WHAT CAN WE DO?
ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY!!
RESISTANCE!
CURRENT GATHERINGS, ACTIONS AND PROTESTS
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Strengthening CommUNITY Fundraiser
Sunday, May 18, 2025
5:30-8:30 PM
Sonoma Cheese Factory
2 W Spain St, Sonoma, CA 95476 -
Out In The Vineyard's Pink Sonoma Rosé Wine Festival
*Proceeds from this year's PINK SONOMA will benefit WakeUp Sonoma
Sunday, May 4, 2025
12:00 - 3:00 PM
Viansa Sonoma Winery & Tasting Room
25200 Arnold Drive, Sonoma, CA 95476 -
Sonoma Valley Pride Dance
Presented by Out In The Vineyard & Wake Up Sonoma
Friday, May 30, 2025
7:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Buena Vista Winery
18000 Old Winery Rd, Sonoma, CA 95476 -
Sonoma Valley Pride
Presented by Out In The Vineyard & Wake Up Sonoma
Sunday, June 1, 2025
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Sonoma Plaza Amphitheater
453 1st St E, Sonoma, CA 95476
INFORM, ORGANIZE, RESIST, DISRUPT:
RESOURCES TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY
Focusing on our community right now is vital.
This is a dynamic and growing list that is designed for constant updates.
It includes concrete action items that everyone can take either at home, with a group, or as part of a mass action. We hope this provides you with useful strategies. If you find other strategies that you come across that you would like us to add, please email them to: wakeupsonoma@gmail.com
Thank you for being here!
LIVE ACTION TEAM UPDATES COMING SOON…
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PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Community involvement focused on prevention of Right Wing extremism infiltration in our schools. encourage greater citizen involvement – eg: support "grow a candidate" efforts. Citizen oversight by attending School board meetings, meet with trustees during office hours, and keep the community informed and activated around issues where community input is needed.
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DEIA - LGBTQIA+ Advocacy
Identify aspects our community where we can have impact that needs safety and inclusion who have been marginalized, historically underserved or historically excluded EG: LGTBQIA+, transgender, BIPOC, Neurodiverse or disabled, women, youth, immigrants, religious groups.
This group will look at how this impacts our community and elevate DEIA visibility and safety within the community
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DEMOCRACY – TAKE ACTION!
Discussion groups, Kitchen table strategizing, letter writing, phone calling. How to start talking across the aisle to neighbors who “did not vote for this”. Keep track of local and national actions that our community would want to be involved with and keep an updated calendar with efforts to get the word out as widely as possible. Create local actions and promote ideas for community involvement from the Wake UP Sonoma "Inform, Organize, Resist, Disrupt Resources to Promote Democracy - toolkit. Hold workshops or teach ins.
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SOCIAL ACTIVISM - CONSUMER CONSCIOUSNESS
Stay on top of the Boycotts, Strikes, and actions people can get involved with. Supporting local businesses as opposed to large corporations that are supporting the Oligarchy.
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MUTUAL AID NETWORK
Mutual aid is one way that communities can come together to support one another when the government can’t or won’t. Community gardens, neighborhood pods, food distribution projects, financial solidarity projects, support in case of natural disaster, Bartering, etc. Create a Mutual Aid Network Pod or set of Pods in our community.
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MEDICAL CARE
Staying abreast of developments in the medical care and benefits arena in response to the current administration and local impact – how to address concerns. Make recommendations on how to create safety nets if systems get broken. Inform the community on risks so that people can put their own safety nets in place, and keep abreast of resources and strategies.
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WELL BEING
Wellness strategies – Islands of Sanity, neighborhood walks, potlucks, support circles, spiritual meet-ups and develop a directory of resources where people can find support. Create new supportive resources in response to unmet needs.
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VETERANS
Currently this group's lead is working out of Davis with "Common Grounds", but looking for local Veterans to join that effort and bring more information back to Sonoma Community on how Vets can get more involved in those efforts.
COMMUNITY UPDATES
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Immigrant Support
COMING SOON.
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Civic Engagement - City Council meetings
COMING SOON.
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Civic Engagement - General Plan
COMING SOON.
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Civic Engagement - School Board meetings
COMING SOON.