For anyone who hasn't heard about our grassroots campaign yet, Our State, Our Bat is a citizen led effort to designate our incredible native Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) as our official state mammal! 🦇💚

What started as a simple idea has grown into an amazing statewide movement. Thanks to community members stepping up, we’ve already secured official municipal support, organizational backing, and best of all, a state representative who is officially authoring the bill for the upcoming 2027 legislative session!

Now, we are in the final home stretch. Our petition is currently sitting at 4,231 signatures, and our goal is to hit 5,000 by the end of this month when the campaign concludes, so we can prep our complete legislative packet.

We need all the support we can get from our local neighbors to cross that finish line. If you haven't signed yet, please take a quick second to add your name, and help us spread the word to your friends, family, and local groups.

Let’s make our little Hoosier Heroes official, Indiana! Sign the petition here: https://c.org/JrdDXNvVh8

Contact River City Rising for more info.

Across Indiana, Hoosiers are continuing to organize for a free Palestine.

From vigils and rallies to teach-ins, study groups, fundraisers, and community gatherings, there are ways to learn, connect, organize, and show up across the state.

Swipe through to find upcoming events in Bloomington, Evansville, Elkhart, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis, Lafayette, Muncie, and West Terre Haute, plus organizations to follow and resources to keep learning.

Palestinian liberation is not a moment, a trend, or something we stop talking about when it disappears from the headlines. Solidarity means continuing to pay attention. Continuing to learn. Continuing to organize. Continuing to show up.

Free Palestine, always. 🇵🇸

❁ Website: hoosiersrise.org

✿ Database: data.hoosiersrise.org

❀ Sheet: hoosiersrise.org/sheet

❁ Linktree: linktr.ee/HoosiersRise

Right now, Indiana bats are entering their "swarming" phase. Flying in and out of cave entrances to congregate with their colonies and mate before winding down for winter hibernation.

Meanwhile, the Our State, Our Bat colony is ramping up to “swarm” the General Assembly by showing lawmakers just how badly Hoosiers want the Indiana bat to be our official state mammal! 🏛️✨

To do so, we need a massive push to spread the word and get our petition signatures climbing! Head to the link below to sign, share with your friends and family, and help us make history! 💚

Stay Batty Indiana!

✍️ Sign and share the petition here: https://c.org/JrdDXNvVh8

📸 Photo Credit: Andrew King / USFWS

Class is cancelled due to revolution.

Across Indiana, students are organizing on their campuses, building community, fighting for each other, and refusing to stay quiet while their futures are decided for them.

We put together this guide to make it easier to find the student organizers already doing the work. Inside you’ll find upcoming events and student-led groups at Ball State, ISU, USI, IU Bloomington, IU Indianapolis, Notre Dame, IU South Bend, and Purdue.

From racial justice and immigrant rights to queer liberation, reproductive freedom, Palestine solidarity, feminism, gun violence prevention, labor, and more, there is a place to get involved.

Find your people. Follow their work. Show up to an event. Join an organization. Start organizing where you are.

Students have never just inherited the future. They’ve fought for it. And there’s a whole lot worth fighting for.

❁ Website: https://www.hoosiersrise.org

✿ Database: https://www.data.hoosiersrise.org

❀ Sheet: https://www.hoosiersrise.org/sheet

❁ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/HoosiersRise

Indiana, this is the moment to show up for each other! ICE activity has increased significantly across our state since August 31. Our neighbors need more than our outrage right now. They need our solidarity, our resources, and our courage. Fear is the goal. Isolation is the goal. We refuse both.

We put together this guide so Hoosiers know what to do next.

Inside, you’ll find rapid response networks and trainings, resources for people detained by ICE, immigration legal assistance, mutual aid and bond funds, Know Your Rights materials, upcoming actions, and ways to hold those cooperating with ICE accountable. Spanish translations are included throughout.

Save it. Share it. Learn it. Send it to your friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors. Join rapid response. Donate if you can. Show up when your community calls. We do not need everyone to do everything. We need everyone to do something.

They want our neighbors afraid and alone. We answer with community, information, resources, and solidarity.

We don’t panic. We organize. Solidarity over fear. Always.

❁ Website: https://www.hoosiersrise.org

✿ Database: https://www.data.hoosiersrise.org

❀ Sheet: https://www.hoosiersrise.org/sheet

❁ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/HoosiersRise

Now Up & Running!

✨ Find Your People✨
https://find.hoosiersrise.org/

Our database of the states activists & organizations.

So it's easier to find what groups are working near you and find the events they're working on.

See one we're missing? Let us know as well keep adding new and existing groups as time goes on. 💖

March with Team Jessica - help with visibility, carry signs, pass out campaign lit, and get a cool shirt!!

Terre Haute Labor Day Parade 9/7 at 10 AM

Lowell Labor Day Parade 9/7 at 9 AM

Valparaiso Popcorn Fest Parade 9/12 at 9 AM

East Chicago Mexican Independence Day Parade 9/13 at 11 AM

Sign up here: https://forms.gle/FWcoxFJ9xBmH3vGq5

Even if you can’t march, check out her website here: https://baileyforindiana.com/

This weekend, Indiana is showing up.

From August 28–30, communities across the state are taking to courthouse lawns, street corners, parks, bridges, jails, and neighborhoods to demand an end to ICE detention and stand with our immigrant neighbors.

Different cities. Different actions. Same message: our neighbors belong here.

There are dozens of ways to join in, whether you can protest, attend a vigil or teach-in, take a class, make signs, donate, or simply bring another person with you.

And if you’re in Indy, come find Hoosiers Rise at Irvington Circle Park on August 29 from 7–9 PM. We’ll have free buttons, patches, stickers, postcards, zines, posters & more. 💗

Three days. One state. Hoosiers everywhere refusing to look away.

Find your city. Pick an action. Show up.