IC-SS Weekly News: January 29, 2024
TONIGHT: Bring Chicago Home
Info Session
In March, Chicagoans will be voting in the Illinois primary… and we’ll all be voting on the Bring Chicago Home referendum. Want to know more?
TONIGHT Monday, January 29th, 7:00-8:30 pm, join us on Zoom for an info session on Bring Chicago Home. Register here.
Our speakers will be Jimmy Rothschild (he/him), JCUA Community Organizer, and Jackie Bustamante (they/them), Bring Chicago Home Phone and Text Banking Coordinator. Register here.
Indivisible Chicago-South Side, Indivisible Downtown Chicago, and Indivisible Chicago Alliance are partnering on this January 29 info session via Zoom. You’ll find out:
- how Bring Chicago Home will help Chicago’s large population of individuals and families experiencing homelessness;
- how revenue will be raised to support it;
- how YOU can support the effort to get Chicagoans to vote YES.
Come learn with us and get your questions answered. Register here for TONIGHT, Jan 29.
For a first glimpse, see the website of the Bring Chicago Home coalition.
Sunday Phonebanks: Bring Chicago Home
Join the citywide Indivisible Chicago Alliance virtually to make phone calls for Bring Chicago Home! If Chicago votes YES in the Bring Chicago Home referendum this March, then the City Council can approve it and provide permanent housing & needed services to people experiencing homelessness. The revenue would come from a one-time tax on purchases of real estate going for $1million or more – a mansion tax.
Every Sunday from 4:00-7:00, we’re talking to fellow Chicagoans about the Bring Chicago Home referendum and why it’s important we VOTE YES to more housing in the upcoming March primary. Info/sign-up.
Before starting your phone calls on a remote dialer, you’ll get all the information and support you need on Zoom from friendly, patient Indivisible Chicago organizers, partnering with the Bring Chicago Home coalition. Get more information for the Sunday phonebanks and register here: Info/sign-up
Not free that day? You can sign up to phone bank with the Bring Chicago Home coalition every Tuesday and Thursday evening here.
Emma Tai at the Hideout – Feb 15
From the Blue Beginning chapter of Indivisible Chicago Alliance: Blue Beginning’s special guest at the Hideout on February 15 is the extraordinary organizer Emma Tai, former head of United Working Families, the organization behind the successful campaigns of Brandon Johnson and Delia Ramirez, among others. RSVP here.
Now Emma Tai is the director of Bring Chicago Home, Mayor Johnson’s proposal to fight homelessness with a “mansion tax” that asks the city’s wealthiest–those who can afford to buy properties of $1 million or more–to help house 68,000 neighbors who have no homes.
Hear Emma Tai at the next monthly Blue Thursday event at the Hideout, 1354 W. Wabansia — Thursday, February 15th, 6:00-7:00 pm. RSVP here.
Blue Thursday, hosted by Indivisible Chicago and its Hideout-based chapter, Blue Beginning, is a monthly mixer for pols, pundits, and persons of principle. Bar opens at 5:30, program starts at 6. Free and open to all, but please RSVP here.
Work for Wisconsin!
Wisconsin elections play a critical role in the future of the United States as a free country. In this election year, we in Chicago can help Wisconsin elect Democrats and progressives who’ll fight to protect our democracy.
Phone Bank to Recruit Volunteers in Kenosha
The Indivisible Chicago Alliance is working with Wisconsin Democrats in Kenosha on the Chicago and Kenosha Building Voting Power Together project.
From Indivisible Chicago Alliance: Help find and recruit fellow activists in Kenosha. Join us to phone folks we believe are strong supporters living in Kenosha’s KTown North area to invite them to a gathering February 29th, at which Wisconsin/Kenosha Dems are developing new neighborhood teams.
ACT FROM HOME: Get on Zoom to phonebank from your own home every Wednesday, 6:00-8:00 pm. Info/Sign-up.
Help Flip NY-03: G. Santos’s Old Seat
From SwingLeft: Indivisible and Swing Left chapters across the Midwest are teaming up to call voters ahead of the Feb. 13 special election in New York’s 3rd congressional district – and flip George Santos’s former district from red to blue! Get info/sign up
On Saturday, February 3rd, 3:00-4:30 pm CT and Tuesday February 13th, 12:00-1:30 pm CT, we’ll talk to voters about supporting Democratic nominee Tom Suozzi and encourage them to make their voices heard at the ballot box. Get info/sign up
Join your fellow Midwest volunteers from Indivisible Illinois, Indivisible Evanston, Statewide Indivisible Michigan (SWIM), Swing Left Chicago, Swing Left Milwaukee, Swing Left Twin Cities, and more, showing up for our friends in New York.
Once you register, you’ll receive a Zoom registration form to fill out and that’ll get you the Zoom link for the call.If you have questions about this event, please RSVP and respond to confirmation email you receive to reach out to the host. We’re excited to take action with you! Get info/sign up
