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What You Can Do To Right Now To Bring About Change On Immigration

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On July 12, 2019, Lights for Liberty: A Vigil to End Human Detention Camps brought together thousands of people from around the country and world to protest the inhumane and criminal treatment of refugees at the U.S.-Mexico border by our government! Across Cape Cod and the Islands—at town greens, village centers, churches and synagogues—nearly 1500 people met on this day to protest inhumane conditions and stand in solidarity with refugees held at these detention camps.

At Trump’s detention camps, teen mothers and babies are held outdoors in “dog pounds,” sick and elderly are confined to a “freezer” for weeks at a time, medicine is confiscated and medical care withheld, LGBTQ and disabled individuals are held in solitary, and children as young as 4 months are taken from their parents. Trump is running raids now, ripping people out of their homes and other places of perceived safety. Perhaps most terrifying, refugees are being moved onto military grounds, where media representatives, lawyers, and human rights monitors will have no oversight.People from around the Cape and Islands—and around the country—stood in public rebuke of the atrocities happening on our soil and in our names. These rallies and vigils are the first step to bring about change, and this moment can be a turning point in our nation’s history, a moment in which we bring these camps directly into the public eye, stop the rapid slide into unspeakable horror, and stand up for the values our nation strives to uphold.

HERE ARE SOME THINGS YOU CAN DO RIGHT NOW!

1. CALL YOUR MEMBER OF CONGRESS—and frequently this summer—to condemn the cruelty of detaining children at the border. Here’s the script:
Hi, my name is [NAME] and I’m calling from [PLACE]. I’m calling to ask [MoC] to Defund Hate in this year’s budget by cutting funding for ICE and CBP in the Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill, and by getting rid of the slush fund in that bill that will allow ICE to continue terrorizing immigrant communities.

  • MA Senator Elizabeth Warren (202) 224-4543
  • MA Senator Ed Markey (202) 224-2742
  • MA Congressman (Cape & Islands/CD-9) William Keating (202) 225-3111

If off-Cape, please call the House Switchboard (202) 225-3121 to reach your Representative

If you live in another state, please call the Senate Switchboard (202) 224-3121 to reach your Senator

2. SUPPORT SANCTUARY CITY legislation and proclamations in your community. Contact your elected officials to tell them you support the Safe Communities Act (S.1401/H.3573). Contact the Cape Coalition for Safe Communities to learn how you can help – capesafecomm@gmail.com.

3. SUPPORT SAFE COMMUNITIES – Text SAFEMA to 52866 to join its campaign.

4. HELP ELECT PROGRESSIVE SHERIFFS, REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS in your district. To learn how you can help identify and help elect progressive candidates in upcoming elections, contact the Cape & Islands Democratic Council at http://cidc-strongertogether.nationbuilder.com/contact-us. They need hands on deck this fall and in 2020!

5. TELL YOUR COUNTY SHERIFF AND LOCAL REPS TO END ICE (U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and END 287 (g)—a regulation authorizing agreements between ICE and state and local law enforcement agencies permitting local officers to perform limited immigration law enforcement functions and function under the supervision of ICE officers. Barnstable, Plymouth and Bristol Counties all have 287(g) Agreements.
State Senators

  • Julian Cyr (D) – Senator, Cape & Islands District (Consisting of both Islands, all Cape less the Plymouth & Barnstable District above) Phone: 617-722-1570 julian.cyr@masenate.gov
  • Vinny deMacedo (R), Senator, Plymouth, Barnstable District (Bourne, Sandwich, and Falmouth – Phone: 617-722-1330, vinny.demacedo@masenate.gov
    Barnstable County Sheriff
  • Barnstable County Sheriff Jim Cummings—call Sheriff Cummings at 508-563-4300 and tell him to end Barnstable’s 287(g) Agreement
    State Representatives
  • Timothy Whelan (R) Representative, 1st Barnstable District (Barnstable: Precinct 1; Brewster: Precincts 1-2; Dennis; Yarmouth: Precincts 1-4,7) – timothy.whelan@mahouse.gov
  • Will Crocker (R) – Representative, 2nd Barnstable District (Barnstable: Precincts 2-10, 13; Yarmouth: Precincts 5-6) – Phone: 617-722-2014 – William.Crocker@mahouse.gov
  • David Vieira (R) – Representative, 3rd Barnstable District (Bourne: Precincts 3-6; Falmouth: Precincts 3-4, 7-9; Mashpee)
    Phone: 617-722-2230 – Email: david.vieira@mahouse.gov
  • Sarah Peake (D) – Representative, 4th Barnstable District – (Brewster: Precinct 3; Chatham, Eastham, Harwich, Orleans, Provincetown, Truro, Wellfleet) – Phone: 617-722-2040 Email: sarah.peake@mahouse.gov
  • Randy Hunt (R) – Representative, 5th Barnstable District (Barnstable: Precincts 11-12; Bourne: Precincts 1-2, 7; Sandwich; Plymouth: Precinct 9) – Phone: 617-722-2800 ext.8743 email: randy.hunt@mahouse.gov
  • Dylan Fernandes (D) – Representative, Barnstable, Nantucket & Dukes District (Falmouth: Precincts 1-2, 5-6; Martha’s Vineyard; Nantucket) – Phone: 617-722-2430 – Dylan.Fernandes@mahouse.gov

6. DONATE TO ONE OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS working to provide financial support to those affected and needing legal and humanitarian aid:

  • KIND — Kids in Need of Defense — has been leading advocacy efforts for kids in immigration detention
  • The Women’s Refugee Commission is leading national efforts against family separation and child detention to preserve access to asylum, increase use of alternatives to detention, and improve detention conditions.
  • The Catholic Legal Immigration Network plays a crucial role coordinating legal services in response to administration-created crises.
  • The ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project are litigating these and other policies at the border. • RAICES is the largest immigration nonprofit in Texas offering free and low-cost legal services to immigrant children and families. • Al Otro Lado serves indigent deportees, migrants, and refugees in Los Angeles and Tijuana, Mexico.
  • The Florence Project provides legal and social services to detained immigrants in Arizona.
  • Lawyers for Good Government suggests that you can contribute to the Project Corazon Travel Fund to send more lawyers (particularly Spanish-speaking immigration lawyers) to the detention centers and refugee camps. You can also pledge your frequent flier miles to help get more lawyers to the border and volunteer as a lawyer or translator.
  • Justice in Motion has created a network of human rights lawyers and nongovernmental organizations across Mexico and Central America to find parents deported without their children and help families reunite in their countries of origin.
  • Immigrant Families Together supports bonds, living expenses, and medical and legal needs of migrant families.
  • Innovation Law Lab builds tools for immigration-related crisis response, aiming to improve representation and due process.
  • United We Dream, the American Immigration Council, and the National Immigration Law Center are organizing to help immigrants in the event of raids.
  • Human Rights First is a national organization with roots in Houston that needs help from lawyers.
  • The National Immigrant Justice Center represents and advocates for detained adults and children facing removal, supports efforts at the border, and represents parents in the interior who have been separated from their families as a result of aggressive enforcement
  • ActBlue has a donation page–https://secure.actblue.com/donate/kidsattheborder–to support many organizations at once.

For a pdf of this handout, click here. POST-EVENT HANDOUT LIGHTS FOR LIBERTY

Action: Joint Cape Indivisibles Rally at Congressman Keating’s Hyannis Office

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THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2019  1:00 PM – 1:45 PM

Outer Cape Indivisible and Lower Cape Indivisible will be holding their first coordinated action of the year at Congressman Bill Keating’s district office on January 3rd as the newly Democratic House of Representatives are gaveling into session in Washington, D.C.

This Day of Action—one of hundreds occurring nationwide—is designed to celebrate our historic midterm election results and help usher in a new Congress of progressive legislation and action! Foremost on our list is H.R.1, the Democrats’ planned first bill to preserve democracy. The Hyannis event will also showcase other issues of deep concern to Indivisible stakeholders including: health care, climate and environment (Green New Deal), immigration and a clean Dream Act, women’s and LGBTQ rights, and common-sense gun reform. 

WE ASK YOU TO JOIN US—AND THOUSANDS AROUND THE COUNTRY—TO CELEBRATE OUR PROGRESS AND COMMIT TO THE WORK AHEAD! 

ASSEMBLE at 1:00 PM in front of the Congressman’s office 

MEET with members of Congressman Keating’s staff to relay our priorities for the new Congress, thank the Congressman for his work in the House, and call for his strong support for the democracy reform bill, H.R. 1 and other progressive legislation 

TALK with other activists as we celebrate our historic wins in November, learn what’s next, and EAT CAKE! 

THURSDAY, JANUARY 3, 2019 

1:00 PM – 1:45 PM 

Congressman Keating’s District 9 Office 

259 Stevens Street, Suite E, Hyannis, MA 02601


Indivisible: What’s Next

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This time two years ago, we were lost, angry, and scared (okay, we were pissed. Really pissed). Republicans had taken the House, Senate, and Presidency. They were planning to go big. And we knew the only move we had was to play defense, focus on our own representatives and senators, and never give an inch. In that moment, we began the original Indivisible Guide with these lines: Donald Trump is the biggest popular vote loser in history to ever call himself President-Elect. In spite of the fact that he has no mandate, he will attempt to use his congressional majority to reshape America in his own racist, authoritarian, and corrupt image. If progressives are going to stop this, we must stand indivisibly opposed to Trump and the Members of Congress who would do his bidding. Together, we have the power to resist – and we have the power to win.

Looking back, we think this holds up pretty well — and the growth of the Indivisible movement, and what it has accomplished has surpassed our wildest expectations. You didn’t just read the Guide. You didn’t just start groups in your hometowns across the country. You made Congress listen. In 2017, Indivisibles went to town halls, die-ins, and district offices. We defeated TrumpCare, rallied for immigrants, and turned the Republican tax cut for the rich and corporations into an enormous political liability. We stiffened Democratic spines and weakened Republican resolve. We couldn’t stop everything — but we did stop a lot.

The grassroots was responsible for retaking power for Democrats.

Taking back the House used to be a pipe dream. It’s easy to forget, but just a little over a year ago, winning back the House was an idea that was too crazy for conventional Washington wisdom (read: pundits). Folks had good reason to believe taking back the House would be impossible. Back in 2010, the Republican Party succeeded in their sinister plot to flip targeted state legislatures and the House, giving their party control over redistricting after the 2010 census. They drew gerrymandered districts to ensure a GOP House majority, no matter how unpopular their party became.

But where Republicans built a seawall, you built a bigger wave. A week ago, we flipped the House. We flipped 6 state legislative chambers. And we moved the whole country to the left. 317 out of 435 Congressional districts (73%) were more blue on Election Day than they were in 2016.

Indivisibles endorsed candidates, registered voters, texted, phonebanked, and knocked doors to the tune of 11 million voters. You dragged your friends, family, and strangers to the polls. Drop by drop, you built the blue wave and remade Congress, state houses, and governor mansions. And as a result, our slate of elected leaders at every level across the country will feature people who look like America, ready to fight for economic and racial justice and beat back the worst of Trump’s attacks on our neighbors, communities, and future.

Now Democrats have the U.S. House of Representatives and ton more power at the state level. Thanks for that.

After two years of defense, we now get to go on offense.

We’ve spent two years playing defense against this monomaniac in the White House. But now that changes. Now we finally get to go on offense. That means offense in Congress, and offense at the state level. We’ve been working on a new federal level guide and state level guide for months to prepare for this new political reality. We can’t wait for you to dig in.

These new Guides offer a road map for the next two years of our journey. Together, we will pave the way to the post-Trump era. Together, we will win.

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Indivisible_ Empowering the States to Resist the Trump Agenda

One Day To Go!

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Indivisibles —

We’re roughly T-minus 18 hours out from election day. This is not a drill. But we’ve all been trained. We know what to do. We’ve mapped out our battle stations (err, polling places). And, if we could, we voted early.

Now, we have to finish out the last days of this election and GOTMFV!

We’re ready for this. That much has been proven — over and over. We showed up at the Women’s March and the airports. We made noise at town halls and defeated TrumpCare (twice!). We stood with immigrants to fight for DACA and against family separation.

As the countdown begins, we know you’ll want to look back on the final days of the election and know that you did everything in your power to bring the blue wave crashing down on the GOP on November 6.

We’ve got this. But just in case…

Here’s what you can do to get out the vote.

→ Confirm your polling place location. Sign up for our text list and we’ll send you your polling place at 9am (your local time) on election day!

→ Sign up for to phonebank for our endorsed candidates. If you’re ready to make some calls, click this link, sign up for a phone bank shift, and help drive voters to the polls for our endorsed candidates. We’re phonebanking each. and. every. day. until this election is over to support the great work Indivisibles are doing on the ground, in their districts and states.

→ Make a plan to vote. If you haven’t voted yet, take a few moments to ask yourself a few simple questions to make sure you’re ready:

    • Do you know where your polling place is?
    • Will you be voting before, during, or after work?
    • How will you be getting to the polling place? Walking? Driving? Carpooling?
    • Then ask all your friends, family, and coworkers if they have a plan to vote!

→ Sign up to do GOTV for the Coordinated Campaign to Elect Democrats on the Cape and the Islands. Whether you have an afternoon to get out and canvass, or a few hours to phone bank from home, everyone must get involved if we want to win big on November 6.  Click here to volunteer!

Chip in to fund our final voter contact efforts. We’ve already reached 4 million voters, and hope to reach a million more before election day. Volunteers are calling and texting to flip key House and Senate seats… and send xenophobes like Steve King (IA-04) packing. If you can, chip in to help fund our efforts to push these seats into the win column on election night. And if you missed our second bullet, sign up for a phonebank or text bank shift (or two!) before the polls close.

With just a few more hours left in this election cycle, we know you’re ready to get out there, work super hard, and bring the blue wave crashing down on the GOP. We can’t wait to celebrate each and every one of you, and the work you’ve done to build the blue wave.

In solidarity,
The Indivisible Team

 

White Supremacy Is On The Ballot

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On October 22, a fervent Trump supporter mailed bombs to prominent Democratic leaders and media outlets, including President Obama, Rep. Maxine Waters, and CNN. Those who knew him said he often went on racist rants, and, like Trump, believed President Obama wasn’t a citizen.

On October 24, a white supremacist tried to attack a black church. When he couldn’t get in, he left and murdered Vickie Lee Jones and Maurice Stallard, two black customers at a nearby grocery store. When another customer asked what was going on, the gunman replied “I won’t shoot you. Whites don’t shoot whites.”

On October 27, an anti-semite attacked a synagogue in Pittsburgh, murdering 11 people during Shabbat services. When the gunman surrendered, he told police he “wanted all Jews to die.”

These actions are the consequences of allowing Trump to whip up xenophobic panic over and over again.

As our nation reels with grief, Trump has doubled down on his hate speech, declaring himself a “nationalist” on television, pushing for troops at the border to stop a caravan of people fleeing violence in their countries, and calling for the end of birthright citizenship.

These are just the latest attacks from an administration that has relied on racism and xenophobia to guide its policies, from the Muslim Ban and the elimination of the DACA program, to forcibly separating children from their parents at the border.

This is Trump’s closing argument, and it’s clear. And so is ours: the Indivisible movement stands with the immigrant community today and with the Jewish and black communities still reeling from hate and violence.

This election isn’t about a single issue or candidate. This election is about the soul of our country. It’s about whether Trumpism is a blip or an era. There is no limit to their cruelty — which is why we must do everything we can to limit their power.

We will continue to work harder than ever for the next seven days, determined to see all of the Trump administration’s enablers held accountable for the hatred and cruelty they’ve unleashed. Here’s what you can do in the final days of this election to fight back:

  • Volunteer and talk to voters: Find an event near you or sign up for a phonebank shift or two before Election Day. Knocking on doors and talking to voters and sharing why voting in this election matters is one of the most impactful things we can do right now.
  • Forward this email to a few friends: We need everyone to get involved in the next few days if we want to stop this administration’s hate-filled policies, and bigoted rhetoric.

White supremacy is on the ballot in this election and every election. And this time Trump is saying it loud and clear for all to hear. Love alone won’t trump hate. But side-by-side, arm-in-arm, neighbor-to-neighbor is how we defeat this administration’s bigotry and fear mongering.

In solidarity, today and every day,
The Indivisible Team

GOTV Weekend of Action

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What are you doing this weekend to get out the vote? There are only 3 weekends left to canvass, phonebank, and textbank. We need to take advantage of every single opportunity we have to contact voters between now and the election.

This is the most pivotal election of our lifetimes. There’s so much stake — our democracy, immigrant and refugee rights, freedom of the press, voting rights, and so much more — but every door we knock on could make the difference in a competitive race.

Indivisibles across the country have registered over 90 events (and counting!) for this GOTV weekend of action — and we need you (yes, you!) to show up and get involved.

Can’t make it this weekend? 

We can only change what’s politically possible if we roll up our sleeves and get to work from now until polls close on election night. So, here are a few more ways you can get involved this weekend:

  1. Sign up for a phone bank shift to make calls for IndivisiCandidates and key state ballot initiatives (and then sign up for a second shift! Maybe a third!).
  2. Learn more about knocking on doors and talking to voters. Even if you haven’t already canvassed, join our Organizing Team for a crucial webinar on direct voter contact through a racial equity lens. This powerful webinar is focused on guiding us as we work to both understand and do equitable organizing as we get out the vote. This webinar, lead by an outside facilitator, will be covering: microaggressions, implicit bias, true ally-ship, and what supporting communities of color looks like.

Here’s how you can join:

Who: Indivisible Organizing Team, Indivisible groups, and you!
What: Direct voter contact through a racial equity lens webinar
When: Monday, October 22, 2018 at 8pm ET/5pm PT
RSVP here

If you miss the live webinar, don’t worry! We’ll hold this training again soon, and you can find more information on our webinars on training.indivisible435.org.

This election isn’t about a single issue or candidate. This election is about the soul of our country. The future of American democracy is on the line as we head to the polls on November 6.

And that’s why there’s a lot of work to do this weekend, the weekend after… and the weekend after that. There are dozens of ways to get involved this weekend to build the blue wave. We’ve got #19DaysLeft. Let’s go.

In solidarity,
The Indivisible Team