Help fund the future of Sonoma.
Wake Up Sonoma is building a volunteer Fund Development Team.
Grant writing. Strategy. Community connections.
Flexible. Skill-based. Remote-friendly.
📩 wakeupsonoma@gmail.com
Help fund the future of Sonoma.
Wake Up Sonoma is building a volunteer Fund Development Team.
Grant writing. Strategy. Community connections.
Flexible. Skill-based. Remote-friendly.
📩 wakeupsonoma@gmail.com
Wake UP Sonoma exists because people show up.
We educate. We advocate. We activate.
From film screenings to school board meetings to community forums, local civic engagement only works when neighbors stay informed and involved.
Stay awake. Stay engaged.
Sonoma showed up.
Thank you to filmmakers Julie Eisenberg and Babette Hogan, panelists Janelle Kellman and Paul Corbitt, host Ronny Joe Grooms & Wild & Blue
Your support strengthens our work to Educate. Advocate. Activate.
“We’ve got to fight to keep a similar fate from coming for us here in California.” — filmmaker Julie Eisenberg
Running for the Mountains screening + panel
Feb 15 • 5 PM • Sebastiani Theatre, Sonoma
🎟 mynorthbaytickets.com/e/running-fo...
Visibility should never be pushed to the end.
Students from SVHS are showing up to speak. Our community should too.
Stand with them on Feb 12 at the SVUSD School Board meeting.
🕕 6 PM
📍 Sonoma City Chambers
💻 Zoom ID: 976 7474 5649
Student voices belong front and center.
SVHS students spoke. Now they need community support.
Show up Feb 12 for the SVUSD School Board meeting to support keeping the Pride flag flying.
🕕 6 PM
📍 Sonoma City Chambers
💻 Zoom ID: 976 7474 5649
Running for the Mountains is an award-winning documentary about environmental destruction, political power, and the people fighting to protect the places they love.
🎬 Feb 15, 2026 • Sebastiani Theatre, Sonoma
🎟 mynorthbaytickets.com/e/running-fo...
youtu.be/-M6pcfrcx8o?...
A powerful conversation with filmmakers Julie Eisenberg & Babette Hogan on Running for the Mountains and why these stories still matter.
Join us for the community screening:
🎬 Feb 15, 2026 • Sebastiani Theatre, Sonoma
Showing up matters.
Listening matters.
Taking care of each other matters.
Community isn’t automatic. It’s built.
One conversation, one action, one day at a time.
SVHS GSA students showed up at City Council Monday night and made their voices heard. Six powerful student statements, strong community support, and a packed room moved Council to agendize a future discussion on a statement of city support for the Pride flag at SVHS. Led by GSA president Madeline.
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ICE does not belong in our communities.
Families are being targeted. Neighbors are being disappeared. Silence is complicity.
If you can stand with immigrants, stand today.
📍 Sonoma Plaza
🗓 Sunday, January 26
⏰ 12:00 PM (Noon)
No permits. No speeches. Just people showing up.
Join if you can.
Join Wake UP Sonoma for a community screening of Running for the Mountains, followed by a panel featuring climate resilience leader and environmental attorney Janelle Kellman.
Wake UP Sonoma does not endorse political candidates.
🎟 Tickets:
mynorthbaytickets.com/e/running-fo...
“They’re blowing up the mountains there.”
Filmmakers Babette Hogan & Julie Eisenberg spent 15 years documenting environmental destruction and dark money in Running for the Mountains.
2-15-26
Sebastiani Theatre
🎟 mynorthbaytickets.com/e/running-fo...
A cautionary tale for communities everywhere.
Pride stays visible at SVHS.
Support the Gay Straight Alliance and show up with a Pride T-shirt or hoodie. Funds help sustain student-led visibility on campus.
svhspridefund.square.site
Grateful to everyone who showed up to support SVHS GSA and helped plant Pride flags on campus. Visibility and community matter.
Wake UP Sonoma is collecting donations on the students’ behalf.
Donate here: checkout.square.site/merchant/MLV...
Standing with SVHS GSA after the Pride flag was briefly removed and is now flying again.
Community members are invited to plant Pride flags on the front lawn (not the flagpole) in support of students.
🗓 Tuesday, Jan 20
🕗 8:00 AM
📍 Front lawn at SVHS
Visibility matters.
Pride was taken down at Sonoma Valley High School without transparency or community input.
Visibility matters. Belonging matters. We’re demanding the flag be restored and accountability from district leadership.
This Friday, our community is showing up.
Spencer, a local tattoo artist, was detained at an immigration hearing. Rosa Grande Tattoo is hosting a benefit to support him and his family.
🖋️ Friday, Jan 23 | 12–7 PM
📍 Rosa Grande Tattoo
Donate: www.gofundme.com/f/rc3k4v-bri...
Patriotism at what cost?
Watch the Running for the Mountains trailer and join Wake UP Sonoma for a documentary screening and panel discussion on extraction, power, and community impact.
📍 Sebastiani Theatre
🗓 Sunday, Feb 15
⏰ 5 pm
🎟 $15
Tickets: mynorthbaytickets.com/e/running-for-the-mountains
This is about the Constitution.
This Friday at noon, Wake UP Sonoma and Sonoma Valley Democrats are gathering at the Sonoma Plaza to demand congressional accountability and the defense of the rule of law.
January 9 • Noon
Show up
Friday check-in.
Grateful for the people in this community who keep showing up for one another, asking good questions, and choosing care even when it’s hard. Wishing everyone a steady end to the week and a little room to breathe going into the weekend.
Heading into 2026 with hope, courage, and community.
This year, Wake UP Sonoma organized, resisted, cared for neighbors, protected PRIDE, supported mutual aid, and refused to lose our joy. The work continues and it matters more than ever.
Learn more or get involved: www.wakeupsonoma.org
Mutual aid is community care.
It’s how neighbors show up for one another when systems fall short and why it’s been central to building resilient communities.
We’re highlighting local Sonoma businesses and restaurants doing this work right now. Learn more and get involved wakeupsonoma.org.
Seven Pauses
A grounded, practical workshop on regulation, resilience, and connection.
February 7, 2026 • 10:30–1
Burlingame Hall
Led by Rev. Dr. Curran Reichert
Learn how to slow down, stay present, and support yourself and others when it matters most.
What would you do if ICE is in our community?
Wake UP Sonoma + North Bay Rapid Response Network are hosting a community training on awareness, safety, and knowing your rights.
📅 Jan 31 | 11–1
🔗 www.wakeupsonoma.org/monthly-meet...
Sonoma showed up on Dec 3 to call out the real “signs of fascism” — banning books, erasing history, intimidation, voter suppression.
Our valley sees the warning signs, and we’re standing together.
#Sonoma #WakeUpSonoma #DefendDemocracy
Wake UP Sonoma showed up all year — rallies, Pride, community meetings, screenings, SNAP Buddy, and real support for neighbors. If you want to help keep this work going into 2026: www.wakeupsonoma.org/donate
03.12.2025 23:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Giving Tuesday reminder: Wake UP Sonoma has been doing the real local work all year — rallies, meetings, mutual aid, SNAP Buddy, Pride, film screenings. If you can, chip in today: www.wakeupsonoma.org/donate
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There is so much that we can do individually to make a difference. Listen to this wisdom.
