Coming Up & Session 1

• July 23rd General meeting at the Corvallis Community Center (guest speaker)
• July 26th, we will be tabling at Albany Pride (and Farmes Market if we have enough volunteers)
• July 30th, don’t miss the next training session of One Million Rising
• Aug 13th:  How to have constructive conversations on difficult topics (Indivisible speaker)
• Aug 27th:  Action Committee Meetings
• Sept 10th: Membership feedback of the Past/Present/Future of Indivisible Benton County
• Sept 24th:  Action Committee Meetings
• Oct 8th:      Know Your Rights Training (invited speaker) – tentative
• Oct 22nd:  Action Committee Meetings
• Date TBD: Resource Fair. Suggestions and volunteers welcome and needed!

Our steering committee and several other volunteers dialed in to join The Moment and Our Mission, the first session of One Million Rising training. Many of us didn’t get in because the call was maxed at 20,000 attendees on zoom. Luckily it was being broadcasted on other media and recorded on YouTube.

What is 1 Million Rising?

Millions have already taken defiant action and joined the movement against authoritarianism. One Million Rising proposal is to direct that momentum into mass, decentralized pressure that compels key institutions to defect from Trumpism. There’s urgency to it. The urgency is determined but what has been identified, by historians and experts in authoritarianism as the Authoritarian Breakthrough

We must strike while the iron is hot -before the regime locks in even more power.

Academic research and analysis of experts of pro-democracy movements have offered multiple examples of powerful, successful campaigns that brought societies back from dangerous spirals of democratic backsliding. But to replicate it, it’s going to take large numbers of us all taking action, pressuring the key institutions and sources of power that enable an authoritarian to cement their power.

The goal of One Million Rising movement is to have everyday people hosting in-person community gatherings with their friends and family to continue to bring people into the movement, to step into our power together, and build impactful campaigns to stop this descent into authoritarianism.

During the launch, the presenter discussed the importance of this moment and its strategy. Folks were to create and register resistance gatherings in their communities and recruit an average of 10 people per gathering.  Less if needed, that’s Ok. Continued support and resources for hosts will be provided by NoKings-Indivisible.

It all starts with making a pledge to host a resistance gathering.