Over
the next several weeks, Indivisible will be hosting online organizing sessions
as part of its One Million Rising initiative, which it describes as "a national
effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of
non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign
design."
Indivisible this year has already organized high-profile
nationwide protests this year including the "Hands Off" and "No Kings" events that were attended by millions of
Americans.
However, it says that its aim with One Million Rising is to
go beyond big one-day mobilizations to create more sustained local campaigns
throughout the United States that would fight the Trump agenda on a daily
basis.
In its
message promoting the event, Indivisible emphasizes, "It'll take all of
us" to mobilize against the Trump administration and added that this
effort "is how we build people power that can't be ignored."
Indivisible held its first One Million Rising session last
Wednesday and a recording of the session is available to watch on
YouTube.
The
next session will be held on Wednesday, July 30 and will focus on "how you
can lead a discussion with others and get them on board with taking action in
your community" and will also help attendees organize their first
"community resistance gathering" in the span of two weeks or less.
The third and final session, scheduled for Wednesday, August
13, will have attendees "on boarded to basic campaign design" where
they will "learn how to implement it locally as well as get plugged into
our next national campaign work."
Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, a professor at John Jay College
of Criminal Justice, recently told publication Axios that
Indivisible's new campaign shows that it's entering a second stage in its
approach to organizing.
"That outrage is still there, but now it's going to be
funneled and channeled into strategies and tactics on how we actually make
change in the government," she explained.
"As more and more protests happen, local, state, and
federal elected officials will feel uncomfortable maintaining the stance they
have."
