Check this page regularly for actions you can take. Protesting, postcarding, phone banking, events and more! Have an action you'd like us to post? Email us at: [email protected]. Follow us @VillageDems on Instagram, Bluesky and Facebook.  Scroll down to the bottom for an OVERVIEW of actions you can take.

ACTIVISIM IN THE TRUMP 2.0 ERA

We'll keep this page updated with protests and other actions as we receive them. Your go-to section for resistance. Please check our CALENDAR for more events.

MARCHES & RALLIES- Check our Calendar for more events and updates

Join VID at Indivisible's Hands Off March – Saturday, April 5

VID is joining the Hands Off March on Saturday, April 5, and we need you with us. This is a national day of action, with marches happening across the country to defend our rights and freedoms. Every single person counts.

Meeting Details:

• Meet at 12:40 PM at Le Pain Quotidien (70 West 40th Street)

• We’ll walk to the main rally point as a group at 12:50 PM

• The march begins at 1:00 PM, heading to Madison Square Park

• Please check VID website for updates. 

Spread the Word: Know people in other cities? Forward the Hands Off! March info here so they can find a rally near them. This is a national day of action—let’s show our strength coast to coast.

This is a nationwide mobilization to stop the most brazen power grab in modern history. National and local organizations are coming together across the country to organize for Hands Off!, a national mass activation in defiance of the Trump-Musk billionaire takeover and the Republican assault on our freedoms and our communities.  If we don't fight now, there won't be anything left to save. More here.

Tesla Takedown- weekly, peaceful protest around the country and at the NYC Tesla Showroom (860 Washington St & 13th St - Meatpacking District), Saturdays, 12pm. Check schedule for updates.

Truth Tuesdays at Fox News, 12pm-1pm - Rise & Resist Weekly Protest RAIN OR SHINE! 6th Ave & 48th St. More info. here

March 31, 2:00pm-4:00pm - Save Medicare/Medicaid Protest

VIRTUAL

Indivisible - Join the Weekly Zoom Call 
Every Thursday, Indivisible co-founders Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg help wade through the week’s news, answer your questions, and provide timely calls to action. Sign up hereWeekly Indivisible Call on Zoom.  Every Thursday, 3pm EST. RSVP

An Evening with Anne Applebaum

Join Pulitzer Prize–winning historian and author Anne Applebaum for a Zoom event on Thursday, April 3 at 6:30 PM ET. She’ll discuss her new book, Autocracy, Inc., which explores how authoritarian regimes work together to undermine democracy—and what we can do to push back. Register here.

CALL

Thank you for making daily calls to your Members of Congress! Here are just a few key issues to focus on this week—click the highlighted text in each bullet for the full script and contact details:

• Hold Trump Officials Accountable for National Security Breach: Top Trump administration officials—including Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and National Security Advisor Michael Waltz—used the unsecured app Signal to share classified U.S. military strike plans. The Atlantic has now released the messages, confirming what they denied under oath. 

• Protect Free Speech: Stop Unlawful ICE Detainment of Immigrants: The Trump administration has begun targeting pro-Palestinian voices by revoking visas and detaining students and legal residents without due process—actions that violate the First Amendment and set a chilling precedent. Urge your members of Congress to call for the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil, Badar Khan Suri, and Rumeysa Ozturk, and to push for an end to these unconstitutional attacks on peaceful protests. 

• NO vote on the SAVE Act (H.R. 22/ S. 128): Call your House Representative - this voter suppression bill is heading to the House floor next week. It would require a passport or birth certificate to register to vote in person—blocking millions of eligible Americans, especially women, seniors, low-income, disabled, and BIPOC voters. There’s no evidence of widespread fraud—this bill is about making it harder to vote.

Use 5Calls.org or Jessica Craven Chop Wood, Carry Water to find more key issues, scripts, and numbers.

Source: Downtown Nasty Women Social Group

POSTCARDS

Help Wanted: Postcards To Voters has launched postcards for Wisconsin

​PTV is working with Ben Wikler and WisDems, hoping to reach hundreds of thousands of Democrats in Wisconsin to alert them about early voting for the super critical April 1st WI Supreme Court Election.​
​If you have never written postcards to voters before, just email PTV at [email protected] to get started. If you are already an approved writer, you can use PTV's Web Abby or Slack Abby or Email Abby to get the script & addresses. If you need a refresher on how to use those portals, find all the info you will need on the PTV Linktree. New Web Abby is really easy to use! If you want a human helper or you are in NYC and need supplies, email Sarah at [email protected]

Help elect Susan Crawford to the Wisconsin State Supreme Court. 

We’re mobilizing for Wisconsin’s April 1 Supreme Court race because the stakes are national. This election will decide the court’s 4-3 balance, shaping abortion access, voting rights, labor protections, and election laws in a key swing state—potentially influencing the 2024 presidential race and setting national legal precedents. 

In-Person Postcarding: Join Downtown Nasty Women and Team Min for in-person postcard writing on March 5 Tuesday, March 11th, 2:30 pm-4:30 pm at Morandi.  Supplies provided. Drop in anytime! RSVP here. 

To write at home: 

• New to postcarding? Email [email protected] to get started.
• Already an approved writer? Get the script & addresses via:
  • Web Abby, Slack Abby, or Email Abby (find details on the PTV Linktree).
  • Need a refresher? Web Abby is easy to use!
• Need help or supplies in NYC? Email Sarah at [email protected].

PETITIONS

• Support Offshore Wind: Sign the New York League of Conservation Voters petition to support offshore wind development. ACTION: Sign here. 

FACT CHECKS

Check out and share the weekly fact checks from the Downtown Nasty Women Social Group

SUPPORT/DONATE

Write a postcard to support Ukraine:

Send praise for Zelensky and Donate to Ukraine directly

President Volodymyr Zelensky
Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations
220 East 51st St.
NY, NY 10022

President Volodymyr Zelensky
Embassy of Ukraine
3350 M. St. NW
Washington DC 20007

Email: [email protected] 

Call: Ukraine Embassy: 202-349-2963 to leave a message 

OVERVIEW

Postcarding Groups - Join weekly, online postcarding sessions see information below.  These grassroots groups meet 3 times a week and although NYC based, activists from around the country participate.  You can stop by just to check it out even if you don't want to write. Each week guests and candidates are featured as well as issue oriented topics. All are welcome! 

Downtown Nasty Women - Mondays, 10am -12:00pm (eastern). Subscribe to the newsletter to receive the schedule/link.
Markers for Democracy - Tuesday & Fridays, 9:30am - 12:00pm (eastern). Subscribe to the newsletter to receive the schedule/link.
Postcards to Voters - ongoing postcard writing campaigns. 
Postcards for Democracy - tends to write for down ballot races.
Volunteer Corps

State Legislatures -The States Project. Change begins when you engage your friends and family to elect majority-making candidates who will shift the balance of power in a state legislature.  Click HERE for a 1 min. video "where do we go from here in 20204" and HERE for a brief video about Giving Circles (getting together your community to support a state).

Interactive NY Redistricting Map CUNY has created the Redistricting & You: New York online map to help members of the public, journalists, elected officials, and other redistricting stakeholders compare and analyze proposed district maps in New York.

Blue Voter Guide makes voting easy by clearly showing the endorsements of a wide range of progressive organizations. Blue Voter Guide will show your ballot for all national offices, all statewide offices and ballot measures, and your state legislators. In most locations, we’ll show you your down ballot races as well.

Democracy Labs  DemLabs created an interactive, clickable map of the US that illustrates key races and ballot initiatives across the nation. See Key 2024 Races. Click on your state to see what races and ballot measures will be on the ballot in 2024 or click on the “filter” buttons on the left to see which states across the nation have abortion access / restriction initiatives on the ballot.

DemLabs created the the webpage and map based on data collected by DemCast, which cultivates, amplifies, and maximizes the impact of grassroots digital media.

GENERAL LISTING - DO MORE,WORRY LESS

Show Support for Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde

This week, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde courageously called on to Trump to show mercy to immigrants and LGBTQ+ people. As a result, she has faced public attacks from Trump himself and calls for her deportation by Rep. Mike Collins.

We must stand in solidarity with Bishop Edgar Budde and show our appreciation for her bravery:

• Send a postcard to Washington National Cathedral, P.O. Box 98283, Washington, DC 20090-8283.
• Call (202) 537-6200 or email [email protected] to express your thanks.
• Share her sermon here on social media to amplify her message.
• Support her work by purchasing her book, How We Learn to Be Brave.

Source: Chop Wood, Carry Water, Jessica Craven 1/24