Please visit the Springfield Armory National Park this Saturday March 1 at 12noon, to show our support for the National Park Service workers who are being fired by the Republican administration.

Indivisible Northampton-Swing Left Western Mass is sponsoring and supporting this action in Springfield, on Saturday at the Springfield Armory (1 Armory Street, in Springfield). 

Nationwide rallies are planned across the country in the National Parks to support rehiring the 1,000 permanent park staff fired by Trump’s EO slashing federal budgets.

If you can show up at a national park or historic site on Saturday at noon, you'll certainly make some park rangers smile, and maybe do more.

The park welcomes demonstrators to a 1st Amendment location beside the entrance to the Armory’s museum (the main park building at the head of the historic quad) – the large brown park sign located to the right of the museum building entrance, along the north end of the parking strip. 

Americans across the political spectrum get upset when somebody interferes with their park experiences and the rangers who greet them.  Another reason to call our Senators and Representatives…

Join us for another fun and productive postcard writing event - but this time, at Smith!  Get to meet our college student neighbors and help introduce them to the power of postcarding together!

We'll be writing postcards to Democratic Wisconsin voters, urging them to vote on April 1. The critical race on the ballot is for a seat on the Wisconsin State Supreme Court, to replace a retiring Democratic member.  This race will determine the ideological dominance of the court, which has implications for fair maps (and potentially 3 new U.S. House seats in 2026!), abortion, unions and more!

FYI:  There is an elevator located just inside the back door of the building (the side closest to the parking garage)

We know that the Trump/Musk regime is acting in an illegal, unconstitutional manner. We are also very well aware of the devastating consequences of their actions on peoples' lives and for our democracy.

And we are fighting back!

Join us Monday, March 3rd, to hear from such a courageous, principled and brilliant constitutional lawyer, John Bonifaz, co-founder and President of the national non-profit, Free Speech for People.

John will discuss the current legal landscape, what's coming, and what we activists can do right now!

Bring your fears, your outrage, your questions, and your friends!

Join Rise Up Western MA Indivisible (RUWMI) 

and

 Indivisible Northampton-Swing Left Western MA (IN-SLWM)

 in the nationwide protests on March 4th, ahead of Trump's speech to the joint session of Congress.

Now at 2 locations

Several incredible speakers are in the works, and those confirmed include State Representative Lindsay Sabadosa and State Senator Jo Comerford!

Let's all come together again and show that we are stronger, united, and each commit to taking concrete actions to resist the tyranny of this current administration.

Let's show everyone how Northampton Resists!

Trump and his fascist & billionaire enablers continue to trample on our democracy, intent on driving us to despair and submission.

They don't know us.  

We may well be terrified, horrified, outraged - but we are also taking a breath, seeing the multitude around us also breathing and standing. And we are mobilized and organized and focused - to  Block, Delay, Expose.  And Win.

One of the many places we can win right now is in the critically important Supreme Court race in Wisconsin!

Join us as we call voters in Wisconsin to give them the information and inspiration they'll need to elect Judge Susan Crawford to the State Supreme Court, thereby maintaining that court's newly won liberal majority. (Newly won, thanks to activists like YOU!)

We'll be using an autodialer, so your personal phone number remains private, there's a full training to begin, and lots of support throughout - so, join us!

Here's some information if you like to prep ahead of time:

Many of you see a variety of political commentaries that we post on our Facebook page and group. We’re now also providing these commentaries on a Google Doc – The IN-SLWM Commentary Collection. Authors include Heather Cox Richardson, Robert Hubbell, Joyce Vance, Robert Reich, Jay Kuo, and many others. Many of them post daily, and the Commentary Collection provides links to all of them. The big difference between seeing them on Facebook and accessing them through this document is that the pieces in the Collection will continue to be available indefinitely for you to read whenever you want or to re-read sometime later. You’ll also be able to search the document for a particular author, title, keyword, or date.  

Here’s the link to the Commentary Collection
The newest commentaries are posted at the top and go backward from there. To keep the document to a reasonable length, we’ll archive each month’s entry into a separate file for anyone wanting to go further back to find a piece.  

We also have a dedicated email address for any comments you may have. We especially welcome suggestions to include other authors or sources that we haven’t included yet. The address is commentary@in-slwm.org.   

We hope you find this helpful as we all try to keep up with issues and informed opinions in these challenging times.  

The Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact are monitoring the Trump administration’s implementation of Project 2025, tracking the authoritarian blueprint’s executive action proposals across 20 federal agencies.

That Zen saying is also the name of a daily email from activist and Substack columnist Jessica Craven. On weekdays she offers a bunch of actions for subscribers to take, such as phoning senators and representatives – often with different scripts for Democratic and Republicans – about issues needing their attention. On the weekends, she highlights items from the news that are encouraging, under the headline “Celebrate This!” Here’s the link to her substack page.

                    SPEAKING OF FACEBOOK…If you’re not already subscribed to either our Facebook Page or group, consider joining! We share daily posts from political historian-commentator Heather Cox Richardson, occasional posts from other sources such as Robert Reich and Robert Hubbell, announcements of our public Zoom meetings, and opportunities for action. To follow our Facebook Page (followers do not post) , click here. To join our Facebook Group (members can post), click here. Both receive all IN-SLWM announcements and the daily Richardson posts.