Our Federal Resistance Team is made up of a dedicated group of RAD volunteers that are heading the coordination and program building related to ongoing actions throughout Vermont. We work together to build community, educate one another, and take action in the context of ongoing threats to democracy and our freedoms from the federal administration.
Learn about ongoing efforts to protect democracy and freedom and how you can plug in. This is a space for people who are concerned about what’s going on and are looking for ways to get involved, as well as a space for people to share about actions and activities that they are a part of.
Stay Informed
Join RAD’s next Monthly Action Call to stay up to date with actions, organizing and volunteer opportunities!
SIGN UPFederal Resistance: Actions You Can Take Now
Resistance doesn’t happen all at once, it is a sustained and ongoing effort for us all! You don’t have to do all things at all times, that can be overwhelming. We recommend you choose ONE thing to do each week, and add more if/when you are ready.
Together we create change!
Take Care of Each Other
- Pace yourself. There is no magic formula for this – you need to figure out what works for you, be mindful of your limits to avoid burnout. Balance your activism with wellness.
- Build community, check in with your neighbors, share quality time with your beloveds. Embrace joy as a form of resistance.
- Action: Remind the people you love you will be there and show up for them, especially those who feel most threatened right now.
ACTIVATING YOUR PEOPLE
- Host a house party with your friends to discuss what’s going on and support each other
- Outreach, make a list of people you will talk to, write down what you want to tell them about this meeting, and make a plan for when you’re going to talk to them
- Share calls to action, meetings, and protests with your friends and family, and ask that they do the same with their own networks
TAKE TO THE STREETS
Protests
- Upcoming Events: 50501Vermont maintains a comprehensive events list of actions across Vermont
Ongoing Actions
- Overpasses for Democracy
- I-91 Overpasses in VT, Fridays, 3-6pm, 350 Western Ave, Brattleboro
- Stand Up For Democracy
- Saturdays, 11am-12pm, Milton: 259 US – 7, Milton VT
- Saturdays, 11am-12pm, Fairfax Community Center – 1210 Main St. Fairfax VT
- Burlington Farmers Market Weekly Rally, Saturdays 10am, Pine St. and Marble Ave, Burlington VT
- Join Your Neighbors, Saturdays at 12pm, Manchester Center Roundabout, Manchester VT
WAYS TO RESIST FROM HOME
- Ongoing Boycotts: Businesses that supported/still support the current Federal Gov, dropped DEI, or support ICE.
- ACE Hardware, Anthropologie, Auto Zone, Bank of America, Buffalo Wild Wings, Burger King, Charmin, Chevrolet, Chevron, Coor’s Beer, Cuisinart, Dominos Pizza, Discount Tire, Dole Foods, Enterprise Rental Car, Exxon, Folgers, Fruit of the Loom, Geico, GMC, GNC, Google, Grey Goose, Hershey Products, Hewlett Packard, Hobby Lobby, Home Goods, L.L. Bean, Land 0 Lakes, Lowes, Meta, McDonalds, Miller Beer, NAPA Auto Parts, Nestle Products, Omni Hotels, Pepsi, Pizza Hut, Playtex, Proctor & Gamble, Puma, Purdue Farms, ReMax, Shell Oil, Shopify, Siemens, Sierra Trading Post, Sodastream, Smucker’s Products, Sunoco, Tesla, Tractor Supply, Uber, Urban Outfitters, Victoria’s Secret, Well’s Fargo, Wendy’s, Wix, Young Brands, Yum Brands, Zoom
- Art As Resistance, Get involved with community art, or start your own project to dissent. 66 Ways to Creatively Resist
Ask Our Leaders to Fight For Health Care Funding
Congress cut funding to Medicaid this summer and without action by Congress, ACA tax credits will expire at the end of 2025.
- Action: Call our Congressional delegation to ask them to fight for health care funding in any government funding bill that moves through Congress!
- Senator Bernie Sanders: 802-862-0697
- Senator Peter Welch: 802-863-2525
- Representative Becca Balint: 802-652-2450
- Action: Call Governor Scott and urge him to publicly call on President Trump to negotiate with Congressional leadership to include health care funding in the government funding bill and avert a government shutdown.
- Governor Scott: 802-828-3333
- Use 5 Calls for scripts ideas: 5 Calls Website
- Ask your friends in Republican districts to contact their members of Congress
PROTECT OUR NEIGHBORS AND IMMIGRANTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY
- Evict ICE from Vermont facilities
- Contact the property manager of White Cap Business Park and ask them to cancel the ICE lease at 426 Industrial Avenue, Williston, which ICE uses as a national surveillance facility
- Call White Cap’s management at 802-316-6017
- Email White Cap’s management using this online form
- Contact the property manager of White Cap Business Park and ask them to cancel the ICE lease at 426 Industrial Avenue, Williston, which ICE uses as a national surveillance facility
- Ask your state reps to support legislation to curb ICE
- Contact your State Representative (link goes to VPIRG form) and ask them to allocate funding for legal representation for immigrants.
- Contact House Judiciary Committee members to ask them to support S.208, An act relating to standards for law enforcement identification, and S.209, An act relating to prohibiting civil arrest in sensitive locations.
- Contact your State Senators (link goes to ACLU form) and ask them to support H.849, An act relating to a civil action for damages for deprivation of federal constitutional rights by any government official.
- Contact your State Representative and ask them to support S.227, An act relating to creating immigration protocols in Vermont schools.
- Call Out Police Violence
- Vermont activists have compiled a list of actions you can take in response to the role Vermont law enforcement agencies played on Wednesday, February 11, in South Burlington.
- Sign up for Migrant Justice Action Alerts (make sure to click the “Rapid Response” box from the list of volunteer interests)
- Donate to Vermont organizations that support immigrants:
STOP THE FED’S ATTACK ON OUR RIGHTS
- Join a #TeslaTakedown protest in South Burlington (or host one at a local charging station!)
- Action: Cancel your X account
- Action: Cancel your X account
- Action: Call or write Governor Scott and other state leaders to ask them to stand up to Trump
- Governor’s Office
- 802 828-3333
- Office of Governor Phil Scott, 109 State Street, Pavilion Montpelier, VT 05609
- VT State Reps – https://legislature.vermont.gov/people/all/2026
- Governor’s Office
STAY UP TO DATE WITH ACTIONS IN VT
- Find Protests & Actions
- Get Involved: Become a RAD member
- Join: Come to our next Monthly Action Call (usually held the third Thursday of the month at 6pm on Zoom)
- Volunteer your time: Join our Federal Resistance Team. Contact us and let us know you want to get involved!
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