Upcoming Events & Calls to Action

One Million Rising – Mobilize Virtual Event

Wednesday, August 13, 2025
5:00 – 6:30 pm PDST
Virtual event … Join from anywhere

Session 3: What Now? – August 13 
You’ll be onboarded to basic campaign design and learn how to implement it locally as well as get plugged into our next national campaign work. Your second community resistance gathering will move this action forward. Sign up here.

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Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. We don’t have to wait until it’s too late. We can stop this. But it’ll take all of us—not just on single days of mass action, but through sustained organizing in our communities.

That’s why this summer, we’re launching One Million Rising—a national effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design. This is how we build people power that can’t be ignored. You’re invited to join us—and lead.

Let’s build a force bigger than fear and louder than hate. Let’s get ready. Let’s get organized. Let’s stop Trump.

Did you miss Session 1? 
It’s not too late to join us – just watch the recording here! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4496VWDjwS0

Session 2: How to Make it Happen:
Learn not just our strategy, but how you can lead a discussion with others and get them on board with taking action in your community. You’ll host your first community resistance gathering after this session, before our next session. Can’t get into the Zoom? No problem! Check out the livestream at nokings.org/rise – make sure to still register so you can stay in touch with us and receive all of the follow-up materials!

Sign up for all 3 sessions to get the most out of this experience. Watch it live with a friend in person, and get ready now to host your own community resistance gatherings after the second and third sessions. This is how we get to 1 million!

An NBWDC member shared this important activism tool with us, and we are sharing it with you.

“I just finished listening to a podcast with Rep. Pramila Jayapal, in which she discussed her virtual training program called The Resistance Lab. The training teaches people about non-violent protests and the tools and tactics people can use daily in our current political climate. Just wanted to pass it along!”

What is the Resistance Lab?
The Resistance Lab is a series of training opportunities that are developed specifically for this moment. We look at how non-violent movements around the world have responded to leaders who seize power in authoritarian ways and the most effective tools and tactics to utilize in these moments. We offer frameworks to understand this moment at home and incorporate interactive conversation with others to help create community and build our resistance movement.

Find out more here:
https://www.pramilaforcongress.com/the-resistance-lab

City Government Opportunities

City Meetings/Events Calendars & City Websites

Stay engaged with your local government, whether it is attending meetings of city councils, library trustees, general plan committees, finance committees and more. Consider calling or emailing your council members on issues that matter to you.

City calendars provide dates, times and locations of various city meetings and events.  City websites provide information about current and future projects, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, and ways to contact city council members, commissioners and city staff.

Here are several city calendars and websites to get you started:

Newport Beach City Calendar

Newport Beach City Website

Huntington Beach City Calendar

Huntington Beach City Website

Laguna Beach City Calendar

Laguna Beach City Website

Costa Mesa City Calendar

Costa Mesa City Website