Join us for our first All Hands Meeting of the year! We’ll come together as a community of organizers, volunteers, and supporters to strategize for the year ahead (2026 midterms, here we come!) and to welcome folks who are new or just curious about Indivisible.

Come to ask questions, help shape our work, and find your place in the collective effort to fight authoritarianism, strengthen our democracy, keep our community safe, and prepare for the moments that matter.

The media ecosystem, which includes conventional, alternative, and social media, is no longer an observer in geopolitics, but an active participant in what has become a full-contact sport. Everyone is both a target and a participant. Despite increasing awareness of media-driven manipulation, we are as vulnerable as ever to being victimized by a system that does not have our interests at heart. This workshop will discuss how information and media is weaponized and how antifascists can invert this process to protect ourselves and our communities and begin to fight back.

This welcome and orientation for new (and returning) members, is designed to provide you with some basic information about the Indivisible Charlottesville organization, connect with each other, and explore ways to get involved. We'll give a brief overview of who we are and why we organize, and provide you with opportunities to meet team members and learn about different ways to plug into our antifascist, pro-democracy work. All are welcome—come as you are and bring a dish or snack to share if you’re able.

Join Singing Resistance Charlottesville for this Sing-Out, raising our voices in solidarity with singers across the nation against authoritarianism.

All are welcome; we’ll learn songs together!

When we launched Dine to Donate in December, Beer Run agreed to be our first host. Sadly, snowy weather precluded many of us taking advantage of this opportunity. And so, this month’s Dine to Donate is a do over.

Beer Run is generously donating 20% of all food proceeds to Food Sharing is Caring (Virginia Organizing) when you mention Dine to Donate. Food Sharing is Caring is a grassroots program that tries to ensure that individuals and families in Charlottesville have access to free, nutritious meals!.

So, grab a friend and help us spread some neighbor-to-neighbor love. ❤️

If a reporter asked you a question about our organizing together, how would you respond?

Getting our message out is a great way to build collective power and grow our momentum against fascism, for social justice. If you’re willing to talk with reporters, or even a little curious about some tips and tricks for doing so, please join us for this experiential workshop to practice effective strategies for telling our stories.

How do we keep each other safe at protests, rallies, and public events? This mostly outdoor, active session focuses on crowd and traffic coordination. Practice using your body, voice, and confidence in various marshal roles and scenarios to contribute to our collective safety. Because who keeps us safe? We keep us safe!

Note: participants must have completed Marshal Training I to attend.

Join us for our first Voices Rising, a community gathering to learn and share songs of strength and courage, hope and resistance!

Throughout history, song has been a vital force in social movements around the world and here in the U.S. From freedom songs in South Africa’s Anti-Apartheid Movement, to the Singing Revolution in Estonia, to the labor and Civil Rights movements in this country, music and song have helped sustain collective struggle.

No singing experience is necessary. All are welcome.

Come raise your voice, build community, and prepare for the work ahead.

How do we keep each other safe at protests, rallies, and public events? This session focuses on how to help identify and de-escalate tense or risky situations that might come up. Learn how to take on roles to contribute to our collective safety. Because who keeps us safe? We keep us safe!

This training is repeated from April and October 2025, although folks who participated in those previous marshaling training sessions are encouraged to come again.

This is an open workshop; there is no advance registration.

Non-Cooperation Strategies in Action: Responding to Police Violence

Let’s deepen our use of non-cooperation to fight authoritarianism. In this session, we will engage in scenario-planning to develop strategies we can use to respond to current and future consolidations of authoritarian power, such as the use of police violence against our communities. What resources do we have now that we could use to make such threats backfire? What resources, skills, and plans could we build now so that we are better prepared to block authoritarianism and build our movement power in the future?

New non-cooperation content! Childcare provided on site for all sessions in January.

The 1/24 People’s Activist Series session is postponed until next week.

With the storm approaching, we want folks to focus on preparing and checking in on each other. We keep us safe! We look forward to gathering together again after the snowstorm -- Saturday January 31, 2pm at The Haven.

Stand in solidarity with Minnesota and call out Target (a Minnesota-based company) for their complicity in allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots and enter their stores to abduct people.

We Keep Us Safe: How to Defend Against Police Violence

Authoritarianism escalates police violence, especially against targeted communities. How do we keep each other safe when we see police confronting someone? Learn about your rights and options if you see the police talk to someone else, pull someone over, or make an arrest. Because, who keeps us safe? We keep us safe!

New community safety content! Childcare provided on site for all sessions in January.

On Sunday January 11th, at 2 PM in Market Street Park, the people of Charlottesville will stand with Minneapolis, and with every community across the nation defending their families, neighbors, and friends from ICE violent attacks and kidnappings. 

We invite the entire central Virginia community to join us to stand up against this fascist regime. Get ICE out of our communities, for Good.

Curious about Indivisible? Already Involved? Join us to connect with fellow organizers, volunteers, supporters, and Indivisible newcomers at a our first social of 2026! Organizers will be on hand, and new folks are warmly welcome.

Let’s Get Oriented: Non-Cooperation to Resist Authoritarianism

What’s the plan? How do we topple an authoritarian regime? Whether this is your first activist event all year or you’ve been organizing nonstop since long before the inauguration, this orientation is for you. Let’s talk about what props up authoritarianism, and what we can do to slow, stop, and reverse it. If you’re already part of one of our organizations, learn how what you’re doing fits into broader strategies. If you’re not already part of one of our organizations, let’s find you a role and get you connected! We need everyone!

This “orientation” session has the same info each month. A great place to start!

Non-Cooperation Strategies in Action: Personal Refusals in Daily Life 

Let’s deepen our use of non-cooperation to fight authoritarianism. In this session, we will engage in scenario-planning to develop strategies we can use to engage in personal acts of noncompliance in our everyday lives, such as refusing instructions in the workplace. What resources do we have now that we could use to support each other in these personal acts? What resources, skills, and plans could we build now so we are better prepared to refuse to cooperate with authoritarianism in the future?

New non-cooperation content!

Indivisible Charlottesville and Indivisible Lynchburg invite those across Virginia’s 5th District to join us for Moral Monday: How the current administration is harming the people of the 5th District - and how McGuire’s complicity makes him an unworthy “representative” for the district. Please bring signs for visibility as well as a note addressed to Congressman McGuire sharing your concerns. We may be able to speak with a staffer and leave the notes.

We Keep Us Safe: How to Protect Each Other from Surveillance

How are surveillance technologies being used to escalate the authoritarian threats we currently face? What can we do to keep each other safe? Learn how to oppose surveillance cameras, such as the automated license plate readers currently surveilling those of us who drive through Charlottesville. Envision campaign strategies to shift our local culture away from a false sense of safety through surveillance toward embodied safety through solidarity. Because, who keeps us safe? We keep us safe!

New community safety content!

We’re excited to launch Indivisible Charlottesville’s monthly Dine to Donate series, created to uplift and support the mutual aid groups that keep our community strong.

This week’s host is Beer Run, generously donating 20% of all food proceeds to Food Sharing is Caring (Virginia Organizing). This mutual aid program ensures that individuals and families in Charlottesville have access to free, nutritious meals—because no one in our community should go without.

Grab a meal, bring a friend, and help us spread some neighbor-to-neighbor love. ❤️

Join us for our December All-Hands Meeting! We’ll come together as a community to reflect on the past few months and strategize for the work ahead. Connect with fellow Indivisibles and explore anticipated areas of work—helping to shape, define, and find your place in efforts to fight authoritarianism, strengthen our democracy, keep our community safe, and prepare for the big moments that matter. This is a great opportunity to get plugged in and help shape the year to come.

Let’s Get Oriented: Non-Cooperation to Resist Authoritarianism

What’s the plan? How do we topple an authoritarian regime? Whether this is your first activist event all year or you’ve been organizing nonstop since long before the inauguration, this orientation is for you. Let’s talk about what props up authoritarianism, and what we can do to slow, stop, and reverse it. If you’re already part of one of our organizations, learn how what you’re doing fits into broader strategies. If you’re not already part of one of our organizations, let’s find you a role and get you connected! We need everyone!

This “orientation” session has the same info each month. A great place to start!

Bird-dogging is a powerful tactic for holding our elected representatives accountable. Come learn how to get answers on the record by asking effective questions, in-public, in-person, and on camera.

Growing Our Movements: Learning from Labor Unions about Collective Action

To fight authoritarianism, we need to grow mass movements – which means bringing in more and more people with everything we do. Let’s learn from labor union organizing about how to bring people in, person by person, to take collective action. What kinds of teams, practices, and ways of being together will help us grow our people power? Beyond defeating authoritarianism, we want to win a future in which our dreams come true – in community with love and joy.

New mass movement content!

At 6:00 PM on November 20th, queer folks and allies are invited to gather on the Downtown Mall in front of The Beautiful Idea (411 E. Main St.), where we will light candles and read the names of our trans siblings who have been killed over the last year.

Non-Cooperation Strategies in Action: Responding to Federal Threats

Let’s deepen our use of non-cooperation to fight authoritarianism. In this session, we will engage in scenario-planning to develop strategies we can use to prepare for future consolidations of authoritarian power, such as the withdrawal of federal funds from our communities. What resources do we have now that we could use to make such threats backfire? What resources, skills, and plans could we build now so that we are better prepared to block authoritarianism and build our movement power in the future? New non-cooperation content!

This week everyone is invited to stick around Visible Records for an author talk with Eric King, author of A Clean Hell: Anarchy and Abolition in America’s Most Notorious Dungeon. 4:30-6pm. This author talk is hosted by Rivanna Anarchist Black Cross.

We Keep Us Safe: How to Help with Safety in our Community Spaces

How do we keep each other safe when we gather together in community spaces? We’re thinking of events like this one in which we are publicly asserting our opposition to authoritarianism, religious services for targeted communities, and other spaces targeted by fascist violence. Learn how we can be proactive, and how anyone in our community spaces can step up to help if concerns arise. Because who keeps us safe? We keep us safe!

New community safety content!