Happening this afternoon in Providence, Rhode Island!
PULL TOGETHER: A Celebration of Local Music and Community Power
Hosted by Indivisible RI
Friday, April 25
5 – 9pm EDT
Waterplace Park
Memorial Blvd
Providence, RI 02903
https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/774460/
Spring is here; it’s time to dance against dictators and boogie against billionaires!!
So many community organizations are struggling right now in this moment of crisis for our country. Come meet these groups and find out how you can offer support to keep them and the people they serve strong and healthy. And dance to local bands and choirs while you’re at it!
We can’t forget how important it is to keep our spirits up at times like these. Celebration, music, dance, and community aid are essential as people across the country pull together to resist authoritarianism.
PERFORMERS: --Anchors Away Brass Band-- --Apparatus Disco-- --Audiofunktion-- --Blackout Drum Squad-- --Extraordinary Rendition Band-- --Exult Choir-- --Raging Grannies-- --Undertow Brass Band--
COMMUNITY GROUPS: Are you part of a group or organization that’s working in support of vulnerable community members? We want you at Pull Together! It’s simple: fill out our Interest Form (https://forms.gle/jUgVpZJiixf3vhaQA) and then come with a clipboard and whatever materials you need to inform and gather new supporters.
This event is being collaboratively produced by members of: --AS220-- --Carpenters Local Union 330-- --Indivisible RI-- --Providence Streets Coalition-- --Reclaim RI-- and the performers listed above!
PULL TOGETHER organizers are inspired by many community organizers that have come before. Here are some messages that have inspired us as we’ve worked to make this celebration a reality:
“We are all one, and if we don't know it, we will learn it the hard way.” -Bayard Rustin, lead organizer of the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom
“During the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night. The dance kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for. It didn’t look like we were going to win then and we did. It doesn’t feel like we’re going to win now but we could. Keep fighting, keep dancing.” -Dan Savage
"At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a young boy took me aside. With a grave face he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance. I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal should demand the denial of life and joy. If it meant that, I did not want it. I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things." -Emma Goldman
