IC-SS News: Sept. 30, 2024
5 Weeks to Go: Let’s Step Up!FIVE WEEKS TO GO. Connect with the citywide Indivisible Chicago Alliance (ICA) for training, support, and opportunities to ensure the U.S. elects Kamala Harris and keeps Republicans out of the White House, Congress, and statehouses. Time is short, and as Michelle Obama says, DO SOMETHING.
Canvassers get trained and ready to knock doors & talk to voters
Find opportunities: ICA Action Calendar
Knock doors in Wisconsin & Michigan: ICA Canvassing
Phone voters with ICA:
Michigan Mondays, 3-5 pm
Wisconsin Wednesdays, 6-8 pm
Michigan Thursdays, 3-5 pm
Wisconsin Fridays, 4-6 pmPhonebankers get training & support on Zoom–and debrief together
You can also join Indivisible Chicago’s partner
Rust Belt Rising doing voter registration phone banks
Write Letters with Us on October 10
Together, we can help get out the vote in critical states and districts. We’re meeting next week on Thursday, October 10, to write Vote Forward letters to voters. RSVP*
Write letters to voters with us on October 10th!
SIGN UP: Please RSVP* to write letters to voters with us on Thursday, October 10th. We’ll enjoy pizza and write Vote Forward letters from6:00-8:00 pm at a private venue in Hyde Park (get the address when you register). IC-SS will provide the pizza plus soft drinks. Feel free to bring along wine or beer, a side dish, or a sweet treat to share.
At each party, letter leader Steve Kagan brings letter printouts, envelopes, and pens for you. If you can, bring stamps to donate.
As noted, our next letter party is Thursday, October 10th. But please mark your calendars also for our final letter party on Tuesday, October 22nd, venue to be announced later.
*Having trouble with the automatic RSVP? Instead, you can just send an email to Indiv.Chi.South@gmail.com, saying that you’ll attend the letter party on Thursday, October 10th. Please provide your full name and cell number.
Writing at Home? Meet Hamilton Cast Oct 7
You can still sign up individually with Vote Forward to print, write, and mail your own letters from home. Remember you’ll be mailing letters between Oct. 1 and Oct. 29.
From Vote Forward: Join members of the cast of Hamilton and volunteers from across the country for an online letter-writing party! These letters are part of The Big Send—Vote Forward’s collective effort to write 10 million letters to voters this year. This special event will take place Monday, October 7th, at 7:00 pm CT (8:00 pm ET). RSVP.
RSVP today, and Vote Forward will let you know how to join this event. Invite your friends and family, too and encourage them to become letter writers this year!
Never written letters before? No problem! Visit votefwd.org/hamilton and make an account, download twenty letters, and Vote Forward will offer guidance on how to write and prepare your letters at our event!
Tell Senators: Support Sanders’ Resolution
US complicity in this horrific war must end.
~Sen Bernie Sanders, Sept 18
On September 25, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRD) seeking to block $20 billion in new arms sales to the Israeli government. The Senate will vote on these measures when it reconvenes in November.
Sep 18: Sanders discusses his plan to introduce the JRDCiting reasons that are “moral, legal, and strategic,” Sanders said on September 25, “Sending more weapons to Netanyahu’s extremist government is unacceptable. That is why many of our closest allies have already stopped offensive arms transfers. Congress must now act to uphold U.S. and international law and use our leverage to advance U.S. policy goals.”
Read the Sept. 25 press release; read Senator Sanders’ fact sheet.
ACT: Contact our senators and call on them to support Senator Sanders’ Joint Resolutions of Disapproval (JRD) to block the sale of offensive U.S. weaponry to Israel.
Or use Jewish Voice for Peace’s action alert.
Organizations & Opportunities
Indivisible Chicago-South Side shares information and actions from other organizations on issues important in our country, state, city, and communities.
School Board Elections: Get Informed
For the first time, we Chicagoans get to ELECT members of the soon-to-be expanded school board. There are 10 school board districts; Chicago’s greater South Side lies mainly in districts 6 though 10.
Find out which school-board district you live in and learn about the candidates for your district in this school-board district resource page from the Sun-Times, WBEZ, and Chalkbeat Chicago.
And see also this Hyde Park Herald report on a forum for candidates in school-board districts 6 and 10, which include Hyde Park-Kenwood.
Oct 2: Panel on Originalism in Supreme Court
This Wednesday on your lunch hour, attend a free online panel discussion, The Fight Against Originalism Continues
From the Brennan Center for Justice: In its last term, the Supreme Court undermined the federal government’s power to solve problems and the people’s ability to hold their political leaders accountable. The Court was flooded with false historical arguments, and the justices relied on profoundly flawed ideas about the deep American past to help justify their radical overhaul of the law.
Where does the fight against originalism stand in 2024? And what might come next?Join us for a FREE live virtual event on Wednesday, October 2, at 12:00 noon CT (1:00 pm ET) as leading historians and Brennan Center experts delve into some of the Court’s most significant recent rulings, how they will shape upcoming legal debates, and how the Court’s disastrous originalist opinions are affecting hundreds of millions of lives. Info/Registration here.
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