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March 8, 2026

Hi everyone,

I keep thinking about how Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, cut all funding for USAID, a move that has already killed hundreds of thousands of people, under the pretense of efficiency and saving our tax dollars. Now the U.S. is spending billions to bomb Iran and kill little girls at school for no reason other than the interests of other billionaires. Oh, and Trump is also a literal rapist.

It’s the stuff of nightmares, or Marvel movies with super villains. But unlike the movies, there isn’t a single superhero coming who will vanquish evil and save us all. There is just all of us, together, doing what we can every day to build a society built on care and dignity, not greed and cruelty.

In a recent interview with the New York Times, Rebecca Solnit said, “we don’t have to look for an individual, for a savior, for an Übermensch. I think the counter to Trump always has been and always will be civil society. A lot of the left wants social change to look like the French Revolution or Che Guevara. Maybe changing the world is more like caregiving than it is like war. Too many people still expect it to look like war. I just want us to understand that most of the important change is collective.”

There is a lot we can’t control. But we can be the caregivers doing what we can to change the world.

Your Top 3 actions for this week

  1. 🗽 Tell Hochul: Defend NY Now! Day of Action this Tuesday, March 10 in Albany. Make the Road, NY Renews, and Invest in Our NY are leading a massive day of action in Albany. Together, we’re holding Gov. Hochul accountable for slow-walking action to protect New Yorkers from ICE, the climate crisis, and federal budget cuts. NYers will be coming from across the state to demand immediate action to pass New York for All, protect and fund our climate law, and tax the rich. Free bus leaving from Barclays at 6:30am. RSVP here. If you can’t make it to Albany, you can still use our partners’ one-click toolkits to email your NYS electeds about protecting NYers from ICE, defending NY's climate law, and taxing the rich.

  2. 🌊 Join our monthly Electoral Team meeting this Wednesday, March 11 at 7pm on Zoom. Indivisible Brooklyn has built one of the most effective volunteer electoral operations around. We’re organizing to win big in 2026. Hope you can join us as we plan the work to get more fighters elected to represent us in DC and Albany! RSVP here.

  3. 🦋 Sign up to hold art by Julie Peppito at No Kings on March 28!  We need 200 volunteers to help create a striking visual as part of the No Kings march — hundreds of monarch butterflies, flowers, and melting ice will surround a central “we are the power” message.  To pull this off, we need you! Sign up to commit to carry this art through the march. Details on your specific responsibilities and meetup location will be provided closer to the march. RSVP here.

Upcoming Events

Rally for Sanctuary: Monday, March 9 at 9am at City Hall. Council Member Alexa Avilés will be leading a rally on the steps of City Hall to promote the importance of knowing our rights under New York’s sanctuary laws and the need for accountability. She'll be joined by the ICE Out NYC coalition, NYIC, and other allies. Following the rally, the City Council's Committee on Immigration is holding an oversight hearing on sanctuary, and the agenda includes CM Avilés's signage bill – the NYC Know your Rights Act (Intro 55) – and a pro-sanctuary bill introduced by CM Krishnan (Intro 261).

Weekly Vigil for Democracy at Brooklyn’s ICE Jail: Tuesday, March 10 and every Tuesday at 6pm in Sunset Park. Did you know that 200 abducted neighbors are imprisoned here in Brooklyn? Join INBK and our fellow organizers at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge for weekly vigil outside the Metropolitan Detention Center (Third Ave. & 29th St.). Together we stand against ICE, oppose 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. Weekly vigils also take place at 26 Federal Plaza on Mondays and Thursdays, 12-1pm. 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: Tuesday, March 10 at 6:30pm in-person or on Zoom. The Dignity Not Detention coalition is working to end immigrant detention in NYS. We do this work in collaboration with those most impacted by the overlapping webs of surveillance, detention, and deportation. Join us in crossing the walls that divide us by writing letters to those whom the state wants to isolate and disappear. We’ll be in-person, and there’s a virtual option too. No experience necessary – we’ll have training for new volunteers as well as a space for returning volunteers to get straight to writing. RSVP here.

No Kings Marshal Training: Thursday, March 12 at 7pm in the West Village. Want to help make No Kings safe, organized, and powerful? Join an official Marshal Training and sign up to marshal. Whether you’re brand new or just want to brush up on your skills, this session will cover both and is open to anyone ready to learn and support actions in any role. RSVP here for the March 12 training. Trainings will also be offered on March 21 and March 23.

Knock Doors with Brad Lander for Congress: Saturday and Sunday at 10am or noon throughout central Brooklyn. Let’s talk with voters about what it would mean to have a fighter like Brad Lander representing NY-10 in Congress! We’re going door-to-door in Park Slope, Gowanus, Windsor Terrace, and Prospect Heights. And we’re carrying petitions with us so supporters can help Brad get on the ballot. Choose a shift that works for you here.

New York Health Act Lobby Day: Tuesday, March 17 in Albany. Join Physicians for a National Health Program and co-sponsors to push for the passage of the NY Health Act, which would bring single-payer healthcare to NYS. Now is a critical time to bring pressure to bear on state legislators and the Governor with massive healthcare budget gaps coming later this year. RSVP before 3/11 for the March 17 lobby day and sign up for the 3/10 training here.

Resistance Sing-In: Thursday, March 19 at 6pm at Riverside Church. Join Resistance Revival Chorus and Singing Resistance to learn songs to respond courageously to rising authoritarianism. These songs will be put to use at the No Kings March on March 28, as well as gatherings and actions in response to ICE presence. RSVP here.

No Kings 3 – No Kings, No War, No ICE: Saturday, March 28 in Manhattan (Central Park South at 7th Avenue) at 2pm. Let’s make this march as amazing an event as possible. We need many hands to make this happen! Sign up to volunteer as a marshal here or a general volunteer here. You can help make banners and other art in multiple art build sessions here. Once you sign up, keep an eye on your inbox or spam box for a response from volunteer coordinators in the coming days. You can also help boost turn-out! Now is the time to think of 3 people you can invite to join you who haven’t been to No Kings before. Reach out with a personal text or email today. Stay tuned for details on how to meet up with INBK at No Kings!

More Ways to Resist this week

Tell Congress: No war with Iran! Trump has launched unauthorized military strikes on Iran, dragging the United States into yet another war without approval from Congress. Members of Congress must use every lever in their toolbox. From immediate oversight, to forcing a vote on a War Powers Resolution, to restricting or cutting off funding for unauthorized hostilities, to holding this administration accountable and putting an immediate stop to this war. We need to let Congress know we won’t accept anything less. Use Indivisible’s toolkit to send an email to your electeds!

Tell Congress: No more dimes for ICE crimes! Let’s keep flooding Congress with calls this week, demanding our electeds use the power they have to defund and rein in ICE. Indivisible has scripts for calling your own Senators and MoC, plus a one-click tool to send them an email. And the ICE Out for Good coalition has tools for emailing Target and other corporations that have been siding with ICE.

Stand with the families of ICE detainees. We have just launched standwithsouthbrooklyn.org, which includes GoFundMes for all of the families of ICE detainees we are currently raising funds for. 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. We are partnering with Mixteca, a trusted local nonprofit in Sunset Park to collect these funds. To donate, just add “South BK Legal Support” as a comment.

In solidarity,
The INBK crew

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