In this issue:
- Want to help us do this work?
- Upcoming events
- One Million Rising
- Tell our Supervisors: Support people, not ICE
- Update on ICE and new actions
- Talk to your Supervisors about the RV Ban
- Support SF’s home electrification legislation
- Direct Action Event Monitoring: we need your help!
One Million Rising: Indivisible’s Non-Cooperation Campaign
We won’t mince words: authoritarianism is very close to taking over this country. We are in a short window where a massive, sustained show of public non-cooperation can overthrow it. Indivisible National is holding trainings on creating affinity groups for non-cooperation, whether in government work, education, political spheres, your workplace, or in your family financial decisions. Whatever your role in society, there is a way for you to participate.
Indivisible National has identified the six pillars of society that the Trump and MAGA regime have been capturing: Business, Labor, Faith, Education, Civil Service, and Military/Police. In the majority, all of these involve people just like you and me: workers and clients. If the workers and clients who make up these pillars engage in non-cooperation, the pillars can topple.
To quote Gene Sharp, founder of the Albert Einstein Institution and pioneer in non-violent strategy,
“By themselves, rulers cannot collect taxes, enforce repressive laws and regulations, keep trains running on time, prepare national budgets, direct traffic, manage ports, print money, repair roads, keep markets supplied with food, make steel, build rockets, train the police and army, issue postage stamps or even milk a cow.
People provide these services to the ruler through a variety of organizations and institutions. If people would stop providing these skills, the ruler could not rule.”
You can create affinity groups with your friends, coworkers, and peers and learn to use Indivisible National’s strategies for noncooperation. The details will depend on your situation, but options include boycotts, strikes, building mutual aid networks, and carrying out demonstrations or persuasive events of any scale.
For now, your first step is to create an affinity group. Find up to 10 people in your home, work, friend group, etc, who agree with you. Invite them to the next Indivisible One Million Rising training (and watch the first one on YouTube if you missed it).
Let us know how you’re doing and how we can help.
Sign up for sessions 2 and 3 on Mobilize. They will be on July 30 and August 13, respectively, at 5 PM PT.
Tell the Supervisors: Support People, Not ICE
Last week Supervisor Chyanne Chen introduced a resolution asking local law enforcement agents to come up with protocols for responding to ICE activity, pointing to the guidelines currently in place in Los Angeles as a template. This is a common-sense request that is necessary in the current climate where many people feel incredibly unsafe due to the presence of masked armed men grabbing people off of the streets.
It’s a pretty simple request for local law enforcement, if called, to do basic things like ask any people claiming to be ICE agents to show their credentials, and this should have easily garnered support of all of the supervisors. However, only six supervisors voted in favor, with Supervisors Sherrill, Sauter, Engardio, Dorsey, and Mandelman voting against it.
We need to make it clear to our city representatives that they should side with us, not ICE.
Please call your Supervisor and either thank them for supporting Supervisor Chen’s resolution, or express your anger and disappointment that they didn’t support it.
Bonus ICE Updates: Don’t take excuses. Keep pressuring our legislators.
Recently some California officials have been worrying in public that the No Secret Police Act, which our State Senator Wiener introduced and is fighting for, is unenforceable. We say: pass it anyway, and fight for it in court. In order to stop fascism, our officials must not comply in advance. They must do everything possible to support their constituents and keep our communities safe.
Continue pressuring your officials on the No Secret Police Act - tell them: no excuses!
And, continue calling for hearings on Alligator Alcatraz.
Want to help locally? Join the Bay Resistance Accompanier Network training. In San Francisco, ICE primarily detains people entering or leaving immigration hearings, so having people on location can keep them safe. RSVP here.
Contact Your Supervisor Regarding Their RV Ban Vote
Last week, the SF Board of Supervisors passed an RV ban with 9 voting in favor with 2 opposed. Only our Supervisors Fielder (District 9) and Walton (District 10) voted against it.
The RV ban has raised a lot of concerns for unhoused people:
- Risk of Displacement and Increased Hardship
- Criminalization of Poverty
- Displacement Without Adequate Alternatives
- Ethical and Legal Risks
- Enforcement and Resource Gaps
- Community and Worker Impacts
- Insufficient Structural Solutions
In summary, critics contend the RV ban addresses neighborhood complaints and surface cleanliness/safety issues at the expense of vulnerable residents, while failing to offer meaningful or practical alternatives in the context of San Francisco’s ongoing housing crisis. We are disappointed that our supervisors abandoned our unhoused neighbors.
Tell your supervisor what you think about their vote!
Support SF’s home electrification legislation
As our climate warms and the MAGA regime breaks one guardrail after another, it’s vital for the City to do what we can to limit greenhouse gas emissions locally.
One way is by requiring home renovations to install only electric appliances for heating, cooling, water heating, and cooking. The elimination of methane appliances and methane infrastructure will make our buildings safer and help protect our climate from preventable damage.
Supervisor Mandelman has proposed an ordinance to do just that. It’ll be heard by the Land Use Committee on Monday, July 28 at 1:30 PM. The supervisors on that committee can advance the legislation and ensure a greener future for our City.
If your supervisor is Supervisor Melgar, Chen, or Mahmood, call them and tell them: Let’s advance Supervisor Mandelman’s climate-protecting ordinance to the full Board!
Direct Action Event Monitoring: We need your help!
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 last 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.
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?
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).
- Making artwork for our calls to action, blog posts, and other projects.
- 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].
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Informational Picket: ICE Out of Federal Workplaces: Wednesday, July 23, 5 PM at UN Plaza, 50 United Nations Plaza, San Francisco. Federal unionists in the Bay Area invite the public to join them and demand public oversight of ICE, an end to ICE raids in all workplaces and dignity for all in federal buildings. RSVP on Action Network.
Mass Action at Wells Fargo’s Global HQ: Wednesday, July 23 8:30AM at Wells Fargo’s Global HQ, 333 Market Street, San Francisco. Wells Fargo is one of the world's largest funders of fossil fuels and has a long history of racist lending, and sexism and racism in the workplace. Within weeks of Trump taking office, Wells Fargo dropped all of its climate and DEI commitments. RSVP on Action Network.
ICE Out of Dublin Outreach Days: Thursday, July 24 at 4-8 PM and Saturday, July 26 at 10 AM-12PM at the Dublin/Pleasanton BART station. Join Bay Resistance for our volunteer public outreach days in July and August, to get the word out to our communities in order to spread the word and organize to keep the formerly closed federal women's detention center from re-opening as an ICE detention center in Dublin. RSVP here.
Families First: Saturday, July 26 11 AM at Ocean Beach, Stairway 7, Great Highway & Balboa, San Francisco. Americans in every corner of the country will come together in peaceful marches, rallies, and actions to say: our families come first—not billionaires, not authoritarians, and not corrupt politicians. RSVP on Mobilize.
Speak up for climate at the Land Use Committee: Monday, July 28 12-3 PM at City Hall, Room 250. 350SF and SF Climate Emergency Coalition will hold a rally on the steps of City Hall at noon, and the legislation will be heard at 1:30 in Room 250 of City Hall. Join us for the rally, come to the hearing and make public comments in support of this important legislation.
Medicare Turns 60! Wednesday, July 30 12 PM at Pier 33 in San Francisco for a press conference and at 2 PM at Pier 1 (Harry Bridges Plaza) in San Francisco. Celebrate life and protest $1 trillion in cuts to health care, which could lead to hospital closures, service reductions, job losses, and more. Listen to health care workers and patients share their Medicare stories. More info here.
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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 of choice!
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Keep Fighting,
The Indivisible SF Team
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