A logo featuring silhouettes of diverse community members, including people with disabilities and animals, with the text 'Community Rising' in a circular arrangement. Below, on a red background, the message reads 'Defend Democracy, Build Community Together.'

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Welcome.  Communities Rising is a grassroots, Seattle-based Indivisible organization that brings neighbors together to defend democracy. Each of us can find our role:

UPCOMING EVENTS / ACTIONS

Emergency Meeting June 25th, Communities Rising

The Office of Management & Budget (OMB) proposes to politicize federal grant-making and allow political appointees to override peer review and policy experts. This affects ALL OF US. Join us to learn how you can help oppose this dangerous OMB proposal on Thursday, June 25th, 6:30 PM at Keystone Church (5019 Keystone Pl. N). Doors open at 6:00 PM. RSVP so we can plan accordingly. Learn more HERE.

Tell Your Senator and Representative To Denounce

FBI Raids On Voting Rights Organizations

Ask your Congresspersons to denounce the FBI’s raid on the Ohio Organizing Collaborative, a pro-democracy organization that helps register voters in that state. This group has done absolutely nothing wrong. What the FBI is doing is voter intimidation, pure and simple. More info HERE.

Take Action To Protect Voting

Wear a paperclip with a message and encourage others to wear a paperclip to indicate we must impeach Trump. Find out more about paperclip resistance HERE.

Illustration of children holding hands in a line, with a broken crown and scattered rocks below, and a banner reading 'Protect Our Kids From Dictators' above.

For more actions, see PhinneywoodRising.org

A Prayer For Moral Courage

Authoritarian systems depend on exhaustion and silence.

Democracy depends on people who remain present.

”Spirit of Grace, we are living through a time that asks much of us. It asks us to stay awake when it would be easier to look away. It asks us to remain hopeful when disappointment keeps arriving. It asks us to defend the dignity of others even when systems grow hostile to that dignity. Give us courage that is steady and disciplined. Protect us from despair that turns inward and from anger that loses its way. Help us remember that justice is not sustained by courts alone, but by ordinary people who refuse to abandon one another. Strengthen all who are vulnerable in this moment. Strengthen all who continue to organize, speak, vote, protect, and resist. And remind us that the moral arc of history does not bend on its own. People bend it together. Amen.” Rev. Cameron Trimble

Film Trailer: Lightworkers

CR Blog

CR in 2025

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Two women standing outside a building, holding national flags and a European Union flag, with smoke or vapor in the background.

Democracy Noir Film

People protesting at a rally with signs and balloons, including a large inflatable pumpkin, in front of the Space Needle in Seattle.
Sign with the words 'NO KINGS!' and a red circle with a line through it over a black crown with a dollar sign, indicating no kings or monarchy allowed.

Hands Around Green Lake

A man with gray hair and a beard stands in front of a large, seated audience in a theater or auditorium, with the title overlaid in yellow text, 'The Last Class with Robert Reich'.
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Neighborhood Groups

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BT Book Club

Speakers:

  • Charles Douglas, Common Power

  • Katie Wilson, Seattle Mayor

  • Alexis Rinck, Seattle Council Member

  • Girmay Zahilay, King County Exec.