7/6 @ 6pm - City Council mtg, postcard writing 7/9, 530 @ the Athenaeum !
Events This Week:
Tonight, 6pm at City Hall– SECOND READING and FINAL PASSAGE of the Datacenter Moratorium. Let's pack the council again!
Thursday, July 9th, Westfield Athenaeum, 5:30-7:30PM
Help Mobilize Voters in Key States: Ohio postcarding!
Please bring postcard stamps if you can!
https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/980704/
Friday, July 10th, 10am
Westfield Friends of Peace Listening Circle
Westfield State University Interfaith Center
Our Circle Keeper for July 10 is Stephen Beals, an experienced facilitator of Listening Circles. The guiding question for our inaugural gathering is straightforward: In a contentious world, how do we build a peaceful world?
Stephen will begin our hour by guiding us in how to be a Listening Circle. In advance of joining us on the 10th, we invite you to reflect on “The Peace of Wild Things,” a poem by Wendell Berry that will help set the tone for the Circle.
This Month:
Saturday, July 18th, Little River Plaza (across from Home Depot)
10AM-12PM
National Anti-Datacenter standout. Anti-Datacenter signs only, not a No Kings event. Please continue to be respectful and nonviolent ambassadors of our movement!
Saturday, July 25th, 11-12PM, Citizen's Bank Sign (Stop and Shop)
Our monthly last Saturday will be a DE-ICE Citizen's event! Please bring your best De-Ice Citizens Bank signs, and join us on the sidewalk in front of the Stop and Shop/Citizen's sign.
Sign Ideas: De-ICE Citizens Bank; Cages Aren't Communities; Citizens Bank - Stop Financing ICE Prisons; Citizens Bank + ICE = Human Rights Abuse; ICE Prisons Don't Strengthen Our Communities; Citizens Bank- Cut Ties With ICE Prisons; etc.
Patriots,
Two beautiful responses to how many of us may feel about celebration this 250th year of our Democracy:
"...patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent, it is every march led under the heavy sun, it is every protest held a decade before its time." - Mayor Zohran Mamdani
To celebrate a rebellion is to know that, from a flawed world, we can make new things. We can hold on, we can find each other, and not just imagine but create a much better America. - Timothy Snyder
Timothy Snyder
Our commitment to celebrating and imagining what the promise of freedom looks like in these United States of America was held on June 27th in Park Square, our first Parks and Rec permitted event! Thank you to the City, those who helped set up, those who attended, those who signed with us, and to Samuel Macmunn for speaking. We will continue to hold this event each year, and look forward to more attendees in the future!
A few of us also supported the Historical Commission in a public reading of the Declaration of Independence at the July 2nd concert and fireworks display. Go team, build that community!
The people, united, will never be defeated.
No Kings Westfield