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Upcoming Meetings
Upcoming Meetings
We meet monthly at the library. During the first half, we discuss a book. During the second half, we do a volunteer activity together and/or focus on action planning. No pressure to read or finish the book. Come anyway!
March 2026
March 2026
Women's History Month
We're trying something different this month: We have 2 options, and you pick one to read (or read both if you like). We'll discuss both at our meeting.
🗓️ Date: Saturday, March 28, 2026 | 9:15 - 10:45 AM (NEW TIME! For those wanting to attend Hands Off Beverly's No Kings protest at 11 AM)
📍 Location: Beverly Public Library, Main Branch, Sohier Room
📖 Book: See nonfiction vs. fiction options below
🖐️ Activity: See details below
Nonfiction vs. Fiction: Pick one to read!
Nonfiction vs. Fiction: Pick one to read!
📖 Nonfiction option: Another World Is Possible: Lessons for America from Around the Globe by Natasha Hakimi Zapata
From the publisher: "Real-world solutions to America’s thorniest social problems—from housing to retirement to drug addiction—based on original reporting from around the world."
Page count: 432
📖 Fiction option: Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements edited by adrienne maree brown and Walidah Imarisha
This is an anthology of 20 short stories.
From the publisher: "Whenever we envision a world without war, without prisons, without capitalism, we are producing speculative fiction. Organizers and activists envision, and try to create, such worlds all the time."
Page count: 312
Activity
Activity
In celebration of Women's History Month...
We'll collect donations of period supplies for Beverly Bootstraps, Lifebridge North Shore, and/or Wonderfund.
We'll also fold zines about menstrual equity:
Learn more about period poverty and menstrual equity from the Alliance of Period Supplies and PERIOD.
April 2026
April 2026
Earth Month
🗓️ Date: Sunday, April 19, 2026 | 2:00 - 4:00 PM
📍 Location: Beverly Public Library, Main Branch, Sohier Room
📖 Book: All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis edited by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
From the publisher: "All We Can Save illuminates the expertise and insights of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the United States...and aims to advance a more representative, nuanced, and solution-oriented public conversation on the climate crisis."
Page count: 448
🖐️ Activity: TBD
May 2026
May 2026
Mental Health Awareness Month
🗓️ Date: TBD
📍 Location: TBD
📖 Book: Weathering: The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Arline T. Geronimus.
From the publisher: "Fusing science and social justice, renowned public health researcher Dr. Arline T. Geronimus offers an urgent, 'monumental' book (Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning) exploring the ways in which systemic injustice erodes the health of marginalized people."
Page count: 368
🖐️ Activity: TBD
Upcoming Community Events
Upcoming Community Events
See the curated list
See the curated list
Bystander Know Your Rights Training by MIRA
Bystander Know Your Rights Training by MIRA
🗓️ Wed, Feb 25, 3:00 - 4:00 PM
📍 Virtual via Zoom
➡️ Register here
Joyride! The Future of Transportation in Beverly
Joyride! The Future of Transportation in Beverly
🌱 Green Beverly’s 5th annual Climate Community Conversation
🗓️ Wed, Feb 25, 6:30 PM
📍 The Cabot
➡️ Register here
City Council Meeting
City Council Meeting
🗓️ Mon, Mar 2, 7:00 PM
📍 City Hall
🎥 Watch the BevCam livestream
➡️ Sign up for in-person public comment
Community Resource Fair
Community Resource Fair
🗓️ Tues, Mar 10, 4:00 - 7:00 PM
📍 Beverly Public Library, Main Branch
➡️ Learn about the 20 orgs attending
Amplifying Voices Film Festival
Amplifying Voices Film Festival
🗓️ Thurs - Fri, Mar 12 - 13
📍 The Cabot
➡️ Learn more and buy tickets
Active Bystander Training by the Beverly Human Rights Committee
Active Bystander Training by the Beverly Human Rights Committee
🗓️ Sat, Mar 14, 1:00 - 3:30 PM
📍 Beverly Public Library, Main Branch
➡️ Details coming soon
City Council Meeting
City Council Meeting
🗓️ Mon, Mar 16, 7:00 PM
📍 City Hall
🎥 Watch the BevCam livestream
➡️ Sign up for in-person public comment
Beverly Police Department Community Advisory Council Meeting
Beverly Police Department Community Advisory Council Meeting
🗓️ Tues, Mar 24, 7:00 - 8:00 PM
📍 Beverly High School, Library
➡️ Learn more about the CAC
No Kings protest by Hands Off Beverly
No Kings protest by Hands Off Beverly
🗓️ Sat, Mar 28, 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
📍 Odell Veterans Memorial Park
➡️ See No Kings details
➡️ Learn about Hands Off Beverly
Community Town Hall on Youth & Alcohol Safety
Community Town Hall on Youth & Alcohol Safety
🗓️ Tues, Mar 31, 5:30 - 6:30 PM (rescheduled from Feb 24)
📍 Beverly Council of Aging
➡️ See the original Instagram post and register here
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Past Events
Past Events
Packing kids' snack bags for Beverly Bootstraps at our monthly meeting on Jan 24, 2026.
Reading the land and labor acknowledgments at the city's annual MLK Breakfast on Jan 19, 2026.
2026 Books, Activities, Events
2026 Books, Activities, Events
February 2026
February 2026
Book: All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
Activity: Write birthday and Eid cards to incarcerated people (for the Abolitionist Mail Project)
January 2026
January 2026
Book: Survival Is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde by Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Activity: Pack kids' snack bags for Beverly Bootstraps
Community Event: Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Breakfast, where 5 members of the book club read the land and labor acknowledgments at the start of the program, at the invitation of the city's DEI Director.
2025 Books
2025 Books
December 2025
December 2025
No book this month - action planning instead!
November 2025
November 2025
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
October 2025
October 2025
Dreaming of Home: How We Turn Fear into Pride, Power, and Real Change by Cristina Jiménez
September 2025
September 2025
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson
August 2025
August 2025
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
July 2025
July 2025
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire edited by Alice Wong
June 2025
June 2025
A Land With a People: Palestinians and Jews Confront Zionism edited by Esther Farmer, Rosalind Pollack Petchesky, and Sarah Sills
May 2025
May 2025
What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World by Prentis Hemphill
April 2025
April 2025
Loving Corrections by adrienne maree brown
2025 Candidate Forum
2025 Candidate Forum
Social Justice Candidate Forum
Social Justice Candidate Forum
Sunday, October 26, 2025 | 1:30 - 3:00 PM
Ahead of Beverly's municipal elections on November 4, 2025, we hosted a candidate forum at the Beverly Public Library. We asked candidates questions that were submitted in advance by community members.
Topics we covered:
Immigration & ICE
LGBTQIA+
Diversity & Representation
Access & Affordability
Mayoral candidates who attended in person:
Mike Cahill
Brendan Sweeney
City Councilor at Large candidates who attended in person:
Kenann McKenzie-DeFranza
Keith Sonia
Euplio "Rick" Marciano
Kyle Stanley Retallack
City Councilor at Large candidates who submitted video entries:
Julie Flowers
John Mullady
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