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.

June 8, 2025

Happy Pride, everyone!

This week, we’re celebrating Brooklyn’s LGBTQIA+ communities and joining together in the ongoing struggle to overcome the politics of hate and division. Let’s summon all the love and yearning for liberation we can find in ourselves and each other to build a more inclusive world together.

If you’re motivated by a bit of friendly competition, check out our June Challenge! Win points by taking action and recruiting others, and you just might win one of our cool new Indivisible Brooklyn T-Shirts! Here’s what we recommend doing this week.

Your Top 5 actions for this week

  1. 🗳️ Vote early – and tell 3 friends to do it too! Early voting in the NYC Primary Election starts this Saturday, June 14, which is also the last day to register to vote. Check vote.nyc to confirm your registration, find your poll site and voting hours, request an early mail ballot or absentee ballot, and see a sample ballot so you’ll be ready to go. Then remind your friends to vote early too! Indivisible Brooklyn encourages everyone to vote for the following candidates:
    • Mayor: Brad Lander, Adrienne Adams, Zohran Mamdani, Zellnor Myrie, and anyone who’s not Cuomo
    • Public Advocate: Jumaane Williams
    • Comptroller: Justin Brannan
    • Borough President: Antonio Reynoso
    • City Council
    ◦ District 33: Lincoln Restler
    ◦ District 35: Crystal Hudson
    ◦ District 38: Alexa Avilés
    ◦ District 39: Shahana Hanif 

  2. ✊🚪 GOTV. Winning the NYC primaries is one of the best ways we can build progressive power for a safer present and a better future. The key to winning is showing up in what is usually a low-turnout election and talking with your neighbors about why they should vote for our endorsed candidates. Indivisible Brooklyn has a canvass-of-the-day every day until June 24 and we hope to see many of you out there. Whether you join the campaigns for our endorsed candidates or a #RankTheSlate canvass or phonebank, or you friendbank your own network, now is the time to get out the vote if we’re going to beat Cuomo and elect the progressive leaders we’ve endorsed.

  3. ❌👑 March with us at the No Kings! Mass Mobilization this Saturday, June 14 at 1pm at Bryant Park. Join Indivisible Brooklyn’s contingent at the nationwide No Kings! Action in Manhattan. While the authoritarians project power by parading with tanks in DC, we’re marching everywhere around the country to show the world where power really lies: with us. The NYC march will start at Bryant Park and end at Madison Square Park. We hope you’ll march with us and the amazing art & signs we made! If you’d like to volunteer to help with the organizing, you can fill out this form. In any case, please RSVP here to get all the updates about where exactly to find us at this mass mobilization.

  4. 🌈 Celebrate Brooklyn Pride this Saturday, June 14 in Park Slope! Join the fun at the only Twilight Pride Parade in NYC! You can march with a campaign or your own crew, volunteer with Brooklyn Pride to help make the event possible, or just show up to support everyone. The parade runs down 5th Ave in Park Slope, kicking off at 7:30pm at Lincoln Place and continuing down to 9th Street. Find more details and learn about other Brooklyn Pride Week events here. And join us earlier in the day to do some #RankTheSlate flyering at the Pride Street Festival. We’ll be meeting at 11am at JJ Byrne Park. RSVP here.

  5. 🧡 Tell your NYS electeds to protect immigrant New Yorkers before the legislative session ends. We’re in the closing days of the NYS legislative session and we still need the NYS Senate and Assembly to advance legislation that would make New York much safer for immigrant NYers, as we see the devastation ICE is wreaking at NY immigration courts and in detention centers. 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.
    Sample 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 before this legislative session expires?

Upcoming Events

Canvass for Justin Brannan: Monday, June 9 at 5:30pm in Cobble Hill. As Finance Chair on the City Council, Justin Brannan has been fighting for working families and a city budget that reflects New Yorkers’ values. Justin’s oversight of the city’s contracts and pensions and audits of city agencies will help deliver the safer, more affordable, more inclusive, and better-run city we deserve. Join Team JB as we talk to neighbors about why Justin is the watchdog for working families that NYC needs. RSVP here.

No Cuomo/#RankTheSlate Flyering with INBK: Tuesday, June 10 at 5:45pm at the Barclays Center. Join Indivisible Brooklyn to talk to voters heading to New York Liberty games at Barclays Center. Let's ensure we elect a mayor who will defend NYC against Trump, make our city more affordable, protect immigrants, and advocate for the progressive policies that make our city stronger for all of us. We'll hand out flyers that promote the WFP's progressive slate, including INBK #1 Brad Lander, and will share information about why NO ONE's ballot should include Andrew Cuomo. RSVP here.

#RankTheSlate Phone Bank: Tuesday, June 10 at 6pm on Zoom. Join the Working Families Party to call voters and ask them to rank ALL candidates on the Working Families Slate — Adrienne Adams, Brad Lander, Zohran Mamdani, and Zellnor Myrie for mayor, plus Justin Brannan for Comptroller and Jumaane WIlliams for Public Advocate. Together we’ll make thousands of calls to voters across NYC and remind them to flex their vote and #RankTheSlate. No experience necessary — we'll provide training at the beginning of every phone bank. RSVP here.

Virtual ICE Watch training: Tuesday, June 10 at 8pm on Zoom. Join for a crucial ICE Watch training with IfNotNow, Never Again Action, and Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. On the call, we'll learn about how racism is baked into the detention and deportation machine, discuss what to do if ICE shows up in your community, and explore new ways to plug in and act on our values to not comply. RSVP here.

Stop the Trump Tax Scam Phone Bank with Indivisible: Wednesday, June 11 and Thursday, June 12 at 11am on Zoom. Indivisible National has identified four key states whose senators could make a difference in the upcoming fight to defeat the Trump Tax Scam and save Medicaid, Medicare and SNAP in the Senate: North Carolina, Maine, Ohio, and Utah. Every Wednesday and Thursday in June, join a phonebank where we’ll be calling voters and connecting them directly to their Senator to urge them to oppose a bill that steals from everyday Americans to give trillions in tax breaks to the ultra-wealthy. RSVP here.

Indivisible Brooklyn’s Electoral Team Meeting: Wednesday, June 11 at 7pm on Zoom. At our final Electoral Team meeting before the June 24 primaries, we’ll do a quick phonebank together and then plan further actions to get out the vote for our endorsed candidates while there’s still time. RSVP here.

Art Builds for No Kings: Thursday, June 12 at 2-5pm or 6-9pm in Gowanus. Join Indivisible Brooklyn, agitprop master maker Ange Tran and artist Julie Peppito to make giant banners for the June 14th NO KINGS! protest in New York City. Location on registration. RSVP here.

Early Vote Kickoff with INBK and Shahana Hanif: Sunday, June 15 at 12pm in Park Slope. #TeamShahana is joining forces with the WFP, BKForge, and Invisible Brooklyn to get out the vote for our crucially important June primary! We'll be knocking on doors across Park Slope, making sure that our supporters have all the information they need to cast their ballot. No experience is required – both details on Shahana and on voting will be provided at our on-site training. We'll also be giving away free TOTE BAGS with a re-elect Shahana Hanif design (while supplies last)! RSVP here.

NY-9 Town Hall with Rep. Yvette Clarke: Monday, June 16 at 6pm (location TBA). Congresswoman Yvette Clarke (NY-9) will be holding an in-person town hall so constituents can share their concerns regarding the Trump tax scam and hear about what their MoC has been doing to fight back. RSVP here.

more ways to resist this week

Submit a question for the City Council District 39 Candidate Forum. Anyone who lives or works in District 39 is invited to suggest a question for the upcoming candidate forum featuring Council Member Shahana Hanif and her MAGA-backed challenger. The deadline to submit a question is Monday, June 9 at 5pm. You can also register to watch the forum on Zoom on June 11 at 7:30pm here.

Tell Schumer and Gillibrand to sign on to the NO BAN Act. Trump’s latest travel ban is expected to go into effect on Monday. While legal challenges work their way through the courts, Democrats need to stand up against MAGA’s hate-fueled agenda by signing on to the NO BAN Act (S.398/H.R.294). First introduced in 2019 in response to the Muslim bans, House Democrats successfully passed it in 2021 to make sure this would never happen again… and then Schumer did nothing and it died in the Senate. The bill was reintroduced at the beginning of February, but neither Schumer nor Gillibrand are signed on yet. You can find their phone numbers here and use the script below to tell them that throwing immigrants under the bus harms us all.
Sample Script: My name is… and I'm a constituent from [zip code] who never misses an election. I’m calling to demand that the senator sign on as a co-sponsor of the NO BAN Act (S.398). Like the Muslim bans of Trump’s first term, his executive order banning travel from a dozen countries and limiting travel from 7 others is white Christian nationalist policy that does not make us safer and it harms people here and abroad. When immigrants are under attack, Democrats must stand up and fight back. Can I count on the senator to co-sponsor the NO BAN Act and prioritize advancing it as soon as possible? 

Tell Congress to stop Trump’s crypto grifting and vote against the STABLE/GENIUS Act. The GENIUS Act passed a cloture vote three weeks ago, with Schumer allowing 15 Democrats to follow Gillibrand’s lead in selling us out to crypto scammers. If it passes in the Senate, then Speaker Johnson will likely advance the corresponding STABLE Act in the House right away. Call your MoC, Schumer, and especially Gillibrand, who is co-sponsoring this bill to promote the crypto industry’s interests at the expense of people and the planet. You can find their phone numbers here and use the script below.
Sample Script: My name is… and I'm a constituent from [zip code] who never misses an election. I’m calling on the representative/senator to commit to voting against the STABLE/GENIUS Act (H.R.2392/S.394) and kill the bill. The STABLE/GENIUS Act does not solve any of the many problems facing working families or our democracy. Every minute wasted in negotiations around this bill is, at best, a missed opportunity for Democrats to show that they are fighting for us. And if it ever passed, this bill would enable further corruption from President Trump, further entrench the power of techno-fascists and crypto scammers, create massive and utterly unnecessary risks to the financial system, and incentivize the further destruction of our planet. Will the representative/senator commit to protecting our economy, our democracy, and our planet by voting down the STABLE/GENIUS Act?

Get ready for the NYC Primary. Practice using NYC’s Ranked Choice Voting system by playing this online ranked choice voting game from Brooklyn Voters Alliance (BVA)​​ to learn more about the ranked choice voting system we’ll be using in the June primaries. BVA’s website also provides a voting plan checklist for you to follow, and a link to this informative video on ranked choice voting put out by the Board of Elections. If you find the website as helpful as we do, please share it with your friends and neighbors! And don’t forget to check your voting registration before you go to vote!

Show INBK some extra support in June! Indivisible Brooklyn participates in distributed fundraising through Indivisible National. From June 1 through June 30, all of the funds we raise will be matched, dollar for dollar (up to a maximum of $500) by Indivisible National. If you have taken action with us at least three times in the past 6 months, a donation of any amount will allow you to vote on our future endorsements. You can also donate just to help us continue our activism and pay for essential supplies as we work to save democracy. Donate here.

In solidarity,
The INBK crew