Rise for Freedom - Session Zero

Thurs. March 27- First In-Person Meetings & Onboarding for New Folks: Program Orientation & Context Setting, Outreach & Digital Hygiene

The March 27, 2025 training has quite a bit of introductory material and onboarding.

Here is a link to the March 27th Meeting video.

Rough time markers are formatted as: hour.minute.second

• Icebreaker/opening

• 0.7.30 – Aquene Freechild—Overview, goals, ethos, onboarding, and review of upcoming trainings, etc.

• 0.21.00 – Justin Kwasa—update on the Save Act (would recommend watching if you are not familiar with this legislation)

• 0.27.50 – Hanna Kessel—talking about the Hands Off! April 5th Rally

• 0.30.30 – Pablo De Jesus—Telling you to invite people to this training 

• 0.35.20 – Eric Johnson—Introduction to the Signal app. 

• 0.46.40 – MAIN SPEAKER Jonathan Pickney, Professor of Political Science who researches non-violence resistance and its intersections with democracy. 

• 1.29.15 – Refresher on how to sign up to host your own training for new hosts (repeat if you didn’t go to the first meeting) 

• 1.37.20 – Q&A

If you are watching this fairly close to the original air date and haven't heard about the SAVE Act, then definitely watch that section. Otherwise, if you are short on time then just watch the Main Speaker. It's about 45 minutes in length.