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Saturday, January 31, 2026
Flip the 3rd CD
Fundraiser for 3rd CD candidate Emily Berge
Sunday, February 1, 5:30 to 7 p.m.
Pearl Street Books, 323 Pearl Street
Thursday, January 29, 2026
General Strikes Change Everything
If you can, withhold your economic activity from this odious regime on Friday, January 30.
If you can, no work, no school, no shopping.
If you need something, find alternatives - locally owned, independent businesses; co-ops; second-hand, Etsy, allies ...
If you can, use the day to contact our elected officials. Use 5Calls.org or Indivisible if needed. (Find your elected officials here.)
If you can, withdraw from Amazon, Target, Delta, Hilton, Enterprise, Home Depot--enablers of the occupation. Or spend time researching other collaborators. Boycotts work.
If you can, start disentangling from the oligarchs' networks - FB, IG, TikTok, etc. Here's a guide.
If you can, donate to StandWithMinnesota.com or local agencies like What I Need Now, Coulee Region Immigration Task Force, or Hunger Task Force.
If you can, find and read about or watch an online training about how to document, oppose, and protest ICE.
If you can, help Ellie Leonard comb through the released Epstein file documents.
If you can, connect with neighbors to strengthen our local support systems.
If you can, organize a Visibility Brigade.
If you can, write a blog post or letter to the editor.
Whatever you can do will make a difference. The general strikes here seem small and scattered but they matter.
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
More training
What kind of democracy sets up conditions that force its citizen to attend countless training sessions about how to stay safe from rampaging, unaccountable taxpayer-funded employees? But, here we are.
Immigrant Defense Network Brave of US Tour
STAND WITH OUR FAMILIES
Tuesday, Feb. 3, 5 to 7 p.m.
Location TBA
February 5 EYES ON ICE - Document & Record Training . 7 p.m. Online
Indivisible will cover the latest updates on ICE and CBP’s out-of-control and dangerous operations. We will talk through rights when documenting and recording law enforcement encounters, and how you can continue to take action.
This training will go over the Parental Interest Directive and parental rights and children’s rights in the ICE arrest, detention, and deportation contexts. We will also cover emerging risks in this enforcement environment and some ways that parents might navigate and lessen those risks.
This training is for non-attorney advocates, including organizers and others supporting community members facing immigration enforcement, as well as parents who might face arrest and detention.
This training will be presented in English with Spanish simultaneous interpretation and is not eligible for CLE credit.
Goodwill offerings accepted to help pay for trainer expenses. Childcare available.
Media Disinformation
MEDIA DISINFORMATION - Why it matters and what to do about it
Tuesday, Jan. 27 at 6:30 p.m. Online
Hosted by Dane County League of Women Voters
In this webinar forum you’ll participate in a lively discussion with our speakers about
- What disinformation is and how it affects our civic lives
- What media changes have led to the growth of disinformation
- How to spot disinformation
Register for link: https://www.lwvdanecounty.org/forums/media-disinformation
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From the Media Education Lab
Disinformation DetoxMedia literacy activities often position students as detached outsiders applying fact-checking skills to help them spot dis- and misinformation from a distance. In a landscape of ubiquitous screens, infinite scroll, algorithmic curation, and generative artificial intelligence, fundamental fact-checking skills do not match with the on-the-ground realities of how people encounter, interpret, and share information.
Learn more and register: https://mediaeducationlab.com/index.php/events/disinformation-detox
January 29 at 3 p.m. from the Alliance for Retired Americans
Scams targeting older adults are escalating through social media and AI. This webinar will launch the Alliance’s Stop the Scam Campaign, a year-long education and action initiative. Learn how these scams work, how communities can mobilize, and how collective action can strengthen protections. Open to all.
Disinformation Nation is an education project of the Freedom Forum Institute, a nonpartisan organization headquartered in Washington D.C., that fosters First Amendment freedoms for all.
Other resources
- Facts Aren't Enough, Revealing Your Unconscious, and Our Brands, Our Selves from Hidden Brain
- How Data-Fueled Neurotargeting Could Kill Democracy from The Secret Life of Data by Aram Sinnreich & Jesse Gilbert
- How to Counter the Far Right's Messaging with Anat Shenker-Osario
- The Rise of the Right Wing Media Machine from Fairness and Accuracy in Media (1995!)
- Big Lies: The Right-Wing Propaganda Machine and How it Distorts the Truth with author Joe Conason on CSPN (2003)
- The Right Wing Media's Lie Machine from PRWatch (2010)
- The Russian Disinformation Threat: Strategic Goals and Overarching Themes by Alexander Vindman (2024)
- Manufacturing Impunity: Russia’s Use of Information Alibis and How They Materially Contribute to the Planning, Execution and Cover-up of International Crimes from Global Rights Compliance
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