May 1 @ 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm EDT
Join LUCE as we rally for Dignity and Safety for All in front of the Statehouse, then continue to the Statewide May Day rally on the Boston Common. See https://www.lucemass.org/mayday26 for pledges and printable signs in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
May 1 @ 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EDT
This a local, indoor Indivisible event! POSTCARD WRITING NEVIN’S MEMORIAL LIBRARY
Greater Methuen Indivisible was created to bring impactful activism directly to you. We offer a variety of actions to help you defend our democracy and support the progressive agenda. If you’re looking at how you can help strengthen our Democracy, please join us!
Postcard writing is a community builder and best of all, they have an impact! Postcards provide a personal connection to the voter and has been found to boost turnout by roughly 1-6%, which can put a candidate in a close race over the top.
POSTCARDS come 10 to a packet for a donation of $6 to help pay for postage. Cash please. We will provide a short script, pens and markers. We are reaching out to register people to vote in Swing and Blue States.
OUR MISSION
We focus on Get-Out-The-Vote (GOTV) efforts, voting access, and defending election integrity, because we believe voter participation is the foundation to a healthy democracy.
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.
November 7 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EST
This a local Indivisible event!
Bring your energy, your voice, your joy, and a sign that speaks your truth as you stand with other democracy defenders to show that hate and fear have no home here! Extra signs are available. This is a peaceful, family-oriented gathering. We ask that participants not engage with anyone who may disagree with our values.
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.
September 5 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT
This a local Indivisible event!
Bring your energy, your voice, your joy, and a sign that speaks your truth as you stand with other democracy defenders to show that hate and fear have no home here! Extra signs are available. This is a peaceful, family-oriented gathering. We ask that participants not engage with anyone who may disagree with our values.
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.
June 6 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT
This a local Indivisible event!
Bring your energy, your voice, your joy, and a sign that speaks your truth as you stand with other democracy defenders to show that hate and fear have no home here! Extra signs are available. This is a peaceful, family-oriented gathering. We ask that participants not engage with anyone who may disagree with our values.
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.
April 26 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm EDT
Join us at the Progressive Mass Virtual Awards Night, Sunday, April 26th, 7-8:30pm!
Come celebrate the great achievements and contributions of progressive leaders from across the state and be inspired for the work ahead as we all push the progressive movement forward.
US Senator Ed Markey will be the special guest speaker. We are thrilled to present our Progressive Leadership Award to these dedicated leaders:
Attend Progressive Mass Virtual Awards Night!
Individual ticket: $35
Join the Host Committee!
Become an Organizational Sponsor!
*Individual tickets and host committee contributions include one year of membership. Your support and involvement make progressive change possible.
If you would prefer to make a donation by check, please click here for the form and address.
May 2 @ 11:30 am – 12:30 pm EDT
This a local Indivisible event!
Bring your energy, your voice, your joy, and a sign that speaks your truth as you stand with other democracy defenders to show that hate and fear have no home here! Extra signs are available. This is a peaceful, family-oriented gathering. We ask that participants not engage with anyone who may disagree with our values.
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.
May 1 @ 4:30 pm – 6:30 pm EDT
Join the Western Mass Area Labor Federation, MTA, SNOL & more in a May Day March!
📅Date: Friday, May 1st
🕛Time: 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm
📌Location: Downtown Holyoke. Gather at Heritage State Park, corner of Dwight & Heritage St.
On May Day, we will be marching in solidarity with Holyoke educators and with working people around the country. Help us build a powerful demonstration of the unity and power of the working class this May by co-sponsoring. Gather a contingent of your union or community organization members to participate!
What is May Day?
“May Day” or “International Workers Day,” is observed on May 1st and commemorates the struggles and wins throughout the history of the labor movement across the country and internationally. It’s time for us to recognize that we are part of the same history and same struggle as the workers who fought for the right to organize on behalf of their communities. We need to take collective action on May 1st in solidarity with the working class around the country in order to protect our rights.
— From May Day Strong:
Because when the billionaires break every rule, it’s going to take more than a rally to stop them.
Our Demands for May 1st – Tax the rich so our families, not their fortunes, come first. – No ICE. No war.. No private army serving unchecked federal power. – Expand democracy, not corporate power. Hands off our vote..
Together we will be flexing our collective muscle in a tremendous day of power – showing our unity through a day of marches, rallies, and actions including No Work No School No Shopping in many cities.
Join as as together we celebrate May 1st through action and community.
Please 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.
May 1 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm EDT
Because when the billionaires break every rule, it’s going to take more than a rally to stop them.
Our Demands for May 1st – Tax the rich so our families, not their fortunes, come first. – No ICE. No war.. No private army serving unchecked federal power. – Expand democracy, not corporate power. Hands off our vote..
Together we will be flexing our collective muscle in a tremendous day of power – showing our unity through a day of marches, rallies, and actions including No Work No School No Shopping in many cities.
Join as as together we celebrate May 1st through action and community.
Please 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.
*Massachusetts clocked in with 167 events- second only to California!
*Nationwide there were 3300 rallies with 2/3 of them outside big cities.
*Most protests are reporting big increases, with Boston reporting 180,000
*The numbers are still coming in but Indivisible is saying between 8 and 9 million, which is 1 in 50 Americans.
*Protests were in all 50 states and all 7 continents.
Watch an Indivisible Montage and Bruce Springsteen performing below!
Local media wrote stories about events that occurred in Martha’s Vineyard, Arlington, Lexington, Malden, Melroseand Falmouth.
Indivisible Mass Coalition explains the significance of these numbers.
“But So What? Does a Single-Day Demonstration Accomplish Anything at All?
In case you were wondering about that, the brilliant Ash-Lee Henderson of the Highland Center, shared these insights:
1.A mobilization of millions of people makes the scale of opposition visible to everyone: to the participants, to the uncommitted middle, and to the opposition. It does what digital campaigns, legal briefs, or everyday tactics like phone-banking or door-knocking or any behind-the-scenes actions can’t do.
2. It transforms private discontent into public identity. Up until No Kings, “I am against discriminatory laws and practices,” “I am against the use of fossil fuels,” “I am against endless wars” were individual grievances; we said these things in our individual capacities, not as WE. No Kings demonstrations have shifted our individual values and private discontents into an opportunity to define WHO AND WHAT IS AMERICA? moving forward. They are our opportunity to redefine who gets to be included when we talk about “liberty and justice for all.” No Kings demonstrations have been overwhelmingly joyous because participants know that they are not just angry alone, and not just grieving alone. The demonstrations are the raw material for sustained organizing.
3. These massive one-day demonstrations throughout the country – and world! – shift the calculus for elites. Skeptics say, “We’re spending millions of dollars on these protests. Why aren’t we just giving the money to grass-roots-based organizations?” But when millions of people come together to say “No,” every institution from corporations, to military leadership, to swing district electeds, has to recalculate what compliance costs them.
Does a single-day protest replace organizing, or base-building, or lobbying? Does it replace advocacy or direct service or mutual aid or any of these things? Of course the answer to those questions is “no.” But the important question for us is: Can you build and sustain a non-cooperation campaign withouta mass demonstration phase? Historically, we can say no. You can’t skip it. It’s infrastructure. Mass protests are not just spectacle, not just just trying to prove something to skeptics. These protests are “an embodied invitation” to everyone to come be a part of something that is bigger than us.“
Miss Indivisible Massachusetts Coalition’s Statewide Call about next Steps?
Watch below!
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