INDIVISIBLE NORTH QUABBIN WORKING GROUPS
Community Outreach and Self-Sustainability
Voting Team
Rapid Response Network
Education and Training
Communications
COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND SELF-SUSTAINABILITY
To contact us, write us an email with WORKING GROUP in the subject line
indivisiblenorthquabbin@gmail.com.
Our reason for being: To build and strengthen our community from within.
We assess both the needs and resources within the community.
We build the mechanisms to match these needs to services and resources.
We develop and organize training workshops around skills to share:
Automotive concerns
Finances
Food preparation
Health
We’re developing a tool library and the oversight necessary to operate it.
Our vision is wide reaching! Our skills and needs are wide ranging! We need ideas and volunteers to assist and brainstorm. Please join us!
VOTING TEAM
To contact us, write us an email with WORKING GROUP in the subject line
indivisiblenorthquabbin@gmail.com.
The Voting team covers two general topics:
Voter suppression
2025 election activities: postcards, phonebanks, etc
Voter suppression: over the last 20 years, states have created barriers to voting, such as strict voter ID laws, cutting early voting times, restricting registration, and purging voter rolls too aggressively.
In this team, we will study groups that are working on these issues such as Fair Fight, Indivisible, VoPro Pros, VoteRiders, and the Brennan Center for Justice and we will see what activities we might participate in. Also, we will study the SAVE Act and the Silencing Americans Act.
2025 election activities: there are important elections this year in Virginia and New Jersey and this team can spread information about related actions such as postcards and phone banking to INQ members.
RAPID RESPONSE NETWORK
To contact us, write us an email with WORKING GROUP in the subject line
indivisiblenorthquabbin@gmail.com.
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been seizing and carrying off immigrants who work and live in our region, similar to raids around the country. The Franklin County Rapid Response Network (RRN) has participants throughout the county and beyond who stand up for immigrant rights, who prepare for and respond to ICE raids in a variety of ways: demonstrations, witnessing, standouts, providing transportation, and other support to affected families.
Immigrants have jobs critical to society’s well-being and the economy, working on farms, in construction, health care, restaurants, hospitality and more. Many have come to the US to escape violence in their home countries. The Federal Budget Act enacted on July 4, 2025, increases the ICE budget by $30 Billion to fund the largest mass deportation in history. It adds another $45 Billion for detention centers.
Each RRN town has a coordinator who sends out information and alerts sent to them by the RRN activator team. The activator team works with LUCE, (LUCEmass.org) a statewide coalition of immigrant rights organizations, to verify ICE activity and activate the network to respond. If you see ICE, call LUCE: 617/370-5023
All participants who take action through the Rapid Response Network must adhere to the code of nonviolence.
Code of Nonviolence
Our attitude is respectful toward all we encounter in our actions.
We use no violence, verbal or physical, toward any person.
We do not harm anyone, and we will not retaliate in reaction to violence.
We do not carry weapons.
We will not be under the influence or bring any non-prescribed drugs or alcohol.
During a demonstration we will not run nor make threatening motions.
In case of any confrontation, we will seek to de-escalate.
We affirm that people’s lives and safety are more important than property.
We focus on creative actions that do not include property destruction.
All participants in actions where arrests or violent confrontations are anticipated must receive nonviolent direct action civil disobedience training.
EDUCATION AND TRAINING WORKING GROUP
To contact us, write us an email with WORKING GROUP in the subject line
indivisiblenorthquabbin@gmail.com.
The purpose of this working groups is to educate the public and ourselves on the many issues that draw us to the Saturday Orange standouts, 11-noon, and to learn leadership and movement building skills.
Public Forums and Teach-Ins
What are the devastating “trickle-down” impacts on our community, state, and all the people living here of the Federal Budget Act signed into law on July 4, 2025? We know cuts have come or are coming to after-school programs, Medicaid, SNAP and other food security, Fuel Assistance, Renewable Energy programs, and many others. What does this mean for people in 2025 and 2026?
Gathering people from all walks of life in the North Quabbin region can be used as an organizing tool to engage more people in a broad coalition working toward building a more just and equitable community for all.
Trainings and Workshops
Helpful skills and activities to build the movement and develop leadership:
Nonviolent direct action training
Affinity groups: the why and how of this organizing structure
Communication and de-escalation
How to run a meeting efficiently and with good cheer.
Celebrating our connections and community: music, dancing, art, theater.
COMMUNICATIONS WORKING GROUP
To contact us, write us an email with WORKING GROUP in the subject line
indivisiblenorthquabbin@gmail.com.
The Communications Working Group maintains the www.nqindivisible.blogspot.com Website and is interested in bettering communications among people from many different backgrounds and points of view.
