Hello, Friend.
Activist Evenings celebrated and brainstormed on Monday. It marked a turning point from the fear and despair we’ve felt since the Presidential election. Things are shifting dramatically and quickly, which means what we are doing is working.
This election proved that we can both turn out the base and persuade skeptics to vote Democratic. We are seeing pillars that the administration relies on for support start to wobble (eg. the Catholic Church has taken a stand against deportation). This increasing success makes it easier to engage people who have been unhappy but on the sidelines in the work of resisting the regime.
Invite your friends to join you if you stand out in front of Citizen’s Bank or come write postcards. Promote your decision to participate in the boycott of Amazon, Target and Home Depot next week on social media. Talk to friends about dropping Spotify. Each time someone becomes a little more active, it becomes more likely we can not only stop Trump, but we can also create a country that reverses the wealth gap, welcomes immigrants and has a working and affordable healthcare system (for a start).
Are you feeling the hope we feel? What we are doing at Activist Evenings is taking place all over the state and the country. There are thousands of groups like ours and tens of thousands of activists like you.
So here you go….
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YOU can make a difference with emails and phone calls.
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Learn about the SAFE Communities Act (and sign up to testify by 11/20)
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Failed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer
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AND by closing your wallet for the holiday weekend!
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We Ain’t Buying It is a targeted and time limited boycott of Home Depot, Target and Amazon from Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday. Make them feel our pain!
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- Sunday, November 23, Caravan to Stop Avelo at Manchester-Boston Airport. 12:30pm–7:00pm Firm departure, return time approximate. Let us know if you need a ride or can offer one.
- Monday, December 1, Get Out the Vote phonebank for Aftyn Behar, one more flip is in reach in Tennessee?! 6:00pm–7:30pm United Parish Church. Come for the phonebank then stay for the postcards!
- Monday, December 1, Postcarding to register voters and in person phone bank (sign up above for phone bank). Write postcards to residents of Michigan (a swing state) to encourage them to register to vote. Likely democratic voters targeted. Packets of 20 postcards with stamps are $17. We accept payment by cash, checks or Venmo only.
- Monday, December 8, Protect Our Care Town Hall, learn how the state can tap the Rainy Day Fund and pass Mass Corporate Fair share legislation to compensate for expected federal cuts to critical services. 7:00pm–8:30pm Brookline exact location will be sent to registrants.
- Wednesday, December 10, Speaking Truth in the Face of Mis- and Disinformation,: What can you do? 6:00pm–7:00pm Virtual.
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Action teams are meeting . If you’d like to work with any of them, respond to this email and we’ll get you connected.
- ICE Breakers
- Supporting Caregivers
- Workplace Outreach Group
- Visibility Brigade
- Citizens Bank is not a good Citizen
- Neighborhood Outreach
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No Kings was an enormous success. The largest peaceful protest in history paved the way for the turnout on Election Day. Now the work is both continuing to grow our movement and to stand up to the adminstration’s threats.
Note: A lot is happening, which is great, including 3 different events on Saturday. Do what you can!
- Every Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday Bearing Witness at ICE, 11am–1pm 1000 District Ave. Burlington, MA (Thursday is sponsored by Acton Indivisible and Saturday by Massachusetts Peace Action).
- Every Friday, De-Ice Hanscom,1:30pm–3:00pm Hanscom Rotary. Parking is limited. Let us know if you’d like to carpool.
- Every Saturday, Brookline Rally for Democracy, 1:00pm-2:00pm Stand up in Coolidge Corner, Brookline.
- Saturday, November 22, Say No to War in Venezuela, 1:00pm–3:00pm Park Street Station
- Saturday, November 22 Citizen’s Bank Stand Out, 11:00am–12:00pm, 315 Harvard Street near Coolidge Corner.
- Saturday, November 22, Remove the Regime, 12:00 pm, Lincoln Memorial, Washington DC.
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While there is along list of businesses we wish we could impact –strategic and impactful boycotts are targeted and winnable. Paramount reversed the decision to cancel Jimmy Kimmel because over a million people cancelled Disney and Hulu.
- Don’t stream fascism. cancel Spotify. They are streaming ICE recruitment ads. There are other streaming services that are not profiting from the war on immigrants.
- Citizen’s Bank is funding private prisons and detention centers which ICE is using. Close your account and join us in front of the bank in Coolidge Corner on Saturday, November 22 from 11:00am–12:00pm.
- Home Depot, Target and Amazon should see sales effected Thanksgiving through Monday, December 1.
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Indivisible Mass Coalition identifies where we can leverage our numbers with their Coordinated Action Dispatch:
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Massachusetts – Pass the “Safe Communities”, and Two More Immigration Safety Acts! – Finally the Safe Communities Act, MA H.2580, will be heard on November 25th. So will two more immigration bills that ensure that due process and civil rights are upheld for everyone and help police focus on community safety, not federal immigration enforcement! Join hundreds of MA coalition supporters to stop the regime from using MA law enforcement as their terrible tools. Click HERE to access the action sheet.
National Keep Flipping: A Congressional Seat, That Is! – No matter where you live, no matter if you have or haven’t made a call or mailed a postcard for TN-07’s Aftyn Behn: It’s all gas and no brakes with nearly TWO FULL WEEKS to make this HAPPEN. Click HERE to access the action sheet.
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- The midterms are coming and candidates need money. Delete the incessant requests for money and give strategically. Oath, like our friends Force Multiplier, crunches numbers and analyzes where your $ will have the greatest impact. They have identified 6 congressional candidates in flippable districts in swing states who are heavily favored to win their primaries so the early money that goes to them will be critical when they go on to the general election against an incumbent GOP. They go further in that your donations do not land you on multiple mailing lists AND that peace of mind makes it easier for us to donate.
- Movement Voter Project is another way to get early money into winning the midterms. Their proven strategy of investing in grassroots groups paid off this November. They host regular events with guests like Robert Hubbell. Check out the schedule here.
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- Joyce Vance on Miss Piggy, misogyny and a refusal to be quiet about the Trumpstein files.
- BC Professor and Historian Heather Cox Richardson on the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address.
- ” Democrats edge widens when respondents are told who controls the house.” Data nerds can read more.
And then there are podcasts! This Pod Save America about polling tells us about 2026 and beyond is long but worthwhile.
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- What’s the Plan. Every Thursday the founders of Indivisible answer questions from thousands of people. The conversation is then posted on YouTube and always helps us understand the strategy of resistance, which then gives us hope.
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- Call your reps to ask that they vote to ban stock training by members of congress. They are
- Who, what, when, where and why of phone calls: Infographic
- Download and USE 5 calls. and then tell everyone you know about it(especially the ones with Republican representatives in Congress). Encourage them to ask their Representatives to get back to work and demand Mike Johnson open the House.
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