Walkers and Singers Bring Their Passion to No Kings 3

By Jeana Edmonds Throughout the U.S. and in other nations as well, No Kings 3 was a truly powerful tribute to our embrace of humanity and our love for our fragile and imperfect democracy. From large cities to small villages, like West Brookfield, crowds gathered on March 28, 2026 to speak about dignity, people power, courage, and the view that in the U.S. neither oligarchs nor kings will prevail. Each standout and rally expressed these ideas in its own unique way, and participants in the West Brookfield No Kings 3 Standout, organized by our sister group Brookfields Fight Fear, were…

Remembering Beautiful Souls Taken: 2025 Trans Day of Remembrance

Reflection by Karen Nothe-Valley “We remember those we’ve lost Who died from fear and hate, Let’s give deep support to those of us still here… For Love, there’s no time to wait.”   -Trans Day of Remembrance Song, by Sherry Zitter Recently, members of Grassroots Central Mass and friends gathered at the Sturbridge Common Gazebo on a chilly late afternoon — Thursday, November 20, 2025 — to acknowledge a solemn Trans Day of Remembrance, stand in solidarity with the trans community, help raise awareness, and most importantly remember and honor those trans individuals who have been violently killed solely because of…

Shining Light on Immigration

By Shannon Teabo “No one leaves home unless homeIs the mouth of a sharkYou only run for the borderWhen you see the whole city running as well” The words of poet Warsan Shire burn through the body and soul; igniting compassion and empathy for those who are forced to flee from the people and places they love. This was the simple ask of the devoted members of Grassroots Central Mass, a division of Indivisible; to feel for the people who have no choice but to run from the horrors or else be swallowed by them. The presentation on the myths…

Work to change the flag and seal of Massachusetts

By David Detmold The flag and seal of Massachusetts show a settler’s hand holding a Colonial broadsword over the head of an Indigenous man, with a Latin motto beneath, commonly translated: “She seeks a quiet peace with liberty under the sword.” A recent special commission established by the state legislature concluded in November of 2023, that the image on our state flag and seal is easily interpreted as “a celebration of the history of settler violence perpetuated against Indigenous people.” No one wants to have a sword hanging over their head. In 1985, former state representative Byron Rushing, a Boston civil…