Actions you can take

Ways to support immigrant communities

• Attend Immigrant Justice Summer Call #1, Thursday, July 9, 8-9 p.m. ET. This is the first of five virtual sessions from Indivisible National offering a blueprint for mounting a safe response when ICE comes to your community. Learn more here, sign up for the first call here.
• Participate in mutual aid. Tenants and Workers United training provides guidance on how to work with neighbors to help each other as needed, as well as in rapid response actions. Learn more, sign up here.
• Distribute food to homes, Tuesdays in Northern Virginia with Food Justice DMV. Vetting is required, orientation provided. Volunteers can also collect goods, such as beans, rice, diapers, and formula (from neighbors and friends) to drop off at a local collection center. Sign up here.
• Join New Virginia Majority Solidarity to learn skills to stand with immigrant neighbors. Actions include ICE Watch trainings, political education and mutual aid. Sign up here.

Coming up:

Friday, July 17, 4-5:30 p.m., De-ICE Citizens Bank, Citizens Bank near King Street metro. This is part of a national movement publicizing the fact that this company bankrolls the country’s two largest prison companies, CoreCivic and Geo Group, which earn record profits operating dozens of ICE detention facilities. Sign up here.

Ways to support voting rights and protect elections

• Tuesday, June 23, Volunteer with Black Voters Matter. 5-6:15 p.m. ET, virtual training. Learn how to help increase voter engagement, protect the right to vote and build permanent, progressive power in Black communities. Sign up here.
• Write postcards to new residents in Georgia, Arizona and Michigan, and to support James Talarico in Texas. Fridays, noon-1:30 p.m., St. Elmo’s (1536 Kenwood Ave.); Saturdays, 10-11 a.m., Eclairons Old Town. Write there, or pick up postcards to write from home. For more: info@postcardsfromalx.com

Coming up:

• Train to Drive Voters to the Polls, Wednesday, July 15, 6-7 p.m. and Saturday, July 18, noon-1, virtual. RideShare2Vote provides training for those who can help get people to the polls for the Aug. 4 Virginia primary election. Sign up here.
• Be a poll greeter for the primary, Tuesday, Aug. 4, multiple times. The Alexandria Democrats seek greeters to work at Alexandria City High School on primary election day. Sign up here.

Ways to support civil liberties

• Voter Suppression Then & Now clinic, Saturday, July 11, 10 a.m.-1 p.m. ET, virtual and in-person. Alfred St. Baptist Church, 325 S. Alfred Street, hosts a timely discussion on voting rights and the legal challenges affecting voter access today. Sign up here.
• Train to be a poll greeter for the primary, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m. ET, virtual. Indivisible NoVa West's training reviews what's in play and how primaries work in Virginia--and how you can help. Sign up here.
• Write postcards to register new residents in Arizona, North Carolina, and Michigan, and to support Talarico in Texas and Cooper in N.C. Fridays, noon-1:30 p.m., St. Elmo’s (1536 Kenwood Ave.); Wednesday, July 15, 6-7:30 p.m., Atlas Brew Works (2429 Mandeville Lane). Write there, or pick up postcards to write from home. For more: info@postcardsfromalx.com
• Join the Hands Off Our Vote movement. Indivisible National's new election protection program covers all 50 states. Sign up to be notified about key voting deadlines, updates about threats to voting rights and how to counter them. Sign up here.

Coming up:

• Train to drive voters to the polls, Wednesday, July 15, 6-7 p.m. and Saturday, July 18, noon-1, virtual. RideShare2Vote provides training for those who can help get people to the polls for the Aug. 4 Virginia primary election. Sign up here.
• DC Good Trouble Lives On Candlelight Vigil, Friday, July 17, 7:30-8:30 p.m., D.C.: This event kicks off a nonpartisan weekend of action. Sign up here.
• Help fellow citizens get the ID they need to vote, Thursday, July 30, 7-8 p.m. ET, virtual training. VoteRiders offers orientations for those who volunteer to provide ongoing support for its helpline. Sign up here.
• Be a poll greeter for the primary, Tuesday, Aug. 4, multiple times. The Alexandria Democrats seek greeters to work on primary election day. To volunteer at Alexandria City High school, sign up here. To sign up for Mount Vernon Recreation Center, sign up here.

Other resistance activities

• Let's Get Free! March & Concert Rally, Thursday, July 9, 5:30-10 p.m., 1 First St NE (U.S. Supreme Court). Popular Democracy holds a march on the anniversary of the 14th Amendment, when “We the People” expanded to include us all. Sign up here.

Coming up:

• Rebel Cafe Civil Rights Coffee Chat, Thursday, July 16, 7-9 p.m. ET. Join this group of young people dedicated to building community and taking action. This month: rethinking what we know about civil rights history in honor of the late Congressman John Lewis and his "Good Trouble." Sign up here.
• March on Washington, Friday, Aug. 28, Lincoln Memorial. Hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, the National Action Network and the Drum Major Institute on the 63rd anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington: "We march because the work is not finished." Learn more, sign up here.

General: Trainings, meetings

• Phone bank with Ground Truth, Wednesdays, 6-9 p.m. ET and Sundays, 2-5 p.m. ET. Training is included in this virtual phone bank that has volunteers calling all types of voters to ask questions and listen deeply to voters' concerns. (See recent coverage in the NY Times.) Sign up here.
• Ground Truth Civic Action Follow-Up Letters. In this pilot campaign, Vote Forward asks volunteers to attend a virtual training then write letters to voters who opened their doors to have conversations with Swing Left interviewers (see above). Sign up here.