Evansville Resistance Community Day

Name: Evansville Resistance Community Day
Start: 2025-04-19T13:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-04-19T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Four Freedoms Monument

Schedule

Sat Apr 19 2025 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Four Freedoms Monument | Evansville, IN

Join us on April 19th, 2025, from 1-4 PM at the Four Freedoms and surrounding park for a community picnic and sign waving event! We want to take time during this event to express our first amendment right by way of a brief sign waving before the picnic, but we won’t be doing speeches, marches, a PA system, and music. We may have some live music playing at community day—I am working on that now, but we are trying to move away from a huge protest event. Protests set up conflict. Protests automatically posit us against someone on the other side who doesn’t agree with us. We don’t want that this time. This time we want to chat, we want to share a meal and we want to build this community even more. We are encouraging those who attend to bring a sack lunch, a drink, and a sign! Maybe some chairs (incase the tables all get taken) or a picnic blanket. We want to gather as many organizations who want to be a part of this as possible. If you are an organization leader, a community leader, or a fellow organizer please reach out to me! We want representation as possible at this event. WE welcome you to bring information to this event about your causes, want to talk to you about collaboration of future events. We want to know how we can help!! What you need. Can we do a food, clothing or donation drive? Would you be interested in hosting our free swaps at your location? Please contact us. We want to help and we have hands!! Our community is growing every single day. Evansville Resistance is a Resistance group, and resistance is so much more than just protesting and exercising your first amendment rights down town. Every time we engage in acts like this we resist. We resist the people who want to reshape America into their image. Every time we take back a little bit of control by means of facilitating real community that depends on each other instead of them, we take back a little bit of our freedom. WE take back the power. We are the people and that is where the power belongs. Not with rich politicians or billionaires or greedy corporations. It belongs to us— we should have systems that benefit us and if we want to reshape those system so that they do, we have to be willing to make that happen, with or with out them. The first step of that process is building community. That is what we aim to do on the 19th and I hope you will join us!!