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Resistance isn’t a one-day event.

Across Indiana, Hoosiers are showing up week after week. On street corners. Outside detention centers. At city council meetings. On overpasses. In communities big and small.

Not because showing up once doesn’t matter, but because change has never come from showing up once.

This guide is for the people who keep asking, “Okay, but what can I actually do?”

Pick a day. Pick a cause. Find the protest closest to you. Show up when you can. Come back when you can. Bring somebody with you.

You do not have to organize the march, lead the chants, or know exactly what you’re doing to be part of a movement. Sometimes you just have to be another body on the sidewalk saying I’m still here. I still give a fuck. And I’m not looking away.

They are counting on us getting tired.

So we keep showing up.

Again. And again. And again.

The people trying to divide our communities are organized. We should be too because the strongest response to fear has always been community.

This guide shows ways Hoosiers are showing up for immigrant families across our state, whether that’s attending a rally, joining a rapid response network, getting trained, supporting local organizations, or simply showing up.

We’ll also be tabling at the Hoosier Hospitality March & Vigil hosted by Fishers Resists on Saturday, August 1, from 3-6 PM at Holland Park in Fishers.

Stop by our table to say hi, grab free buttons, stickers, patches, postcards, zines, and more, and connect with other Hoosiers committed to building a state where every person belongs.

Hope to see you there.

❁ Website: https://www.hoosiersrise.org

✿ Database: https://www.data.hoosiersrise.org

❀ Sheet: https://www.hoosiersrise.org/sheet

❁ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/HoosiersRise

Corporations want us to believe A.I. is inevitable. That resisting it is pointless. That replacing human creativity, labor, and community with algorithms is simply progress. We don’t buy it.

The future doesn’t belong to billionaires, data centers, or algorithms. It belongs to artists. To organizers. To workers. To communities.

A.I. doesn’t just threaten artists. It threatens workers, educators, journalists, organizers, and every movement built by people, for people. That’s why we built this guide.

Inside you’ll find upcoming actions across Indiana, petitions, organizations, educational resources, and our new library of free Canva templates. Because movements deserve real people making real things, not corporations replacing them with machines built on exploitation.

If we’re going to build a better future, we should probably stop outsourcing it to the machines helping corporations destroy it.

The strongest movements in history were never built by machines. They were built by people.

The question we hear more than anything at events is:

“How can I help?”

This is how.

Hoosiers Rise is run entirely by six women. We don’t use AI to find events. Every protest, town hall, mutual aid event, fundraiser, community gathering, and more in our guides is found the old-fashioned way. We spend hours combing through social media, organization pages, community calendars, and local groups because we believe every community deserves to be seen.

But Indiana is a big state. So, we’re inviting you to help us build something bigger.

By joining our Event Finder team you will become the backbone of everything Hoosiers Rise does. No experience needed. No meetings. No pressure. Just neighbors helping neighbors make sure no event, no organizer, and no community gets left behind.

Every event you send helps connect thousands of Hoosiers to opportunities to organize, volunteer, and build community and you’ll help make sure no event, organizer, or community gets left behind.

One event might not seem like much. But to someone looking for a place to belong, it can change everything.

Join our Signal chat through the QR code or link in our bio. The more eyes we have across Indiana, the more complete our guides become. Together, we can make Indiana feel a little smaller and our movements a little stronger.

Juneteenth is not the story of freedom. It is the story of how hard this country fought against it.

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The Emancipation Proclamation didn’t free everyone. Juneteenth came more than two years later. The 13th Amendment that followed didn’t abolish slavery entirely. It left behind an exception: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… except as punishment for crime.” An exception that helped build systems that still shape Black lives today.

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Juneteenth is often described as the day freedom arrived. But freedom is not a date on a calendar. If it were, Black people would not still be fighting for equal treatment, equal opportunity, equal protection, and equal justice 160 years later.

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The chains changed, the struggle did not. Because slavery ended, then came Black Codes, lynchings, Jim Crow, redlining, segregation, mass incarceration, voter suppression and a thousand new ways to tell Black people they were free while treating them like they weren’t.

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Every generation is told the fight is over while people are still fighting for rights they should have never had to fight for in the first place.

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Juneteenth is not just about looking backward. It is about asking what liberation actually means if some people are still waiting for it.

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Black liberation movements shaped labor rights, voting rights, civil rights, housing rights, disability justice movements, LGBTQ+ liberation movements, and countless struggles for freedom that followed.

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Every right won in this country carries the fingerprints of people who were told liberation was impossible and fought anyway.

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Juneteenth is a celebration of Black survival in a country that repeatedly tried to make survival impossible.

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Black joy is not proof that the struggle is over. It is proof that the struggle did not win.

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Black community is revolutionary.

Black culture is revolutionary.

Black joy is revolutionary.

Black survival is revolutionary.

And Black liberation remains unfinished.

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This guide is dedicated to that legacy.

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To the people who fought before us.

To the people still fighting now.

And to the future they deserved to see.

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Happy Juneteenth, Indiana. ❤️🖤💚

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❁ Website: https://www.hoosiersrise.org

✿ Database: https://www.data.hoosiersrise.org

❀ Sheet: https://www.hoosiersrise.org/sheet

❁ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/HoosiersRise

https://www.change.org/overturnindianacellphoneban

Indiana's governer, Mike Braun, has signed a bill that would ban cellphones from being in school, but also require students to put them in an inaccesable location for the entire school day.

This poses a danger due to the increased amount of school shootings, and would make it harder to call authorities or student's guardians in case of an emergency.

To add onto it, the bill protects teachers from any sort of legal liability if they physically grab your phone from you, allows administrators to search you if they have suspicion that you have a phone on you (which is unconstitutional, violating our Fourth Amendment right to search and seizure), and allow for students to be expelled if they get caught with their phone on them five times.

This is far too extreme, poses a safety risk, supresses our rights, and allows for educators to basically ruin a students record via expulsion over a phone.

If we reach enough signatures, we have the potential to overturn this. Students, think about your future if this law is enacted, and parents need to think about the consequences this could have on their children.

Every single week people ask us the same thing:

“Where are the protests?”

“How do I get involved?”

“Is anything even happening in Indiana?”

Yes. A fuck ton actually.

This issue is packed with protests, mutual aid, organizing meetings, ICE detention actions, rapid response groups, art builds, town halls, community events, and ways to plug in no matter where you live in Indiana.

People across this state are putting in real work right now. Quietly, consistently, and often without recognition. And the truth is, movements survive because ordinary people decide to show up anyway.

Not because they have free time. Not because they aren’t scared. Not because somebody else will handle it. But because they understand what’s at stake.

Inside this issue:

❁ Statewide repeating protests & rallies

✿ May 16th End ICE Detention Day of Action events

❀ Mutual aid & rapid response resources

❁ Activist meetings, DSA events, Democratic clubs & organizing spaces

✿ Town halls, utilities fights & data center resistance

❀ Art builds, book clubs, craftivism & community care events

You do not have to do everything. But you should do something. Show up. Share resources. Bring water. Attend the meeting. Make the phone call. Help build the world YOU keep wishing existed.

❁ Website: https://www.hoosiersrise.org

✿ Database: https://www.data.hoosiersrise.org

❀ Sheet: https://www.hoosiersrise.org/sheet

❁ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/HoosiersRise

We made the decision to remove our guide after receiving a high volume of feedback and concerns.

Our goal has always been to provide clear, verifiable information based on what is publicly available and what candidates chose to share. When information was not clearly stated or accessible, we intentionally left those sections blank rather than assume.

While we remain confident in our process, we can recognize when the conversation shifts from it’s intended goals.

❁ We contacted every candidate

✿ We used publicly available, verifiable information

❀ We chose accuracy over assumption

Accessibility matters. Not every voter can attend town halls or search through hours of content. Clear, written positions should be easy to find.

We appreciate everyone who engaged with the guide in good faith and used it as a starting point to stay informed.