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Minutes of the May 10 meeting

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Many of us were coming from the last-minute phone bank for Christy Smith (CA-25). If the race is close when the results as of Tuesday night are known, we are in good shape. If not… The process was smoother than in previous campaigns, although Naomi said the instructions from an earlier session run by Swing Left San Francisco were better.

Action Items

  1. Phone Bank for Arizona, May 17, 1:00–3:00. Organized by Indivisible East Bay. We are encouraging voters to apply for vote-by-mail status.
  2. Flip the West also have virtual text banks and phone banks. And so do Swing Left.
  3. We have lots of postcards and stamps. I will be putting up some sort of thermometer, and people can report back to me how many they have written.
  4. Bruce reported that Vote Forward finds letters increase voter turnout by four points. You can get their letters at the link.

This is It: Agenda for today’s shortened meeting 5:00-5:30 after Phone banking

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Meeting ID: 818 1454 0379
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This is it. What we are doing today is what we are going to do in the future. Given that, how do we organize and map our efforts?

  1. Postcards. We have 1000 postcards in our living room. Distribution ideas. Andy’s comments on the most important campaigns.
  2. Texting. Did Committoflip help? What else can we do to get those who want to text, texting?
  3. Phone calling. The psychology of letting it ring. How did today go and who wants more for the future?
  4. Letter writing (including Indivisible’s support). Should we have a group goal?
  5. Fundraising. Time to shift our website campaign. What next?

🚨Replacement Sunday meeting🚨

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Initial ballot counts for the CA–25 special election (Christy Smith vs Mike Garcia, a Hispanic Republican veteran) are not favorable. The ballots received so far have many more R than D voters. The voting deadline is postmarked Tuesday. (There are also a small number of in-person polling places and drop boxes, but no one seems to expect significant voting in person. All voters were mailed an absentee ballot.)

In lieu of our regular meeting, Naomi and I have signed up to do GOTV phone banking. We do not want to take the morale hit that would come from letting Team MAGA-Drink-Bleach flip this district.

Swing Left virtual phone bank link.

You should sign up, if you can join us, 24 hours in advance. The event runs 2:30 to 5:00, and if people are interested,, at 5:00 we can have our own brief meeting to discuss it.

Sad news

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I wanted to let everyone know that we have been in touch with Jeff who we have not seen in a while and we learned that his wife Noemi died earlier this year. Here is a link to the article about her in Berkeleyside and here is his address for anyone who wants to write a note: Jeff Grund, 2706 Ashby #2, Berkeley 94705.

From Indivisible East Bay

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Work with IEB on 2020 Elections: Polls Close in 6 Months!  We’ve all heard that shelter-in-place is officially set to continue through May,and Indivisible East Bay’s remote activism will continue with it, as we all do our part to minimize the virus’ spread.One way you can help: join us for remote phone-banking, which is now officially live and active! Last Sunday, a small-but-mighty team gathered on Zoom and called 150 voters to turn out the mail-in vote for Tricia Zunker in Wisconsin’s upcoming special election and recruit volunteers for Mark Kelly in Arizona. One particularly fiery AZ voter told us she’s been sending a donation to Kelly every time she gets an email from the McSally campaign. Another said her yard was proudly sporting a Biden sign among a sea of signs for the bleach-proponent-in-chief. We even walked an enthusiastic long-time voter & first-time vote-by-mail-er through the absentee ballot request process. Sound like fun to you? We’ll be (virtually) here this Saturday and have phone banks planned for every Saturday in May! 
2020 Voter Outreach Events
Canvasses:Canvassing is on hold for now, but please fill out this form to be notified as soon as it’s back on.
Remote Phone & Text Banks:Phone Bank to Wisconsin and Arizona 5/2Phone Bank to Wisconsin and Arizona 5/9Phone Bank to Arizona 5/16Text Bank to Win in 2020 5/17Phone Bank to Arizona 5/23Phone Bank to Arizona 5/30Remote Text Bank to Win in 2020 5/30
Other Voter Outreach:We’re looking to expand our outreach to Spanish-speaking voters in Arizona and beyond. Please click here to add your name to our list of people available to phone bank in Spanish. 
Note: if your info is stored with EveryAction, clicking this link will automatically add you to the list. Want to write postcards from home?
Email fiona.IndivisibleEastBay1@gmail.com and we’ll give you complete instructions, scripts and addresses from one of the groups we work with.

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Virtual Protest Thursday for virus-free voting and protecting the Post Office

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The following post comes via Patti Crane of Indivisible Beach Cities/ISBLA and Michelle Maniere Fowle of The Resistance Northridge:

California Indivisibles: Tell Congress to fund #VirusFreeVoting and to protect the Post Office!

Here’s the toolkit for Thursday’s Virtual Protest: http://bit.ly/vfvdigitaltk  

Join Indivisibles and others nationwide in our #VirusFreeVoting Virtual Protest on Thursday from 3-5 pm PT!

We ask Congress to fund $4 billion for Vote at Home and we insist on protecting the Post Office. Show that NO ONE can take away our vote and our voice.

Please tag your electeds and get the #VirusFreeVoting hashtag trending.

Click the online toolkit so you can take a selfie with a sign, make a video, post a tweet or an Instagram message, share a message on Facebook. You can also send a letter to your electeds, trigger phone calls to Congress, and do even more for two straight hours of digital activism.