Rise for Freedom Training Series

We don’t have kings in America, and we won’t let a handful of billionaires run our country into the ground.

This is a call for everyone interested in learning how to organize under advancing autocracy and mobilizing in this moment. We’ll be talking about two exciting ways to take action and build pro-democracy power in this moment of crisis:

The Rise for Democracy Training Series and the HandsOff! Sat. April 5th Nationwide Mobilization.

Learn more about the HandsOff! Nationwide Mobilization on 4/5 at: https://handsoff2025.com/

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 action – in the next few weeks focused on the Hands Off Mobilization on Sat. April 5th as well as other events.
• 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.