Upper Valley Coalition

The Last Bake Sale
2025-05-17 13:00 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | Mascoma Valley Regional High School, 27 Royal Road, Canaan, NH, United States
Enfield, NH Democrats are excited to host a discussion and book signing with Andru Volinsky, author of “The Last Bake Sale.” Mr. Volinsky’s book addresses the inequities of school funding in NH and in the US. It is what drives our taxes. It is what drives how well our children are educated. We will start with refreshments at 1:00 (yes, a bake sale!), then move to our discussion at 1:30 and book signing at 2:30. We look forward to a robust discussion at a time when support of public education has never been more critical.

Support Our Incredible VA Medical Center
2025-05-08 15:00 - 17:00 | VA Medical Center, 163 Veterans Drive, White River Junction, VT, 05001, United States
Demonstrate Support for the VA
VA Medical Center
Main entrance on Route 5
White River Junction, VT
3 p.m. to 5 p.m.
The Veterans Administration and veterans in general have been particular targets of the current administration with the Commander-in-chief calling our soldiers “losers.” The Upper Valley’s VA Medical Center is considered one of the best VA hospitals in the country, and yet the professionals who work there are under pressure. Please come to show your support for them at the main front gate (the entrance on Route 5), and stand with our veterans, and the people who serve their medical needs.

Migrant Rights Training
2025-05-03 15:00 - 18:00 | Little Theater, 54 River Street, Woodstock, VT, United States
Migrant Rights Training
In Woodstock at the Little Theatre (54 River St.) on Saturday, May 3, 3-6 pm.
Migrant Justice will be educating participants on their rights and the rights of our neighbors and what to do in the event of an immigration raid.

Basket of Betrayals
2025-05-01 17:00 - 19:00 | Colburn Park, Lebanon NH
Event Description:
May Day Rally in Lebanon, NH • Basket of Betrayals
May 1, 2025 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. • Colburn Park in Lebanon, NH
On Thursday, May 1, 2025, the Upper Valley Coalition welcomes you, your family, and your friends for a rally in Colburn Park in Lebanon, NH from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. to support the restoration of our constitutional principles in a movement of on-the-ground and local resistance.
Our friends at Upper Valley Indivisible are teaming up with the Upper Valley Coalition in our May Day Basket of Betrayals rally on May 1. The coalition that’s evolved at Indivisible includes: MoveOn, 50501, The Working Families Party and other similar organizations around the country. Together we are calling for a national day of protest on May 1st.
This outdoor gathering is a continuation of the monthly UVC gatherings that have been held since February at the First Congregational Church in Lebanon. The bigger space available in Colburn Park gives UVC the opportunity to welcome even more folks into our local resistance movement.
“We recognize that the chaos generated by this Administration is just the beginning,” UVC co-founder Don Collins said. “The Upper Valley Coalition is a long-term project. Our goal is to create a sensible local, regional, and bi-state effort to protect the rights we enjoy as citizens of New Hampshire and Vermont, and to roll back the regressive policies of the current Administration in Washington as well as at the state levels in Concord and Montpelier.”
The goal of the Upper Valley Coalition is to connect people and resources with one another so that we protect what we can, preserve what we must, and prepare for the post-MAGA future of our bi-state region.
Approximately 2,500 people from the Upper Valley showed up for the April 5 Hands-Off protests in locations around the region. The UVC builds on their energy by providing tools and connections to help the organizations, friends, and neighbors whose lives and livelihoods have been turned inside out since January 20, 2025. This UVC is committed to protecting the best of ourselves in the present while building a stronger and better future together.
The Basket of Betrayals rally in Colburn Park in Lebanon on May 1 (from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.) is an opportunity to meet friends you didn’t know, to learn more about the important organizations working to preserve our democracy, and to find the place in your state, region or town where you can join the resistance.
There is something for everyone to do.
Point of Contact: resist@uppervalleycoalition.org
Flyer: Printable PDF Version

Parking map: Lebanon street map:parking

More Volunteer Opportunities for Basket of Betrayals
2025-05-01 16:00 - 19:30 | Colburn Park, Lebanon NH
Hello UVC members:
Our Basket of Betrayals rally is THIS THURSDAY and we need some helping hands to make it all happen. Here’s a list of opportunities. If you can help, please contact Phillip Mulligan at: phillipgmulligan@gmail.com
Tables set up and break down/ 2 people
4 Tables will come from the FCC church (by the music center on the green)
Numbers to be determined
Set up by 4:30, tear down after 7
Banner Hanging/ 2 people
Hang banners on stage with provided 6’step ladder
Hang banners on Park fences
Finish the stage set up by 3 PM
Music Equipment Set up 1 person
Help carry sound equipment to stage
3 PM start
March Organizers/ 8 people
Help focus people for March around the Park
6:45 start
Meet at 4:30 to get orientation
Clean up and Table Returns/ 6 People
Clean up trash and return tables to church
7 PM

More May Day Events
2025-05-01 07:00 - 23:00 | Hannafords, 78 Marshall Ave, Williston, VT, United States
In addition to the Upper Valley Coalition’s Basket of Betrayals rally in Lebanon, NH on May Day, the following actions are being coordinated by the AFL-CIO of Vermont in Williston, VT which, come to find out, is the home of the National ICE Data Center.
Migrant Justice Picket, March, and Rally
Actions in Williston in support of Milk with Dignity
All-day picket at Hannaford: 7:00am – 11:00pm
78 Marshall Ave, Williston, VT
March past ICE Data Center: 5:00pm
28 Walnut St, Williston, VT
Rally at Hannaford: 7:00pm
78 Marshall Ave, Williston, VT
To learn more about the above rallies or to register, please follow this link: https://vt.aflcio.org/events/mayday-workers-fight-back

Volunteers Needed for Basket of Betrayals
2025-04-30 15:00 - 15:30 | Colburn Park, Lebanon NH
FOUR VOLUNTEERS NEEDED FOR A SYMBOLIC SKIT AT THE MAY BASKET OF BETRAYALS RALLY, Thursday, MAY 1, at Colburn Park, Lebanon. No speaking parts, just actions. The 4-7-minute skit will occur midway in the rally, at about 6pm.
We need 2 moderately agile people, preferably in their late teens or twenties (or who look young) and 2 others. We’ll have a 3-3:30pm rehearsal at Colburn Park the day before, on Wednesday, April 30th. Please contact Susan Thomas (splocherthomas@gmail.com) if you’d like to be part of this. Or pass on the invitation to someone who might fill the bill. Thanks!

Rights and Democracy–Vermont Federal Resistance Team
2025-04-24 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom meeting
Rights and Democracy–Vermont Federal Resistance Team–virtual meeting 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. To register for this and explore more resistance opportunities in New Hampshire and Vermont, please follow this link: https://www.mobilize.us/rightsdemocracy/
Join us for a meeting of RAD’s Vermont Federal Resistance Team.
We are creating a team of people who want to take action on impactful resistance, when needed, in the coming months and years.
We will gather to be in community, share resources and plan so we can be effective in our resistance against the MAGA agenda.
All meetings will be virtual and accessible to all.

No Kings: National Day of Resistance
2025-04-19 13:00 - 14:30 | Colburn Park, Lebanon NH
No Kings: National Day of Resistance. Colburn Park in Lebanon, NH
This event is coordinated in conjunction with Indivisible. For this and more Indivisible events planned in the Upper Valley, please hop over to this page on the Indivisible website:
You can register to be part of this event here: https://www.mobilize.us/nea/event/777255/
And for more information about all the Indivisible events, please click here:
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/776143/

ACLU of New Hampshire discussion
2025-04-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Zoom meeting
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of New Hampshire will hold an invitation-only discussion of the Granite State’s current legislative session at the crossover mid-point.1:00 to 2:00 p.m. You can register for the Zoom Meeting by clicking here.

Support the Student Worker Collective at Dartmouth
2025-04-17 12:00 - 14:00 | Dartmouth HR offices, 7 Lebanon Street, Hanover, NH
Demonstration in support of the Student Worker Collective at Dartmouth, 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.
Dartmouth HR offices at 7 Lebanon St. in Hanover
After unionizing in 2022 and exercising extraordinary collective strength in securing an amazing first contract, SWCD is now engaged in very difficult bargaining for a second contract. Because they have negotiated for OPEN bargaining sessions, they are inviting student and community allies to show up to observe their bargaining session as a display of strong support for their bargaining positions. Our visible support is especially important because SWCD is facing an extremely hostile bargaining landscape (under a different college president than in 2023 and senior management that, seemingly, is fortified by anti-union sentiment and overt hostility toward student workers). SWCD is also bargaining vigorously for protections for international student workers in the current terrifying national climate and where, locally, at least two Dartmouth international student visas were discovered to have been revoked by U.S. Homeland Security with zero communication or due process.
Please indicate to SWCD your commitment to SHOW UP on April 17th: RSVP here.
