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.

November 23, 2025

Thank you to everyone who's shown up over the past year as we work through these challenging times together. As we enter the holiday season, let's share what we have with family and friends and the wider community. If you have food or warm clothes or time to volunteer, please share them with a local mutual aid group. If you have know-your-rights materials like what we're using for the Signs of Solidarity project, please share them with neighbors. If you have friends or family who are feeling anxious about our political moment, please share your positive experiences of taking collective action with us and invite them to sign up for Indivisible Brooklyn's emails or help them find an Indivisible group near them. Here are some more good ways to strengthen our communal resistance this week. Take any of these actions, and you'll be thankful you did!

Your Top 3 actions for this week

1. 🦃🥕 Donate to a local food pantry. While many of us are preparing to give thanks this week with family or friends, many will also be feeling the pinch of higher grocery prices and disruptions from the SNAP freeze even more acutely. Let’s help our neighborhood food pantries meet increased demand. If you can, please donate to our partners at Good Shepherd Lutheran (select “Hospitality”) and Camp Friendship as well as CHiPS or One Love Community Fridge.

2. ✊🎁 Fight corporate capitulation with a holiday boycott. Tell friends and family about “We Ain’t Buying It,” a nationwide Black-led holiday boycott from Thanksgiving through December 1. We’re targeting three corporations who’ve capitulated to the regime at the expense of their customers: Target, for caving to this administration's biased attacks on DEI; Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties; and Amazon, for funding this administration and selling facial recognition technology to target and terrorize our neighbors. Until they cease collaborating with this administration’s harmful policies, let’s support businesses that affirm our humanity, especially small, local, and BIPOC-owned stores. Learn more about “We Ain’t Buying It” and spread the word here. To get the most participation from your friends and family, reach out directly with a personal note to at least five people. You can use and customize this message or a message from the We Ain’t Buying It toolkit.

3. ✋❌ Sign up for Hands Off NYC’s Brooklyn-based orientation and training on December 6. This week, the Trump administration ramped up threats of a federal invasion of NYC. We can help ensure that our community is prepared. Sign up and tell friends and family about this training, scheduled for Saturday, December 6 at 12pm in Brooklyn. Get the tools, know-how, and community you need to take action and protect our neighbors. There will also be a training in Queens on December 13. Check out the full schedule and sign up here.

Upcoming Events

Play Fair Coalition Rally for NYC Parks: Monday, November 24 at 12pm at City Hall Park. Rally in advance of the City Council’s Committee on Parks & Recreation's oversight hearing on “Improving the Maintenance of Park Bathrooms and Drinking Fountains.” Years of underfunding and disinvestment in the NYC Parks budget has led to chronic understaffing, leaving many Parks bathrooms closed, dirty or in need of repair. Monday’s hearing is a chance to make sure our needs are heard by the City Council and the next mayoral administration. Parkgoers can lend their support by either attending the rally or signing this petition.

Malliotakis Mondays: Monday, November 24 at 4:30pm in Staten Island. Join Staten Island Action Coalition and Empire State Voices this Monday outside of Rep. Malliotakis' Staten Island office to hold her accountable for the ever-increasing cost of living. From healthcare costs to tariffs, it's an attack on the poor. RSVP here. Malliotakis Mondays returns to Bay Ridge next week on December 1.

Dignity Not Detention Phone Zap: Tuesday, November 25 at 1pm on Zoom. The Dignity Not Detention Act would end NY’s support for immigrant detention. Join our coalition partners in pushing constituent phone calls to NYS legislators about the need to pass the bill now so that NY doesn’t run or profit off of the mass detention of our neighbors. RSVP here. You can also use NYC-DSA’s one-click tool to email your own NYS legislators about this urgent priority.

Weekly Vigil for Democracy: Every Tuesday at 6pm at Third Ave & 29th Street in Sunset Park. Our fellow organizers at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge are holding a weekly vigil outside the Metropolitan Detention Center to call for the release of ICE detainees, and to stand against the inhumane treatment of our neighbors. Supporters are invited to bring signs, to sing or play music, and to solemnly bear witness in solidarity. Together we will build and strengthen vital community connections. To keep track of scheduling changes due to inclement weather or other last-minute updates, consult our vigil list and RSVP here.

NYC World AIDS Day Rally: Monday, December 1 at 11:30am in the West Village. Join VOCAL-NY and allies on World AIDS Day for a community-wide rally, reading of the names of those we've lost to AIDS, and a march to protect our city, our rights, and the people we love! RSVP here.

Indivisible Brooklyn’s General Meeting: Wednesday, December 3 at 7pm. Join us to be in community with local activists and help plan for Hands Off NYC’s next Community Day of Action. RSVP here.

More Ways to Resist This week

Tell Schumer and Gillibrand that Senate Democrats need new leadership. After a few weeks of holding the line for affordable healthcare and basic checks on a fascist president, Schumer caved. Again. Whether Schumer orchestrated the surrender, supported it, or failed to stop it, he has proven yet again that he is not the leader Democrats need to meet this moment. Call Schumer and Sen. Gillibrand to tell them that it’s time for him to step down as Minority Leader and allow someone else to lead the opposition to Trump. You can find their phone numbers here or use Indivisible national’s toolkit.

Email your NYS electeds to protect NY’s landmark climate law. New York is violating its own climate law — and New Yorkers are paying the price with their wallets, health, and lives. Over the past few weeks, Gov. Hochul has approved a major fossil fuel pipeline, delayed NY's electric building mandate, and green-lit emissions-heavy cryptocurrency mining operations across the state. We cannot let this continue. Use this one-click tool from NY Renews to send a letter to your elected officials in the State Senate and Assembly to demand that they hold firm to protect the climate law.

Tell the City Council to protect NYC from Trump. As the Council’s 2024-2025 term approaches its end, time is running out to strengthen civil rights protections for New Yorkers. Use NYCLU’s one-click tool to tell the City Council to pass legislation now to protect the right to protest, to be free from biased and abusive policing, to remain in their communities, to be free from biased and faulty surveillance technologies, and to have a functioning and supportive social safety net. It takes just one minute to send your message here.

Volunteers and donations needed to assist unaccompanied immigrant and refugee youth. Our fellow organizers at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Bay Ridge helped start a Legal Defense Advocacy Fund in partnership with NYC 4 All. They provide free legal services and social support to immigrant and refugee youth who are here alone. Volunteer to be a mentor: A virtual meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 2 at 6:30pm to learn more about the NYC 4 All mentorship program. Email contactnyc4all@gmail.com or visit their website to join. Donate to the Legal Fund: The demand for legal defense funding is increasing as filing fees and the number of cases go up. Donations to the Fund are 100% tax deductible. Venmo account is: @LegalDefenseAdvocacyFund

Adopt a Day Labor Corner. The National Day Laborer Organizing Network is calling on all allies in or around Brooklyn to Adopt a Day Labor Corner in your local community. Choose a location convenient to you, where day laborers gather, and commit to showing up regularly. Be present. Be consistent. Build relationships and offer protection. Sign up here and a group leader will reach out for support.

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. This work is harm reduction, not agitational. We are not escalating or interacting with ICE. However, it does require witnessing state violence and being able to remain calm and center those we are there to help. You can sign up here to join. (People of all faiths are welcome.)

Learn about, join, or start a Courage Collective. Courage is contagious, and it’s more necessary than ever. The Trump regime is rapidly consolidating authoritarian power by attacking institutions that serve as a check on that power. It’s not too late to stop this takeover, but we must act now to build society-wide resistance. Courage Collectives are groups that organize the various pillars of support into noncooperation with the regime. Members of each collective share an identity within a specific pillar, and work to influence the institutions and people within their pillar to stand up to Trump’s demands. You can learn more about Courage Collectives, join one, or start your own.

Find something new for your anti-fascist wardrobe. Many of you are familiar with the fabulous front-page protest art created by our own Julie Peppito. T-shirts are free speech, too! If you’d like to wear your values with some of her work, check out her online shop here.

In solidarity,
The INBK crew