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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.

July 13, 2025

Summer is a time to dream. On a steamy summer afternoon in 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr., inspired a nation to reach out and work toward a more equitable, inclusive union when he addressed a quarter million rallygoers gathered on the National Mall. Six decades later, during a sweltering New York City June 2025 Democratic primary, more than one million voters turned out. Enough of them Did Not Rank Evil Andrew for Mayor and voted instead for a better future, propelling Zohran Mamdani into the top spot and ushering in a new activist coalition and way of engaging visionaries and voters to effect progressive change.

At the March on Washington, John Lewis electrified the crowd with a passionate call to action, concluding with a plea. “Wake up America! Wake up! For we cannot stop, and we will not and cannot be patient.” In this moment, we can help wake up our city and country and overcome MAGA fascism by coming together and continuing our electoral, organizing, and advocacy work to achieve a dream: rights, protections, and resources secured for all New Yorkers. Here’s how you can join us this week.

Your Top 3 actions for this week

  1. 🗳️ Indivisible Brooklyn’s Electoral Team Meeting: Wednesday, July 16 at 7pm on Zoom. At our first Electoral Team meeting since the June 24 primaries, we’ll review the work we've done over the past 6 months to make these wins possible and discuss lessons learned. Then we'll start planning for the General Election in November. RSVP here.

  2. 📢 Indivisible's One Million Rising Training (Session 1): Wednesday, July 16 at 8pm on Zoom. Indivisible’s One Million Rising campaign is a national effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design. This is how we build people power that can’t be ignored. You’re invited to join us — and lead. Let’s build a force bigger than fear and louder than hate. At our July 16 session, we’ll get oriented to making meaning of this moment and the role you can play in coordinated strategic action. Two more sessions are scheduled for July 30 and August 13. RSVP here.

  3. ❤️💙 Good Trouble Lives On In Us: Thursday, July 17 at 5:30pm in Foley Square. National organizations are coming together for an action in remembrance of John Lewis: Good Trouble Lives On. The NYC Good Trouble team is planning a principled and peaceful action that will center the demand for civil rights for immigrants and for every person in our communities. Join us for a rally and short march circling 26 Federal Plaza and culminating in a moment of silence and solidarity. RSVP here and please share information about this important rally and march with 5 friends.

Upcoming Events

Preserving Democracy - NYC Weekly Vigil: Monday, July 14 at 6pm at Foley Square. These weekly gatherings provide space to join with others to oppose the threats to our democracy, rights and well-being from the Trump Administration's attacks. Together, we say, democracy, not autocracy! Each week will feature different speakers. Come with your sign and an electric candle or cellphone as we light the way for our democracy in this crucial hour. Co-sponsored by: Center for Common Ground, Downtown Nasty Women Social Group, Empire State Indivisible, Inwood Indivisible, The Workers Circle. RSVP here.

What’s the Plan? Thursday, July 17 at 3pm on Zoom. What’s the Plan? is a weekly discussion with Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin, in which they process the news of the week, highlight current strategies for resisting authoritarian takeover, and answer audience questions. Tune in this week to learn how Indivisible will be responding to the fallout from the MAGA Murder Budget. We’re going to be adding to our toolkit, and in this meeting Leah and Ezra will be telling us how. Sign up here. 

Indivisible Brooklyn’s Monthly Organizing Meeting: Tuesday, July 22 at 7pm in Gowanus. Join our monthly Organizing Meeting at Parklife (636 Degraw St.) where we will discuss new approaches to organizing and resisting authoritarian consolidation of power. We’ll review recent No Kings and Good Trouble Lives On actions and plan our next steps together. RSVP here.

ADA35 March and Rally: Saturday, July 26 at 11am at Washington Square Park. The ADA35 Rally and March is sparked in response to the current administration's attacks on laws upholding rights for people with disabilities. As such, we insist on protecting the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, which makes our lives vibrant and equal. ADA35: The Future is Disabled is a coalition of many groups and is for everyone. The event will begin with a 20-minute rally at Washington Square Park led by speakers with disabilities. Then we will march up University Place ending at Union Square Park. RSVP here.

More Ways to Resist This week

Tell your NYS Electeds to Support the MELT Act. Over the past few months, masked agents -- with no visible ID and without identifying themselves -- have been detaining and disappearing our friends and neighbors. The use of face coverings and unmarked uniforms by law enforcement is designed to avoid accountability, silence resistance, and instill terror. It's time for lawmakers to stand up and protect us from secret policing. Last week, Assembly Member Tony Simone introduced the MELT Act, which will prohibit ICE and other law enforcement officers from hiding behind masks while interacting with the public. 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 help advance this critical legislation.
Sample Script: Hi, my name is… and I’m a constituent living in [your neighborhood]. I’m calling about the urgent need to stop masked agents from disappearing my friends and neighbors without any respect for the rule of law. If ICE and other law enforcement agencies can act as an unaccountable secret police, they become a threat to our freedom and democracy. Assemblymember Tony Simone (Assembly District 75) just introduced legislation to require law enforcement to wear visible identification when interacting with the public and not hide behind masks. Will you support and help advance the Mandating End of Lawless Tactics Act (or MELT Act) as soon as the legislature is back in session?

Submit written testimony to the NYC Charter Revision Commission by July 15 to protect our primaries. Mayor Adams’s Charter Revision Commission is considering a proposal to ban party primaries and replace them with "jungle primaries." Allowing registered Republicans to vote against progressive Democrats in our primaries — where progressives just won big up and down the ballot — would make it harder for progressive candidates to advance to the General Election. And forcing all of the candidates – Democrats, Republicans, independents, and others – to run against each other in a combined primary would favor wealthier, well-known candidates over grassroots, community-backed campaigns. That’s why the billionaires and Mayor Adams are trying to use a commission stacked with corporate lobbyists and a former IDC member to push through this radical change in our electoral system. The Commission is accepting written testimony online until Tuesday, July 15. You can learn more about the issue here, draft a paragraph or two explaining why you oppose this proposal, and submit it here. Or use NYWFP’s one-click tool here. The more voices in opposition, the better!

Tell Governor Hochul to sign bills to protect our rights. The NYS legislature failed to rise to the moment this past legislative session. Still, lawmakers did pass several important bills that will strengthen abortion and gender-affirming care, stop book bans, keep families together, protect checks and balances, and allow New Yorkers to die with dignity. Now, we need Governor Hochul to sign those bills into law. Use NYCLU’s one-click tool here to tell Governor Hochul to sign these bills without delay.

Donate to support detained asylum seekers. Give what you can to Mi Tlali to provide funds to phone and commissary accounts for asylum seekers who have been kidnapped by ICE and are in detention centers all across the country. It helps them to stay connected with their loved ones and friends, as well as have some improved nutrition while in detention. The fund also supports their families who need help to meet their basic needs without the breadwinner at home. 

Urge AG James to fight ICE overreach. Use Indivisible’s tool to tell our state’s attorney general to use all state legal power to fight suppression based on political speech and participation. Find it here.

In solidarity,
The INBK crew