Benefit Concert for Southern Oregon Communities

Name: Benefit Concert for Southern Oregon Communities
Start: 2025-01-18T11:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-01-18T14:00:00-08:00
Location: 3070 Highway 66, Ashland, OR 97520-9504, United States

Schedule

Sat Jan 18 2025 at 11:00 am to 02:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

3070 Highway 66, Ashland, OR 97520-9504, United States | Ashland, OR

Women’s March Southern Oregon and ORD 2 Indivisible are proud to sponsor a Benefit Concert for Southern Oregon Communities on Saturday, January 18, from 12-2 at the Oak Knoll Golf Course in Ashland.
We have marched; we have organized.
NOW is the time for ACTION!! We will not go back!
We will gather to connect, build power, and support local organizations that help people impacted by the incoming administration and its policies.
We organize in solidarity with the National People's March, but this event is about ACTION!!
We are not marching (however, there will be dancing).
We are WORKING toward the future we wish to see. TOGETHER.
Please, consider ways to invest your time and resources in our local community. Come on out and hear about the organizations doing the work and learn how you can help!
BASE Southern Oregon
Unete Center for Farm Worker Advocacy
Southern Oregon Pride
Planned Parenthood
4 Bands
4 Benefit Groups
1 Community
"The People's March, scheduled for January 18th, is an attempt to bring all people who are fearful of a second Trump Administration, including some women, LGBTQ+ people, and immigrants, under the same umbrella." Tamika Middleton, Managing Director of Women's March, says that calling this march the “People’s March” is an attempt to respond to what they see as a “call to community."
“We want to push against this notion of hopelessness, this sort of fear that we see people leaning into demobilization and demoralization,” she says. “We’re also trying to make visible a resistance…We need to come together, poor folks, middle class folks. We're going to need women. We're going to need queer, trans folks and non-binary folks. We're going to need men. We're going to need all of us really in this struggle together in order to fight back against what we see coming.”
Middleton says that the movement is moving beyond just discussing Trump. “What happened in this election is that people, broadly across the country, are looking for systemic change,” They are recognizing that the system does not work for them, and they are looking for something different. What we are trying to do is offer a vision of a different world, to offer something, a vision of change that speaks to all of us, and that includes all of us.”