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We're building intentional community around social justice in Beverly, Massachusetts.
Defend DEI
Defend DEI
Mon, Sept 21, 7pm
Beverly City Hall, 3rd Floor
Beverly no longer has a Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging Director as of July 1st. City Council voted 5-4 to eliminate the position. Learn how it all went down and what you can do about it.
October Meeting
October Meeting
Sat, Oct 17, 9:30 - 11:30am
Beverly Main Library, Sohier Room
With election season upon us, we'll discuss Give Us the Ballot, which tells the story of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the ongoing battle to protect voters from disenfranchisement today. For our activity, we'll have a workshop on how to give public comment at city meetings.
Fight Flock, Protect Privacy
Fight Flock, Protect Privacy
Save the date!
Mon, Oct 19, 6-7pm
Location TBD
Beverly has 4 Flock cameras. These license plate readers take a photo of every car passing by and feed into a searchable database. We're calling for stricter guardrails against this AI-powered mass surveillance. Get ready for the next public meeting on Oct 19.
We read books and take action!
We read books and take action!
During our August 22, 2026 meeting, we wrote 31 birthday cards to incarcerated people and collected 90 stamps to donate to the Abolitionist Mail Project.
A few of us from book club had a fun evening crafting together at the library's Bad Art Night on August 4, 2026.
On the tails of July 4th, we discussed The 1619 Project during our July 18, 2026 meeting. We walked to Historic Beverly to see their exhibit Set at Liberty (pictured above), which features the stories of enslaved people in Beverly.
Here we are at BevCam on July 7, 2026, recording a conversation about Flock cameras. We were joined by Rep. Hannah Bowen, a lawyer at the ACLU of MA, and a cybersecurity practitioner. Watch the episode here.
We participated in Historic Beverly's annual event Reading Frederick Douglass Together, at Hale Farm on June 27, 2026. Watch the BevCam recording.
Kathryn Henderson (center) of Voter Choice Massachusetts joined our June 20, 2026 meeting to discuss bringing ranked choice voting to Beverly.
We chatted with Rep. Hannah Bowen during her office hours at Backbeat Brewing on June 12, 2026. We discussed data privacy, transportation equity, ranked choice voting, and community engagement.
Keith Sonia soft launched the Beverly Engagement Project with us during our May 30, 2026 meeting.
We flocked to the Mayor's office hours on April 30, 2026, as a follow-up to the spirited public meeting about Flock cameras on April 21.
Diana even baked bird-shaped, gluten-free cookies for our flock!
To galvanize the community ahead of the April 21, 2026 public meeting about Flock cameras., we tabled and handed out flyers at Hands Off Beverly protests.
During our April 19, 2026 meeting, we upcycled cardboard into postcards and wrote to our elected officials about issues we cared about. Congressional candidate Jamie Belsito also joined us.
We donated 23 pounds of period supplies to Beverly Bootstraps on March 30, 2026, all collected at our meeting a couple days earlier.
We packed 60 grab-and-go period kids (and folded zines about menstrual stigma) for River House during our March 28, 2026 meeting.
At MIRA’s Annual Immigrants’ Rights Conference on March 13, 2026 at Boston University.
In collaboration with the Abolitionist Mail Project, we wrote greeting cards to incarcerated people during our Feb 21, 2026 meeting.
We packed 50 kids' snack bags for Beverly Bootstraps during our Jan 24, 2026 meeting.
We read the land and labor acknowledgments at the city's annual MLK Breakfast on Jan 19, 2026.
We brainstormed ideas for 2026 during our Dec 20, 2025 meeting.
We explore the ways in which we are impacted by and contribute to oppressive systems. And we work together to heal, grow, and experiment with alternate ways to move forward collectively.
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