BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Turn Purple 2 Blue - ECPv6.16.4.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Turn Purple 2 Blue REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20250309T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20251102T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20260308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20261101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20270314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20271107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260614T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260614T173000 DTSTAMP:20260609T120743Z CREATED:20260609T120737Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260609T120743Z UID:10005384-1781452800-1781458200@turnpurple2blue.org SUMMARY:YAS Queens: No Kings Standout DESCRIPTION:Indivisible and the national No Kings coalition are calling for another day of nationwide resistance action on June 14\, the one-year anniversary of the first No Kings protest and the day Trump will stage a UFC fight at the White House to celebrate his 80th birthday. June 14 is also Waltham Pride– an event that is particularly meaningful in the context of an Administration and Republican Party that remain hell-bent on making life as hard as possible for our trans community members as part of a broader campaign of oppression towards queer people and people who identify as or are perceived as women. \n\n\n\nIndivisible Waltham will have a table at Pride from noon-4pm and we invite you to stop by our table to connect\, fill out some postcards (or pick up a postcard pack to fill out later and share with friends)\, get some of our newest “I will vote” stickers\, and learn about the plans we’ve been starting to cook up for how to support voter turnout efforts heading into the fall elections. \n\n\n\nNo Kings\, Yaas Queens dance-themed standout after Waltham Pride \n\n\n\nIn consultation with our friends on the Pride organizing team\, we’re organizing a standout immediately following Pride from 4:00-5:30pm on the sidewalks of Main and Moody Street\, adjacent to but not directly on the Common\, as Pride vendors will still be breaking down and cleaning up on the Common. This will be a Pride-themed celebration as protest\, a way to be visible together in community and remind those who count on our apathy that we are not going away and not going to cede our power or our ability to exercise our rights even in the face of intimidation tactics aimed at suppressing and discouraging protest locally and nationally (those Flock cameras are not going to keep us away!)We will take up space\, we will be visible\, we will be loud\, we will dance\, and we will continue to build community and people power. We hope you join us and invite your friends too! There is a digital poster at the end of this newsletter that you can feel free to share with your contacts. \n\n\n\nHow you can help: Bring some extra Prime-themed posters to share! \n\n\n\nWe will be promoting the standout at our Pride table\, and hope that folks who attend Pride who might not otherwise know about our work decide to stay for a bit and join us in the standout. Knowing people are unlikely to bring posters to Pride with them\, it would be very helpful if those of you who will be coming directly to the standout could bring extra posters\, so folks who join without prior planning have a sign they can use.  We’d like the theme to be celebratory\, de-centering or minimizing Trump (as he is a wannabe King with waning relevance and power) and lifting up diversity in all its beautiful forms\, particularly diversity of gender expression\, sexual orientation\, and freedom of expression. URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/yas-queens-no-kings-standout/ LOCATION:Main and Moody Sts\, Main and Moody Streets\, Waltham\, Massachusetts CATEGORIES:Protests ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://turnpurple2blue.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/waltham-june-14.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260502T110000 DTSTAMP:20260404T140649Z CREATED:20260331T191831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T140649Z UID:10004771-1777716000-1777719600@turnpurple2blue.org SUMMARY:Boycott Citizens Standout DESCRIPTION:Join members of Indivisible Waltham’s Boycott Citizens team for their monthly standout (first Saturday of the month) in front of the Citizens Bank branch on Main Street to draw attention to Citizens financing of private prison contractors operating ICE detention centers. If you don’t have a sign specific to the boycott messaging\, we will have extras you can borrow.  URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/boycott-citizens-standout/2026-05-02/ LOCATION:Citizens Bank Waltham\, 716 Main St\, Waltham\, Massachusetts\, 02451 CATEGORIES:Protests ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://turnpurple2blue.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/De-Ice-Citizens-Bank.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260501T190000 DTSTAMP:20260427T181629Z CREATED:20260427T181623Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260427T181629Z UID:10005040-1777654800-1777662000@turnpurple2blue.org SUMMARY:Waltham May Day 2026 DESCRIPTION:We will be closing out the May Day Strike with a stand out aimed to convey the core messages of May Day 2026 to commuters returning from work who\, for whatever reason\, may not have been able to take the day off work. Join us to share signs that help to build momentum locally and nationally for sustained economic action to make support of authoritarianism at home and abroad bad business. \n\n\n\nMay Day Demands 2026 – Fairly tax the ultra-rich so our country can invest in the wellbeing of our families and communities\, including quality healthcare and education. – Defund and Disband ICE. End wars of aggression. No private army serving unchecked federal power. – Expand democracy\, not corporate power. Hands off our vote. \n\n\n\nWe will joint together across the country on May 1st through a day of marches\, rallies\, and actions including No Work No School No Shopping in many cities. \n\n\n\n\nRSVP for updates\n\n\n\n\nJoin as together we celebrate May 1st through action and community. \n\n\n\nPlease note: A core principle behind all our events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind\, including those legally permitted\, should not be brought to events. URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/waltham-may-day-2026/ LOCATION:Near Waltham Common\, Main and Moody Streets\, Waltham\, Massachusetts\, 02451 CATEGORIES:Protests ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://turnpurple2blue.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/may-day-boston.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260425T120000 DTSTAMP:20260331T192056Z CREATED:20260323T211412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T192056Z UID:10004772-1777114800-1777118400@turnpurple2blue.org SUMMARY:Democracy Standout DESCRIPTION:Join Indivisible Waltham for bi-monthly standouts on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the Month. Rally themes relate to preserving our democracy\, rejecting authoritarianism\, calling for accountability from our elected officials\, and an end to the lawlessness of the Trump administration\, in particular an end to ICE\, which has become a lawless paramilitary that is being used to wage economic\, psychological\, and physical war against communities in “blue states” and “blue cities” that Trump wants to punish or attempt to extort. URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/democracy-standout-2/2026-04-25/ LOCATION:Near Waltham Common\, Main and Moody Streets\, Waltham\, Massachusetts\, 02451 CATEGORIES:Protests ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://turnpurple2blue.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Indivisible-waltham.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260416T210000 DTSTAMP:20260408T142334Z CREATED:20260408T142329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260408T142334Z UID:10004890-1776362400-1776373200@turnpurple2blue.org SUMMARY:Indivisible Waltham Celebrates a Year of Local Activisism DESCRIPTION:Indivisible Waltham has just completed our first year in existence. To continue to deepen our connections and lay the groundwork for building the local\, in-person\, neighbor-to-neighbor networks of support that we are likely to need in the coming months\, we are hosting a 1-year anniversary celebration on Thursday\, April 16\, at the Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation. Space is limited\, so please RSVP here if you plan to attend\, as it will help us plan for appropriate amounts of food and beverages. \n\n\n\nWhat: Celebrate a year of Indivisible WalthamWhen: Thursday April 16\, 6-9pm (drop in when you can)Where: Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation \n\n\n\nDetails: We’ll have food so you can have a quick snack or make a dinner of it\, with gluten-free\, dairy-free\, vegan and omnivore options. We’ll have music\, thanks to Sandra Waddock\, who has played music at one of our past standouts\, protest art\, thanks to Joshua Winer\, who has been creating large-scale protest artwork over the past year\, and we’ll have videography and photography from our rallies that document our first year of standing out in public together to raise the visibility of resistance action locally. \n\n\n\nPlease RSVP if you’ll attend\, and then just drop in whenever you can between 6 and 9pm on Thursday – we can’t wait to see you! And feel free to bring friends\, just include them in your RSVP so we can plan food and beverage supplies accordingly. URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/indivisible-waltham-celebrates-a-year-of-local-activisism/ LOCATION:Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation\, 154 Moody St\, Waltham\, Massachusetts\, 02453 CATEGORIES:Action Hours ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://turnpurple2blue.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Indivisible-waltham.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260411T120000 DTSTAMP:20260331T192056Z CREATED:20260323T211412Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260331T192056Z UID:10004346-1775905200-1775908800@turnpurple2blue.org SUMMARY:Democracy Standout DESCRIPTION:Join Indivisible Waltham for bi-monthly standouts on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the Month. Rally themes relate to preserving our democracy\, rejecting authoritarianism\, calling for accountability from our elected officials\, and an end to the lawlessness of the Trump administration\, in particular an end to ICE\, which has become a lawless paramilitary that is being used to wage economic\, psychological\, and physical war against communities in “blue states” and “blue cities” that Trump wants to punish or attempt to extort. URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/democracy-standout-2/2026-04-11/ LOCATION:Near Waltham Common\, Main and Moody Streets\, Waltham\, Massachusetts\, 02451 CATEGORIES:Protests ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://turnpurple2blue.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Indivisible-waltham.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260404T110000 DTSTAMP:20260404T140649Z CREATED:20260331T191831Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260404T140649Z UID:10004770-1775296800-1775300400@turnpurple2blue.org SUMMARY:Boycott Citizens Standout DESCRIPTION:Join members of Indivisible Waltham’s Boycott Citizens team for their monthly standout (first Saturday of the month) in front of the Citizens Bank branch on Main Street to draw attention to Citizens financing of private prison contractors operating ICE detention centers. If you don’t have a sign specific to the boycott messaging\, we will have extras you can borrow.  URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/boycott-citizens-standout/2026-04-04/ LOCATION:Citizens Bank Waltham\, 716 Main St\, Waltham\, Massachusetts\, 02451 CATEGORIES:Protests ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://turnpurple2blue.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/De-Ice-Citizens-Bank.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260314T120000 DTSTAMP:20260212T214014Z CREATED:20260212T214008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T214014Z UID:10004345-1773486000-1773489600@turnpurple2blue.org SUMMARY:Democracy Standout DESCRIPTION:Join Indivisible Waltham for bi-monthly standouts on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the Month. (Except this month: Feb 16 instead of Feb 14) Rally themes relate to preserving our democracy\, rejecting authoritarianism\, calling for accountability from our elected officials\, and an end to the lawlessness of the Trump administration\, in particular an end to ICE\, which has become a lawless paramilitary that is being used to wage economic\, psychological\, and physical war against communities in “blue states” and “blue cities” that Trump wants to punish or attempt to extort. URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/democracy-standout/2026-03-14/ LOCATION:Near Waltham Common\, Main and Moody Streets\, Waltham\, Massachusetts\, 02451 CATEGORIES:Protests ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://turnpurple2blue.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Indivisible-waltham.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260228T120000 DTSTAMP:20260212T214014Z CREATED:20260212T214008Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T214014Z UID:10004344-1772276400-1772280000@turnpurple2blue.org SUMMARY:Democracy Standout DESCRIPTION:Join Indivisible Waltham for bi-monthly standouts on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of the Month. (Except this month: Feb 16 instead of Feb 14) Rally themes relate to preserving our democracy\, rejecting authoritarianism\, calling for accountability from our elected officials\, and an end to the lawlessness of the Trump administration\, in particular an end to ICE\, which has become a lawless paramilitary that is being used to wage economic\, psychological\, and physical war against communities in “blue states” and “blue cities” that Trump wants to punish or attempt to extort. URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/democracy-standout/2026-02-28/ LOCATION:Near Waltham Common\, Main and Moody Streets\, Waltham\, Massachusetts\, 02451 CATEGORIES:Protests ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://turnpurple2blue.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Indivisible-waltham.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260216T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260216T120000 DTSTAMP:20260212T211045Z CREATED:20260212T211039Z LAST-MODIFIED:20260212T211045Z UID:10004342-1771239600-1771243200@turnpurple2blue.org SUMMARY:"Not My President!" Presidents Day rally  DESCRIPTION:Join us on President’s Day to declare that Trump does NOT represent our views and that we reject his precedency and call for his impeachment and removal. The level of criminality and corruption of his Administration is unsurpassed in our history\, and would be the end of any administration in the world’s other democracies. \n\n\n\nA core principle behind all Indivisible events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values. URL:https://turnpurple2blue.org/event/not-my-president-presidents-day-rally/ LOCATION:Near Waltham Common\, Main and Moody Streets\, Waltham\, Massachusetts\, 02451 CATEGORIES:Protests ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://turnpurple2blue.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/Not-my-president.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR