Tuesday Tip Sheet - 11/25/25
Your weekly update on what's happening around Western Mass |
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WHAT'S COMING UP Events Trainings Calls to Action ICYMI Useful Links & Resources
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Overpass Standouts: Every Day of the Weekat an Overpass Near You |
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Phone Bank to Flip a Key House Seat! |
Tue, Nov 25, 6:00pm–7:30pm EST and Mon, Dec 1, 6:00pm–7:30pm EST
IN-SLWM is encouraging all phonebankers to join Indivisible national in their phonebanks to elect Aftyn Behn (a former Indivisible organizer!) to the U.S. House! They use Scale to Win, a VERY user-friendly calling tool, to connect with voters across TN-07.
A short phonebanking training will be included at the beginning of each phonebank; first-time dialers and phonebank pros are welcome.
Be sure to have both a computer and a phone to make calls to voters.
REGISTER for a specific day(s) and time(s).
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Black Friday, Nov 28, 12-1:30pm at HADLEY Home Depot Join the "We Ain't Buying It" campaign! Boycott Home Depot, Target and Amazon from Nov. 27 through Dec. 1. |
Picket for Immigrant Justice In HOLYOKE
Nov. 28 @ 1:30–2:30 pm Sidewalk in front of Citizens Bank 1575 Northampton St.
Join us!
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Standout at Pride for Migrant Workers Sat, Nov 29 @ 12:00-2:00 pm Sat, Dec 6 @ 12:00pm–2:00 pm Sidewalk in front of Pride gas station, intersection of Routes 9 and Bay Road in Hadley. |
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Easthampton Rights Rally Sunday, Nov 30 @10:30am–12pm
Pulaski Park Rotary where Northampton, Main, and Pleasant Streets merge, Easthampton
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Standout for Veterans and All Federal Workers
Every Monday, 11:30 AM-12:30 PM VA Medical Ctr, 421 N Main St, Rte 9, Leeds, MA
Park in the VA Visitor lot or, if you have a sticker or are a Veteran, park in Look Park |
Stop Citizens Bank From Financing Private ICE Prisons Public sidewalk on King Street in front of Stop and Shop Plaza, 228 King St, Northampton |
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Sun, Dec. 7 @ 2:00 pm, Easthampton
St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, 128 Main St.
Fundraiser for the LUCE Hotline and Pioneer Valley Workers Center
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Western Mass Delegation Bearing Witness @ ICE in Burlington
Wed, Dec 10 @ 11 am-1 pm |
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Wed, Dec 10 @ 11am-1pm, Burlington Western Mass Delegation Bearing Witness @ ICE in Burlington. Individuals, faith organizations, and social justice groups have |
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Civics 101 – Effective Advocacy with our State Government with Rep. Lindsay Sabadosa, Tues., Dec. 2 @ 6:30 pm, Florence. How to effectively engage with the legislative process. Location: Bombyx, 130 Pine St., Florence. Free.
Why We Need a General Strike and How We Can Make it Happen Offered by General Strike US.
Marshal Training - Every other Tuesday, 7–8:30 pm on Zoom Offered by Indivisible Worcester
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NO KINGS: WHAT's NEXT
Check out: _______________________ LOCAL
HOW TO GET HELP:
Northampton Site: If you live in Chesterfield, Cummington, Easthampton, Florence, Goshen, Hadley, Hatfield, Haydenville, Huntington, Leeds, Middlefield, Northampton, Plainfield, South Hadley, Southampton, Westhampton, Williamsburg, or Worthington, you can visit the Northampton site Mondays from 2-6, Wednesdays from 12-6, and Fridays from 12-3.
If you are already a customer and want curbside pick up or online ordering, call 413-586-6564 to schedule. Similarly, if you need home delivery, please call to schedule. Goshen Site: If you live in Chesterfield, Cummington, Goshen, Haydenville, Huntington, Middlefield, Plainfield, Westhampton, Williamsburg, and Worthington, you can visit the Goshen site on Wednesdays from 1-3. Call (413) 268-7578 if you are new customer to do intake or to discuss home delivery.
STATE New State House Accountability Tool Launched: In June, the MA House of Representatives and MA Senate agreed to joint rules. Following years of activist organizing around greater transparency in the legislative process, Beacon Hill adopted key reforms like public committee votes, public bill summaries, and 10-day notice for hearings. The House also adopted a series of rolling deadlines for reporting out bills from committees, with action required by 60 and, at latest, 90 days following a hearing. It’s two weeks out from the Legislature’s new deadline for committees to report out bills; this new tool highlights the extent to which the MA Legislature has yet to follow its own new rules.The Beacon Hill Compliance Tracker, an independent, citizen-built tool developed in collaboration with Progressive Mass and with Act on Mass, measures how well the Massachusetts Legislature complies with its own new commitments to transparency.
NATIONAL JOIN the BOYCOTT: "We Ain’t Buying It" Campaign, Nov. 27 - Dec. 1 Take direct aim at Target, for caving to this regime’s attacks on DEI; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this regime to secure their own corporate tax cuts. Encourage family & friends to join you.
Indivisible’s Democratic Primary Program: electing Dems who will fight for us. Get involved.
_______________________ _____________________ Stand for Campus Freedom/Sign the Petition
Alumni/ae groups are uniting together in this critical moment to build a national grassroots movement that stands up for democracy and protects academic freedom.
Sign the petition and find out more:
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A conversation between Harvard scholars Erica Chenoweth and Steven Levitsky about the struggle for American democracy.
Chenoweth: well known for her co-research on when/how nonviolent mass movements are successful against authoritarian regimes (the 3.5% threshold) Levitsky: author of How Democracies Die, Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point, and other publications.
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Event Calendar - A comprehensive listing of upcoming actions and events and Team Meetings |
CHOP WOOD, CARRY WATER 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 Democrats and Republicans – about issues needing their attention. On the weekends, she highlights items from the news that are encouraging, under the headline “Celebrate This!”
AS FOR FACEBOOK…If you’re not already subscribed to our Facebook Group, consider joining! We share daily commentaries from a long list of authors, including Heather Cox Richardson, Robert Hubbell, and Robert Reich; announcements of our public Zoom meetings; and opportunities for action. To join our Facebook Group click here. |
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