FREE AMERICA WALKOUT JANUARY 20TH AT 2PM

January 20th 2026, 2 PM local time.
Step away from work, school, or commerce.
If you can’t, participate another way.
Pledge + Walkout details below

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On Tuesday, January 20, 2026, at 2 PM local time, the Free America Walkout is a coordinated, nationwide act of nonviolent noncooperation.
It’s a simple idea: step away from work, school, and/or commerce at the same time, in whatever way is realistic and safe, so refusal becomes visible together.
This is a synchronized signal: we don’t consent to normalized authoritarianism and we can prove it without violence.
Official hub for the Walkout: https://www.freeameri.ca

## What the January 20th walkout is saying

The pledge language: “walk out on fascism” and help “block the routines of power,” with “courage and care.”
A walkout is a form of nonviolent noncooperation. That sounds academic, but the idea is that modern power depends on people showing up, complying, producing, and buying as if everything is fine. Noncooperation is what it looks like when people stop doing that together, on purpose, without violence.
Political scientists and historians have studied this for decades. Strikes, boycotts, and mass refusals fall under noncooperation because they apply pressure without weapons, and because they work on systems rather than individuals.