Peaceful Actions: April 29, 2025
Workshop and Rally
Saturday, April 5
9-noon Nonviolent Workshop
1:30-3:30 Hands Off Rally
Saturday, April 5th, is a National Day of Action, with what may be the largest rallies and marches held all over this nation since Trump started his second term with seemingly daily Executive Orders that erode democracy, wipe out jobs, destroy our social safety net, and shred our constitutional protections. We want a stop to loss of due process, human rights, access to health care, and massive job losses. We are in this together!
We can put pressure on Congressional Republicans who are fueling this coup. Tell them ‘ “Hands Off of Immigrants’ Rights. Hands Off of Social Security. Hands Off of Medicaid. Hands Off of Veterans Jobs. Hands Off of LGBTQIA and Trans Neighbors. Hands Off of First Amendment !
Join us on April 5th here in Chico at 1:30 pm at Children’s Park (across from Colliers Hardware in downtown Chico on First Street where it meets the Esplanade). Bring your signs. Hear from people who are affected by program cuts and job losses.
Then march with us, peacefully but determined, starting approximately at 2:15 pm through downtown and back to Children’s Park.
We’ll have tables where you can find kinship with local organizations who can fight the battle with you.
We need your help to do this! Can you come to our Peaceful Protest Workshop (see info below) from 9am to 12 pm and get trained to help as a traffic monitor to help keep marchers safe? Or learn how to de-escalate situations where provocateurs may try to instigate violence through insults or other aggression?
And:
On April 5 at 9 am to noon, the Chico Peace Alliance will be hosting a training workshop on how to engage in effective nonviolent actions for change. Advanced training makes mass actions more organized, better coordinated, more effective, and safer for everybody.
In this workshop, we will review the history of nonviolent campaigns, consider various different kinds of non-violent actions, and share guidelines for engaging in successful nonviolent demonstrations. We will talk about power: What it is, who has it, and how they get it. We will reflect on violence and the roots of violence.
There will be some brief role playing exercises and opportunities for discussion. Once you have had this training, you will be better prepared to be involved in nonviolent direct actions. We think you will find this training thought provoking and inspiring, as well as useful.
No cost. Donations accepted. Refreshments and breaks provided. Space is limited. Please let us know if you plan to attend:
[email protected]
Saturday, April 5
9-noon Nonviolent Workshop
1:30-3:30 Hands Off Rally
Saturday, April 5th, is a National Day of Action, with what may be the largest rallies and marches held all over this nation since Trump started his second term with seemingly daily Executive Orders that erode democracy, wipe out jobs, destroy our social safety net, and shred our constitutional protections. We want a stop to loss of due process, human rights, access to health care, and massive job losses. We are in this together!
We can put pressure on Congressional Republicans who are fueling this coup. Tell them ‘ “Hands Off of Immigrants’ Rights. Hands Off of Social Security. Hands Off of Medicaid. Hands Off of Veterans Jobs. Hands Off of LGBTQIA and Trans Neighbors. Hands Off of First Amendment !
Join us on April 5th here in Chico at 1:30 pm at Children’s Park (across from Colliers Hardware in downtown Chico on First Street where it meets the Esplanade). Bring your signs. Hear from people who are affected by program cuts and job losses.
Then march with us, peacefully but determined, starting approximately at 2:15 pm through downtown and back to Children’s Park.
We’ll have tables where you can find kinship with local organizations who can fight the battle with you.
We need your help to do this! Can you come to our Peaceful Protest Workshop (see info below) from 9am to 12 pm and get trained to help as a traffic monitor to help keep marchers safe? Or learn how to de-escalate situations where provocateurs may try to instigate violence through insults or other aggression?
And:
On April 5 at 9 am to noon, the Chico Peace Alliance will be hosting a training workshop on how to engage in effective nonviolent actions for change. Advanced training makes mass actions more organized, better coordinated, more effective, and safer for everybody.
In this workshop, we will review the history of nonviolent campaigns, consider various different kinds of non-violent actions, and share guidelines for engaging in successful nonviolent demonstrations. We will talk about power: What it is, who has it, and how they get it. We will reflect on violence and the roots of violence.
There will be some brief role playing exercises and opportunities for discussion. Once you have had this training, you will be better prepared to be involved in nonviolent direct actions. We think you will find this training thought provoking and inspiring, as well as useful.
No cost. Donations accepted. Refreshments and breaks provided. Space is limited. Please let us know if you plan to attend:
[email protected]
Peaceful Actions
March 19, 2025
Protest at Representative LaMalfa’s Office
Fridays, 11-noon
120 Independence Circle, Chico
We will obey all laws of peaceful protest to get our message heard by our absent Congressperson. Bring Signs. There are numerous Trump/Musk actions to protest. The office is at Philadelphia Square, near Eaton Road exit from Highway 99 or Esplanade and Eaton.
Peace Alliance at
the Endangered Species Faire
The Chico Peace Alliance will be bringing our children-friendly view of an endangered world to the Endangered Species Faire on Saturday, April 26, 2025.
Join us if you'd like to volunteer to carry a prop or make music in the parade. The streets will be closed off completely.
Meeting time is 9:30 at Third and Salem. We will contact you before that date with details.
The Parade and the Faire at the Plaza are not to be missed!
Please contact Kathy Faith through [email protected]
Commentary:
Let's Not Allow the Return of a "Siege"
Jim Anderson
Chico Enterprise Record
We all know of medieval warfare from books and films. We know the siege was a tactic by which a town or castle was surrounded to prevent anyone from entering or leaving and to prevent food, water, and necessities from being suppled. Starving the townspeople was a strategy.
Today the world has outlawed the use of such tactics that cause terrible harm to civilians and has called upon all nations to reject this cruel practice. As noted in a recent Enterprise-Record article, just such a siege blockade had been imposed by Israel on the people of Gaza. Food, water, electricity and fuel cannot enter, and even the few bakeries still making bread risk closing.
If you were seeking an enemy in hiding and your friend said: "Why don't we just lock up his family and neighbors and starve them until he gives up?" what would you say? Our country has the power to prevent this cruelty through its control of arms sales, its public statements and influences with Israel, and by supporting Security Council actions calling Israel to account (rather than using its veto).
There is certainly a desire now for our country to enter an era in which we show strength, courage, and moral leadership. To stand against this cruel practice of harm to Gazan men, women, and children would show such leadership. To hold back our power to protect shows either moral disregard or weakness.
Call Representative LaMalfa and our Senators Schiff and Padilla and press for action.
March 19, 2025
Protest at Representative LaMalfa’s Office
Fridays, 11-noon
120 Independence Circle, Chico
We will obey all laws of peaceful protest to get our message heard by our absent Congressperson. Bring Signs. There are numerous Trump/Musk actions to protest. The office is at Philadelphia Square, near Eaton Road exit from Highway 99 or Esplanade and Eaton.
Peace Alliance at
the Endangered Species Faire
The Chico Peace Alliance will be bringing our children-friendly view of an endangered world to the Endangered Species Faire on Saturday, April 26, 2025.
Join us if you'd like to volunteer to carry a prop or make music in the parade. The streets will be closed off completely.
Meeting time is 9:30 at Third and Salem. We will contact you before that date with details.
The Parade and the Faire at the Plaza are not to be missed!
Please contact Kathy Faith through [email protected]
Commentary:
Let's Not Allow the Return of a "Siege"
Jim Anderson
Chico Enterprise Record
We all know of medieval warfare from books and films. We know the siege was a tactic by which a town or castle was surrounded to prevent anyone from entering or leaving and to prevent food, water, and necessities from being suppled. Starving the townspeople was a strategy.
Today the world has outlawed the use of such tactics that cause terrible harm to civilians and has called upon all nations to reject this cruel practice. As noted in a recent Enterprise-Record article, just such a siege blockade had been imposed by Israel on the people of Gaza. Food, water, electricity and fuel cannot enter, and even the few bakeries still making bread risk closing.
If you were seeking an enemy in hiding and your friend said: "Why don't we just lock up his family and neighbors and starve them until he gives up?" what would you say? Our country has the power to prevent this cruelty through its control of arms sales, its public statements and influences with Israel, and by supporting Security Council actions calling Israel to account (rather than using its veto).
There is certainly a desire now for our country to enter an era in which we show strength, courage, and moral leadership. To stand against this cruel practice of harm to Gazan men, women, and children would show such leadership. To hold back our power to protect shows either moral disregard or weakness.
Call Representative LaMalfa and our Senators Schiff and Padilla and press for action.
Peaceful Actions
March 13, 2025
Call Senator Padilla
Free Mahmud Khalil
Gather at Rep. LaMalfa's Office
Send a Postcard to the President
We Invoke Blessings
Options for Social Action
Call Senator Padilla's Office
202-224-3553
Please call Senator Alex Padilla's office by the end of the day Thursday, March 13, as the Chico Advocacy Team meets with his key staff on the issue of humanitarian aid to Palestine. The Advocates who are meeting are from all over California, including five of us from Chico. The team is led by Jesus Martin Gallegos from San Diego, a younger activist who deserves our support. Tell the phone answerers that we demand electricity and water restoration, humanitarian aid, and the re-installation of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Be sure to make your call by Thursday afternoon.
Demand the Release of Mahmoud Khalil
Call ICE at 319-992-1600
Mahmoud is a Columbia University student detained by ICE for his political activism. This is an unconstitutional attack on free speech, initiated by Trump and his cronies. The First Amendment protects all individuals, including non-citizens, from being punished for expressing their views. The Supreme Court has ruled that peaceful activism is not a crime. This detention echoes McCarthyism, where people were persecuted for their beliefs. America must not repeat its past mistakes. Targeting activists for dissent is illegal and un-American. Call ICE. Demand answers: On what grounds is he being held? If there are no formal charges, he must be released immediately. Call today!
#FreeMahmoudKhalil
Gather at Representative LaMalfa's Office
120 Independence Circle, Chico*
This Friday, March 14, 11 am - noon
Given our elected representative's unwillingness to hold town hall gatherings to hear the voices of his constituents, there will be a gathering, with signs, this Friday, March 14. This will be a peaceful protest. Since he won't hold a town hall in Chico, we are left with showing up at his district office to let him know we are concerned about the course our country is on. We will obey all laws of peaceful protest to get our message heard. Bring signs! These gatherings will continue on Fridays.
*Philadelphia Square. Take 99N to Eaton Road exit; take the roundabout to westbound Eaton; take an immediate left into Philadelphia Square. Or follow the Esplanade north to Eaton and follow signs to Philadelphia Square.
Send a Postcard to the President
On March 15, many people will mail Donald Trump a postcard that publicly expresses opposition to him. And people, in vast numbers, from all corner of the world, will overwhelm the man with his unpopularity and failure.
If each of us writes even a single postcard and we put them all in the mail on the same day, March 15th, well: you do the math.
So sharpen your wit, unsheathe your writing implements, and see if your sincerest ill-wishes can pierce Donald’s famously thin skin.
Write one postcard. Write a dozen! Take a picture and post it on social media tagged with #TheIdesOfTrump! Spread the word! Everyone on Earth should let Donnie know how he’s doing.
Then, on March 15th, mail your messages to:
President Donald Trump, The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500
from Mobilize.us and other sources
Strategic Joy Deployed Against DespairRob Brezsny
a blessing on the meals you cook as democracy collapses a blessing on your healing hands that mend what empire breaks a blessing on your quiet mornings when you choose to rise again a blessing on the stories you preserve when others would erase them a blessing on your vigilant heart beating strong through the storm of cruelty a blessing on the seeds you scatter in neglected spaces a blessing on your fierce protection of all things small and wild a blessing on the wisdom you gather from elders and from earth a blessing on your careful documentation of what must not be lost a blessing on your mutual aid networks flowering in oligarchy's rotting shadow a blessing on your kitchen table strategies where sly revolution simmers a blessing on the wild songs you sing when courage starts to falter a blessing on your strategic joy deployed against despair a blessing on the future being born in what you do a blessing on the bridges you build between wounded communities a blessing on your sacred rage that fuels the work of redemptive justice a blessing on the hope you sustain when vulgar bullies assault hope a blessing on your children's children who will know what you defended a blessing on the healing you dare to imagine now
We Invoke Blessings - Rob Brezsny's Astrology Newsletter
Options for Social Action
Key Categories of Social Action
Direct Action: Participating in protests, rallies, sit-ins, or strikes to directly challenge a policy or practice.
Advocacy: Lobbying decision-makers, writing letters to elected officials, or starting petitions to influence policy change.
Community organizing: Bringing people together to identify issues, build power, and collectively advocate for change within a community.
Education and awareness raising: Sharing information about social issues through workshops, presentations, social media campaigns, or creating educational materials.
Philanthropy: Donating money or time to charitable organizations working on social issues.
Consumer activism: boycotting companies with unethical practices or supporting businesses aligned with your values.
Considerations When Choosing Social Action Options
Personal passion: Choose issues that you are personally passionate about to sustain your commitment.
Local impact: Consider actions that can directly affect your commitment.
Skill set: Utilize your skills and talents to contribute effectively.
Level of commitment: Choose actions that fit your available time and energy.
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