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Activist To-Dos: Recess Week Edition

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Here’s the special Recess Week edition of suggested actions for activists from National Indivisible:

1) #EndFamilyDetention.

After more than 2600 Cape Codders marched and protested this past weekend , there are 62 (!!) #endfamilyseparation events and 48 town halls on our on our events map here. MoCs will be home until July 9 so there’s still time to plan and register an event on our map if there isn’t an event near you. We have a handy organizing toolkit to help you to pressure your MoCs to make a verbal commitment to end family separation.

2) #SaveSCOTUS.

Last Wednesday, Justice Kennedy announced he would retire from the Supreme Court — and already GOP leaders are whipping votes for Trump’s pick. We won’t sugarcoat it: if Trump gets his appointment, we will see attack after attack in the courts to undo decades of legal progress.

We have a (narrow) path to stopping Trump’s nomination: all Democrats must reject any nomination and two Republicans must join them (read the strategy here).

Read our resource to learn how to use local public events to get facetime with your Senators while they’re home for the 4th of July. The ask for ALL Senators is the same: they must commit immediately to opposing anyone that Trump nominates from his shortlist. New Yorkers: pressure Minority Leader Chuck Schumer to hold Democrats together.

3) Let your MoC know: November is coming.

Election after election, we’ve shook districts, created major upsets, and moved primary candidates forward that were once deemed “too progressive” or “unwinnable.” And the biggest victories are still on the horizon — but only if we get organized right now.

It starts with holding your members of Congress accountable. Make sure they know you’re watching, and you’ll remember how they voted when you head to the voting booth in just 5 months. Let them know that November is coming — so get with your constituents, or we will vote you out.

Call to Action Alert: Call to State Reps to Vote for Automatic Voter Registration

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TIME-SENSITIVE ACTION ALERT FROM COMMON CAUSE:

Automatic Voter Registration (AVR) has reached an absolutely crucial moment in Massachusetts: Speaker DeLeo’s office has announced that it will come to a vote in the House tomorrow.

Your calls, letters, and efforts over the past several months have worked. And while this is a moment to celebrate, it’s also a moment to mobilize. We need to make sure that every Representative on Beacon Hill hears from constituents like you TODAY, asking them to vote in favor of AVR and support more inclusive, accurate, and secure elections in the Commonwealth.

Don’t wait—make the call NOW! Tell your Representative to vote in favor of AVR.

  • Call State Representative Timothy R. Whelan at (617) 722-2014.
  • Call State Representative Sarah Peake at (617) 722-2040

We must do all we can to protect and expand our democracy. Automatic Voter Registration will make vital upgrades to our registration system, keeping our voter rolls more up-to-date, enhancing the security of our electoral process, and encouraging new voters to get involved. It’s a win for democracy, it’s a win for security, and it’s a win for voters.

However, in order for this measure to be in place for the next Presidential election in 2020, it must be approved by the House tomorrow. We can’t afford to wait any longer. Now is the time for Massachusetts to take a stand and fight for a better, more participatory democracy.

Now more than ever, your voice can make a difference. Call your representative in support of AVR today! Call State Representative Timothy R. Whelan at (617) 722-2014.

Automatic Voter Registration is the future of secure and modern elections. Tomorrow, we have the opportunity to take one huge step closer to bringing this groundbreaking reform to Massachusetts. Let’s do all we can to make it happen.

Thanks for all you do,

Pam Wilmot, Executive Director
And the team at Common Cause Massachusetts

P.S. – Debate on the bill will be streamed live tomorrow. Tune in here.

Attend Cape Protests Of Trump’s Brutal Immigration Policy

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Join the Cape Cod Coalition for Safe Communities, Cape Cod Women for Change, Indivisible Outer Cape, and Lower Cape Indivisible, and their friends and allies to protest the Trump administration’s immoral and inhumane policy of separating children from their parents along the U.S. border with Mexico and at other ports of entry into the U.S.

This policy is cruel, unjustified and un-American.

The US government has torn children as young as 18 months from their families; now we must reunite them and end the zero-tolerance policy which treats asylum seekers as felons. Children belong with their families, not in detention centers or tent cities. Join us–and thousands around the country and world–to protest the immoral policies of the Trump Administration, Border Patrol, and I.C.E, and to call for immediate reform.

For details and locations, click here.

Be Ready To Protest If Trump Tries To Derail the Mueller Probe

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We are watching and waiting. As of this writing, nearly 350 Cape Codders have committed to convening in protest at the First Parish Brewster Unitarian Universalist Church should Trump cross a red line in derailing the Mueller probe. Similar protests are planned for Hyannis and Falmouth, and thousands of protests are planned throughout the US and around the world.

If you’ve not yet signed up to register and receive an alert for the Lower Cape action, please do so here.

Volunteers Needed for Cape & Islands Vote Project – June 14, 15 & 16

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Coming to a Library Near You!

Cape & Islands Vote (CIV), a non-partisan voter registration effort, is undertaking its first initiative: an extensive voter registration drive at libraries throughout the region.

To date, 24 libraries have registered to host registration activities on June 14, 15 and 16, and more than 70 volunteers have signed on to serve as point people or shift volunteers…from one end of the Cape to the other, and the islands too!

But we need more help! Please consider joining this important (and fun) effort. It’s any easy way to make a big contribution to an extremely important effort: strengthening the foundation of our democracy through voter registration.

Two Types of Volunteers Needed

CIV needs two kinds of volunteers:

1. Library Point Person

  • The main point of contact with a library director
  • monitors his/her library registration schedule
  • arranges for physical set-up (e.g., table and chairs, computer access), and
  • inventories/replenishes voter registration materials from day to day.

We need point people for:

  • Hyannis
  • Barnstable Village
  • Centerville

2.  Staff Volunteer

People willing to commit to:

  • 2 or 3 hour shifts
  • on one day
  • at one library, and
  • to a half-hour registration training prior to the event.

We are seeking 2 people to simultaneously staff the same registration slot/per library (ideally 2 people per morning and 2 per afternoon), so one person can answer questions while the other handles paper work. Tell a friend and plan to work the same time slots!

We need additional staff volunteers for:

  • Barnstable Village
  • Chatham
  • Cotuit
  • Dennis
  • Eastham
  • Hyannis
  • Marstons Mills
  • Orleans
  • Osterville
  • Truro
  • Yarmouth

You do not need live in a particular town or village to work at a given library.

To learn more, please contact Laurie Veninger (veninger@aol.com or Lydia Vivante (vivantelydia@gmail.com).

 

What Happened In Arizona

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From National Indivisible:

On the face of it, elections are all about winning.

Don’t get us wrong, that’s important. But only judging elections by winning has led to Democrats choosing to compete in only the most “winnable” places (i.e. purple and blue states and districts). And that’s left us with a map checkered with forgotten places where progressives stopped building power for far too long (and Republicans gained control of the White House, Congress, governorships, and state houses in the meantime).

A few months back, we announced our Indivisible435 political program — our campaign to take the fight everywhere from ruby red places where Trump won by 20 points, to safe blue places represented by candidates who don’t always support our movement’s values. And, earlier this month, we announced our first five nationally-endorsed candidates to start that work.

One of our first IndivisiCandidates — Dr. Hiral Tipirneni — faced off last night against Republican Debbie Lesko to replace disgraced Rep. Trent Franks in Arizona’s 8th District. Though Dr. Tipirneni didn’t win, her candidacy showed what Indivisibles’ work across the country is all about: building power in every. single. district.

(cue wonky political analysis in 3… 2… 1…)

Few people thought this deeply red Arizona district could be competitive. Democrats hadn’t fielded a candidate in this race since 2012. This race — without scandals, with no blue trends or history, with a progressive candidate — swung 19 points since 2016. Republicans were forced to compete (and spend a looooot of money) to barely secure a very, very safe seat. And Dr. Tiprineni and Lesko will likely both be back on the ballot, going head to head, on November 6.

Working on races like AZ-08 and supporting candidates like Dr. Tipirneni show that the blue wave will be built by real, progressive, grassroots energy. If progressives and Democrats only support candidates who “can win” or raise a lot of money, we’ll continue to have the too pale, too male representation in Congress that often leaves us feeling the opposite of represented.

Expanding the map, building a durable movement

Here’s how we’re continuing to expand what’s politically possible, and build for the long haul:

  • More progressive candidate endorsements: Voting starts tomorrow for our second round of endorsements. We’ll endorse as many as 11 new IndivisiCandidates this time next week. That’s more folks like Dr. Tipirneni that Indivisibles are ready to work hard to elect.
  • More organizing support: We’re doubling our organizing team to support the work Indivisibles are doing on the ground, e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e, to help groups win in November and build toward the next Congress. Training. Hands-on organizing support. Voter contact tools. Helping grow and retain group membership.

What can Indivisible members do?

So, if you’re ready to get to work to elect folks like Dr. Tiprineni, there are two things you can do right now:

We’re taking chances, expanding the map, and capturing people’s imaginations, and… sometimes that means we don’t always win on election night. But we can’t win if we don’t compete and, last night, we came pretty darn close. And after last night, there’s no ignoring the fight we’re about to bring to Republicans in November.

In solidarity,
Indivisible Team

PS — Congrats to Indivisible Westchester, NY CD-16 Indivisible, Indivisible New Rochelle, Indivisible Rivertowns, and Indivisibles across the state who supported this race for their HUGE!!! victory last night. They put in the work — held candidate forums, registered voters, phonebanked, canvassed, and much, much more — to elect Shelley Mayer to the state senate (and she even thanked them in her victory statement!).