Standing Together Beyond Resistance

Community Works stands with Indivisible and our other national allies to reclaim our country from tyranny, cruelty, and greed. For us, that means reaching out to our more conservative neighbors to work together for the good of our kids, families, and local communities. We invite our rural progressive friends to join us.

Urban and suburban transplants, and even some of us who have lived rural for decades, may hold conscious and unconscious beliefs about our neighbors that keep us from getting fully involved on a local level.

What Community Works has found on the ground is that our greatest political breakthroughs come from simply spending a day with someone packing food or picking up trash.

By the end of the day, it’s much harder to write off a fellow volunteer as “uneducated,” “misinformed,” “racist,” or any other of the myriad of labels we’ve come to use to describe those who vote differently from ourselves.

As one of our new Warren County, Virginia volunteers observed, “I am relatively new to the area and come from a different setting. Community Works has demonstrated to me time and again that we are all just regular people who have a lot in common. And when we focus on tasks to be accomplished, we can build good things together.”

Over time, we are seeing our Community Works volunteers grow from helping their rural communities from the outside, to becoming an integral part of their communities from the inside. We’re going to need to stand together, both locally and nationally, as we unite beyond resistance to build a better future for us all.