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. ❤️
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!
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!
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!
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!
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!
Growing Our Movements: Resourcing the Folks Most Impacted
To fight authoritarianism, we need to grow mass movements – which means bringing in more and more people with everything we do. Let’s talk about how to resource the folks in our community who are most impacted by current fascist threats, such as low-income folks of color. How are folks currently organizing to grow community power? How can we grow relationships and form coalitions across race, class, language, and culture to upend white supremacy? Beyond defeating authoritarianism, we want to win a future in which our dreams come true – in an antiracist, multiracial, democratic society in which we all have access to what we need and want.
New mass movement content!
