Week of Action July 26, 2020
Election action kickoff, train to text and phone bank, and defund DHS and t= heir secret police
ELECTION WEEKS OF ACTION SCHEDULE!
We’ll be holding letter writing, text banking, and phone banking events through Election Day. Full schedule at the link. Choose your action and mark your calendars.
If you need to learn how to text or phone bank, sign up for training (text banking) or watch the video (phone banking) below. Nobody will see your phone number. It's all done on the computer.
Indivisible Textbanking Training
(same content, different days)
Tuesday, July 28 at 8pm ET/ 5pm PT
Thursday, July 30 at 2:30pm ET/ 11:30am PT
Indivisible Phonebanking Training Video
Watch this video (only 15 minutes) and learn what you need to know to phonebank.
Defund DHS!
Trump is using Homeland Security as his own personal goon squad. They even kidnap people (I swear it’s not a movie plot). Call Congress and tell them to stop it. Cut their funding and support Senator Merkley’s spending bill amendment to get federal agents out of our cities.
Senator Chuck Schumer: (212) 486-4430
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand: (212) 688-6262
Representative Carolyn Maloney: (212) 860-0606
The only way to win is to vote. The youth vote is especially important. NYC Votes is hosting weekly workshops (from now through October on civic engagement and voter registration for youth ages 14-24, educators, and youth service providers. Sign up at the link.
Dan Quart has won his primary. Votes are still being counted in our congressional district (we had the highest number of ballots!) and Rep. Maloney is pulling ahead. Patel is not conceding, and is pointing to the large number of ballots that were invalidated for various reasons.
***SAVE THE DATE****
MONTHLY MEETING AUGUST !3
GUEST: Leslie McColgin from Indivisible Four Rivers in KY
Leslie will fill us in on their efforts to defeat Moscow Mitch and flip the Senate. She’ll also show off their new billboard.
QUARANTINE FUN AND ENTERTAINMENT
ADULTS
Haircuts in the Park
What a genius idea! No idea if it’s only men’s cuts or if he can do women too. Haircuts are free.
Take a world tour from your chair
These historical images are from the Library of Congress’s collection (free to reuse and share if you like)
Get in the way: John Lewis documentary
We lost civil rights icon this past week, but we can still honor his memory, and get into "good trouble."
Unfollow the Rules
Rufus Wainwright performs in advance of his new album. Since he couldn't tour, he did this instead. No idea why they are all in jammies, but the location is beautiful.
Mexican art and history
Explore museums, archaeology, art, movies, and culture of Mexico. There is an English version if you don't speak Spanish, or Google will translate
EVERYONE
Write like an (ancient) Egyptian
https://artsandculture.google.com/story/twUBNIZ-R83nzQ (a bit of background about hieroglyphics)\
https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/fabricius/en (the tool)
Google has launched a tool that takes English (or Arabic) words and translates them to hieroglyphics. Think of them as ancient emojis. Trace a hieroglyphic, type a message, and translate it into ancient Egyptian.
Comet Gazing
if you're in a place with low light pollution, look up at the sky (in the northwest, just under the Big Dipper) and see if you can spot Comet Neowise. Last chance for 6,000 years.
KIDS
PBS Music games
A virtual orchestra, play instruments, and dance with Sesame Street, Pinka, and the Cat in the Hat
Dinosaur Train
This is a harder game that takes kids on a dinosaur dig to find fossils
Wire Portraits
Art projects for kids, inspired by objects in the Norton Simon Museum collection
Pop--Up Card
Make your own pop-up card with ordinary household materials