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Indivisibles,

This week’s Newsletter will be a little briefer. Like many of you,
Indivisibles at our national office will get time to celebrate what we’re
thankful for this week, and so we’re dialing back the Newsletter a notch
so that everyone can enjoy their break to the fullest. 

One of the most important factors to staying in the fight long-term is
knowing when to rest.

Your regularly scheduled Newsletter will return on Monday, December 11.

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MoCs call for a Ceasefire

**Content Warning: Talk about the current Israel/Palestinian conflict.
Jump to the line break if you need to avoid this topic**

 

Since their October 7 attack that took over 1400 Israeli, American, and
foreign citizens’ lives, Hamas has continued to hold on to the vast
majority of their more than 200 hostages. We continue to call for the
immediate release of those hostages while condemning Hamas’ brutal crimes
and their attacks on civilian populations.

In the aftermath, over 13,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza,
including at least 5,500 children, and over 30,000 Palestinians have been
injured due to Israel’s six-week-long bombardment -- including airstrikes
hitting hospitals, UN shelters, schools, and refugee camps -- and its
ongoing actions to cut off life-sustaining supplies are widely recognized
by human rights groups to be collective punishment. 

In every direction, both the violence and its broader impact have
disproportionately fallen upon civilians and children. They must not be
held responsible for the actions of Hamas.

The only humane choice right now is to call for a ceasefire. 

It is up to us to do everything in our power to ensure that we are not
supporting (tacitly or overtly) the murder of innocents and children. Our
national role in this conflict is to find a pathway to peace that costs as
few lives as possible. 

As of today, [ [link removed] ]41 Members of Congress are on record calling for a
ceasefire or cessation of hostilities, including 39 House members and two
senators. 

Included in this number are Rashida Tlaib -- the only Palestinian serving
in Congress -- along with four Jewish representatives: Becca Balint
(VT-AL), Dean Phillips (MN-03), Jamie Raskin (MD-08), and Sara Jacobs
(CA-51). These brave MoCs are following the will of the American people
despite their peers' non-committal lack of action, as [ [link removed] ]68% of Americans
support a ceasefire.

We all have at least one senator or representative who still has not
called for a ceasefire, and the most important thing that we -- as
Indivisibles -- can do right now is pressure those MoCs to follow the
overwhelming will of their constituents and the global community in
calling for a humanitarian ceasefire to prevent further loss of civilian
life and escalation of the human suffering on the ground.

Here’s what you can do: 

 1. [ [link removed] ]Call your representative, and urge them to call for a humanitarian
ceasefire publicly and to use their position to push for an end to
hostilities, to deliver urgently needed humanitarian assistance, and
to ensure the hostages are released.
 2. [ [link removed] ]Call both your senators now, and ask them to do the same.

 

[ [link removed] ]Call your representative >>

[ [link removed] ]Call your senators >>

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 Trans Day of Remembrance 

**Content Warning: This section discusses death and discrimination against the
trans and non-binary community. If you need to skip this, jump ahead to the
next section.**

 

On this Transgender Day of Remembrance, we remember and we recommit.

Today, November 20, marks the annual Trans Day of Remembrance -- a day to
honor with solemnity those trans and non-binary lives lost this year to
violence and hate, as well as allow their memories to sustain our
commitment to fighting for dignity and justice for all those facing
transphobia and discrimination.  

To mark this day, we invite you to read [ [link removed] ]the National Center for
Transgender Equality’s annual Remembrance Report. Take some time to learn
about this day’s history, and read the stories of trans people whose
remarkable lives were taken too soon -- and who deserve to be remembered
fully, with their own names, identities, and stories. 

As they write in their Eulogy for Trans Lives:

“Countless precious trans lives have been extinguished, and to grieve is
an arduous journey. However, in our period of grief, we persist. We pay
tribute to and exalt the existences of those who have departed, and our
brilliance remains unaltered. We radiate with an intensity that will
outlast our earthly tenure. We shine with a fire that will burn long after
our time on Earth. Trans people have always been here, and we always will
be.” 

To our trans and non-binary Indivisibles: You belong. You deserve safety,
affirmation, empathy, and love. You deserve to [ [link removed] ]see yourselves in the
books you read in school without shame, you deserve autonomy over your
body, and you deserve to exist with joy and without apology. 

To our entire network: We encourage you to reach out to your trans loved
ones, coworkers, and neighbors, and make sure they feel seen and
supported. We also encourage you to seek out ways to continue to educate
yourself about trans inclusion on your own -- [ [link removed] ]there are resources at
all of our fingertips both virtually and in person, take advantage of
them, and make sure your support leads to action. There’s never been a
more critical time to commit ourselves not just to fighting for the rights
of all LGBTQ+ people, but also to better understanding the intersections
of this struggle with [ [link removed] ]racial justice, [ [link removed] ]gun violence prevention,
[ [link removed] ]health care inequity, and more. 

Finally, let’s continue to call out dangerous rhetoric at every level
meant to dehumanize trans people, and do everything we can to root out
bigotry and help end the epidemic of violence so that all trans people may
grow old.  

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Shutdown averted...for now 

If you remember last Monday, we told you that the deadline to avert a
shutdown was last Friday, November 17 and that House Republicans would
likely kick the can down the road, once again, as a continuing resolution
was the only viable path forward in the time we had left. 

Well, guess what? That’s exactly what happened. 

After making its way through the House and Senate at the 11th hour,
[ [link removed] ]President Biden signed a stopgap bill last Thursday that fully funds
the government through January 19 and partially funds it until February 2.

If that setup seems a little confusing, we agree!

Essentially the funding was separated into two barrels: funding for
agriculture, energy and water, military construction, Veterans’ Affairs,
transportation, and housing ends in January while everything else
continues until the February 2 deadline. 

This sets up two distinct fights that Speaker Mike Johnson is telling his
right flank he can win. But the underlying dynamics remain the same -- the
extremists in the GOP are intent on shutting down the government over
their dangerous demands, meaning Johnson doesn’t have the votes to govern.
And with more House Democrats supporting it than Republicans, Johnson
finds himself in the same position as his predecessor: staring down a MAGA
wing with the power to unseat him. 

MAGA dysfunction continues while Democrats hold strong. 

While we are glad that a disastrous shutdown was averted, we can’t help
but notice a recurring pattern of Republicans bringing us to the edge of
calamity while never solving the actual problem. Stay tuned for another
round of the potential shutdown crisis to begin in the new year.



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Giving a Sh*t Tuesday  

Last week, we launched our Giving a Sh*t Tuesday campaign to gauge just
how energized and ready for 2024 this movement is. We set a goal of 1,000
donations and absolutely smashed it -- with over 1,600 contributions from
all across the country by midnight.

We’re so grateful to everyone who contributed and signed up to volunteer.
There’s a lot of work ahead of us to defeat Trump and restore our
trifecta, but it’s clear this movement has every intention of getting it
done.

[ [link removed] ]If you didn’t get a chance to donate, we still have a ways to go to
meet our budget for the year, so please consider giving today!

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