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.
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?
Shout out against Trump’s illegal power-grab that’s stepping on our rights, militarizing our streets, waging war and harming our ecomony.
Bring a sign, a friend to Littleton Common to show the hundreds of passersby that we’ll not willing give up our constitutional rights and capitulate to Trump, his billionaire buddies and syncophant enablers.
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.
Help us to create Trump’s (Side)Walk of Shame. Inspired by the “Honk if you aren’t in the Epstein files” signs, we realized we could do sooo much more with that. We will be creating a (Side)Walk of Shame. At the beginning and end of the line we will have a sign for the “Trump (Side)Walk of Shame”, next to these and in a few more spots, will be “Honk if you…” signs, so you don’t have to write that part out-making your message quicker to read. Call out Trump’s lifetime of bad behaviors, give a year to the event if you can. EX: “…never bombed Iran, 2026: “; “…weren’t sued for refusing to rent to minorities, 1976; “…never said you would date your daughter, 2006”.
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.
You may have heard about the inspiring JFK Middle School students that staged a ICE OUT walk-out last month. Now they have joined the campaign to De-ICE Citizens Bank!
Join us on Friday, April 17th to march with student activists from JFK to Citizens Bank via the bike path. We’ll start at 3:10 at the end of the path, march for an hour to Citizens Bank on King Street, then hold a rally from approximately 4:15 -5:15. The rally will be held on sidewalk in front of Stop and Shop (Citizens Bank has a branch inside Stop and Shop).
You can join the students for all or any part of this. March with them for a bit. Join them at 4:15 at the bank. Or do the whole thing!
The students will make some brief remarks at the rally, and present the De-ICE Citizens Bank Coalition with something to bring to bank headquarters on 4/23 as we protest outside the annual shareholder meeting.
Send Citizens Bank a clear message: financing private prison and immigration detention facility operators The GEO Group and CoreCivic is bad for business.
Please only bring signs specific to this action: De-ICE Citizens Bank; Cages Aren’t Communities; Citizens Bank – Stop Financing ICE Prisons; Citizens Bank + ICE = Human Rights Abuse; ICE Prisons Don’t Strengthen Our Communities; Citizens Bank- Cut Ties With ICE Prisons; etc. We’ll have some extras too.
Notorious private prison companies The GEO Group and CoreCivic are being called on to be part of an unprecedented expansion in capacity as part of the Trump administration’s mass detention, deportation, and surveillance policies.
To accommodate the planned increase in detention capacity, GEO and CoreCivic must undertake expensive construction and renovation projects. Since 2019, though, most of their lenders have cut ties with the two companies, which have faced allegations from forced labor to securities fraud.
Start at bike path from Bridge Road Florence. End at Citizens Bank at 228 King Street Northampton (Stop and Shop Plaza). Join for any or all of this!
Citizens Bank has instead deepened its relationship with the private prison industry, taking on new roles in financing both CoreCivic and GEO, all while continuing to tell their customers that they’re focused on strengthening our communities.
We won’t quietly stand by as Citizens continues to finance the private prison & ICE detention companies that are harming our communities. The 2019 exodus of banks from the industry in response to activism should be a reminder to us that our voices matter. Now it’s time to use them. Visit www.de-icecitizensbank.org for more information.
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 expect hosts to ensure all participants in your event uphold this commitment. We recommend all participants review our safety and security resource before your event: https://indivisi.org/safety.
Signs of Fascism is a unique visibility event where specific examples on signs can help get through to people what’s being lost. For example “Ignoring Due Process”, “Controlling Media”. Indivisible in Melrose Wakefield and Beyond has a set of 24 different signs – come hold one with us! After each putting on a warm coat (ideally black or a dark color), we’ll meet up at Veterans Field Wakefield (you can set your GPS 468 North Ave, Wakefield, MA 01880). Questions? indivisibleinn@gmail.com or indivisibleinn.org.
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 Mystic Mashup at local Citizen Bank branches to send Citizens Bank a clear message: financing private prison and immigration detention facility operators The GEO Group and CoreCivic is bad for business.
We’ll stand out on the public sidewalk in front of Citizens Banks in Medford Square and Davis Square on Saturdays from 11-12. (We’ll take a break on 3/28 so that we can attend No Kings III.)
Please only bring signs specific to this action: Cages Aren’t Communities; Citizens Bank – Stop Financing ICE gulags; Citizens Bank + ICE = Human Rights Abuse; ICE Prisons Don’t Strengthen Our Communities; Citizens Bank- Cut Ties With ICE Gulags; etc. We’ll have some extra signs, too.
A core principle behind all of these 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. Please do not block business entrances or traffic.
Join Mystic Mashup at local Citizen Bank branches to send Citizens Bank a clear message: financing private prison and immigration detention facility operators The GEO Group and CoreCivic is bad for business.
We’ll stand out on the public sidewalk in front of Citizens Banks in Medford Square and Davis Square on Saturdays from 11-12. (We’ll take a break on 3/28 so that we can attend No Kings III.)
Please only bring signs specific to this action: Cages Aren’t Communities; Citizens Bank – Stop Financing ICE gulags; Citizens Bank + ICE = Human Rights Abuse; ICE Prisons Don’t Strengthen Our Communities; Citizens Bank- Cut Ties With ICE Gulags; etc. We’ll have some extra signs, too.
A core principle behind all of these 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. Please do not block business entrances or traffic.
Join us for a peaceful standout each Wednesday and Saturday calling on Citizens Bank to stop financing private prison corporations that build and operate ICE detention centers, where immigrants are held in abusive and inhumane conditions.
We will have leaflets to share with customers and passersby. Participants are encouraged to bring signs demanding that Citizens Bank stop funding ICE prisons.
This is an easy, accessible action—come and help build community pressure Citizens for change.
Fridays from 1:30 to 3:00 at the Hanscom Rotary (intersection of Hanscom Dr. and Old Bedford Rd. in Lincoln, MA.) Please park along Old Bedford Road or Hanscom Drive without impeding traffic or blocking bike lanes.
De-ICE Hanscom is a coalition organizing peaceful standouts with the goal of eliminating ICE transport flights from Hanscom Field. ICE is using these flights to swiftly move immigrants out of New England in order to hinder effective legal representation.
Coalition groups include Boston Workers Circle, Concord Indivisible, Greater Assabet Indivisible Network (GAIN), Indivisible Acton Area, Jewish Alliance for Law & Social Action (JALSA), Lexington Alarm, and Maynard Indivisible.
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