WAKING GIANT

Saturday Pop-up Protest - 11th & N. Montana
2025-12-27 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-20 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-13 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-12-06 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-29 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-22 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-11-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver) | Corner of 11th & North Montana, 1150 11th Ave, Helena, MT, 59601, United States
A weekly event to stand with protest signs on 3 sides of this intersection. Bring your own sign, or a variety of signs will be provided and you can choose one.

Waking Giant Stitch & B*tch
2025-12-23 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-12-16 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-12-09 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-12-02 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-11-25 17:30 - 19:00, 2025-11-18 17:30 - 19:00 | Real Food Store, 1096 Helena Ave, Helena, MT, 59601, United States
Join us for our informal weekly crafting group. Whether you craft, want to learn, or just want to hang out, come on by 👍🏼 (and/or invite your crafty friends!)
WHEN: 5:30-7pm Tuesday nights
WHERE: Real Food Store food court (1096 Helena Ave, go left after entering the main doors)
WHAT: Stitching up some solidarity! Sewing and growing, crocheting and kvetching, knitting and nattering, embroidering and, well, you get it 🧶👥

Chronic Conditions | Collective Care Meeting
2025-12-21 13:00 - 14:00, 2025-11-16 13:00 - 14:00 | Lewis and Clark Library, 120 S Last Chance Gulch St, Helena, MT, 59601, United States
Mutual Aid Support Group for Helenans living with chronic illness and disability.
More than 1 in 4 adults (28.7%) in the US reports having some kind of disability (Centers for Disease Control, 2024). Folks with chronic health conditions and disabilities typically face many additional challenges in their daily lives. Chronic Conditions Collective Care (C4) is a space for everyone who lives with chronic conditions, and their care-takers. We don’t offer unsolicited advice or share personal details regarding members. Our hope is to also see what needs we can address with mutual aid.
Questions? Contact strange.garland@proton.me for more information on this project.
What: Chronic Conditions Collective Care, a support group for Helenans with disabilities or other chronic health concerns, or their caregivers
When: Sunday, October 19th, 1:00-2:00pm (repeats every 3rd Sunday of the month)
Where: Lewis & Clark County Library,
120 S Last Chance Gulch

Waking Giant General Meeting
2025-12-18 18:00 - 20:00 | MT
This is our regular bi-monthly business meeting. We ask interested new folk to connect with an existing member before showing up.
If you are new, we’d love to meet you. Use the Contact Us form on this website or send us an email at info@wakinggiant.org and tell us about yourself.
6:00-6:30: Social time
6:30-8:00: Meeting

Helena City Commission Meeting (Administrative)
2025-12-17 16:00 - 18:00 | City County Building, Room 326, 316 N Park Ave, Helena, MT, 59601, United States
View the agenda or download the meeting packet here

Our allies at Montana for Palestine (MT4P) have put together a petition with the following demands for the city:

Local law enforcement does not participate in immigration enforcement operations and activities. This means that no time or resources are spent on immigration enforcement, that no officers are deputized for immigration enforcement, and that there are no 287(g) agreements or any other type of immigration enforcement agreement signed by the city with federal authorities.
Local law enforcement or any staff employed by the city may not request information from anyone about their citizenship or immigration status.
Local law enforcement and city staff will not provide record information to federal immigration authorities that is not legally required.
Local law enforcement is required to request any federal immigration authorities (including Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) & CBP (Custom & Border Patrol)) to de-mask and identify themselves by name and agency to individuals they are interacting with and the public whenever they interact with the public. Local law enforcement must document any refusal by federal authorities to comply.
Local law enforcement must report all requests for assistance from immigration enforcement (along with the response) on a publicly available website. Any individual’s names who are the subject of the immigration enforcement requests are redacted for privacy.

Waking Giant Social Event
2025-12-11 18:00 - 20:00, 2025-11-13 18:00 - 20:00 | TBD
Join us for an informal chance to visit and eat/drink together. If the weather is good, we often meet in a park. If not otherwise announced, plan to meet at Brothers Tapworks (40 S Last Chance Gulch). Occasionally they are booked with private parties, in which case we will go to 10 Mile Creek Brewery (48 N Last Chance Gulch). We hope you will join us!

Helena City Commission Meeting (Regular Meeting)
2025-12-08 18:00 - 20:00 | City County Building, Room 330, 316 N Park Ave, Helena, MT, 59623, United States

Waking Giant General Meeting
2025-12-04 18:30 - 20:00 | Union Hall (IBEW), 110 N Warren St, Helena, MT, 59601, United States
**Sharing the IBEW this night with Union members, if they are using the upstairs then we will use the downstairs.
This is our regular bi-monthly business meeting. We ask interested new folk to connect with an existing member before showing up.
If you are new, we’d love to meet you. Use the Contact Us form on this website or send us an email at info@wakinggiant.org and tell us about yourself.

Helena City Commission Meeting (Administrative)
2025-12-03 16:00 - 18:00 | City County Building, Room 326, 316 N Park Ave, Helena, MT, 59601, United States

Piroshkis for Palestine
2025-12-02 18:00 - 20:00 | Dear Potato Bakery, 105 E 6th Ave, Helena, MT, 59601, United States

Prickly Pear Housing Alliance - Monthly Tenants Meeting
2025-12-01 18:00 - 19:00 | Lewis and Clark Library, 120 S Last Chance Gulch St, Helena, MT, 59601, United States

WG Friendsgiving Brunch
2025-11-28 10:00 - 12:00 | Union Hall (IBEW), 110 N Warren St, Helena, MT, 59601, United States
Possibly potluck-style if larger group; friends and family welcome. Please RSVP by 11/14. Click this event to RSVP using Google Docs link.

Waking Giant General Meeting
2025-11-20 18:30 - 20:00 | Union Hall (IBEW), 110 N Warren St, Helena, MT, 59601, United States
This is our regular bi-monthly business meeting. We ask interested new folk to connect with an existing member before showing up.
If you are new, we’d love to meet you. Use the Contact Us form on this website or send us an email at info@wakinggiant.org and tell us about yourself.

Helena City Commission Meeting (Regular Meeting)
2025-11-17 18:00 - 20:00 | Montana State Capitol, 1301 East Sixth Avenue, Helena, Montana, 59601, United States

Helena City Commission Meeting (Administrative)
2025-11-12 16:00 - 18:00 | City County Building, Room 326, 316 N Park Ave, Helena, MT, 59601, United States
HPD will discuss ICE and MT4P has drafted 5 demands for HPD.
View the agenda or download the meeting packet here

Our allies at Montana for Palestine (MT4P) have put together a petition with the following demands for the city:

Local law enforcement does not participate in immigration enforcement operations and activities. This means that no time or resources are spent on immigration enforcement, that no officers are deputized for immigration enforcement, and that there are no 287(g) agreements or any other type of immigration enforcement agreement signed by the city with federal authorities.
Local law enforcement or any staff employed by the city may not request information from anyone about their citizenship or immigration status.
Local law enforcement and city staff will not provide record information to federal immigration authorities that is not legally required.
Local law enforcement is required to request any federal immigration authorities (including Department of Homeland Security (DHS), ICE (Immigration & Customs Enforcement) & CBP (Custom & Border Patrol)) to de-mask and identify themselves by name and agency to individuals they are interacting with and the public whenever they interact with the public. Local law enforcement must document any refusal by federal authorities to comply.
Local law enforcement must report all requests for assistance from immigration enforcement (along with the response) on a publicly available website. Any individual’s names who are the subject of the immigration enforcement requests are redacted for privacy.

Know Your Rights, Share Your Rights: Immigrants' Rights
2025-11-11 18:30 - 20:00 | Plymouth Congregational Church, 400 South Oakes Street, Helena, MT, 59601, United States
Come to a panel discussion with ACLU MT and local immigration attorneys about what you need to know if you are stopped by ICE or if you are a bystander/advocate observing ICE’s involvement in our community.
Come get answers from the experts.
Presented by ACLU Montana, Sewing Circle, Waking Giant, Indivisible, and Hands on Global.

Preparing for the Domestic Terrorism Apparatus
2025-11-10 18:00 - 19:30 | https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82126785066
Hosted by National Lawyers Guild
Register at https://www.nlg.org/civicrm/event/register/?reset=1&id=90
As the administration moves to expand its domestic terrorism framework, new policies and rhetoric are raising alarm among social justice advocates. A recently issued presidential directive, National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-7), reportedly identifies a range of progressive, “anti-American,” and “anti-Christian” beliefs as potential indicators of “terrorism.” Paired with inflammatory claims about so-called “transgender extremism” and Donald Trump’s executive order targeting “Antifa,” these developments signal a disturbing effort to criminalize dissent and stigmatize marginalized communities.
The National Lawyers Guild Review (NLGR) will bring together activists, legal experts, and organizers to unpack what these shifts mean in practice. This urgent conversation comes amid growing political attacks, including Representative Lance Gooden’s (R–TX) formal request that the Department of Justice investigate the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) over its alleged association with “Antifa” or “antifascism.”
Together, we’ll explore:

What’s new and concerning about the federal domestic terrorism apparatus
How these policies may target activists, trans people, and other vulnerable communities
Practical steps for staying informed, secure, and organized
