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In this issue:
* We showed up, and we keep fighting
* Protect our communities from ICE
* The Big Ugly Bill: still bad, please phone bank
* No War with Iran
* Media Accountability: What you can do to fight for Truth
* Direct Action Monitoring: we need your help!
* Want to help us do this work?
* Upcoming events

We marched, we picketed, and we are ready to do more every day to defend against ICE. Here are some things you can do now.



** Thank Senator Scott Wiener for his efforts to unmask the goons kidnapping people from our streets
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Over the last several months we have all witnessed the horrific abductions of people living in our city, state, and country reportedly by ICE operatives. While there are many issues regarding the Trump regime’s use of ICE, the fact that the operatives cover their faces, wear no badges or other forms of identification, and use unmarked vans opens the possibility that other malicious actors could dress similarly and kidnap anyone, anytime. This has already happened in a few cases. The lack of identification also ensures that ICE agents won’t be held accountable for any violent, criminal, or unethical actions.

Our state senator Scott Wiener has proposed SB627, which would require all law enforcement officials in California to have exposed faces and wear identification. There are sensible exceptions—the use of masks to prevent smoke inhalation or facial protection for the SWAT team. Despite the reasonability of this proposal, Senator Wiener is being attacked by politicians and haters from around the country. We need to have his back and show our appreciation for his work to create accountability for ICE.

Call Senator Wiener and thank him ([link removed]) !



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Spanish speakers: Get trained to accompany immigrants to check-ins and court hearings
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A volunteer opportunity from Faith In Action:
In this difficult moment, as anxiety and fear are increasing rapidly in the immigrant community, we have an urgent need for more volunteers who are bilingual in Spanish.

We have scheduled our next accompaniment training for Tuesday, July 1, from 5:30-7:00 PM. Due to the urgent need, we are prioritizing training volunteers who speak Spanish.

If you speak Spanish and are available on July 1, please RSVP here for the training ([link removed]) . (It will be held in the Mission; we will confirm the exact location once we see how many people are planning to attend.)

If you do not speak Spanish, you can still be helpful in other support roles. Once we increase our number of bilingual volunteers, we plan to hold another training in early or mid-August for non-bilingual volunteers. But at the moment, we need to prioritize training Spanish-speakers who can communicate with the families and individuals we are accompanying. We thank you for your understanding and patience.

If you live in San Mateo County, regardless of language abilities, we also need volunteers for our Verification Team, which verifies rumors of ICE activity when reports are made to our Rapid Response Hotline. The next training will be held on Zoom on July 15 at 6:00 PM. If you’re interested, you can register here ([link removed]) .

Thank you again for your willingness to stand in solidarity with our immigrant neighbors during this challenging time.


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Employing a Domestic Worker? Learn how you can help protect them
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Domestic employers are encouraged to make their homes centers of moral action by fostering trust, ensuring fair and flexible working conditions, educating themselves on immigrant rights, engaging in supportive dialogue, and maintaining connections with advocacy organizations for ongoing guidance.

Hand in Hand publishes a guide with practical steps, in English and Spanish, for domestic employers to support immigrant domestic workers, especially in response to heightened threats of deportation and increased targeting of immigrant communities. The guide emphasizes solidarity, education, and fair employment practices, highlighting that about one-third of domestic workers are immigrants.

If you employ a worker in your home or know someone who does, please take a moment to share and read through the Hand in Hand Guide ([link removed]) and follow the steps for protecting our communities.



** Join our new rapid-response Signal group.
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Signal is an end-to-end encrypted messaging app, the safest on the market. We will post emergency protests from trusted partners there. This group was indispensable to our ICE office mobilization this week, and we encourage you to join. We are also working on a text-messaging based group, but this will take more time, so if you want to be apprised of rapid-response information right now, please join this Signal group ([link removed]) .

For more information about Signal, check out our blog post ([link removed]) .



** The Big Ugly Bill Update: Phone Bank to increase GOP opposition
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The Big Ugly Bill continues making its way through the Senate, but it is more vulnerable than ever as it is found to be increasingly unpopular and unconstitutional.

Some good news: Thanks to the Senate Parliamentarian, thefinal House version ([link removed]) of the Republican reconciliation package will not include mandates to sell hundreds of thousands of acres of public lands in the West. The Ambler mining road in Alaska, controversial provisions affecting the western Arctic, and rollbacks to land use plans were also stricken from the bill. The amendment would have called for the privatization of potentially hundreds of thousands of acres in Nevada and Utah. Additionally, the provision that restricted courts from blocking federal policies was also removed ([link removed]) .

However: The bill still contains numerous provisions offering handouts to corporate polluters, including cutting royalty rates to levels dating to the 1920s, and allowing companies to pay fees in exchange for fast-tracking proposed energy projects with minimal environmental review. And it still cuts Medicaid and other federal benefits.

A full list of provisions cut out of the Big Ugly Bill is available from the NY Times ([link removed]) .
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This bill is still vulnerable. Since the service cuts it provides run so deep, it is a third rail for many red-state senators. And the deficit it creates is also giving pause to some senators. We need to let voters in red states know what their senators are about to do and get them to raise holy hell about it.

Phone Bank with People’s Action Institute: RSVP on Mobilize ([link removed]) .
Phone Bank with Indivisible National: RSVP on Mobilize ([link removed]) .
Phone Bank with MoveOn: RSVP on Mobilize. ([link removed])



** No War with Iran
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Trump and his MAGA regime launched a military attack against Iran in violation of Article 1 of the Constitution and the War Powers Act of 1973. As of Tuesday afternoon, a shaky truce was still in place. If the truce fails to hold, Trump's unilateral action could lead to an ongoing war of unknown dimensions.

Make no mistake: Iran is a brutal, fundamentalist, misogynistic, expansionist theocracy that oppresses its own people while inciting and enabling international terrorism. We are no friends of the Iranian rulers.

We also remember that the JCPOA nuclear weapons deal, which President Obama got Iran to sign, was effective; Iran was not on the verge of building nuclear weapons. Then Trump impulsively and unilaterally withdrew from the agreement, leaving Iran free to ignore it and resume development.

As we have seen in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, and elsewhere, American military interventions and attempts at "regime change" have all resulted in misery and catastrophe for everyone in the Middle East and led to unending "forever" wars that cost American military and civilian lives and diverted our resources away from essential domestic priorities.

Contact your Members of Congress and tell them: No war with Iran! ([link removed])



** Media Accountability: What you can do to fight for truth
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You’ve joined us at our protests, you’ve made phone calls, you’ve attended town halls, and you’ve given incredible public comment for causes such as the People’s Budget. Kudos! These are always ongoing endeavors. And we thank you for doing your part.

The Media Accountability, Balance, and Protection group (MAB+) has a couple more ways you can fight back in this media climate:
1. Write letters to local newspaper editors.
If you have never written a letter to an editor, Indivisible National’s Truth Brigade ([link removed]) provides an excellent guide to writing an effective letter ([link removed]) . It is available to download and to share with others.
2. Check in with your MAGA family members ([link removed]) and try to pierce their disinformation bubble. Are you still/back on some form of speaking terms with a MAGA family member? If so, ask how they are feeling about things happening around us. It may actually be possible to pull them back from the dark side.

MAB+ hopes these suggestions will inspire you. Read more information on our blog ([link removed]) .



** Direct Action Event Monitoring: We need your help!
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At every protest, we always want as many safety monitors as we can get to help keep our actions peaceful. And that’s never been more true and more important than at this month’s No Kings march, where roughly 100,000 people filled the streets.

We’ll have more protests in the future. Please volunteer to be a safety monitor for our next action. We can train you—it takes about 90 minutes. It's a simple, usually fairly chill, and essential job that helps keep our actions safe for all participants.

As pro-democracy, anti-authoritarian movements depend on nonviolence for success and as the US movement grows and potentially provokes authoritarian backlash, we encourage you to join in this vital work at our future actions. Read more on our blog. ([link removed])

When you see a call for volunteers for our events, please sign up as an event monitor. And, join #direct_action if you’re on our Slack.



** Want to help us do this work?
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We will plug you in where your skills can do the most good to resist this administration.

If you would like to join and do important work with us, we welcome you! Currently we are in need of volunteers to help with the following:

* Editing submissions to our newsletter (Mondays and Tuesdays).
* Publishing our newsletter with MailChimp and helping update our website on Newsletter Night (Tuesdays at 5 PM).
* Making short-form videos to help educate people on our topics in an accessible way.
* Tracking federal, state, and local legislation and working with our state and local legislatures and Mayor Lurie.
* Organizing our protests and other in-person actions and scheduling our in-person meetings.

No experience is needed; we will train you and provide everything you need. If you would like to help us, please contact us at [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) .
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March with Indivisible SF in the San Francisco Pride Parade, Sunday, June 29, 9 AM - 1PM. Indivisible SF is proud to march in this year’s San Francisco Pride Parade in the Resistance Contingent. RSVP on Mobilize. ([link removed])

Phone Bank with Indivisible—Stop the Trump Tax Scam: Wednesday, June 25, 8-9:30 AM, online. Every Wednesday and Thursday in June, join Indivisible for a phone bank, when we’ll be calling voters and connecting them directly to their senator to urge Republicans to oppose the Trump Tax Scam—a reckless GOP tax plan that prioritizes billionaires like Elon Musk while selling out working families. Register on Mobilize. ([link removed])

Phone Bank to Republican Senators to Save Medicaid: June 25, 26, and 28 at various times. Join the California Democratic Party and Together for CA Health calling voters in Republican Senate districts to ask voters to call their senator to say no to Medicaid Cuts. RSVP on Mobilize. ([link removed])

Palantir Powers ICE - Shut Down Palantir! Thursday, June 26, 12 PM, at Palantir Offices, 100 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto. Palantir's technology allows ICE to identify, locate, and kidnap migrants en masse. Their spy-cop tools track activists and organizers. The IDF uses Palantir tech to commit genocide in Gaza. Now Palantir is building out the biggest and most dangerous mass surveillance system in modern US history. Their data platform would access and integrate across federal agencies the private personal information of every single person in the US: from our bank records to medical data, immigration status, and more. More info here. ([link removed])

Phone Bank with Common Cause to stop the SAVE Act: Thursday, June 26, 2:30-4:30 PM, and Tuesday, July 1, 3-5 PM. Join Common Cause for an important phone bank as we mobilize voters to take action against the dangerous SAVE Act and advocate for the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. RSVP on Mobilize. ([link removed])

Tell the Billionaires: Hands off our money, weekly phone bank with People’s Action Institute, Thursday, June 26, 3-6 PM, and Saturday, June 28, 10 AM - 12:30 PM. Join People’s Action Institute for Tax & Budget Fight phone banks to talk to constituents in key congressional districts and have deep, meaningful conversations about how these tax breaks for the wealthy hurt all our local communities. Together, we’ll take action to pressure Congress to stop these cuts and ensure the rich pay their fair share. No experience? No problem! We provide training at every phone bank to set you up for success. Whether you’re a seasoned volunteer or making your first call, you’ll be supported every step of the way. RSVP on Mobilize. ([link removed])

Disappeared in America Visual Action–Solidarity Action: Thursday, June 26, 5-7 PM, at UN Plaza, 355 McAllister St. Disappeared in America is a national day of action to stand up for the rule of law and confront the Trump administration’s illegal abductions, detentions, and deportations of people like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Rui Marras, and Juan Maldonado Zuniga. RSVP on Mobilize. ([link removed])

Rally for Trans Youth Healthcare: Thursday, June 26, 6 PM, at SF City Hall, Polk Street steps. The US Supreme Court has just ruled in United States v. Skrmetti, a case that could decide the future of gender-affirming care for trans youth nationwide. Even though the court did not rule in our favor, we will show up. We will protect trans youth. We will fight for trans and 2STGNCI futures. More info here ([link removed]) .

Understanding Vaccines from Chickenpox to Cancer: Building Trust Through Conversation: Saturday, June 28, 11 AM, Zoom. Indivisible Tri Valley is hosting a panel discussion and educational presentation on how vaccines work with a special focus on how to talk to vaccine-hesitant family members and friends. More details and register here. ([link removed])

People over Profit: Saturday, June 28, and (almost) every Saturday, 12 PM, 999 Van Ness. Join this weekly, peaceful protest at the SF Tesla Dealership to speak out against Musk’s takeover of the federal government. Details on Mobilize. ([link removed])

Accompaniment Training Opportunity for Spanish Speakers, Tuesday, July 1, 5:30 - 7 PM. In this difficult moment, as anxiety and fear are increasing rapidly in the immigrant community, we have an urgent need for more volunteers who are bilingual in Spanish. RSVP here. ([link removed])



** This Week's Social Media Graphics
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If you’ve seen our newsletter posts on social media, you might have noticed that we include a photo or graphic with each issue.

Today’s graphics are promoting our upcoming mobilizations and calls to action. You can freely use and share these graphics. Tag us on your social media website ([link removed]) of choice!

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