Rise for Freedom – Mass Trainings

Up next: Thursday, May 29th Rise for Freedom Training Topics & Presenters will include:

• In-depth Training: Digital Hygiene and Data Privacy with Quintin Cooper of the Electronic Frontier Foundation

We don’t have kings in America, and we won’t let a handful of billionaires run our country into the ground.

This is a call for everyone interested in learning how to organize under advancing autocracy and mobilizing in this moment. We’ll be talking about two exciting ways to take action and build pro-democracy power in this moment of crisis:

Join Rise for Freedom 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.
• 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.

All Trainings Will Include:

• Music
• An icebreaker
• Asks for local leaders to help you prepare for action
• Outreach mini training and goal setting and/or a digital hygiene tip – simply weekly steps to protect your data privacy
• One core 1.5- 2 hour training module (see topics below)
• Breakouts for in-person and online for folks who are alone, to plan and participate in activities

Training calls will not include lengthy one way communications about the ongoing attacks on democracy and communities.

Rise for Freedom Training Timeline – Thursdays, 8-10pm ET/7-9CT/ 6-8pm MT/5-7pm PT:

• Thurs. March 27 – First In-Person Meetings & Onboarding for New Folks: Program Orientation & Context Setting, Outreach & Digital Hygiene
• Thurs. April 3 – How did we get here? Intro to organizing under creeping autocracy
• Thurs. April 10 – Building to a critical mass locally (outreach)
• Thurs. April 17 – How to Talk to People You Might Disagree With
• Thurs. April 24 – Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence and Repression
• **Thurs. May 1 – BREAK (no training): May Day mobilization
• Thurs. May 8 – 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 29 – Digital Hygiene for Activists
• Thurs. June 5 – Media Storytelling with a Focus on Broadcast and Social Media

*May wish to do trainings en masse in-person, repeat training series and/or move focus more to mobilizing.

More information at: https://rise4freedom.org/

Partners include:

Public Citizen, Women’s March, League of Women Voters US, League of Conservation Voters, Declaration for American Democracy Coalition, Center for Common Ground, Clean Elections Minnesota, Corporate Accountability, Generation Common Good, Lift Our Vote, NextGen America, No Voice Unheard, Peace Action, Unitarian Universalists for Social Justice, The Workers Circle, AFGE Local 704, Blue Future, Citizen Action/Illinois, DC Peace Team, Fourth Branch Action, Free Speech TV, Gaia Coalition Network, Indivisible Hill Country, Indivisible Portola Valley, LWVSECT, Media and Democracy Project, Our Revolution, Peace, Justice, Sustainability NOW!, People For the American Way, Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, Resist United Midwest, Speaking the Key of WE/Charlotte Clergy Coalition for Justice, Task Force for Democracy, Texans Against Gerrymandering, This Land, #ResistTrump Campaign