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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Communities Rising is a Seattle-based Indivisible organization. We bring neighbors together to defend democracy, so each of us can find our role:

The Detention Lottery:‍ An Immigration Courtroom

Shoreline Unitarian Church, Oct. 17th at 6:30 PM,

Register at Eventbrite

Donate to FIRE, Fueling Immigrant and Refugee Empowerment

The Detention Lottery is a play that immerses the viewer in an immigration detention center courtroom. The play opens up the covert, capricious, and byzantine immigration enforcement system to public scrutiny.

Film: A House United

This is a 55-minute film about people and organizations working to overcome the deep political polarization in our country. After the film, stay for a conversation about what local groups are doing to bridge political divides— and how we should respond to the November 2026 midterm elections.

Thursday, November 12, 2026. Doors open at 6:00 PM · Film at 6:30 PM

Keystone Church, downstairs, 5019 Keystone Place, Seattle

Tickets: $10

Co-sponsored by the Western Washington Alliance of Braver Angels and Communities Rising.

Highlighted Actions

No Kings Oct. 17th

Vote Early

Spending Strike

Economic warfare is the only thing the oligarchs will act on. Stop spending money except on essentials and local businesses.

Protect Voting

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.

More about paperclip resistance HERE.

Seattle-Area Activists

August Picnic

A Prayer For Moral Courage

Authoritarian systems depend on exhaustion and silence.

Democracy depends on people who remain present.

”…. 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

CR in 2025

Black and white protest poster with bold text about various social issues and a red highlight with a URL at the bottom.
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'.
Logo with an eagle, stars, and the text 'Phinneywood News Rising EST 2025' on a teal background.

Neighborhood Groups

Screenshot of the homepage of BeautifulTrouble.org website with tabs and a list of strategies and tactics organized by categories such as Stories, Tactics, Principles, Theories, and Methodologies.

BT Book Club

Speakers:

  • Charles Douglas, Common Power

  • Katie Wilson, Seattle Mayor

  • Alexis Rinck, Seattle Council Member

  • Girmay Zahilay, King County Exec.