To honor Martin Luther King Jr. on January 20, and to be the loyal opposition to Trump’s Project 2025 plans, Middlebury’s local Indivisible group ([email protected]) invites concerned citizens to join us as a visible presence on the upper town green, Route 7, opposite the Middlebury Inn and Credit Union at the time of Trump’s inauguration, 12 noon, Monday, Jan. 20. We will be gathering under the banner of “Help Over Hate” to express our concerns and opposition to the new administration’s threats to our democracy, to protect vulnerable people in our community, and express the values Martin Luther King Jr. preached and taught.

Events are planned across the country. Many are organized by the national Indivisible organization (indivisible.org). Indivisible originated in 2016 after Trump’s first election, with the stated goal to “save American democracy” and “resume the project of creating a humane America that is more like social democracy than corporate plutocracy or oligarchy.”

Please join us on this historic day and stand up for decency, hope and kindness, and our democracy.

Jack Mayer, Priscilla Baker, Heidi Willis, Revell Allen, Lise Anderson, Mary Gill, Victoria DeWind, Theresa Gleason, Chip Mayer, Ben Gleason, Deborah Young, Ginger Lambert, Dorothy Mamen, Margaret Benn, Marirta Schine, Judy Kowalczyk, Margie Bekoff, Jim Morse, Sarah Stott, Dan DaPolito, Diane DaPolito, Judy Olinick, Michael Olinick, Carolyn Schmidt, Kate Williams, Daphne Diego, Hilary Hatch, Ashley Cadwell, Louise Cadwell and Ruth Gilbert