📢 Resist & Rising Together Weekly: Good News and Progress from the Resistance

Resist & Rising Together Weekly shares uplifting stories of resistance, resilience, and real progress in the fight for democracy. Each week, we highlight victories for justice, freedom, and equality.

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Hey there! Before we dive into the good news this week, I want to start with our Calls to Action. A friendly reminder — we’re a community that believes in the power of change and puts in the work to make it happen. It might not seem like much to spend five minutes signing a petition, writing a letter, or making a call, but when we act together, those small efforts add up. That’s how we hold our leaders accountable to the will of the people.

Today’s Calls to Action

• Click here to Tell Trump: Release Emergency Funds to Feed Families Now

• Click here: Governors must stand up to Trump and demand SNAP funding for November.

• Click here to Pass the Remove the Stain Act to advance justice, healing, and reconciliation for those slaughtered at Wounded Knee.

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Resist & Rising Together Weekly: Good News and Progress from the Resistance

Each week, Resist & Rising Together Weekly by People Power United shares stories of courage, creativity, and collective power from people pushing back against fascism and building a better future. While authoritarians try to divide and silence us, we rise—community by community, action by action—to defend democracy, demand justice, and celebrate progress. From victories in the courts and wins for workers to breakthroughs in climate action and moments of solidarity, this movement reminds the world that power in America belongs to the people, not to kings, billionaires, or authoritarians.

Because resistance isn’t just about fighting back—it’s about moving forward. Together, we are writing the story of progress, one act of people power at a time.

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Today, we honor the strength, resilience, and courage of the American people—those rising together to reject tyranny and defend our democracy.

✊ Rallies & Protests Highlights

🎓 Students and faculty at over 100 US universities protest against Trump’s attacks

• Students across the country mobilized in backlash to the Trump administration’s education policies, voicing concerns about funding cuts, ideological shifts and the future of public schooling. — The Guardian

📣 Hundreds of protesters rebuke Trump’s agenda a year after his election

• In a large, cross-sectional demonstration, activists marked one year since Trump’s return to office by calling out policies on climate, labor, immigration and governance—making clear the grassroots resistance remains active. — The GW Hatchet

🚨Children’s rights activists protested out the new Shein store

• Advocacy groups rallied at the opening of a national retailer’s new store to spotlight concerns around labor conditions, supply-chain transparency and the rights of young workers in fast-fashion industries. — The Islander News

🌎 Movement Wins for the Planet

🌎 Over 100 US leaders to attend Cop30 climate summit as Trump stays away

• Dozens of US state and local leaders will be at talks in Brazil despite President Trump’s refusal to send representatives. — The Guardian

👷 Movement Wins for Workers

👷Worker Wins: A Better Future for Our Families

• A report from the AFL-CIO highlights how organized workers are making major gains—fighting for higher wages, stronger protections and a voice in the economic future of their families amid a turbulent economy. — AFL-CIO

📜 Movement Wins for the Rule of Law and Democracy

🗳️ VICTORY: Groups Successfully Strike Down Provision of Anti-Voter Executive Order

• A coalition of civil-rights and voting-rights organizations successfully challenged a federal executive-order clause designed to suppress voter access, marking a major win for democracy advocates. — Campaign Legal Center

✅ Bridgeport advocates cheer ICE protection resolution

• In Connecticut, advocacy coalitions celebrated the passage of a municipal resolution protecting immigrants from deportation by ICE, marking a local win in the broader fight for sanctuary cities and immigrant rights. — CT Mirror

👩‍⚖️ Judge Permanently Blocks National Guard Deployments to Portland for ICE Protests

• With her temporary block expiring, Judge Karin Immergut said the Trump administration had failed to prove that protesters were hampering President Trump’s policies. — NY Times

🥪 Jury acquits D.C. ‘sandwich guy’ charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent

• Sean Dunn faced a single misdemeanor after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors. — NBC News

People Power Rising

Thanks for joining us for Rising Together Weekly: Good News and Progress from the Resistance. See you next week!

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Together, we can protect and empower those we love, champion our rights, freedoms, and democracy, hold our leaders accountable to the people’s will, and inspire voters to make a meaningful difference.

Laurie Woodward Garcia (paid with hugs and kisses, not bought by special interests), People Power United

Laurie joining other activists and organizations to drop thousands of petitions off to Congress for reforms to the Supreme Court

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