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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.

March 23, 2025

Fascists are looting our institutions and trampling on our constitution. Activists such as Rumeysa Ozturk and Mahmoud Khalil are being abducted for expressing their views.

We can defeat fascism. We have the people on our side and we have done it before. Protests are popping up all over NYC and elsewhere around the country. We can also look abroad to find inspiration. People are mobilizing in huge numbers in Turkey, Hungary, and many other places to protect freedom. Brooklynites know a thing or two about speaking up and showing up. This coming Saturday, we will raise our voices at the Hands Off! march to tell the GOP to keep its hands off our healthcare, our retirement, and our democracy. Plan to join us and thousands of others in the streets. Plus we have lots of other ways to resist this week. Here are just a few:

Your Top 3 actions for this week

🤝 Join us at our General Meeting this Wednesday, April 2 at 7pm (Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn). Let’s keep up the momentum and keep working toward a safer present and a better future! We’re expecting a good crowd of 100+ Brooklynites and we’ll be gaining skills so we can use the power we have to meet this moment. RSVP here for location.
🪧 Hands Off NYC Protest: Saturday, April 5 at 1pm, meeting at Bryant Park. Join this mass mobilization to show that we do not consent to the destruction of our government and our economy for the benefit of Trump and his billionaire allies. Alongside people across the country, we are marching, rallying, and protesting to stop the chaos and build an opposition movement against the looting of our country. RSVP to march with Indivisible Brooklyn here.
🗽 Support our endorsed candidates for the NYC primaries! This week, our endorsed candidates are wrapping up petitioning and getting ready to expand their outreach to voters. This is a key moment when volunteer energy is needed, so sign up for a few upcoming shifts to petition, call voters, or knock on doors for Brad Lander, Shahana Hanif, and Crystal Hudson whenever you have an hour to help.

Upcoming Events

Phonebank in Florida’s Special Election: Various times on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday on Zoom. Because of the backlash to Trump’s illegal overreach, the special election in Florida’s 6th district, a Trump +20 district, is within the margin of error. Sign up to phonebank here in these last few days before April 1st election.

Phonebank in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court Election: Monday, March 31 at 7pm on Zoom. The liberal majority of the Wisconsin Supreme Court is at risk with Musk dumping gobs of money into this race, and with it: collective bargaining rights, abortion rights, fair maps, and every Constitutional freedom under attack by Republicans in the state legislature. Protecting this judicial seat is of critical importance, and we need YOUR help to ensure we win. RSVP here to make calls to voters.

Climate Justice Mayoral Forum: Monday, March 31 at 6:30pm at CUNY School of Law (2 Court Square West, Long Island City). Join Climate Works for All and partners to hear from and ask NYC’s mayoral candidates about their climate and environmental justice priorities. RSVP here.

Marshal Training for Protests: Monday, March 31 at 7pm or Thursday, April 3 at 7pm at the LGBT Center (208 W 13th St, New York, NY). If you missed the Brooklyn protest marshal training, there are two more opportunities to train with Jamie Bauer from Rise and Resist, who has decades of experience in leading protests, before the Hands Off march on April 5. Sign up here to learn important skills and KYR’s info as a protestor/marshal. Open to any adult of any ability.

Role Playing Our Rights Workshop: Tuesday, April 1 at 4pm at John Jay Campus Auditorium (237 7th Ave, Brooklyn). Circle Keepers, Boerum Hill School for International Studies, Council Member Shahana Hanif, and District 39 Youth Leadership Council are holding a youth-led workshop to help defend, protect and document ICE interactions in your homes and community. Open to all District 39 students and families. RSVP here.

Community Town Hall with Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado: Tuesday, April 8 at 6pm in Flatbush. Join Lt. Gov. Delgado for a community discussion about the threats our communities are facing under this administration and what NYS can do to keep us safe. The town hall will take place at Salem Missionary Baptist Church (305 E. 21st St.) in Flatbush. RSVP here.

more ways to resist this week

Call Congress to demand the release of Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk. On March 8, ICE agents illegally abducted Mahmoud Khalil, a U.S. permanent resident and student activist for Palestinian rights, from his New York apartment. Mahmoud is currently being held in an ICE facility in Louisiana and is at risk of imminent deportation as punishment for his political speech. Then a Tufts University student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was abducted off the street and sent to the same ICE facility in Louisiana, ostensibly for co-authoring a letter to the editor. These are the actions of a fascist government. Call your elected officials right now and demand that they do everything in their power to secure the release of Mahmoud and Rumeysa and protect student activists and immigrants. You can find their numbers here.

Tell Gov. Hochul to TAX THE RICH and invest in our communities. The NYS budget negotiations are taking place behind closed doors and are in their last days before the budget is finalized, so let’s make sure Gov. Hochul knows that we’re paying attention. Use WFP’s one-click tool to send her an email demanding that she tax the rich and support working families.

Tell your NYS electeds to say No to mask bans. Governor Hochul is trying to sneak a mask ban into the NYS budget that is being negotiated behind closed doors. If passed, it would undermine our First Amendment rights and public health, making us all less safe. Use NYCLU’s one-click tool to tell your NYS electeds to keep this dangerous ban out of the budget.

Email your NYS electeds to demand housing justice for all. Everyone deserves a safe, stable home — no matter where you live, when you arrived here, or where you’re from. Use the form at Housing Justice for All to remind your legislators that tenants and homeless New Yorkers make up half our state, and demand universal rent control, robust rental assistance, and social housing for all.

Tell the City Council to pass a People’s Budget! The People’s Plan NYC is fighting for a budget that puts people first — not service cuts, criminalization, or corruption. We demand investments in education, mental health care, housing-first policies, and immigrant protections. Mayor Adams is gutting essential services while serving the wealthy and politically connected. We need the City Council to step up and reflect the People’s Budget priorities in their official Council Response to the Mayor's preliminary budget. Let's make sure they hear from New Yorkers! Use the People’s Plan NYC’s tool to send a message to your Council Member now!

Tell Congress to restore global health funding. With 83% of USAID’s programs now eliminated, we are facing a global humanitarian crisis. Even programs that Rubio and others claimed would be spared, such as emergency nutrition for severely malnourished children, have received termination notices. Use the script provided by Public Citizen to speak to all three of your members of Congress.

Tell Congress to protect students. Trump signed an executive order to dismantle the Department of Education and Secretary of Education, Linda McMahon, has already fired half of the staff. While the Trump administration will attempt to scale back and eliminate programs, they’d need Congress’s help to officially eliminate the department. Find your Congressperson & senators’ phone numbers here and tell them to stand up for everyone who will be harmed by this attack on education. You can also send an email using AQE’s toolkit here.
Sample Script: Hi, my name is… and I’m a constituent from [CITY and ZIP]. I’m calling to demand that [REP/SENATOR NAME] do everything they can to stop H.R. 899 from advancing and to oppose efforts to terminate the Department of Education. Waiting for the courts to rein in Trump is not enough. Congress must reject these attacks on education and your office must work to support students, teachers, parents, and our wider communities who will be harmed by what Trump and McMahon are doing to the Department of Education. (If you reach a live person, tell a personal story about how attacks on public education impact you or someone you know).

Tell Congress to vote NO on the next round of MAGA messaging bills. Republicans are getting ready to advance their next round of MAGA messaging bills. Use Indivisble’s one-click tools to call or email Schumer, Gillibrand, and your MoC about keeping Democrats united against the SAVE Act (H.R. 22), which would disenfranchise millions of U.S. citizens and prohibit them from voting without ID they don’t have. And use the ACLU’s one-click tool to keep Democrats united against the “No Bailouts for Sanctuary Cities Act” (AKA the Defund Our Communities Act) (H.R. 32), which would cut off federal funding for NYC’s hospitals, schools, shelters, etc if we continue to support immigrant New Yorkers.

Ask your friends in other states to tell their Democratic senators to call for new leadership. We need a Senate Minority Leader who will fight, and Senator Schumer can’t or won’t put up meaningful resistance. Any 10 senators can start the process to replace the Minority Leader. Share Indivisible’s phone call and email tools with friends in other states to mobilize their opposition.

In solidarity,

The INBK crew