INTRO: Grassroots Assemblies Empower People to Fight Back Against Trump’s Agenda
By Ella Fassler, Truthout
June 23, 2025
People’s assemblies across the country are committed to building people’s power beyond the electoral system.
Places with Assemblies
Providence, Rhode Island
Providence General Assembly
https://providencegeneralassembly.org/
Our strength is our solidarity and the mutual aid we are able to extend to each other.
Our purpose is to:
1) Defend peoples and communities under attack.
2) Struggle to expand the power of workers, tenants, students, etc.
3) Build lasting popular power that helps foster a truly free society.
Detroit, Michigan
Detroit People's Assembly
The Detroit People’s Assembly is a coalition of organizers and activists representing various groups throughout the metro Detroit area, as well as other concerned residents of the area who wanted to get involved, all coming together to resist the fascist anti-immigrant regime of Trump 2.0 and their agenda to criminalize and marginalize the immigrant community.
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Richmond, Virginia
Richmond People's Assembly
https://linktr.ee/Richmond.Peoples.Assembly
The assembly is a place for many people, of different perspectives but working towards similar goals, to meet, discuss, and coordinate together. We believe we can build a shared strategy for confronting the vectors of oppression within Richmond and beyond. We believe we can do more than resist oppression — we can build up alternatives to the present system, offer inroads to a liberated world.