Someone created a Nextdoor account two days ago in my name. It’s fake. It says we are being threatened for having a meeting, that Naomi is being investigated at Davis, etc. IT IS ALL FALSE.
I have reported the fake account, which has my picture from other social media, and suggest you do likewise.
To save people from scrolling down, I have added links to some recent pdfs (for example, our Media Diet) to the “Links” Page. (On a computer, you can also access this at the top of the page.)
We will have a recurring visibility event at College & Ashby from 5:00 to 6:00 on Fridays, starting this Friday 2/28. Bring signs!
Economic Boycott: Buy nothing Friday, February 28, all day.
Short report about prior activities: We wrote 400 postcards last meeting and over 100 people turned up at our Not My President Protest last Monday (photos in previous post).
Current actions:
Sue Hildebrand, one of two Cal Dems staff members working on engagement joined us for a spirited fifteen minutes via Zoom. The useful part of her visit was explaining that the lowest level of the Party comprises the County Central Committees and we should get in touch with our County Committee to express concerns (good idea to learn who yours are!). Half of the Cal Dems budget ( 6 out of 12 million) goes to conventions and such. The other half goes to support candidates and field operations so they only can afford 2 full-time organizers. Hildebrand emphasized how little power Democrats have today.
Afterwards we split into three working groups.
I helped one group get on Bluesky, reviving my own account in the process. Bluesky is basically a drop-in replacement for what Twitter was before Musk turned it into xhit. Bluesky is growing. Musk’s right-wing sewer is not.
The second group did postcards for Susan Crawford in the Wisconsin Supreme Court election, April 1st. We got our postcards from Activate America. There are also letters available from Vote Forward.
The third group is organizing a NEW branch of Indivisible Elmwood. Watch for more info here.
Next meeting is March 9.
Let me thank all of you who came, yelled, waved signs, gave leaflets to passerby. The troops are ready; the D.C. leadership is still mostly missing in action. My own iPhone photographic skills are modest. If you have some good pictures you’d like to share, please email them to me, and I can post them here.
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New visitors: Scroll down for our recommended Resistance Reading Diet and other PDFs of possible interest.
Update: By popular request, today’s handout.
National Indivisible has called for non-violent protest this Monday. We will be at the corner of College & Ashby Monday February 17, noon–1:00, holding signs (BYO) and giving out action items (e.g., Congressional phone numbers to call). Bring your favorite placard and join us!
I’ve reformatted the media diet that was given out at the last meeting, adding links. (I deleted a few art journals; you can get them from Naomi if you want.)
Some other local Indivisible chapters: Indivisible Marin claims 10,000 members. Zoom meetings and action items. Indivisible East Bay has monthly meetings, sometimes in person, large scale action items. Indivisible Elmwood has in-person meetings bi-weekly, returning politics to a socially-engaged experience. We also do action items: postcarding, joining phone banks, fundraising, and sidewalk presence. (Our meetings alternate between two members’ houses. We realize that yesterday’s meeting was crowded. We may set up an RSVP system.)
Anyone who wants to post to this blog: email me, and I will authorize you. If there is interest, I will also explain how to post.
February 9 agenda
Yesterday’s handouts are available in the post right below this one.
We also wrote nearly 400 postcards for Wisconsin Supreme Court candidate Susan Crawford.
This came into our inbox from author Susan Austin. (Naomi fixed the phone number: this one is correct.)
Here are some specific requests we can make of our Senators.
Our candidate is Susan Crawford.
This is one of the most consequential elections of the year, to retain our 4–3 majority. Among other accomplishments, the Court nuked one of the two most extreme state legislative gerrymanders in the country, where one year Republicans attained a veto-proof supermajority with fewer total votes than the Democrats. (North Carolina also has an extreme gerrymander, where the State Supreme Court may award the 2024 Supreme Court judicial election to the loser on some-or-another pretext. Best guess is that the most moderate Republican on that court will follow the law instead of his party; the other three are definite weasels.)
Indivisible Elmwood 