CHICO Free America Walkout 1.20.26 DAY OF ACTION 💫

CHICO FREE AMERICA WALKOUT 1.20.26 
DAY OF ACTION💫

Save the Date!
Tuesday January 20th, 2026
2pm Everywhere 

The day after MLK WEEKEND 2026 

Join the Free America Walkout 1.20.26 and Shut it DOWN! 

No work, no school, no spending 🚫

This mass grassroots mobilization will be historic and everyone can do something in Resistance. Walkout from Work or School. Not working, or not in school? Show your support! Retired, unhoused, disabled, a caregiver, a stay at home Parent, work from home or an Essential Worker? Uplift the Movements, support Community Care and Mutual Aid and spread the word in Solidarity!

CHICO FREE AMERICA WALKOUT 💫
WAYS TO TAKE ACTION ON WALKOUT DAY 
TUESDAY 1.20.26

2PM JOIN THE WALKOUT 
Join from wherever you are! 
List of grassroots ways to walkout and take action below, after events ⬇️ 

2PM-3PM JOIN the POP UP PROTEST with the RE-SISTERS, the DEFENDERS OF DEMOCRACY COALITION, INDIVISIBLE CHICO, Women’s March Chico, grassroots groups & Communities

5:30pm VOLUNTEER with TUESDAY MUTUAL AID DISTRIBUTION with
NORTH STATE SHELTER TEAM, NORCAL RESIST CHICO & Communities 

6pm-8pm VOLUNTEER with SAFE SPACE CHICO, Volunteers needed for their nightly “Shelter Evening” Shifts, from 6pm-8pm, training including. 


7PM JOIN the RAPID RESPONSE TRAINING for ICEWatch, Migra and Court Watch with NORCAL RESIST & NORCAL RESIST CHICO Online 

Watch this space for more actions, volunteering opportunities & events listings TBA+
Special thanks to We Are Worth Fighting For - Chico Area

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FREE AMERICA WALKOUT: MAKE YOUR VOICE HEARD, BUILD POWER, UPLIFT COMMUNITIES & STAND IN SOLIDARITY & RESISTANCE 
JOIN FROM ANYWHERE 💛💫🪧

On Tuesday January 20th the national Free America Walkout Begins at 2pm. Everyone is needed, and everyone can do something! 

Walkout from Work or School solo, or with a group. 
Are you an Essential Worker, Stay at Home Mom, Parent or Caregiver? 
Retired and active schedule?
Disabled, recovering from Surgery or Chronically Ill at home?
Are you Worker that’s Poor, Low Income, or Part Time or Temporary and can’t afford to take off work or call in?
Or our of Work, Unhoused? 
Work from Remote/fromHome, a Small Business or Nonprofit? 
Are you off work or school in the afternoons?


Join the Walkout, from wherever you are! 

No Work 🚫
No School 🚫
No Spending 🚫

WALKOUT & TAKE ACTION 
Ways to Join the Walkout at 2pm:
✅ Take off Work
✅ Call in Sick
✅ Take your Lunch at 2pm
✅ Take a Break
✅ Join a Boycott
✅ Take a Restroom Break
✅ Talk with supportive co-workers 
✅ Close up Shop at 2pm!
✅ Set your Email to “Out of Office”
✅ Join a Union or Collective
✅ Work Slowdown 
✅ Work Stoppage
✅ Go on Strike
✅ Boycott 
✅ Buy Nothing 
✅ Advocate 
✅ Make a Call
✅ Write a Letter 
✅ Share Information 
✅ Amplify & Support 
✅ Post on Social Media 
✅ Be an Essential Worker 
✅ Uplift Community & Justice Movements 
✅ Coalition Build
✅ Follow Progressive Media
✅ Breathe and Rest for Resistance 
✅ Value Community Care
✅ Practice Meditation or a Moment of Silence 
✅ Uplift Joy & Creativity as acts of Resistance 
✅ Keep Learning
✅ Center Voices of Communities 
✅ Empathy & Compassion 
✅ Have a Conversation 
✅ Plant a Garden
✅ Share Skills
✅ Honor Labor
✅ Uplift Women’s Rights, Civil Rights & Human Rights 
✅ Read about Liberation Movements 
✅ Help Build a General Strike 
✅ Start a Strike Fund 
✅ Turn Rage & Grief into Action 
✅ Stay Connected with Community
✅ Be of Service 
✅ Uplift Mutual Aid efforts 
✅ Support Unhoused Neighbors 
✅ Feed The People  
✅ Get Involved 
✅ Donate 
✅ Volunteer 
✅ Join a Rapid Response Training 
✅ Join grassroots Protests 

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CHICO JOINS FREE AMERICA WALKOUT- POP UP PROTEST 1/20

WHEN:
Tuesday 1/20/26

2pm-3pm

WHERE:
Mangrove & Vallombrosa 

Join the local Chico Pop Up Protest for the Free America Walkout 
—with The RE-SISTERS, Indivisible Chico, The Defenders of Democracy Coalition, Women’s March Chico & more grassroots communities, groups, advocates, neighbors & supporters together in Solidarity, Unity & RESISTANCE! 

Bring Signs & Banners🪧🎨
Creative Action & RESISTANCE Costumes welcome 🐸🦄

Pop Up Protest Organized by RE-SISTERS & Coalitions
Endorsed by Women’s March Chico 

RSVP on the Action Map📍🗺️

Details here📲

https://action.womensmarch.com/events/chico-free-america-walkout?

#FreeAmericaWalkout

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5:30pm-6:30pm
VOLUNTEER with TUESDAY MUTUAL AID DISTRIBUTION with
NORTH STATE SHELTER TEAM, NORCAL RESIST CHICO & Communities 
Volunteer and Donate, with the Weekly Mutual Aid Distribution 

Held Tuesdays evenings, Weekly at the Hands 🤲

Get Involved! Stop by, bring food, bring supplies, bring supportive family, friends & neighbors to support all and share in community care for our unhoused and in need neighbors. Blankets are welcome and needed at this time as Winter temperatures continue to drop.

Join the Volunteer team, support the cause!💛

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6pm-8pm VOLUNTEER with SAFE SPACE CHICO, Volunteers needed for their nightly “Shelter Evening” Shifts, from 6pm-8pm.
Safe Space training included 💛
https://www.signupgenius.com/go%0A/10COF45ACAF2FA5FAC25-59940439%0A-safe#/

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RAPID RESPONSE TRAINING with NORCAL RESIST 
7PM Rapid Response Training for ICEWatch, Migra and Court Watch
with NorCal Resist & NorCal Resist Chico
Online Rapid Response Training Via Zoom
LINK:
tinyurl.com/NCRJan20

Get Involved! A vital grassroots network group. This training is highly recommended, for community that hasn’t yet joined NCR’s previous Rapid Response trainings, or if you a need a refresher. 

“Build Power, Not Panic”💛

#FreeAmerica #Walkout   

#Jan20th #2PM 

#StandTogether

#NOToFascism #NOToDictatorship #NOToBusinessAsUsual 

#NOWork 

#NOSchool 

#NOSpending 

#CallIn 

#MutualAid 

#ShutItDOWN 

#UnityInCommunities

#Walkouts #Strikes 

#Signs #Banners #Actions 

#Grassroots #Solidarity 

 #UniteAndResist  
#PopUpProtests #Volunteer 
#DefendDemocracy
#Support #Grassroots 
#Communities #Coalitions 
#Solidarity #Unity #RESISTANCE 
#UpliftTheCommunity 
#GetInvolved #JoinATraining 
#ShareSkills 
#RapidResponse 
#WeKeepEachOtherSafe  
#CommunitiesNOTCages 
#KeepEyesOnICE 
#TakeCareOfOneAnother 
#Walkouts #Strikes 
#GeneralStrike 

#AbolishICE 

#AbolishICENOW

#ICEOUT    

#MeltICE

#EndTheCruelty

#CloseTheCamps

#FreeThemALL 

#WeDemandJustice #Justice4ALL  

#Liberation4ALL 

#BlackLivesStillMatter 

#NoOneIsIllegalOnStolenIndigenousLands 

#NOWAROnVenezuela 

#StopEndlessWar 

#NOToFascismForAnyoneAnywhere 
#NOKINGSDAY #NOToTyranny 
#NOToOligarchy #NOToDictatorship

#DismantleHate
#HealCommunities

#AllMeansALL 

#MLKDAY2026 

#FreePalestine

#FreeCongo 

#FreeSudan

#ERANOW #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles 

#WeBelieveSurvivors
#SurvivorsDeserveJustice

#WomenRISINGUP

#PeopleRISINGUP

#WomensRights

#CivilRights

#HumanRights

#ImmigrantRights

#Inclusive #Decolonize 
#RacialJustice #GenderJustice

#BodilyAutonomy 

#ReproJustice 
#BIPOC #QTBIPOC 
#LGBTQ 
#DiversityEquityAndInclusion

#ProtectTransYouth 

#Healthcare4All

#HousingIsAHumanRight 
#DisabilityJustice 

#LaborJustice 

#VotingJustice

#ClimateJustice 
#Interfaith #Secular

#IntersectionalFeminism

#FeministFutures

#MotherEarth 

#KnowYourPower #ThePowerOfWomen #ThePowerIsWithThePeople 
#CommunityCare #CollectiveLiberation
#ForFreedoms #ForOurFutures
#RESISTANCE 

#FREEAMERICA 

#TheDayAfterMLKWEEKEND 

#FreeAmericaWalkout

#FREEAMERICAWALKOUT
#FREEAMERICA #WALKOUT

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From Women's March 

We will walk out because a free America is the only America worth calling great. On January 20th, 2026, at 2 PM local time, we move towards a future that belongs to us all. By joining in non-compliance and walking out of work, school, and commerce, we stop cooperating with fascism and fight for a Free America. We walkout because now is not the time for business as usual. Now is the time for action to protect each other and to fight for our freedoms. Take the pledge to walk out now: https://act.womensmarch.com/survey/FreeAmericaWalkoutPledge/ #FreeAmericaWalkout #FreeAmericaFromFascism

One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent.  It is time for our communities to escalate as well. 

2025 was a year of marches that showed our collective strength. And as the threats grow, our movement must evolve and escalate. Trump and his allies have already made clear that a second term would bring a deeper wave of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and violence than the first.

On January 20, we call on our communities to organize teams, call your neighbors and classmates, and turn your back and walk out on fascism. Host mutual aid planning meetings, organize public service, but walk out to block the normal routines of power, and make the stakes real. This is a protest and a promise.  In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable. 

★ We walk away from fascism. ★  

★ We walk towards a Free America. ★ 

★ We fight for a future that belongs to us all. ★