| Join tonight’s No Kings Coalition Mass Call: Eyes on ICE. Tonight at 8pm ET, the No Kings coalition is hosting a training on how to exercise your right to monitor ICE, CBP, and other law enforcement agencies as they terrorize our communities. Over 100,000 are already signed up to join us. We hope you’ll be there, too! Tell your senators to BLOCK more funding for ICE and Border Patrol. After the killing of Alex Pretti by CBP agents, Chuck Schumer announced that “Senate Democrats will not provide the votes to proceed to the appropriations bill if the DHS funding bill is included.” Now we have to ensure that Democrats hold the line. Demand that your senators vote against legislation that gives ICE and CBP more money while doing precious little to rein in their brutality. (More info here). Then email your senators to underscore your point: Not another dime for ICE and Border Patrol. Use our email tool to demand that your senators reject any DHS budget that puts more money into Trump’s deadly deportation machine, and share with friends to ask them to do the same. Plan an ICE Out action at your senators’ home offices. Our calls and emails are critical, but it’s also very important that we turn up the pressure on senators publicly, in their home states. We encourage you to plan creative, nonviolent, and lawful actions that honor the lives taken and highlight our demand to rein in ICE.P.S. Over the past few weeks, Indivisible helped lead the ICE Out For Good weekend of action and Friday’s national solidarity events with Minnesota. These major mobilizations are only possible because of grassroots donations, but because we’ve been focused on organizing these days of action and putting pressure on Congress, we’ve had something of a pause on fundraising. So: We’re asking everyone reading this — if you can, please consider chipping in to help us continue leading in these moments and organizing the ever-growing opposition to the Trump regime.Stand with MinnesotaDespite constant teargassing, brutal detentions, and the murders of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, Minnesotans have stood up against Trump’s invasion of their state in remarkable numbers and with tremendous courage. Braving frigid temperatures, they’ve been demanding Minnesota’s corporations stand with their customers and staff and demand that ICE and Border Patrol leave the state; yesterday, the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce released an open letter that failed spectacularly to meet residents’ courage with anything like their own. Minnesota organizers have asked that the rest of us help turn up the heat on the state’s biggest regime-friendly corporations. Call or email Target, Hilton, Enterprise, Home Depot, and Delta Airlines to demand they take action to get ICE out of our communities FOR GOOD. Whether they’re actively cooperating or keeping quiet in the face of ICE and Border Patrol brutality, each of these corporations is standing by as armed, masked secret police terrorize the communities in which they operate. We need to make sure they know: It’s got to stop. Fight Back With Friends Want help activating your community? Fight Back With Friends is a monthly program that equips Indivisibles with the tools they need to connect anyone who might need a little support getting civically engaged.On the fourth Tuesday of every month, we highlight a major action you can take and invite others to join. We provide talking points, useful resources, and general guidance on helping those new to activism get involved. This month (tomorrow, if you’re reading this Monday), we’ll be talking about the DHS appropriations bill that would give even more money to ICE and CBP, and how to keep pushing back.Here’s how Fight Back With Friends works: Sign up for the Fight Back With Friends call on the fourth Tuesday of every month. Download the Empower App on your phone or tablet. Want to learn about the Empower app? Join the call! Use the ready-to-go messaging and resources to take action and invite friends, neighbors, and family to join you.Pro-democracy activism depends to a tremendous degree on personal connections. People are far more likely to trust folks they know over any other source when making sense of what’s happening and, more importantly, what they can do about it. Fight Back With Friends empowers you to help empower them. Join us tomorrow and on the fourth Tuesday of every month and become their trusted messenger!IndivisiWIN of the weekFor weeks, Indivisible Brooklyn has defied the bitter cold to protest outside Chuck Schumer’s home and office to demand that he use his position as Senate minority leader to rein in ICE. They spent the past week, every single day, loudly demanding that he block the upcoming DHS appropriations bill that would provide Trump’s secret police with more funding instead of more guardrails.  On Saturday, following the killing of Alex Pretti, Schumer announced he was prepared to do just that. Crucially, his statement didn’t just say he’d vote against the funding; it made clear he would work to unify the caucus against it. Indivisible Brooklyn has been sowing the seeds of this critical development with creativity and tenacity. And they’re not stopping! On Sunday they were out in the snowstorm to make sure Schumer knows they’re going to hold him accountable. This is what effective organizing looks like! Indivisible Brooklyn won’t let up until this fight is won, and neither should we; head back up to the to-dos to call and email your senators if you haven’t already! Upcoming Events for you These nationwide events, calls, and training sessions are coming up soon. For even more Indivisible happenings, check our national calendar and get in touch with Indivisible groups near you! |
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