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Free online gathering to support one another regardless of early election results. Sponsored by the Women's March: a space to process, breathe, and hear from movement leaders and healers who can help hold us through whatever comes. Whatever the outcome, we have each other, and together, we are ready. Join us on Wednesday to find resilience and connection-because we have each other's backs, now and always. Free, but you must register: https://act.womensmarch.com/signup/electionhealingjusticenov62024/?t=4&akid=21816%2E3005293%2Esv5rDa

On Zoom or in Boston. Free.

How did people resist the tyranny that the colonists imposed? More than a century before the famed Underground Railroad, Indigenous and Black people formed a network to help enslaved people escape. Sponsored by the Partnership of Historic Bostons. Presented by historians Margaret Newell and Linford Fisher, with Egypt Lloyd, co-founder of the Slave Legacy History Coalition.

At First Parish Concord or on Zoom. Award-winning activist singer/songwriter duo of Pat Humphries and Sandy O. Their music features soaring harmonies and lush acoustic instruments, in songs that span folk to jazz and funk to rock. You may already know some of their songs such as Swimming to the Other Side or Shalom, Salaam, Peace. To purchase tickets (LIVESTREAM $20/Low & No Wage $15; IN PERSON In Advance $25, At the Door $30/ Low & No Wage $18): https://emmasrevolution.com/tickets-nov-9th-concord-ma

Free online author talk with Louise Dunlap, author of Inherited Silence: Listening to the Land, Healing the Colonizer Mind. An exploration of her own story and understanding of the impact of settler colonialism on Native and settler peoples in Massachusetts (Massachusett, Nipmuc, and Wampanoag land) and California's Bay Area and Napa Valley (Lisjan Ohlone and Mishewai Wappo land). For many years Louise Dunlap lived in the Boston area, teaching at UMass, MIT and Tufts and working with a range of peace and justice organizations including the Cambridge Peace Commission, Community Change Inc., Coalition Against Apartheid, and Cambridge Eviction Free Zone.

Free online author talk by Shane Burley and Ben Lorber.

Antisemitism is on the rise today. Safety through Solidarity takes the fight against antisemitism out of the hands of status quo defenders and into the hands of social movements. Using history, analysis and interviews with front-line organizers, Burley and Lorber situate the fight against antisemitism where it belongs-alongside the fight against all forms of oppression.

Dismantling colonial myths, uplifting indigenous rights, and honoring Mother Earth. Free virtual event from Indigenous Solidarity Network via MobilizeAmerica. Hosted by Showing Up for Racial Justice. Presenters include Eve Reyes-Aguirre, Sarah Nehar, Juan Mancias, Betty Lyons and Aisha Mansour, with Curtis Waterman, traditional flute, and Mikaela Curry, poet. Free, but registration required, including a phone number: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/727474/

Central Square Church, UCC, 71 Central Square, Bridgewater.

This is a candlelight vigil to remember and uplift the lives lost due to anti-transgender violence and bigotry. Extra candles will be available for anyone who needs them. Together, we will create a space of reflection, remembrance, and shared experiences.

Ernesto Castaneda will speak on his new book, Immigration Realities: Challenging Common Misperceptions. He will share his perspective on how misconceptions and misinformed assumptions about immigrants played in the election. and how they will likely continue to influence public opinion and policy for the forseeable future.