Campaigns are heating up. Come to the ICM meeting and find out what’s next! The Zoom link is in your ICM e-newsletter that came to your email inbox a few days ago. See you there!
Author: Kathy Foldes
Indivisible Cedar Mill meeting tomorrow, May 6th at 7 pm
Election season is in full swing. Come to the ICM meeting (Monday, May 6th at 7 pm) and find out what you can do to move the needle toward progressive! Look for the Zoom link in the recent ICM e-newsletter. This is our chance to save democracy for the next generation.
ICM Meeting Today!
The ICM monthly meeting is this evening at 7 pm.
Find the link in your e-newsletter. Get updates, hear our speaker from COIN, and sign up for actions.
ICM meeting Monday, March 4th at 7 pm
The 2024 election season is underway. Come and find out our latest actions and plans. Look for the Zoom link in the ICM e-newsletter sent today. We are an action oriented group and we need all hands on deck!
ICM Meeting tomorrow! Monday, Feb. 5th at 7 pm
Look for your ICM e-newsletter to find the Zoom link. Let’s get activated!
ICM Meeting Monday February 5th 2024! at 7 pm on Zoom
Want to join with others to work on the 2024 elections? It’s up to all of us to save Democracy!!
Come to the meeting on Jan. 8th to learn how you can get involved starting now! Look for your email reminder with the zoom link.
Now what? After yesterday’s failure to reform the filibuster and pass the Freedom to Vote Act
Our advocacy moved the needle, but not far enough. Apparently nothing was going to get Senima and Manchin to reform the filibuster. Here’s what Indivisible USA says about this discouraging turn of events.
So what now? This fight for a real democracy has been part of America since its founding. Nor is using the filibuster to block pro-democracy, pro-civil rights legislation anything new. After the Civil War, southern segregations popularized and weaponized the filibuster to prevent the Senate from taking up democracy legislation. The 1964 Civil Rights bill overcame a weeks-long filibuster, and the 1965 Voting Rights Act faced its own filibuster threats as well. Those bills were decades in the making — the end successful result of decades of failed attempts.
So what can we do after losing a hard fight? Here are the options:
- We can give up.
- We can keep building power.
That’s it. End of list. And I’ll be damned if I’m going to let the fascists win in a forfeit.
On January 24th at 8 pm ET / 5 pm PT, we’re pulling together pro-democracy supporters from across the country to strategize about next steps. If you would like to be part of that conversation, please sign up to join Monday’s Movement call here. And if you have any thoughts to share ahead of time, please reply to this email with them (yes, to “no-reply” we do read it!), or feel free to reach out to me directly on Twitter at @ezralevin (I really try to respond!).
I’m sorry that we lost tonight, but I am so damn proud that we fought. I’ve said time and time again: we’re not fighting for our democracy because we know we’ll win. We’re fighting for it because we know we have to win. And we will win.
No Celebration without Legislation!
Call your Members of Congress who are working hard to change the filibuster rules so that the Voting Rights Act can pass!
Use the power of your voice today! Time is running out for democracy.
Vote on Reforming the Filibuster Today- Call your Members of Congress!
If we want a Voting Rights Act, we need to press congress to reform the filibuster. Call your Members of Congress to tell them you support them in pressing for filibuster reform and for moving forward to pass the Voting Rights Act. Let’s get ‘er done!
No ICM Meeting Tonight! See you February 7th
There’s no Indivisible Cedar Mill meeting tonight. We will restart our monthly meeting the first Monday in February.
On Thursday, come to a vigil marking the anniversary of the Insurrection. You can attend the one across from the Beaverton Library at 5 pm or the one in St. Johns that will be bigger. Look at Mobilize.us for information.