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. 

All Trainings Will Include:

• Music
• An icebreaker
• Asks for local leaders to help you prepare for actions.
• Outreach mini training and goal setting (e.g. text 5 ppl and get 1 commit to come to your next meeting, recruit one neighbor to attend etc)
• One 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:

Thurs. April 3 - 1st Full Length Training: How did we get here? Intro to organizing under creeping autocracy
Thurs. April 10 - 2nd Training: Building to a critical mass locally (outreach)
Thurs. April 17 - 3rd Training: How to talk to people you might disagree with
Thurs. April 24 - 4th Training: Harnessing Our Power to End Political Violence and Repression
Thurs. May 1st - No training - May Day actions
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

Partners include: 

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