This is a calendar of Boston and Providence area rallies, protests, talks and other events fostering resistance, social justice, and a better world. If you know of events I should add, please send an email with info and (if you can) a link to the event. Note: I’m not able to vet all these events, so please use the links to learn more. Published: Oct. 2. For updates see the main Resistance Calendar webpage.


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Friday, Oct. 2
Noon: Providence: Ruth’s Revolution, a symbolic end of shiva walk around the federal court building in Providence, Oct 2nd, in memory of Justice Ginsburg. At Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse

3 p.m. Boston: Mass Live Events Coalition “Case Push & Rally” from Citizens Bank Opera House to Both Center Wang Theatre

4:30 p.m. Northampton: Stand Out to Defend Public Higher Education at intersection of King and Main streets

7:30 p.m. Boston: “Projecting Our Future” at the Strand Theatre. “A powerful and hopeful response to the escalating social emergency” organized by Design Studio for Social Intervention. Continues Oct. 3.

Saturday, Oct. 3
9 a.m. Portland, Maine: For Justice: Day of Action to Get Collins to Do the Right Thing at 1 Canal Plaza

10 a.m. Online: “Here it Began – 2020 Hindsight or Foresight – Indigenous History Conference – Session I & II,” hosted by Plymouth 400. Continues Oct. 4.

Noon: Boston: Public Meeting – Solidarity with Denver Anti-Racists at Jeep Jones Park, Boston

1 p.m. Newburyport: Flood Newburyport at Market Square Historic District. Continues through Oct. 10.

2 p.m. Boston: “We Begin Trump/Pence Out Now!” at Park Street T Stop, Boston Common

3 p.m. Plymouth: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Washington Prayer Ceremony at Plymouth Rock at Massasoit Statue

7 p.m. Boston: BLM Community Kickback at Titus Sparrow Park

Sunday, Oct. 4
All day: National Week of Mourning “to grieve the horrifying and unnecessary loss of more than 200,000 lives to COVID-19.” Continues through Oct. 11.

2 p.m. Boston: Solidarity with the People of Belarus at Tadeusz Kosciusko Statue

Monday, Oct. 5
8 p.m. Online: “Honk! United” festival of activist bands from around the world. Honked by Honk! festival in Somerville.Continues through Oct. 11.

Tuesday, Oct. 6
4 p.m. Online: “Monument Lab Workshop: Grounding Public Art in Cultural Justice,” hosted by New England Foundation for the Arts. Continues Oct. 13

Wednesday, Oct. 7
12:30 p.m. Online: “Why Diversity Matters: In Boardrooms & Beyond – RI Treasury Virtual Town Hall,” hosted by Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magaziner

3 p.m. Online: “Social Emergency Response Center,” hosted by Design Studio for Social Intervention, Boston. Continues every Wednesday through Nov. 18.

4 p.m. Online: “City of Boston Trans & Non-Binary Town Hall,” hosted by Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture Boston

6 p.m. Online: “California Burning: A Lecture by Mike Davis,” hosted by UMass Amherst History Department Feinberg Series and the UMass / Five College Graduate Program in History

Thursday, Oct. 8
Noon: “Dave Cole: New Landscapes,” exhibition by artist who often addresses political themes, at UMass Dartmouth Galleries

Saturday, Oct. 10
Noon: Boston: “Sinking Columbus: Boston Marches for Indigenous Peoples Day” begins at Tremont Street by Park Street station

Noon: Marblehead: Marblehead Celebrates Indigenous Peoples Day with Wampanoag Nation Singers and Dancers at Jeremiah Lee Mansion

Tuesday, Oct. 13
5 p.m. Online: “Black Boston: Transforming the Arts,” panel discussion hosted by Boston University Initiative on Cities, Boston University Diversity & Inclusion

Wednesday, Oct. 14
3 p.m. Online: “Social Emergency Response Center,” hosted by Design Studio for Social Intervention, Boston. Continues every Wednesday through Nov. 18.

Thursday, Oct. 15
7 p.m. Online: Kellie Carter-Jackson discusses her book “Force and Freedom, Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence” as part of the New Democracy Coalition’s Civic Literacy Project Black Author’s Series

Saturday, Oct. 17
2 p.m. Boston: March for Our Democracy begins at Boston Common

Wednesday, Oct. 21
3 p.m. Online: “Social Emergency Response Center,” hosted by Design Studio for Social Intervention, Boston. Continues every Wednesday through Nov. 18.

Thursday, Oct. 22
7 p.m. Online: Peniel Joseph discusses his book “The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.” as part of the New Democracy Coalition’s Civic Literacy Project Black Author’s Series

Wednesday, Oct. 28
3 p.m. Online: “Social Emergency Response Center,” hosted by Design Studio for Social Intervention, Boston. Continues every Wednesday through Nov. 18.


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