Weekly Member Update - February 23, 2026
We start this week with more details about the official Capital Region event marking No Kings 3 this coming March 28. As you may know, Indivisible Albany is part of a local collective of like-minded groups affiliated under the banner of the Greater Capital Region Coalition (GCRC). The GCRC represents nearly a dozen communities throughout the 518, from our North Country friends in Indivisible Adirondack/Saratoga, to our tri-city neighbors in Troy Indivisible and Progressive Schenectady, to a host of other allies like We Get Out the Resistance and Helderberg Indivisible. While each GCRC group operates independently and organizes its own events and initiatives within their home communities, for major national days of action like No Kings, the GCRC works collectively to maximize the event impact. Together, we marshall our collective resources to plan and publicize the event, and we work in unison on the day of to make sure that our nonviolent demonstrations go off smoothly and safely. And our collective efforts have consistently borne fruit; last June, we celebrated the first No Kings Day with thousands of friends and family on Wolf Road and, for an encore last October, we brought an estimated 20,000 patriots together on Western Avenue to mark No Kings 2.
For No Kings 3, we are taking the show to Central Avenue for a combination march/car caravan/sidewalk demonstration to mourn the perilous state of American democracy and to show our solidarity and collective resolve. We’ve chosen one of the Capital Region’s busiest thoroughfares not just to maximize visibility and impact, but also because the Central Avenue corridor hosts a variety of corporations that collaborate with the Regime, from Home Depot and Enterprise Rent-a-Car to Flock Safety. It also bears mention that Central Avenue is home to one of the most diverse communities in the Capital Region, with immigrant-run restaurants and other small businesses lining the length of Central Avenue, and the surrounding neighborhoods being a consistent focus of local ICE activity. So, while we are still working with our GCRC partners on the details, including the precise march route, you can start planning now to join thousands of your friends and neighbors between 1:00 and 3:00 pm on March 28 on Central Avenue between Colvin and North Main. No Kings 3 is a little more than four weeks from today, so you have plenty of time to work on your signage, to start plotting your car decorations or to form a team to march with. And don’t forget to refresh yourselves on your constitutional rights as a protestor. Keep watching this space for more info as March 28 approaches and feel free to reach out to us at if you are interested in getting trained up as a Safety Ambassador or if you are part of a musical ensemble, dance team or cheer squad that wants to participate in the No Kings march. It may be snowy today, but Spring is coming with No Kings 3 and we’re really looking forward to seeing you back on the streets!
Speaking of being seen on the streets, we’re continuing to ramp up our public education efforts concerning the surveillance scourge that is known as automated license plate readers (ALPRs), and Flock Safety in particular. If you missed our Public Forum on the expanding police state and Flock Camera systems on February 9, not to fear, we will doing the presentation again with our friends from Guilderland Indivisible on March 12, and we’re working with a couple of other groups on scheduling additional dates. In the meantime, we encourage everyone to educate themselves on ALPRs and the rapidly proliferating mass surveillance that they are ushering in. DeFlock is an open-source project mapping the location of ALPRs nationwide — including right here in the Capital District — and we promise you that once you learn what an ALPR is, you will see them everywhere. Journalist Christophe Haubursin also has a useful ALPR-explainer available on YouTube, and the camera systems and comprehensive data that they collect have long been on the figurative radar of civil liberties organizations like the ACLU. But we don’t have to live under the watchful eye of Big Brother, and an increasing number communities are cancelling their Flock contracts amid public outcry. The State of Surveillance website is documenting this Flock Rebellion and, just this week, we learned that the community of Pine Plains down in Dutchess County successfully stopped efforts to deploy Flock cameras in their Town. It shouldn’t be surprising, then, that some citizens are taking matters into their own hands where Flock cameras are concerned, especially when elected officials are unresponsive to public outcry on the issue. In the wake of our Flock presentation two weeks ago, we have formed a local working group to continue to raise public consciousness about the issue and to do the work that will be needed to identify which local communities or businesses have subscription agreements in place with Flock, to get those agreements cancelled, and to safeguard our civil liberties by keeping Flocks and other ALPRs out of communities where they do not yet exist. More to come.
Can you carry a tune? Would you like to combine your love of a good melody with your unbridled rage against the authoritarian Regime? Perhaps the Singing Resistance is for you! The Singing Resistance movement got its start in Minneapolis and is now comprised of dozens of chapters across the Country. This coming weekend is the very first national “Weekend of Action” for Singing Resistance and we know of at least one local group that will be participating. Keep an eye on our social media feeds throughout this week for more information as it becomes available.
Finally, this coming week marks the beginning of petition season for local candidates for political office. To that end, Albany Assembly Member Gabriella Romero has canvassing opportunities available for interested volunteers between now and April 2 and AM Romero is also hosting a petition launch party this coming Saturday.