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The Next Four Years: Organizing Followup
Thu January 12, 2017 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm EST
At The Next Four Years conference at Simmons College on December 3, we discussed the political situation we find ourselves in and the need for a unified progressive resistance to Trumpism.
Read a report on the conference, view pictures at http://bit.ly/2gFpHFV and http://bit.ly/2h4zbI5, and watch the video recording at http://bit.ly/2h4hWK.
On January 12, we will call on conference speakers and organizers, as well as all participants, to suggest ideas for unified resistance around which people can organize; the group will then choose several of those for breakout sessions to develop the ideas. Examples of small group topics may include:
- Counter – inaugural organizing
- RaiseUp Massachusetts campaigns ($15 minimum wage; millionaire’s tax; paid family leave)
- Electing progressive candidates (Our Revolution)
- Protecting immigrant rights
- Countering Islamophobia
- Stop the $1 Trillion nuclear weapons modernization with Subways Not Submarines, Books Not Bombs and similar campaigns
- Stop US wars in the Middle East
- Organize against Trump’s cabinet appointments
- Climate justice
- Building Movement Coordination
The venue will be the First Church in Cambridge, 11 Garden St, in the Jewett auditorium. Directions and parking