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Bernard LaFayette, civil rights leader who helped launch Voting Rights Act, dies aged 85 Early in a life of service, LaFayette did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama

Bernard Lafayette and the activists he worked with created remarkable advances for social justice in conditions that to many seemed impossible. (And some, like him, did so at remarkably young ages.) They are passing. But we are here.
Rest in power, #BernardLafayette.
#CivilRightsMovement

War crimes don’t hide sex crimes.
Many thanks to our Visibility Brigade for getting the word out!
@visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @indivisible.org @maddow.bsky.social @cardinalnews.org #wsls #wdbj #roanoke @pbsnews.org @npr.org @nbcnews.com #WVTF #epsteinfiles

This week's #visibilitybrigade action in #BlacksburgVA #nowar #iran #america #healthcare #peoplepower #resist #defy @nrvindivisible.bsky.social @markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov

We are everywhere! Find your local Indivisible and get involved. Go to indivisible.org
#nokings #notyrants @indivisible.org

Ask our House of Delegates members to restore Virginia public employees’ right to collective bargaining with HB1263 Did you know that Virginia public employees don’t have Collective Bargaining rights? The General Assembly took it away in 1946, in Jim Crow legislation passed after Black nurses attempted to organ...

Live in Virginia? Email our Senate's Commerce & Labor Committee to restore collective bargaining rights to VA public employees – INCLUDING HIGHER EDUCATION WORKERS – with HB1263. Do it before Mon Mar 2 if possible.
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That does kinda sum up a lot of it.

This.

Turn the #files into trials! Thanks, NRV Visibility Brigade, for getting the message out!
@visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @indivisible.org @cardinalnews.org #roanoke @richmond.com @maddow.bsky.social @pbsnews.org @nbcnews.com #epstein #epsteinfiles

Today in Blacksburg VA #epstein. #epsteinclass. So many honks, flashing lights, friendly waves, thumbs up, fists out the window.... #justice is coming. @nrvindivisible.bsky.social

Systems and Power: Lessons From Those Who Came Before Us · Indivisible Celebrate Black history and leadership by examining how past organizers built resilient movements. Explore systemic power structures and inequities, and translate historical lessons into contemporary ...

Celebrate Black history and leadership by examining how past organizers built resilient movements. Transformative Justice Coalition’s Barbara R. Arnwine will explore systemic power structures and inequities, and translate historical lessons into contemporary movement-building & leadership practices.

ICE-free zones and blocked liquor licenses: US cities fight back against immigration raids Cities across the US have developed novel tactics to protect their residents from federal immigration agents

Some of local governments’ roles resisting the Trump regime’s gangs of thugs around the US.
#iceoutforgood #iceout #ice

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We saw 5x more people sign up to run for office thru Jan 31, 2026 than we did in 2017-2018.

The “Where are the protests?” lament after Trump’s inauguration was always based on a (willful) misperception – a myth propagated by a punditry vying for relevance, hellbent on presenting grandiose reckonings and sweeping narratives rather than careful empirical assessments.

The cover page for a discussion paper called "Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule" by Erica Chenoweth. In the image, peaceful protesters can be seen in front of the US Capitol building.

Lately I've seen many references to the 3.5% rule. A few years ago I pulled together this Q&A on potential uses and misuses of this statistic. www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...

Don’t be fooled: the whole growth of ICE and its multiplying violations of civil and human rights was never about deporting dangerous noncitizen criminals. It was always about ethnic cleansing. About making America whiter.

Teen daughter of a Chicago man detained in an immigration case dies from a rare cancer A Chicago teen who spoke out for her father’s release after he was detained last fall by immigration officials has died after battling a rare form of cancer.

This is just one story of the suffering caused to a whole family by the Trump regime’s secret police abuse, aka #ICE. How many many more are there that we will never hear about? But for Trump and his f*scist crew that will outlive him to do more evil, this story is no doubt something to celebrate.

(around an image of a masked ICE agent holding a gun) Republicans "One Big Beautiful Bill' nearly tripled funding for ICE. That money came from your benefits: paid for by cuts to reproductive health care paid for by cuts to Medicare & Medicaid paid for by cuts to SNAP paid for by cuts to clean energy projects paid for by cuts to obesity prevention paid for by cuts to disaster response paid for by cuts to energy tax credits

"EXTRA! EXTRA: Democracy is on the ballot!" Stop MAGA Election Rigging! Tune in! YouTube video by Network NOVA

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It is closely akin to the “replacement theory” narrative told by US white nationalists.

It is the ideology that for centuries supported stealing land from indigenous people and killing them, and supported kidnapping and enslaving Africans.

Europeans push back at US over claim they face 'civilizational erasure' A top European Union official has rejected the notion that Europe faces “civilizational erasure,” pushing back at criticism of the continent by the Trump administration.

Let’s not beat around the bush. Sec. of State Rubio‘s comments at Munich are no reason to celebrate, contrary to the tone of some news reports. His reference to a common threat of “civilizational erasure” in the US and Europe is a #whitesupremacist narrative.
#WhiteNationalism #racism

The Trump regime and its supporters and enabler, including a shameful majority of the #SupremeCourt, continue to spit in the faces of the people who fought for freedom in the #CivilRightsMovement during the 1950s and 1960s - who were sometimes beaten and killed for democracy.

The NRV @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social's overpass message this week: BLACK HISTORY MATTERS. In a great America, peace should not be a privilege. As our country faces a Constitutional crisis and basic equal protection principles are violated, let's listen to those who stood for #civilrights for all.

Many thanks to our Visibility Brigade for their creative, striking response to a company that has been enabling the regime and its abduction of people who are just trying to make a living. Shame #HomeDepot! #ICEoutforGood #AbolishICE @visibilitybrigade.bsky.social @homedepotofficial.bsky.social

Blacksburg Post Office Protest · Indivisible The post office is at 118 North Main St. across from the UPS store. We will gather starting at 4:50pm. If participants can’t be there by 5:00pm that’s ok - they should just join in once they can....

Protest ICE abuses and other authoritarian moves by the Trump regime. This Friday, 5:00-6:00 pm, on sidewalk in front of the Blacksburg downtown Post Office. Please sign up and check instructions here. (And no, it’s NOT the Postal Service we’re protesting! :) That’s just the location.)

Poll: Trump's ratings on immigration tumble as Americans lose confidence in his top issue Immigration has been one of President Donald Trump’s strong suits, but the new NBC News Decision Desk Poll shows his numbers falling to the same level as his overall approval.

And the opposition to Trump’s secret police and related abuses keeps growing.

ICE is now the secret police. And Americans will not tolerate secret police. @indivisible.org

Spanberger orders state law enforcement to exit federal immigration agreements The governor also signed an executive order laying out priorities for state police.

Progress! Thank you, Gov. #Spanberger. It doesn’t cover local law enforcement, however - we are looking into that locally.
@indivisible.org @abigailspanberger.com #ICEoutforGood #287g

Thanks to our sister group Indivisible River Falls, Wisconsin, for sharing this advice! We all need to be cautious about what we believe - no matter how much we might want to believe it.