Actions Previous 2025

Previous Actions from 2025

For the Week of Jan 13, 2025

🔷 We had a wonderful birthday celebration on Saturday, heard about the upcoming legislative session, collected donations for Sophia Way, and listened to Naren Briar’s excellent presentation on immigration and refugees. Check out our notes and slides HERE. Thank you to everyone who donated!

🔷 Indivisible National founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin will be hosting weekly discussions every Thursday (1/16, 1/23, and 1/30) in January at noon PT. They will open with some reflections on news of the day, but mostly will be taking questions — which you can send ahead of time or ask live. Register and submit questions for 1/16 here, or find registration pages for the later “Bracing for impact” calls here.

🔷 Immigrant rights organizations are looking for volunteers to help with their Asylum Clinic on Monday, January 20th. In particular, Spanish, Lingala, French, or Portuguese interpreters are needed. They are planning to serve around 200 asylum seekers. To learn more or sign up to volunteer, contact IE Member Michelle Mentzer.

Here are your 2 actions and a Bright Spot.

✊ Action 1 – Support LA Fire Relief

Our hearts go out to the people in California who have lost so much in the fires that have destroyed entire towns. There has been a lot of hateful rhetoric and misinformation being thrown around, but the reality is that climate change is causing these extreme weather events. Communications expert Antonia Scatton wrote about Framing the Fires to give us tips on how to handle the messaging.

Much of the news is focusing on Pacific Palisades, Malibu, and the wealthier neighborhoods, however, Altadena has been devastated by the Eaton fire. Consider helping the families linked in the article to support this historically Black community.

Donate to help Californians in need:

✊ Action 2 – Get ready for 2025: Sign up for or refamiliarize yourself with Take Action Network to be part the Legislative Action team

Thank you to the 160 people across the state who filled out the Legislative Priorities Survey. Now it’s time to get ready to join Indivisible Eastside in lobbying our State Legislators on these issues in 2025. Thirty Washington Indivisible Legislative Action (WILA) Bill trackers from 9 Indivisible groups are working hard to choose strategic times to issue Calls to Action, and constituent action is KEY. The legislative session begins this week. Help us ensure that good bills move forward and bad bills get no oxygen by signing up for Take Action Network (TAN). If you’re a lapsed TAN user, view the two-part Introduction to TAN Videos to refamiliarize yourself, and take THIS Action to make sure TAN emails are not going to your SPAM folder.

Five features make taking action easy:

  1. You’ll only be asked to email your reps or senator when they are in the position to vote on a particular bill.
  2. With one click, a pre-filled email will be created for you that you can quickly customize and send (see 3rd video).
  3. You’ll see how many others around the state are taking each action, and when you click “Marked as done” you’ll encourage others to act by adding to that count. During the last legislative session, members reported using Take Action Network to take over 16,000 Actions!
  4. You can share these actions with others simply by copying the address from the browser address bar.
  5. You can create and save searches that will send an email only when a new action fitting that search is published. Interested in Tax Reform? Healthcare? Environment? Create a search (see 4th video)!

Because of the targeted approach built into TAN, most of the actions will NOT appear in the Indivisible Eastside Weekly Actions newsletter and will ONLY be available to those who have taken the step to sign up for TAN.

Are YOUR Legislators Hearing From YOU? If you’re not signed up, please see IE’s TAN website page for details on how to sign up and be part of making Washington better for all.

Are you an experiential learner? Indivisible Bellingham’s Kevin L will be hosting 1 hour TAN trainings starting January 7th. See dates and sign up at https://bit.ly/TAN-Training-Dates

⛅ Bright Spots

Last week Biden signed two memorandums to protect more than 600 million acres from offshore oil drilling. This included nearly 250 million acres of Pacific coastline that is the habitat for “seals, sea lions, whales, fish, and countless seabirds” off the coasts of California, Oregon. and Washington.

🎉2025: Keep Democracy Alive. FrameLabs New Year’s Resolutions

Be Brave. Avoid helpless/hopeless talk. Authoritarians want you to feel powerless because it makes their work easier. Courage, faith, and optimism are essential. Fascism feeds on cynicism and pessimism. Starve it. No regime lasts forever. Resolve to do your part to ensure the survival of democracy. Choose to believe that we will find a way to come out stronger.

Calendar of Events

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Recorded events to check out:

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More Resources for Your Activism:

  • Indivisible.org has specific actions you can take by zip code or topic area search. Sign up to receive emails from them HERE and donate HERE.
  • 5calls.org 5 Calls list calls to make to your congresspeople, organized by topic, including script and phone numbers, and a way to log/track your 5 Calls actions if you choose.
  • Chop Wood, Carry Water is a daily political activism newsletter that comes out 6 days a week. Free or paid subscriptions HERE.
  • Suzi and Eric LeVine are local activists. Their newsletter gives actions and insight that can inspire and keep you motivated. Subscribe to their newsletter HERE.

Resources:

For the Week of Jan 6, 2025

🔷 Happy New Year! Leah Greenberg (Co-founder of Indivisible National) sent an email with 5 New Year’s Resolutions. The 5th one was Have Fun, and she says “Fascism is frightening. But self-flagellating judgment or descending into despair are not gonna help us. Our power is in our numbers, which means we have to create welcoming, fun, caring, impactful communities for folks to join.” With that in mind, please join us in celebrating our 8th Birthday this Saturday, January 11th from 2-3:30 pm at the Redmond Library. Indivisible National is asking all groups to participate in a day of action, so we invite you to join Indivisible Eastside’s Supply Drive for The Sophia Way – a place of hope and change for women on their journey from homelessness to safe and stable living. We will be collecting donations at the January 11 Indivisible Eastside’s In Person meeting at the Redmond Library. Click the link for details on what is needed, and how to contribute.

🔷 Are you a PCC member? Is the PCC deli your go to for salads, soups, and prepared meals? Well, those items are slowly being outsourced to an outside vendor taking work away from your local deli worker, and sacrificing the daily made-from-scratch quality for corporate profit. If this shift in mission does not sit well with you, please email using this contact form and tell them you value the deli workers and the quality products they make.

🔷 Indivisible National founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin will be hosting weekly discussions every Thursday (1/9, 1/16, 1/23, and 1/30) in January at noon PT. They will open with some reflections on news of the day, but mostly will be taking questions — which you can send ahead of time or ask live. You can register and submit questions here.

Here are your 2 actions and a Bright Spot.

✊ Action 1 – Get ready for the Legislative Session

Shortly after the election, Indivisible National created the “Democrats Safeguarding Democracy: A Blueprint for Blue States to Prepare for Trump 2.0” toolkit to help blue state residents like you demand action from your leaders and support good work being done. Many activists just focus on federal action, but the Legislative Session for WA State begins next Monday, and there is much we can do to protect democracy here. The Washington Indivisible Legislative Action Team has been creating statewide actions since 2020, and they make it very easy for individuals to have an impact. Sign up for Take Action Network to organize and track your Activism.

If you are particularly fired up about a certain topic area you can put in your search browser “WA state lobby day 2025 [topic or organization]” and a plethora of results will come up. Lobby Days are when organizations rally their supporters and head down to Olympia to meet with legislators to push their legislative agenda. This can take the form of individual meetings with legislators and/or rallying in front of the legislature. The more people show up, the bigger the impact.

Here are a few lobby day events in different topic areas:

Browse the internet and see if your favorite organization is hosting a lobby day!

✊ Action 2 – Tell Planned Parenthood to stop union busting

Roe v. Wade fell in June of 2022, causing an increase in patients at Planned Parenthood Washington, an increase in stress as employees found themselves targeted by harassment and an increase in fears that providing abortions in Washington to out-of-state patients could end in prosecution for clinicians and medical assistants alike. In 2022, the CEO of Planned Parenthood of Greater Washington and North Idaho, Karl Eastlund, told The Sightline Institute that without additional funding, the organization might be forced to reduce preventive care, primary care, and mental health services in order to meet the urgent need for abortion healthcare. But within a year, Eastlund’s pay had jumped by $100,000, with his compensation more than doubling between 2019 and 2023. As Eastlund’s career was on the rise, employees who became vocal about poor working conditions, and the need for a union, slowly got pushed out. In early November, Eastlund contracted with the Labor Relations Institute (LRI), an organization that calls itself one of the oldest “labor relations” consultants in the country and has been described as “Corporate America’s Favorite ‘Union Busting’ Firm. If you support Planned Parenthood, email development@ppgwni.org and tell them to stop their union busting practices.

☎ Sample Script:

I am a donor to Planned Parenthood, and I just learned that the CEO has hired a union busting firm to persuade workers to not unionize. Since the fall of Roe in June of 2022, workers in WA state have been greatly impacted by new out of state needs. While CEO Eastlund is making big bucks, my donor dollars are helping to pay for consultants hired to prevent workers from unionizing. Planned Parenthood of Greater WA and Northern ID is a great organization that has taken a wrong turn. Please stop your union-busting tactics so that I can continue to support your good work.

Thank you.

⛅ Bright Spot

Despite right-wing pressure against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs in the workplace, Costco believes DEI improves its business and is standing behind its efforts. This is in contrast to actions taken by companies such as Walmart, John Deere, and Tractor Supply. We appreciate companies that recognize the work and contributions of people of different races, genders, and classes, as well as veterans and people with disabilities.

Calendar of Events

Recorded events to check out:

… and More:

More Resources for Your Activism:

  • Indivisible.org has specific actions you can take by zip code or topic area search. Sign up to receive emails from them HERE and donate HERE.
  • 5calls.org 5 Calls list calls to make to your congresspeople, organized by topic, including script and phone numbers, and a way to log/track your 5 Calls actions if you choose.
  • Chop Wood, Carry Water is a daily political activism newsletter that comes out 6 days a week. Free or paid subscriptions HERE.
  • Suzi and Eric LeVine are local activists. Their newsletter gives actions and insight that can inspire and keep you motivated. Subscribe to their newsletter HERE.

Resources:

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