With so much going on, it’s hard to know what to do or how to do it. Our weekly newsletters gather as much information as we can find and organize it to make taking action as easy and accessible as possible. You don’t have to do ALL the things, but you should do SOMETHING. Our most current edition is below, and you can sign up to receive future newsletters here.
April 26, 2026
Consumer spending fuels almost 70% of the US economy. On Friday, May 1, we have the chance to withhold support for MAGA capitalism by withholding our dollars: no work, no school, and no shopping! Make a plan ahead of time, and if you must shop, spend local and pay cash.
On May Day, march with the labor movement, immigrants’ rights activists, and other Indivisibles from Washington Square Park to Foley Square (and join us in Brooklyn for a pre-game picket) to demand that workers’ rights for all be restored, expanded, and protected.
Think about how one day can be the start of May Day every day. Revisit your spending and stop bankrolling companies that do business with ICE. Check out this list and cut what you don’t need.
Join INBK’s virtual cancel party or plan one of your own in person. Each guest brings a snack, dish, bevvie, or treat . . . and the name of a MAGA corporation they’ll no longer direct dollars to. Not only will you be divesting from technofascist billionaires – you’ll also be investing in human relationships by organizing with neighbors, friends, and community groups for lasting progressive change.
Your Top 3 actions for this week
🪧 We Will Not Be Silent – May Day Rally: Friday, May 1 at 4pm in Lower Manhattan. Join the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO; New York Immigration Coalition; union and community members from across the City to commemorate International Workers Day! We’ll be rallying in Washington Square Park and then marching together to Foley Square to demand a better future for the workers targeted by this administration and all workers abroad and at home. RSVP here for the rally, and meet up with other INBKers at The People’s Pickets: Brooklyn Edition (see below) to travel in together.
📣 The People’s Pickets: Wednesday, April 29 at 5pm at Madison Square Park and Friday, May 1 at 2pm at Atlantic Center. Workers over billionaires! People over corporations! As we get ready to participate in No Work, No School, No Shopping, we are spreading the news about the harm corporations like Amazon, Target, Home Depot, Citizens Bank, Hilton Hotels, and Enterprise are perpetrating on our communities. Come picket these corporations to let them know we’re watching them, and spread the word to our neighbors about how to use our collective economic power. Sign up for Wednesday in Manhattan and Friday in Brooklyn.
🎯 May Day Eve Cancel Party: Thursday, April 30 at 7pm on Zoom. Have you been meaning to cut back on all that money you send billionaires but just never find the time? Hang out with comics creators and CANCEL unneeded services and software from billionaire-owned companies. We'll talk about stuff we've ditched and alternatives we've found and cancel stuff together throughout the evening! A great way to get yourself ready for May Day Strong! RSVP here.
Upcoming Events
Indivisible for Brad Lander Kickoff Call: Monday, April 27 at 7pm on Zoom. Join Ezra Levin and Indivisibles across NY-10 to learn about what Indivisible National is doing to help secure a big win for Brad Lander in the NY-10 Primary on June 23. Then we'll get into the opportunities available to you to get involved, reach voters in NY-10, and help get Brad over the finish line. RSVP here.
Hands Off Our Vote Virtual Town Hall: Monday, April 27 at 7pm on Zoom. Join Common Cause NY and Hands Off NYC to learn about the current challenges facing our elections, how we got here, and what’s at stake in this year’s midterm elections. You’ll also learn about the coordinated, statewide efforts already underway to safeguard voting rights and how you can be part of that work. RSVP here. There will also be a second virtual town hall for Indivisibles on Tuesday, April 28 at 7pm on Zoom.
Let NY Vote Advocacy Day: Tuesday, April 28 in Albany. The Let NY Vote Coalition is mobilizing people to demand that the state legislature pass essential voting reforms to expand ballot access and safeguard our elections. Food and transportation from Manhattan will be provided. RSVP here.
Workers Memorial Day Commemoration: Tuesday, April 28 at 12pm in Midtown. Join the AFL-CIO and the New York Committee for Occupational Safety and Health (NYCOSH) in honoring those who’ve died or suffered injuries or illnesses while on the job, recognizing the risks borne by all essential workers on the front lines, and renewing the fight for strong safety and health protections. The event will take place at 345 Park Avenue, where four workers died in a shooting last summer including SEIU 32BJ member Aland Etienne. Let’s stand in solidarity to ensure that no worker is forced to sacrifice their health or their life for a paycheck. RSVP here.
Dignity Not Detention Phone Zap: Every Tuesday at 1pm on Zoom. The Dignity Not Detention Act would end NY’s support for immigrant detention. Join our coalition partners in pushing constituent phone calls to NYS legislators about the need to pass the bill now so that NY doesn’t run or profit off of the mass detention of our neighbors. RSVP here.
Weekly Vigil for Democracy at Brooklyn’s ICE Jail: Tuesday, April 28 at 6pm in Sunset Park. Join INBK and our fellow organizers at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge for our weekly vigil outside the Metropolitan Detention Center (Third Ave. & 29th St.), where 200 of our abducted neighbors have been imprisoned. Let’s stand firm against the inhumane treatment of our neighbors, and call for the release of all ICE detainees. Sing songs of resistance and bring signs to bear witness in solidarity. RSVP here to stay updated. See our full vigil list and make a plan to bring folks with you to one of these events.
Dignity Not Detention Letter Writing Night: Wednesday, April 29 at 6:30pm on Zoom. The Dignity Not Detention coalition is working to end immigrant detention in NYS. Join us to write letters to those whom the state wants to isolate and disappear. No experience necessary – we’ll have training for new volunteers as well as a space for returning volunteers to get straight to writing. We have a high need for Spanish-speaking letter writers and encourage you to spread the word to join us! RSVP here.
New York Health Act Teach-In: Saturday, May 2 at 12pm in Gowanus. Learn about how we can address the high costs of health care in New York from the legislators, advocates, and doctors who are at the forefront of this fight. Attendees will also have the opportunity to participate in a Q&A and connect with organizers at topic-specific tables, including Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP), the NYC DSA Healthcare Working Group, and Working People for Health. At Van Alen Institute (303 Bond Street). RSVP here.
Canvass for Brad: Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays, and Sundays. The June primary is less than two months away! Let’s GOTV for a true progressive to represent NY-10. Sign up here to canvass for Brad. Canvass for Eon and Jabari: In 2024, Eon Huntley needed just 530 more votes to bring strong progressive leadership to AD-56. This year, he’ll win the seat with the extra volunteer effort of people like you. Sign up here and knock doors for Eon and Senator Jabari Brisport.
More Ways to Resist this week
Tell Congress to stop bankrolling ICE brutality. After keeping DHS shut down rather than rein in ICE, Republicans are now using the budget reconciliation process to shower ICE and Border Patrol with up to $140 billion more to fund their concentration camps and militarized deployments to US cities. That’s all on top of the $170 billion Republicans pumped into these agencies in last year’s Big Ugly Bill that was paid for by cutting Medicaid and SNAP. Use Indivisible’s tool to call Congress or ACLU’s tool to send them an email to tell them no more funding for ICE crimes.
Tell Congress to say No to warrantless AI mass surveillance. The War on Terror-era legislation that authorized decades of civil liberties-eroding mass surveillance is set to expire on April 30. Now more than ever in the era of authoritarian consolidation and mass AI, personal privacy and civil liberties must be protected. Use Indivisible’s tool to send your Member of Congress an email. telling them to reject reauthorization unless it includes significant reforms to protect our civil liberties against this authoritarian regime.
Tell your NYS electeds to defend NY now! NYers are struggling through a crisis on all fronts. But Gov. Hochul has been slow-walking action to protect us from ICE, the climate crisis, and federal budget cuts. Now she’s holding up the NYS budget rather than deliver the change that NYers overwhelmingly demand. Use these one-click tools from NYCLU, NY Renews, and Our Time to email your NYS electeds and tell them to act now before it’s too late. Or even better: call Gov. Hochul (212-681-4580), Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins (518-455-2585), Speaker Heastie (518-455-4911), and your own NYS Senator and Assembly Member (you can find their phone numbers here).
Script: Hi, my name is… and I’m a voter living in [your neighborhood and zip code]. I’m calling to urge you to do everything you can to pass the Dignity Not Detention Act (S.316/A.4181) and pass New York for All (S.2235/A.3506) in its entirety – not some watered-down version that would still leave our communities exposed to ICE’s violence. I also want to urge you to defend the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act against Gov. Hochul’s threatened rollbacks, which would leave our communities exposed to the devastating impacts of burning our way through unaffordable, dirty fossil fuels. And I'm urging you to support raising taxes on the ultra-wealthy and big corporations so we can prevent cuts to healthcare, childcare, housing, and transit caused by Trump’s tax scam. The one-house budgets got this right -- now we need to make sure the actual budget includes these popular, progressive revenue raisers. Will you make sure this year’s New York State budget invests in our communities and not in ICE, polluters, or the billionaires profiting off of the MAGA tax cuts?
Tell NYS lawmakers to fix NY’s home care crisis. This month marks the one-year anniversary of the private equity takeover of our state’s most popular home care program, the Consumer Directed Personal Assistance Program. It’s been a year of loss and destruction as workers have gone without pay and vulnerable consumers have lost trusted caregivers. Call your State Senator and Assemblymember NOW to ask for them to fight for our lives! You can look up your state legislators and their contact info here.
Script: Hi, my name is… and I’m a constituent living in [your neighborhood]. I’m calling to ask the Senator/Assemblymember to support the Home Care Transparency Act (S.9142/A.10537). Since PPL took over CDPAP last year, we have been plagued by one issue after another - lost pay, lost care, lost jobs, lost services and lost lives. Meanwhile, there has been almost no public oversight of this contract. The Home Care Transparency Act would create common sense reporting requirements so that the public and state legislators know how PPL is spending $11 billion tax payer dollars meant for care. Will the Senator/Assemblymember sign on as a co-sponsor to the Home Care Transparency Act and speak directly with leadership on the need to pass the bill this session?
Tell the City Council to pass the Delivery Protection Act. Big corporations like Amazon use “Last Mile” facilities to get packages from warehouses to your door. These facilities are usually packed into just a few Black and Brown neighborhoods, bringing pollution, traffic violence, and safety risks. And they rely on underpaid, unsafe, unstable jobs subcontracted to fake “third parties” to evade accountability. Help hold big corporations accountable and keep New Yorkers safe by strengthening regulations and improving working conditions at these “Last Mile” facilities by telling the City Council to pass the Delivery Protection Act immediately! Use this one-click tool from ALIGN to email the City Council.
Stand with the families of ICE detainees. Thanks to all who came out for our April Rent Party! We raised more than $2200, which has been distributed to three families whose breadwinner has been detained by ICE. You can learn about the families we are partnering with on standwithsouthbrooklyn.org, which includes GoFundMes. If you are able, giving even just $10 to each of the families at the top of the page would help our neighbors stay housed, cover living expenses, and support their detained loved ones. And please give to our South Brooklyn Legal Support Fund, which will be used for commissary and legal support.
In solidarity,
The INBK crew
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