works with Indivisibles and allies at the intersection of advocacy, education, community organizing, and political activism to support anti-racist policies & legislation and support organizing from a racial justice framework at the group level. Sign up to join the Team's meetings HERE.

IMC's Feminist Action Team provides an intersectional feminist space to discuss fighting for a democracy that values and ensures equal rights for women. Sign up to join one or more of the meetings HERE. 

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back.

The antidote: Coming together in community to process what’s happening, to sift through what’s important and what’s just noise, and coalesce around strategies for fighting back.

Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin each week, as we carve out an hour to discuss what’s happening and – more importantly – what’s the plan.

Registration link.

Learn how to organize a protest on a highway overpass! We use BIG letters to spell out various messages, save at cars, get the word out to lots of folks, and get lots of supportive honks. It's easy to organize, and we'll walk you through how to do it, with time for Q&A.

Registration link.

What happens when the contours of a constitutional democracy start to change? What are the most important warning signs and red lines? How can we tell the difference, and what are the steps that can strengthen, rather than weaken, a society’s democratic trajectory when under stress? This conversation will explore recent turns toward authoritarianism and other challenges for constitutional forms of government and identify key lessons.

Featuring:

Timothy Snyder, Chair in Modern European History; Director, Public History Lab; and Professor, Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy; University of Toronto

Kim Lane Scheppele, Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Sociology and International Affairs and the University Center for Human Values, Princeton University

Registration link.

NSI will be presenting at this organizing fair for local progressive groups. Come cheer us on and network with fellow activists on the North Shore. Thank you to Progressive Massachusetts and Kyle Davis for organizing this event.

Registration link.

The Deep Canvass Institute is offering this 101 training where you will be trained in the fundamental skills of deep canvassing.

Deep canvassing was developed by organizers and volunteers in the LGBTQ+ rights movement as a way to turn the tide of a decade of losses around marriage equality. At its heart, deep canvassing and its underlying skills, are tools we use to create a more fair and caring country by talking directly with people we don’t know and who might disagree with us. When we listen to someone, share stories about our own lives, and approach the conversation with compassionate curiosity and a non-judgmental approach, it makes both of us more willing to take actions toward making our country more caring and equitable.

Please note that this is a three-session training. You must be signed up for and complete all three sessions - Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday in order to receive your certificate of completion.

Registration link.

The 2024 election highlighted the shifting partisan allegiance of working-class voters. What impact does the labor movement have on members’ political decision making? Join us for a presentation of a new survey of union members and a discussion of the relationship between trade unions and the political parties.

Speakers include: 

• Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

• Max Kiefel, Fellow, Center for a Just Labor and Economy, Harvard Law School

• Mike Podhorzer, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

• Alan Yan, PhD Candidate in Political Science, UC Berkeley

• Sharon Block (Moderator), Executive Director, Center for Labor and a Just Economy; Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School 

Respondents include:

• Kim Anderson, Executive Director, National Education Association

• Stephanie Ternullo, Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School.

For more information, see the Ash Center website.

Zoom registration link.

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back.

The antidote: Coming together in community to process what’s happening, to sift through what’s important and what’s just noise, and coalesce around strategies for fighting back.

Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin each week, as we carve out an hour to discuss what’s happening and – more importantly – what’s the plan.

Registration link.

The Deep Canvass Institute is offering this 101 training where you will be trained in the fundamental skills of deep canvassing.

Deep canvassing was developed by organizers and volunteers in the LGBTQ+ rights movement as a way to turn the tide of a decade of losses around marriage equality. At its heart, deep canvassing and its underlying skills, are tools we use to create a more fair and caring country by talking directly with people we don’t know and who might disagree with us. When we listen to someone, share stories about our own lives, and approach the conversation with compassionate curiosity and a non-judgmental approach, it makes both of us more willing to take actions toward making our country more caring and equitable.

Please note that this is a three-session training. You must be signed up for and complete all three sessions - Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday in order to receive your certificate of completion.

Registration link.

The Deep Canvass Institute is offering this 101 training where you will be trained in the fundamental skills of deep canvassing.

Deep canvassing was developed by organizers and volunteers in the LGBTQ+ rights movement as a way to turn the tide of a decade of losses around marriage equality. At its heart, deep canvassing and its underlying skills, are tools we use to create a more fair and caring country by talking directly with people we don’t know and who might disagree with us. When we listen to someone, share stories about our own lives, and approach the conversation with compassionate curiosity and a non-judgmental approach, it makes both of us more willing to take actions toward making our country more caring and equitable.

Please note that this is a three-session training. You must be signed up for and complete all three sessions - Tuesday, Wednesday, and Saturday in order to receive your certificate of completion.

Registration link.

The Roberts Court has increasingly relied on history to resolve some of the most important constitutional questions of our time. Embracing a form of interpretation called “originalism,” the Court’s conservative majority argues that the original public understanding of the Constitution is what really counts. But discerning the goals and assumptions of those who ratified the Constitution requires an understanding of the document they were replacing: the Articles of Confederation.

Today, the Articles are ignored as a false start. That’s a mistake. The Constitution was an explicit attempt to form a union “more perfect” than that of the Articles of Confederation, and they provide vital context to the framers’ choices.

Join us on Monday, May 12, at 11 a.m. ET as historians, journalists, law professors, and political scientists explore how the nation’s first experiment in self-governance paved the way for the Constitution we have today. Participants will examine the legacy of the Articles of Confederation, the founding debates over federal power, and the lasting influence of these debates on modern-day constitutional interpretation.

Zoom registration link.

Join Swing Blue Alliance for their monthly Frontline Update to learn how you can act on one of their five strategies for 2025 and stay afterward for Q&A, breakout sessions, and discussions:

• Win elections in 2025

• Strengthen grassroots networks

• Rebuild the Democratic Party

• Counter Rightwing media

• Block the Trump agenda

Sign up to get the Zoom link HERE.

Volunteer Blue and its 40-plus partner organizations are (re)inviting you to join us on Friday, May 9th, for this special virtual event.

We will focus on strategies and pragmatic actions we can take to stop the destruction of our democracy with our special guests speakers:

• Historian and political writer Heather Cox Richardson

• Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell

• U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin

Together, we will answer the question: What CAN and MUST we all do to win this fight.

Registration Link.

This event is co-sponsored by:
Activate America, All in for NC, Blue Future, Call4Change, Commit to Democracy, Concord Indivisible, Demcast, Field Team 6, Force Multiplier, Grassroots Democrats HQ, MA Flip PA, MurMur, New Yorkers for Democracy, Swing Left Maricopa County, They See Blue, Third Act, The Union

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back.

The antidote: Coming together in community to process what’s happening, to sift through what’s important and what’s just noise, and coalesce around strategies for fighting back.

Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin each week, as we carve out an hour to discuss what’s happening and – more importantly – what’s the plan.

Registration link.

With Congress back from recess, we're expecting that any day now Congressional Republicans will be announcing the details of their plans to cut critical safety net programs.

We know that it's critical for MA to protect our essential services regardless of what happens in DC. So that's why we're hosting a forum next week on the attacks on Medicaid and what we can do here in MA.

Former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Don Berwick will lay out what's at stake, and we'll talk about what YOU can do.

Co-sponsored by Mass-Care

Registration link.

Learn how to organize a protest on a highway overpass! We use BIG letters to spell out various messages, save at cars, get the word out to lots of folks, and get lots of supportive honks. It's easy to organize, and we'll walk you through how to do it, with time for Q&A.

Registration link.

The 2024 election highlighted the shifting partisan allegiance of working-class voters. What impact does the labor movement have on members’ political decision making? Join us for a presentation of a new survey of union members and a discussion of the relationship between trade unions and the political parties.

Speakers include: 

• Alex Hertel-Fernandez, Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

• Max Kiefel, Fellow, Center for a Just Labor and Economy, Harvard Law School

• Mike Podhorzer, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress

• Alan Yan, PhD Candidate in Political Science, UC Berkeley

• Sharon Block (Moderator), Executive Director, Center for Labor and a Just Economy; Professor of Practice, Harvard Law School 

Respondents include:

• Kim Anderson, Executive Director, National Education Association

• Stephanie Ternullo, Assistant Professor of Government, Harvard University

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School.

For more information, see the Ash Center website.

Zoom registration link.