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Rise for Freedom Training – Ann Arbor
May 15 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Rise for Freedom Training – Ann Arbor
About this event
Join Rise for Democracy Training for a series of live online trainings intended for in-person groups nationwide on Thursday evenings over 7 weeks. The goal of the training series is to bring people together, grow & strengthen their local networks, and get ready to mobilize to demand democracy in this new challenging environment.
- Training content will be presented live and breakouts will take place in-person in people’s living rooms and other activist organized spaces.
- Follow up asks deemed the most important to the moment will be shared at the end of trainings as appropriate.
- Training is a flexible tool that can help build for specific events as well as build existing and new local groups of people who can take action together.
Why Trainings?
Trainings are critical for our movement because they:
- Engage and recruit more people into the freedom and democracy movement
- Educate and onboard new activists
- Energize large numbers of people for mobilizing and create space for local organizing and planning
- Elevate: train higher skill activists and new and younger movement leadership
The Rise for Democracy training is for people who love our country and understand the threat of autocracy before us, and want to do something about it. If you’re moderate politically, a pro-democracy conservative, or progressive – this is your place! You are welcome and important here. This training is for you.
The live online training series schedule:
**Thurs. May 8th – De-escalation & Advanced Strategic organizing skills
**Thurs. May 15 – Mutual Aid & Structures for Stronger Local Organizing
**Thurs. May 22 – Advanced Organizing Skills: Choosing your Tactics
**Thurs. May 29th – Digital Hygiene for Activists
**Thurs. June 5th – Media Storytelling with a Focus on Broadcast and Social Media
~ Who Is This Training For? ~
This training is for people who love our country and understand the threat of autocracy before us, and want to do something about it. If you’re moderate politically – this is your place! You are welcome and important here. If you’re a pro-democracy conservative – this is your place! You are welcome and important in these trainings. If you’re progressive, this training is for you.
Training calls will not include lengthy one way communications about the ongoing attacks on democracy and communities. That’s a space other orgs and collaboratives we believe can and will fill.
National Partners include: Public Citizen, League of Women Voters US, CREW, DC Peace Team, Grow Democracy DC, Lift Our Vote, Peace Action, People For the American Way, This Land
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