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BRATTLEBORO-On June 14, Flag Day, Brattleboro and our surrounding communities will come together to make the collective statement: Let freedom fly!
Our community has been amazing in the months since we have understood the threat to our lives from the Trump regime - threats to our natural environment, and to the moving target of those who are in the crosshairs of the current government.
All communities are unique, but the Brattleboro community has been leading the way in our enthusiasm for justice, our refusal to be intimidated, and our event organizing.
In our small town, we have organized countless protests - one as large as 2,000 people in April, and one as small as a 30-person vigil to mourn the deaths in Gaza.
Dozens of people are attending regularly scheduled weekly events, rain or shine, voicing our support for human rights and dignity - refusing to accept any aspect of the thefts of resources, civil rights, and amazing criminality coming out of the current regime in Washington.
On June 14, we plan to host an amazing event. From 3 to 6 p.m., we will again join others nationwide, standing together in love and unity. Our movement for justice continues to build: We declare that power belongs with the people. That's us! That's each and every one of you!
This is a family friendly event. We are planning to focus on the positive: what we can do as a collective voice, as a strong group of justice-loving individuals to demand fairness, to demand that our kids will have the same opportunities that we were given.
We hope to bring together on the Town Common the many social service, conservation, feminist, progressive political, and human rights groups who are represented in our town. More unity is always more strength - the better we are at putting the experience of many old leftist and hippie organizers with the new, young energetic leaders, the stronger our community will be to face whatever Donald Trump and his minions throw at us.
We will not be silent. We will gather on the streets and in our neighborhoods in collaboration, on June 14 and on every day to follow.
Co-hosted by Brattleboro Area Action and Indivisible Brattleboro, this partnership is bound by a shared commitment to nonviolence, inclusion, and democratic participation.
For more info, email [email protected].
Brattleboro Area Action and Indivisible Brattleboro
Brattleboro
Nancy Braus//MK Baker
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