Get Ready for NO KINGS with Indivisible Acton Area

March 20 @ 6:30 pm 8:00 pm EDT

Make NO KINGS III (March 28) a fun and rewarding experience! Join us (and bring a friend) to make protest signs, talk about protest safety, and learn about our Ambassadors/Greeters Program! Let’s make NO KINGS III the BIGGEST Protest ever!

We’ll have posters and markers to work with – feel free to bring your own or use ours!  

6:00-6:30 Social and Pizza

6:30-Protest Sign Making

7:15- Protest Safety

7:45-Ambassador/Greeter Initiative

8:00 Wrap up/clean up

We will be collecting items for the Acton Food Pantry. The suggested theme is “Personal Care and Household”

Needed
Shampoo/Conditioner
Toilet paper
Toothpaste
Dish soap
Laundry Soap
Incontinence briefs (women’s size small only)
Poise Pads
Diapers (size 5 and 6)

Other items needed

257 Great Road
Acton, Massachusetts 01720
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Make Protest Signs with Indivisible Maynard

March 25 @ 6:30 pm 8:30 pm EDT

Get ready to make a splash at NO KINGS III with a snazzy protest sign!

Parking is available on side streets and in the Jiffy Lube parking lot across the street. Excelsior is on the corner of Rt. 27 and Rt. 62 in Maynard Center

We will have plenty of cardboard for posters and writing materials, but people should bring their own materials if available. 

8 Waltham St
Maynard, Massachusetts 01754
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ICE Out of MA Courts

March 20 @ 3:30 pm 5:00 pm EDT

The LUCE Immigrant Justice Network has an “ICE Out of Massachusetts Courts” campaign to urge our state government to do everything in its power to stop its courts from being used as staging grounds for targeting and handing over community members to federal immigration officers. 

As part of this effort, they are holding rallies at several MA court houses next week. You can get details about the rally at the Waltham District Court HERE. LUCE also has a petition to state officials that you can sign HERE.

38 Linden St
Waltham, Massachusetts 02452
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MA voters approved a legislative audit. What’s blocking it?

Virtual Event

March 19 @ 6:30 pm 7:30 pm EDT

In 2024, Massachusetts voters approved a ballot question that affirmed that the State Auditor has the right to audit the legislature. The ballot question won every town and city in Massachusetts, passing with 72% of the vote statewide. Since becoming Massachusetts state law, the question has instead become a conflict between political insiders. Legislative leaders continue to claim that the ballot question is unconstitutional. The State Auditor Diana DiZoglio has sought to bring the question to court to allow her office to proceed with the audit. The state’s Attorney General Andrea Campbell, who must represent constitutional officers, has neglected to take a position on the audit, leaving the question in legal limbo. 

Meanwhile, members of the public are left wondering: what happened to the audit we voted for? 

Join Act on Mass on March 19th for a webinar to investigate this question. Where do the various sides stand on the audit? What is the legal precedent here? We will be joined by former appellate lawyer and federal and state prosecuter Jeanne Kempthorne. 

Jeanne Kempthorne is a retired attorney and mediator. In her 40-year legal career, she practiced as a civil litigator at the firm Hill & Barlow before joining the US Attorney’s Office as a federal prosecutor where she served in several roles, including chief of the public corruption unit. After her federal service, she practiced in the areas of criminal defense and habeas corpus, and served as a State Ethics commissioner, chief of appeals and general counsel for the Berkshire District Attorney’s  Office, and a special assistant district attorney in the Suffolk District Attorney’s Office’s conviction integrity unit. A longtime good-government activist, Kempthorne co-authored The Massachusetts Legislature: Democracy in Decline (2021) and the 2025 update Democracy in Decline: Denial and Delay. In 2025, she was invited to testify before the State Senate subcommittee on the constitutionality of the law clarifying that the State Auditor has the power to audit the legislature.

Singing Resistance Walpole

March 14 @ 9:00 am 10:00 am EDT

Singing Resistance Walpole is a new choir in the area, and you are invited to join us!  Sponsored by the Walpole Peace and Justice Group, Neponset Valley Progressives, the Justice and Witness Ministry at United Church in Walpole (UCW) and others, this choir will meet for just the second time, on Saturday, March 14.

Singing Resistance is a mass movement of singers, rising out of the experience of people in Minneapolis, now spreading throughout the country, with a goal of “protecting and caring for our communities in the face of rising authoritarianism”.   We are looking to build a Singing Resistance Choir in this part of Massachusetts, excited about the opportunity to support others through music, serving our communities as a source of strength and hope, part of a “loving, nonviolent, and joyful civil resistance movement in the US”

Last week, at our first meeting, we learned two beautiful and powerful new songs.  Though far from being professional singers, we sounded great and actually followed up by walking our songs out to a peace vigil being held in the center of town!  We will be learning several more songs this week and next and anticipate sharing our singing with people in local towns on No Kings Day, March 28!

We urge you to join us on Saturday, March 14 to learn new songs and old – “Resilience”, “Hold On”, “We Are Here with our Neighbors”,  “We Shall Not Be Moved”- songs easy to pick up, inspiring, empowering, and just fun to sing together.

Note: Our meeting this Saturday will be held in the sanctuary of United Church.  Enter the church at a side door on the right, off a large parking lot, behind Turning Point Recovery Center.  If parking is tight, you might look for spaces in the municipal parking lot near-by, behind the Walpole Town Hall.

30 Common St
Walpole, Massachusetts 02081
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The Founders Saw the Danger of Great Wealth

March 19 @ 5:00 pm 6:30 pm EDT

Featuring Dr. Daniel Mandell, author of “The Lost Tradition of Economic Equality in America”

Curtis Performance Hall, 500 Salisbury St.
Worcester, Massachusetts 01609
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Building Effective Resistance through Citizen Activism

Hybrid Event

March 22 @ 7:00 pm 8:30 pm EDT

The abuses that led to the American Revolution–rule by a king, troops seizing people without a warrant, using office for personal gain, arresting people for what they say–are all being repeated in our time.  People who have studied authoritarian takeovers all agree that popular resistance can make the difference between a democracy’s survival or death.  Come find out how citizen activism can reverse authoritarian trends, what popular resistance has looked like over the past year, and what we have to prepare for in the next three years.  Learn about the impact of ICE activity in Massachusetts, how LUCE has evolved to become a potent force for immigrant justice and equity in the state, and effective actions that people can take now to support at-risk populations.

Speakers: 

Toby Sackton has been a lifelong movement activist in the Boston area and has lived in Lexington for 40 years.  He was one of the founders of Lexington Alarm on Patriots Day 2025. 

Stephen Lewin-Berlin is a long-time activist committed to community building and resisting injustice through nonviolent actions.  He is a local hub lead for LUCE–a Massachusetts-wide rapid response network that supports immigrants and opposes ICE activity throughout the state.

Parking:  Parking is available at First Parish in Wayland, 225 Boston Post Road, Wayland, MA 01778.  If overflow parking is needed, we recommend crossing Route 27 at the light and parking in the Town Hall parking lots across the street.

225 Boston Post Road
Wayland, Massachusetts 01778
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Spring into Action | Protest Event in Watertown

March 14 @ 10:00 am 11:30 am EDT

SPRING INTO ACTION, ICE Out of Watertown

Standout Against ICE beginning at 10 Closing Circle at 11:15

Wear Green for Spring, Bring a Sign, Bring a Friend

A 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.

Main Street at Galen
Watertown, Massachusetts 02472 United States
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Monthly Training and/or Huddle | Community Gathering in Maynard

March 12 @ 6:30 pm 8:30 pm EDT

This a local Indivisible Maynard Area event!

We meet the 2nd Thursday each month at the Maynard Firehouse to get informed and to take action. Find out different ways our group is standing up for democracy and how you can get involved from helping our neighbors, to postcarding, to organizing standouts ,to calling our elected officials, to helping pass local ordinances, and state and federal legislation, and more.

A 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.

30 Sudbury St
Maynard, Massachusetts 01754 United States
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Chelmsford Connected March Meeting | Community Gathering in Chelmsford

March 12 @ 7:00 pm 8:00 pm EDT

Come join Chelmsford Connected for our next in person meeting. We will have updates from our newly formed subcommittees, discussion about the next No King’s rally, and time to catch up with our neighbors. 

A 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.

25 Boston Road
Chelmsford, Massachusetts 01824
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