JCAN (Jewish Climate Action network) offers this webinar. 30-40% of all land is privately owned. What if the faith groups, businesses, local governments, schools/universities, and individuals with purview to this earth took responsibility for its and the planets’ health?
This program offers 5 models for transitioning from a traditional manicured lawn to the one that could: – Save the efficacy of your lower back – Eliminate mowing – Limit watering – Help our earth and waterways by eschewing added nutrients and lawn chemicals – Support all rungs of the food chain, by promoting biodiversity – Up the ante significantly for both carbon and water absorption – If you choose, grow enough highly nutritious food to feed friends family and community We have that power to do this!
Every day brings a deluge of new developments – along with a sea of misinformation – regarding ICE’s reckless abuses of our rights, of the rule of law, and of basic human decency. The JALSA community, and people of conscience all across the country, want to know more about what we can do as individuals, community groups, and congregations to resist ICE’s lawlessness and cruelty.
To better inform our JALSA community, we will discuss the latest developments regarding ICE actions in Massachusetts and across the country, and, most importantly, actions we can take to stand up to ICE.
Join us as we gather in front of Fitchburg City Hall on the second Saturday of each month to support democracy and the rule of law – and to protest the policies of trump and this shambolic and cruel administration. Signs are welcome, and there are always extra signs and flags to borrow.
Ample parking is available at 166 Boulder Drive if you’re unable to find parking on Main Street.
Join our Facebook page (Indivisible Fitchburg MA) or our website (https://indivisiblefitchburgma.org) for updates and info on pop-up protests!
This Indivisible event takes place in the sun, rain, cold!
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.
Please email cindy@indivisiblefitchburgma.org with any questions. Hope to see you soon!
We are doing something a little different for the March 4, 2026 post card event. Post card pick up/writing will be from 9-10:30 AM, then we will carpool to Burlington to the Burlington, MA ICE detention center to join the daily stand outs from 11 AM – 1 PM. Bring your posters, warm clothes, and a chair if you need one.
In case of bad, dangerous weather, our meeting is cancelled.
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.
“We invite you to stand in solidarity outside the ICE Enforcement & Removal Operations Office in Burlington every Wednesday from 11am-1pm. We’re grateful to those who have previously joined us at this facility, and we hope that more will consider attending. Together, we can show love & support for immigrants, express our shame at ICE, and bear witness to the cruel and unconstitutional actions of our government.”
Schedule 11:00-11:30, Welcome chat; orientation for new folks; sign-making for those who need them 11:30-12:30, Stand (or sit) with signs 12:30-1:00, Short walk along the sidewalk on District Ave
The ICE building in Burlington is the detention and enforcement office for New England. Immigrants must come here for appointments. The standouts are peaceful and offer support for those who must show up here. Signs expressing support for immigrants are welcome.
As far as we know, the Mall is continuing to restrict parking to mall shoppers only. We continue to invite you to be creative while we work on a solution to this problem. If you scroll down further, there are some suggested alternative parking possibilities.
There was a small group of counter-protesters again at the Saturday vigil, and we may expect to see counter-protesters more regularly now. The important thing is to not engage with counter-protesters. Please ignore them. We will continue to peacefully exercise our first amendment rights.
A weather reminder for our gatherings during the winter season — by default, we will plan to gather, and ask people to use their own judgment about what conditions are safe for them. Please do be safe. If Burlington schools close due to weather, we will cancel the usual 11am-1pm public gathering and the organizing team will make some other arrangement to safely maintain the continuity of our vigil for that day that does not require the general public.
As usual, this gathering outside ICE is a very targeted action; it’s not the venue for protesting other causes. We all care about many issues, but each Wednesday we come together across differences. Regardless of your views on any other political or social issues, if you support immigrants and their constitutional rights and are committed to nonviolence you are welcome to join us. We have a stash of signs and small U.S. flags that have been donated, and you’re welcome to bring your own signs and U.S. flags if you have them.
Here are some parking options that have been suggested, while we explore a resolution with the mall or other options:
For those looking to switch to public transportation, one option is the 350 Bus. This runs from Alewife to Burlington Mall Rd. You can park or bike to the Alewife T stop, and the bus leaves Alewife at 10:46am and arrives at District Ave. at 11:15am.
Alternatively, you can drive to Burlington and park at Simonds Park, at Rev. Andrew’s United Church of Christ (6 Lexington St. Burlington, MA), or at Rabbi Abramson’s Temple Shalom Emeth, 16 Lexington St.,and walk to the 350 bus stop at the intersection of Cambridge St. and Bedford St. That bus leaves at 11:09am and arrives at 11:17am. If you’d like to arrive before 11:00am, there’s a bus that leaves an hour earlier at 10:09am.
You can park at Wegmans. 53 Third Avenue. Burlington, MA 01803. The Lowell LRTA #14 bus goes by there and stops at Lexington and Mall Rd. That bus is free.
Bearing Witness attendees Tina & Jay continue to collect food pantry donations to help local immigrant families. You can drop off unopened food/health/household items by the tree.
The Minneapolis singing resistance has been rising to Stop ICE, and they are calling for singing actions all across the country the weekend of Feb 28/Mar 1. BVOCAL (Boston Voices of Community and Labor) and Boston Area Singing Circles, along with other local song leaders, are responding to the call with a Singing Resistance Community Sing to learn the new protest songs in community and get ready to take action through song. All are welcome!
Please consider joining an upcoming rally in support of science, to be held at the Massachusetts State House on March 7th from 12-4 pm (https://standupforscience2025.org/boston-ma/). This event will be part of a series of nationwide demonstrations that has been publicized in the Boston Globe and Science magazine.
TENTATIVE SPEAKERS (as of 2.28.26)
Katie Blair, JD – Director, Massachusetts Families for Vaccines; MA SUFS Lead Organizer
Dr. Thomas Michel – Professor of Cardiology, Harvard Medical School; Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Grace Yang – Undergraduate Student in Neuroscience and Health Policy, Brandeis; President of Students for Science
Dr. Marzyeh Ghassemi – Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Marc Abrahams – Founder, Ig Nobel Prizes
Dr. Nancy Kanwisher – Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Sergei Mirkin – Professor of Biology, Tufts University
Jaida Elcock – PhD Candidate in Biological Oceanography, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Dr. Sarah Hengel – Professor of Biology, Tufts University
Shoshana Daly – Undergraduate Student in Biochemistry, Tufts University
Dr. Eric Maskin – Professor of Economics and Mathematics, Harvard University; Nobel Laureate
Dr. Michael Rosbash – Professor of Biology, Brandeis University; Nobel Laureate
Emma Galbraith – Undergraduate Student in Neuroscience, University of New Hampshire
Em Cosgrove – Undergraduate Student in Marine, Estuarine, and Freshwater Biology, University of New Hampshire; Press Director for Students for Science
Ralph St. Louis – PhD Student in Educational Leadership, UMass Lowell
Dr. Abby Schiff, MD, PhD – Postdoctoral Fellow in Rheumatology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
Dr. Noel Vest – Professor of Community Health Sciences, Boston University; Formerly Incarcerated Scientist
Dr. William Kaelin, MD – Professor of Oncology, Harvard Medical School; Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Nobel Laureate
Dr. Gary Ruvkun – Professor of Genetics, Harvard Medical School; Massachusetts General Hospital; Nobel Laureate
Dr. Kylie Bemis – Professor of Computer Sciences, Northeastern University
The current administration has slashed budgets for agencies that support critical research, such as the NIH, NSF, CDC, FDA, and NOA, sacking leadership at these agencies and laying off hundreds of scientists. Cuts to indirect costs at universities and research institutions further tear into resources for science education and research. Together with the cancelation of grant review panels and delays in payment of previously funded grants, the administration’s actions place the entire scientific enterprise at risk.
Science, more than any other endeavor, has been the engine of America’s success since WWII. Other nations envy our research community and send their best and brightest to train in our universities. It is important that we convey the value of our work in a way that is likewise clear to our own elected leaders as well as to voters and taxpayers.
At this time of existential threat to the survival of science as we know it in the US, it is time to stand up. Please pass this message to your colleagues, friends, and family, and post on social media. If they are not in Massachusetts, they can look up their closest gathering site at https://standupforscience2025.org. The fight for science and education is everyone’s fight for a better future.
Join us for a poster-making event to make posters for No Kings 3.
Poster-making supplies will be available, but we appreciate if you can also bring your own. Refreshments will be provided. We have participated and hosted these events in the past, and it’s a great opportunity to work with your fellow activists, use your creativity, and have some fun.
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.
Join us for our ‘Block by Block’ Training & Action Series—a hands-on program designed to help you launch and lead a team for 2026 national campaign!
Block by Block is SURJ’s 2026 national campaign to elect champions for working people, block MAGA, and fight for the future we deserve. We do this through three strategies: Mobilize through mass action, Elect working class champions, and Grow a strong, active base.
This online training series is designed to train and support new groups, circles and chapters to run Block by Block: Solidarity Rising in your communities for the rest of the year. Groups will deepen organizing skills, align with national strategy, and be ready to take action locally. We’ll meet every other week online for training. On the off weeks, your group will gather locally to practice skills, grow your base, and take action.
This training series will consist of three modules, each focused on one part of our strategy:
Grow Module — March 4 & 18, 2026
Learn how to bring new people into your group, plug them into meaningful roles, build strong and accountable teams, and develop leaders who can carry the work forward. Growing our base is essential to winning—this is how we build the scale and discipline needed to carry out Block by Block for the rest of the year.
Mobilize Module — April 1, 15 & 29, 2026
Get trained to organize coordinated, strategic action using tools of mass noncooperation. Prepare to move quickly when our rights and democracy are threatened, and build toward May Day: A Day Without Workers.
Elect Module — May 13, 2026
Learn why governing power is a key part of our strategy and the role your circle, chapter, or group can play in supporting progressive candidates and blocking MAGA power.
By the end of this series, your group will be ready to grow your base, mobilize for action, and take part in electoral strategy. We’ll provide all the structure, toolkits, and guidance you need to plug into our national program and make a real difference—block by block.
We encourage at least one member from every group, circle, or chapter to join, but ideally more! Sign up for all the sessions—even if you can’t make them all, we’ll send recordings so you won’t miss anything. And for more info on the Block by Block campaign, check out the 1-pager.
Special Saturday Huddle! Our monthly get-togethers are relaxed settings (with snacks!) where you can do an impactful activity, maybe learn something, and enjoy the company of like-minded folks. We guarantee you’ll leave feeling more hopeful!
This month:
Write postcards. Win key races.
Join us to write postcards to unregistered likely Democratic voters in two critical states:
North Carolina — a prime opportunity to flip a Senate seat.
Colorado — one of the best chances to unseat a GOP House member.
We’ll highlight how Democrats protect health and economic security — and provide clear instructions on how to register. You can write and chat at the huddle or grab and go.
Make a Lady Liberty Torch lantern. Join us for a fun democracy art project at this Huddle. Perfect for adults and kids alike. You can bring your light-up torch to the Concord Lantern Parade (later the same day — see Upcoming Events below), the next No Kings event, and the many freedom-loving standouts in the months to come. No democracy-loving home is complete without a Lady Liberty torch!
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