Weekly inbk newsletter

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.

December 21, 2025

The winter solstice is here, the shortest day of the year. For millenia, people have marked this day and watched to see if the light would return. It’s been a dark year, and we are not just watching and waiting. We are taking action together every week to bring on the light. 

As you reflect on this year, I hope you feel proud of what our growing movement has accomplished, from taking down Tesla, to getting millions in the streets to say “No Kings!”, to electing Mayor Mamdani. We are building collective power and every action you take is part of that, including our suggestions for the holidays and the new year, below. We will take next week off from emails, and look forward to continuing to build a powerful, defiant, radiant movement with you in the new year!

actions You Can Take this week

Bring family and friends to a vigil. With people off their usual schedules because of the holidays, there’s an opportunity to encourage family and friends who haven’t yet done so to take action with you to support our detained neighbors. Consult our vigil list and make a plan to bring folks with you to one of these events. You could join Good Shepherd Lutheran and INBK’s weekly Vigil for Democracy on Tuesday 12/23 and/or 12/30 at 6pm at Third Ave & 29th Street in Sunset Park. RSVP here for updates. There are also vigils at 26 Federal Plaza with Rise and Resist on Monday, December 29th 12-1pm and Thursday 1/1 from 12-1pm. 

Support families of ICE detainees. Indivisible Brooklyn is partnering with grassroots local organizers in South Brooklyn, where our immigrant neighbors are being grabbed by ICE every day. Many of the people getting locked up are long-term residents with families they support, and their loved ones are struggling emotionally and financially. Please consider contributing directly to families of Arturo, Gilberto, and Manuel, to help them stay housed, pay for legal services, and celebrate the holidays with their kids. And/or support Mi Tlalli, a great organization that provides commissary funds and other support to folks in detention and their families. Finally, our partner Good Shepherd Lutheran has a legal fund in support of immigrant and refugee youth who are here alone. You can make a tax deductible donation to their Venmo account: @LegalDefenseAdvocacyFund.

Stand up for the City Council Staff Union! Indivisibles make a lot of phone calls demanding that our elected leaders fight for us. When we call our Council Members, you know who picks up the phone? It's our union siblings in the Association of Legislative Employees. So if you stand for democracy, you need to stand with the ALE. Right now they're sounding the alarm because the current contract includes a 60-day "reorganization period" at the beginning of the term, when due process protections are suspended and workers are at risk of retaliation for grievances they've filed in the past. Some Council Members – including Brooklyn's own CM Avilés, CM Hanif, and CM Nurse – have committed to honor the contract and are encouraging their colleagues to do the same. Let's tell the rest of the City Council to follow their lead and not abuse the "reorganization period" as an excuse for union busting. You can find your Council Member here.
Script: Hi, I'm a constituent living in [your neighborhood] and I'm calling to thank you for the work you do. I'm proud to stand with the ALE and their #SaveOurJobs campaign. Please let the Council Member know that their constituents support ALE workers. We expect the Council Member to honor the contract, to not abuse the 60-day reorganization period, and to not retaliate against their staffers. We here support unions and we will hear the calls of City Council workers just as you're hearing my call right now. Can you please pass that message along to the Council Member?

Get Ready for 2026

Sign up and save the date for Indivisible Brooklyn’s General Meeting Wednesday, January 7 at 7pm in Kensington. Come be in community with local activists and help plan our 2026 actions. RSVP here.

Sign up for an immigration court watch shift with JFREJ. While masked ICE agents are seizing immigrant NYers at mandatory court appointments, Jews for Racial and Economic Justice is organizing court-watch work to help keep our neighbors safer. There are early-morning, pre-work hours shifts, and later shifts, which run until noon and involve entering the public courthouse buildings and providing direct support to our most vulnerable neighbors. Learn more here. (People of all faiths are welcome.)

Sign up to learn more about Our Time for an Affordable NYC. Our Time is a new organization building on the grassroots momentum of Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral campaign to deliver on the promise of a more affordable New York City. Last weekend they launched their campaign to defend Mamdani’s agenda: universal childcare, fast and free buses, freezing the rent, and more. Sign up to learn how to get involved.

Tell your NYS electeds to stand up for immigrant New Yorkers. In 2025, NYS lawmakers turned their heads away as immigrant New Yorkers came under attack. On January 7, they will finally get back to Albany for a new legislative session. We can’t let them get away with doing nothing again. Now is the time to demand that the NYS Senate and Assembly advance legislation that would make New York much safer for immigrant NYers. Call Gov. Hochul (518-474-8390), Senate Majority Leader Stewart-Cousins (518-455-2585), Speaker Heastie (518-455-4911), and your own NYS Senator and Assemblymember and tell them to advance the pro-immigrant package of bills we’ve been organizing around before it’s too late. You can also use NYCLU’s tool to send an email here.
Script: Hi, my name is… and I’m a constituent living in [your neighborhood]. I’m calling about the urgent need to protect at-risk members of our communities. As the Trump administration continues to attack my friends and neighbors, New York State must pass the New York for All Act (S.2235/A.3506) and Dignity Not Detention Act (S.316/A.4181) immediately, plus the Access to Representation Act (S.141/A.270) and the Clemency Justice Act (S.394/A.403). Will you commit to do everything you can to advance these four bills at the beginning of the new legislative session?

**Save-the-date** Demand Passage of the New York Health Act on Day One, January 7 in Albany. Carpool to Albany on the first day of the NYS legislative session with Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro Chapter to demand that the New York Health Act gets passed this year. Our lawmakers must protect us from the massive attacks on our healthcare and the NYHA is best way to guarantee every New Yorker has the coverage they deserve. Sign up here.

Another Way to Resist

Learn about, join, or start a Courage Collective. Indivisible is supporting groups who want to organize to influence specific institutions or people to stop cooperating with the authoritarian regime. If you can assemble a  group of people who share an identity within a specific pillar, you can work together to influence the institutions and people within their pillar to stand up to Trump’s demands. This might be alumni of a university, people with connections to a company or corporation, or members of a professional association. You can learn more about Courage Collectives, join one, or start your own.

In solidarity,
The INBK crew