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Nonviolence Direct Action Training for Protest and Protection

Sat April 26, 2025 @ 11:00 am - 3:30 pm EDT

It’s Time. To build community. To get grounded. To call on our history of radical nonviolence and civil resistance. To practice our ability to step out and to support one another. In this unprecedented time of uncertainty and assault on our communities and our rights, we need to respond.

The training will be for people of all levels of experience with Nonviolent Direct Action.

The training will include tools and resources to take action with intention and practice with direct action, de-escalation and interrupting violence.

Date and times –   in person

Saturday April 26  11- 3:30 ( arrive by 10:45)

Hope Central Church- 85 Seaverns Ave, Jamaica Plain, MA 02130

Come ready to form an affinity group with neighbors, friends or like minded activists.

RSVP necessary. Reply by April 23

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Capped at 50.

Once people register, we will send materials to you.

Cathy Hoffman is an activist for social justice who has learned that being part of a training enables us to act creatively and being the powerful messages for the world we want to build.

Donations accepted. Please bring your own lunch.

Co-sponsored by Mass Peace Action

we are each other’s harvest:

we are each other’s business:

we are each other’s magnitude and bond. Gwendolyn Brooks

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  • Date: Sat April 26, 2025
  • Time:
    11:00 am - 3:30 pm EDT
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