Voting Champions Check-In #5
Oct
28
8:00 PM20:00

Voting Champions Check-In #5

  • Via Zoom - Register by the end of the day Monday, September 21 to receive link (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Electoral Power Team is building a network of Voting Champions—people who turn personal relationships into political power. Champions share accurate voting information and encourage early voting among friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers, now and in future elections. Over time, this network will help us hold officials accountable and mobilize around issues our community cares about. This is our first check-in! No campaign experience needed, just a willingness to talk with people you know. Register here.

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Flip the Fifth! Knock Doors with Free DC to Elect Democrat Tom Perriello for Congress!
Oct
31
11:00 AM11:00

Flip the Fifth! Knock Doors with Free DC to Elect Democrat Tom Perriello for Congress!

Free DC is an organization working for Statehood in the District of Columbia, and they are sending busloads of canvassers to Charlottesville to support voter turnout in support of Tom Perriello. Free DC needs local volunteers to drop-off and pick-up canvassers, and will also orient anyone who would like to canvas themselves! Interested in supporting? SIGN UP HERE

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Flip the Fifth! Knock Doors with Free DC to Elect Democrat Tom Perriello for Congress!
Nov
1
11:00 AM11:00

Flip the Fifth! Knock Doors with Free DC to Elect Democrat Tom Perriello for Congress!

Free DC is an organization working for Statehood in the District of Columbia, and they are sending busloads of canvassers to Charlottesville to support voter turnout in support of Tom Perriello. Free DC needs local volunteers to drop-off and pick-up canvassers, and will also orient anyone who would like to canvas themselves! Interested in supporting? SIGN UP HERE

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Flip the Fifth! Knock Doors with Free DC to Elect Democrat Tom Perriello for Congress!
Nov
2
11:00 AM11:00

Flip the Fifth! Knock Doors with Free DC to Elect Democrat Tom Perriello for Congress!

Free DC is an organization working for Statehood in the District of Columbia, and they are sending busloads of canvassers to Charlottesville to support voter turnout in support of Tom Perriello. Free DC needs local volunteers to drop-off and pick-up canvassers, and will also orient anyone who would like to canvas themselves! Interested in supporting? SIGN UP HERE

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ICE Watch: Protect Yourself and Neighbors and Record, Record, Record
Nov
5
6:00 PM18:00

ICE Watch: Protect Yourself and Neighbors and Record, Record, Record

  • Sojourners United Church of Christ (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Witnessing ICE activity, and recording it, is within our rights and serves many purposes. We can deter ICE from kidnapping or assault, show solidarity with neighbors being harmed, and document what is happening to our neighbors so their legal team can better find them and bring them home. Come practice these skills to be better prepared the next time these dangers come around.

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ICE Out: How We Get ICE to Leave and Not Come Back
Nov
12
6:00 PM18:00

ICE Out: How We Get ICE to Leave and Not Come Back

  • Sojourners United Church of Christ (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

We have the people-power to topple the pillars that enable ICE raids. We have the people-power to refuse to let our communities be used for fascist fear-mongering and kidnapping. The more we plan ahead, the more we can be ready to go big in response, to refuse to cooperate, to stop them and get them out.

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ICE Melt: Solidarity Practices to Connect with Neighbors Harmed by ICE
Nov
19
6:00 PM18:00

ICE Melt: Solidarity Practices to Connect with Neighbors Harmed by ICE

  • Sojourners United Church of Christ (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Mutual aid is a radical practice of changing the world relationship by relationship. This is not charity – this is not one group of “safe” people working to “save” a group of people “in danger.” The more we show up to take care of each other, the safer we all are.

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Voting Champions Check-In #4
Oct
21
8:00 PM20:00

Voting Champions Check-In #4

  • Via Zoom - Register by the end of the day Monday, September 21 to receive link (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Electoral Power Team is building a network of Voting Champions—people who turn personal relationships into political power. Champions share accurate voting information and encourage early voting among friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers, now and in future elections. Over time, this network will help us hold officials accountable and mobilize around issues our community cares about. This is our first check-in! No campaign experience needed, just a willingness to talk with people you know. Register here.

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Phonebank For Tom Perriello
Oct
21
5:00 PM17:00

Phonebank For Tom Perriello

We’ll get together to join National Indivisible and volunteers across the country in making calls into VA05 to support Tom! 

Yes, you absolutely can join this phone bank from your own home if you prefer but this is an opportunity to participate in a convivial setting together with your friends from Indivisible Charlottesville. We’ll do this together! Plus, we’re bringing dinner!

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No Kings: Vote Early
Oct
17
12:30 PM12:30

No Kings: Vote Early

  • Albemarle County Office Building parking lot (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

For more than a year, millions of people have come together to reject the idea that power belongs to kings, billionaires, or politicians who believe they’re above the people and the law. Now, we’re taking the next step, turning people power into voter power on October 17!

We’ll meet at 12:30pm in the lower parking lot of the Albemarle County Office Building where teams (including you!) will gather to have a team huddle, decorate cars and pick up voting information flyers before being dispersed to different locations throughout the community — shopping centers, soccer fields, parks.

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Voting Champions Check-In #4
Oct
14
8:00 PM20:00

Voting Champions Check-In #4

  • Via Zoom - Register by the end of the day Monday, September 21 to receive link (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Electoral Power Team is building a network of Voting Champions—people who turn personal relationships into political power. Champions share accurate voting information and encourage early voting among friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers, now and in future elections. Over time, this network will help us hold officials accountable and mobilize around issues our community cares about. This is our first check-in! No campaign experience needed, just a willingness to talk with people you know. Register here.

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Flip the Fifth! Knock Doors with Free DC to Elect Democrat Tom Perriello for Congress!
Oct
11
11:30 AM11:30

Flip the Fifth! Knock Doors with Free DC to Elect Democrat Tom Perriello for Congress!

Free DC is an organization working for Statehood in the District of Columbia, and they are sending busloads of canvassers to Charlottesville to support voter turnout in support of Tom Perriello. Free DC needs local volunteers to drop-off and pick-up canvassers, and will also orient anyone who would like to canvass themselves!

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Flip the Fifth! Knock Doors with Free DC to Elect Democrat Tom Perriello for Congress!
Oct
10
11:30 AM11:30

Flip the Fifth! Knock Doors with Free DC to Elect Democrat Tom Perriello for Congress!

Free DC is an organization working for Statehood in the District of Columbia, and they are sending busloads of canvassers to Charlottesville to support voter turnout in support of Tom Perriello. Free DC needs local volunteers to drop-off and pick-up canvassers, and will also orient anyone who would like to canvass themselves!

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Election Day What-If’s: Scenario Planning for Community Safety and Democracy Defense
Oct
8
6:00 PM18:00

Election Day What-If’s: Scenario Planning for Community Safety and Democracy Defense

  • Sojourners United Church of Christ (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

This week we’ll learn how to respond if organized civilian groups show up at the polls on election day to disrupt and intimidate voters. We’ll work through scenarios to make sure we’re ready to act with clarity and collaboration in response to urgent authoritarian threats.

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Voting Champions Check-In #3
Oct
7
8:00 PM20:00

Voting Champions Check-In #3

  • Via Zoom - Register by the end of the day Monday, September 21 to receive link (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Electoral Power Team is building a network of Voting Champions—people who turn personal relationships into political power. Champions share accurate voting information and encourage early voting among friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers, now and in future elections. Over time, this network will help us hold officials accountable and mobilize around issues our community cares about. This is our first check-in! No campaign experience needed, just a willingness to talk with people you know. Register here.

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Voting Champions Check-In #2
Sep
30
8:00 PM20:00

Voting Champions Check-In #2

  • Via Zoom - Register by the end of the day Monday, September 21 to receive link (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Electoral Power Team is building a network of Voting Champions—people who turn personal relationships into political power. Champions share accurate voting information and encourage early voting among friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers, now and in future elections. Over time, this network will help us hold officials accountable and mobilize around issues our community cares about. This is our first check-in! No campaign experience needed, just a willingness to talk with people you know. Register here.

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Conversations to Build Electoral Power: How You Can Help Flip the 5th and Pass the Amendments!
Sep
26
12:00 PM12:00

Conversations to Build Electoral Power: How You Can Help Flip the 5th and Pass the Amendments!

The most powerful tool to win an election is a conversation with someone who already knows and trusts you. Help build a network of voting champions who can offer accurate information and strengthen our electoral power for this election and beyond. Join us for resources, skills, and a chance to practice these simple conversations.

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Voting Champions Check-In
Sep
23
8:00 PM20:00

Voting Champions Check-In

  • Via Zoom - Register by the end of the day Monday, September 21 to receive link (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Our Electoral Power Team is building a network of Voting Champions—people who turn personal relationships into political power. Champions share accurate voting information and encourage early voting among friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers, now and in future elections. Over time, this network will help us hold officials accountable and mobilize around issues our community cares about. This is our first check-in! No campaign experience needed, just a willingness to talk with people you know. Register here.

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Voices Rising
Sep
11
7:00 PM19:00

Voices Rising

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

This week we're getting ready for the election season — "caroling" downtown for early voting opening day, recording a song for an Indivisible video (and it's a round!), and singing to empower ourselves and the movement to fight fascism.

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Community Safety Training
Aug
29
10:00 AM10:00

Community Safety Training

  • Location details will be shared with registrants prior to the event. (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Have you ever seen members of Indivisible Charlottesville's Safety Team at protests or rallies, with their vests and radios? Maybe you've wondered what's involved, or said to yourself "Hey, I'd like to volunteer for that." Well, now's your chance! Participants will learn basic principles of community safety, practice de-escalation skills, and prepare to be part of the safety team at community actions and events. Come join us, and bring a trusted friend or two.

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We Keep Us Safe: How We Prepare for Police in City Schools
Aug
25
6:00 PM18:00

We Keep Us Safe: How We Prepare for Police in City Schools

On August 25, local families are invited to a community gathering (details below) to prepare for the return of School Resource Officers (SROs), aka police officers, to Charlottesville City Schools. The gathering will include a community discussion where families can share concerns, ask questions, and build community; a presentation on restorative discipline in city schools; and recommendations for how parents and caregivers can help prepare their children. Light snacks and sodas will be served, and children are welcome.

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What a Summer! Looking Back and Looking Forward to Grow Our People Power
Aug
17
6:00 PM18:00

What a Summer! Looking Back and Looking Forward to Grow Our People Power

However many sessions you’ve attended, or even if this is your first one, join us to reflect on the summer sessions of the People’s Activist Series. Bring insights you’ve gained that you want to teach others. Share the emotions and dreams and questions that have been bubbling up inside you. And, let’s take time to help everyone get plugged into next steps in community organizing and mass movement building as we prepare for the coming year and beyond.

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Voices Rising
Aug
14
7:00 PM19:00

Voices Rising

Join us for 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.

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Whiteness and Illiberal Democracy: Undoing America’s White Supremacist Roots
Aug
10
6:00 PM18:00

Whiteness and Illiberal Democracy: Undoing America’s White Supremacist Roots

This session will provide an opportunity to reflect on the role of whiteness in our lives and in America’s political system. How has white supremacy prevented democracy and brought us to this moment in history? What will it take for us to undo racial capitalism and build an actual democratic society?

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John Lewis Day of Action Redux
Aug
8
12:00 PM12:00

John Lewis Day of Action Redux

  • Booker T. Washington Park (upper pavilion) (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join us to hear inspiring speakers, connect with community organizations, learn about the candidates and Virginia’s Constitutional Amendments on the 2026 ballot, and attend voter registration training. You’ll also learn how to talk with your neighbors about voting!

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Stay Together, Stay Tight: More Physical Practice of Non-Violent Disruption
Aug
3
6:00 PM18:00

Stay Together, Stay Tight: More Physical Practice of Non-Violent Disruption

Join us for this second practice session in using our bodies for strategic civil disobedience to protect our community and disrupt fascist threats. Everyone is welcome at this session whether or not you attended the previous one! We will emphasize different skills and move through different scenarios. We remind everyone to ask for consent as we move our bodies together, and to wear sneakers and comfortable clothes. Come practice with us even if you're not sure this is for you. There is a role for everyone!

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ICE Out Vigil Honoring Those Killed by ICE
Jul
31
to Aug 1

ICE Out Vigil Honoring Those Killed by ICE

  • Free Speech Wall (Downtown) (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Justice for Lorenzo. Justice for Johan. Justice for Juan. Justice for All. Community Vigil

Join us and fellow community members at 8:30 p.m. for a vigil honoring those who have lost their lives as a result of immigration enforcement. Together, we will mourn Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebastian Guerrero, Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán, and others all those killed by ICE.

The vigil follows a 5:00 p.m. visibility action (protest) held earlier this same day. Whether you attended the prior event or join just for the vigil, all are welcome to gather in remembrance, solidarity, and hope for a future where every one can live free from fear.

Abolish ICE.

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ICE Out Visibility Event
Jul
31
to Aug 1

ICE Out Visibility Event

  • Federal Building & Courthouse (map)
  • Google Calendar ICS

Join us at 5:00 p.m. for a public visibility action (protest) as part of the nationwide "Justice for Lorenzo. Justice for Johan. Justice for Juan. Justice for All. ICE Out Day of Action." Together, we'll stand in solidarity with immigrant communities, raise awareness about the deadly consequences of ICE enforcement, and call for accountability and an end to systemic violence against immigrants.

The national day of action honors Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, Johan Sebastian Guerrero, and Juan Jairo Coronilla Durán, who were killed in separate incidents involving ICE in July. Participants are also encouraged to join us at 8:30 p.m. for a community vigil to mourn those lost.

Abolish ICE.

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Choose Your Own Adventure: Plan, Launch and Win a Campaign
Jul
27
6:00 PM18:00

Choose Your Own Adventure: Plan, Launch and Win a Campaign

A campaign is a long-term community organizing project built around a set of goals to change a policy, get something to happen or not happen, or otherwise change a specific piece of our daily conditions. Recent national campaigns against fascism and oppression include ICE Out, Stop Cop City, Tesla Takedown, and multiple efforts to stop the construction of data centers, build more housing, and secure workers’ right to unionize. The list goes on! To launch a campaign, you need your issue, your team, some research, and possible targets and pressure points. Campaigns help us grow our movement and impact the conditions of our daily lives. Come to this session to get started.

Hosted by Indivisible Charlottesville, Congregate Charlottesville, and Charlottesville DSA, the People’s Activist Series is an opportunity to learn more about using people power to fight fascism. Learn more about the series HERE, and keep an eye on our events page here for for more specifics on each session—let’s build power!

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