In this issue:
Our next General Meeting is Sunday, January 18th at 2 PM.
Thank you for joining our emergency protest and our ICE Out For Good protest.
Monday, January 19 is the Martin Luther King Day March. Join our contingent!
Tuesday, January 20 is the San Francisco Free America Walkout, 4 PM at Civic Center Plaza
Join the IEB + ISF Senate team for our January Engagement Planning Meeting
Our Members of Congress must act: Stop ICE’s lethal attacks on our communities!
Congress must Stand Against Trump's Usurpation of War Powers
Leave a Public Comment against federal bans on trans healthcare: Deadline Feb 17
Justice for all ICE victims
Truth, Reality, and the Piercing of White Privilege
Want to help us do this work?
Upcoming events: Find them on our Events page!
Our next General Meeting is this Sunday, January 18, 2-4 PM at 683 Florida St.
Join our upcoming General Meeting this Sunday, January 18th at 2 PM at 683 Florida (near 19th St). You’ll get to hear about the types of events and actions we’ll be doing this year, and all of the ways that you can get involved. We’ll also be processing the horrific killing of Renee Nicole Good, and discussing what we’re doing in response to it. Come be in community with others who care about our world and our democracy.
Space is limited, so RSVP soon! We hope to see you there!
RSVP on Mobilize.
Thank you for joining our emergency protest and our ICE Out For Good protest.
Thanks to you, we had great turnout at two of the peaceful and powerful actions across the City. Click the links to see the photos for the emergency protest and the ICE Out For Good protest. Thank you to everyone who came out to protest, whether it was one of ours, the human banner on Ocean Beach, or any other protest for justice.
We remain committed to protecting our communities from ICE. Here’s how you can help.
Come to Trump Regime Takedown. We’re on that corner of Van Ness and O’Farrell every Saturday from 12 PM to 2 PM. Join us! Active, visible, consistent dissent is a keystone of a sustainable movement, and the more people show up, the better.
Join your local Adopt-A-Corner group to actively protect your neighborhood from ICE. Adopt-A-Corner serves locations where day laborers, school workers, and other vulnerable people congregate and may be targeted by ICE. You will be trained in how to spot ICE, how to alert community members to their presence, and how to record and report ICE activity. Find and join your local Adopt-A-Corner group using this website: https://ndlon.org/adopt-a-day-labor-corner/
Help distribute information. You might have seen the “How to Report ICE” zines and whistle-protocol zines we were handing out. You can find links to these so you can print more at https://indivisiblesf.org/zines .
Join our Signal Rapid Response hotline: we will alert you to confirmed local ICE activity and same-day emergency responses.
Monday, January 19 is the Martin Luther King Day March. Join our contingent!
Every Martin Luther King Day, Indivisible SF joins the San Francisco march. We gather at 4th and Townsend (outside the Walgreens, across from Caltrain) before joining the crowd in a symbolic march across the 4th St Bridge and Lefty O'Doul's Bridge and back toward Yerba Buena Gardens.
Join us at 4th & Townsend at 10:45 AM on Monday, Jan 19. Wear an ISF T-shirt if you have one! We’ll be marching in solidarity and handing out buttons and zines.
Tuesday, January 20 is the San Francisco Free America Walkout, 4 PM at Civic Center Plaza.
One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent. It’s time to respond loudly and consistently.
Women's March, 50501, Bay Resistance, DSA SF, and Indivisible SF are joining the nationwide Free America walkout on Tuesday at 4 PM.
The event will begin with a rally at Civic Center Plaza, with a march expected to follow. RSVP here.
As always, we remain committed to peaceful, nonviolent protest and expect the same from ISF attendees.
Join the IEB + ISF Senate team for our January Engagement Planning Meeting
It's time to recharge our engagement efforts focused on our two US Senators in California. Especially in light of the escalating insanity of the lawless Trump regime.. We currently have messages out to both Sens. Schiff and Padilla's staffs, requesting meetings in January, awaiting responses and scheduling.
We will discuss a range of current issues/advocacy topics, getting input from the team, and aim for general alignment on which topics and positions should be prioritized in near-term meetings with the senators' offices. Identify several potential focused roles some team members could take on, and request volunteers and discuss potential upcoming action alerts - call campaigns into senators, and request volunteers to help drive them.
Sign up on Mobilize.
Our Members of Congress must act: Stop ICE’s lethal attacks on our communities!
For months, ICE and other federal agents have escalated their operations in neighborhoods across the country, resulting in increasingly disturbing scenes and illegal conduct. Our communities have been left reeling as agents have arrested U.S. citizens, dragged children from their beds in the middle of the night in zip-ties, smashed car windows, and even driven away from an arrest scene with a toddler still in the backseat. Now, ICE agents have tragically killed without just cause a beloved community member in Minneapolis. And yet, the administration has the audacity to ask Congress for even more money to detain and deport people.
Congress must:
Demand an end to the ICE operation in Minneapolis and stop other large-scale escalations in communities across the US, including California.
Oppose any further funding to ICE's enforcement and detention budget.
Launch a transparent and independent investigation into the killing of Renee Nicole Good, ICE's reckless hiring spree, and its apparent failure to hold its agents accountable to the law.
Co-sponsor articles of impeachment for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem
And pass the following legislation:
VISIBLE Act (S.2212) to promote transparency and accountability.
The No Anonymity in Immigration Enforcement Act (H.R.4004).
The No Secret Police Act (H.R.4176).
The Immigration Enforcement Staff Body Camera Accountability Act (H.R.4651).
Call your members of Congress and tell them: do the work to investigate ICE and pass legislation curbing their violence.
Congress must Stand Against Trump's Usurpation of War Powers
Article I, Section 8, Clause 11 of the US Constitution says: "Congress shall have Power … To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water."
Yet on January 8, wannabe king Trump asserted to the New York Times that his power to unilaterally use military force internationally and domestically is constrained only by: "My own morality. My own mind. It’s the only thing that can stop me.”
Since then, Trump has made threats to use the military to invade a number of nations, from Colombia to Greenland, unilaterally and by his own decree. This is on top of the existing invasion of Venezuela.
We have yet to see strong action from Congress both on Venezuela and on these threats. Our Congress members must not remain silent.
Call your Members of Congress and tell them: defend our Constitution against Trump’s power-grab.
Leave a Public Comment against federal bans on trans healthcare: Deadline Feb 17
Two HHS rules are in a public comment period that could cause serious harm to trans healthcare. The deadline is February 17 to leave a public comment, and we ask you to do so for both rules.
One of the rules will bar medical care for trans youth, and the other will bar medicare and medicaid funding for hospitals that provide gender-affirming care.
The right likes to frame anti-trans initiatives as a “think of the children” anti-mutilation campaign, but in fact is a crusade to disallow public life for all trans people, children and adults. Not being able to transition can have a devastating effect on trans people, and that harm is both the result and the intent of the government pushing against gender-affirming care.
On top of this, limits on gender-affirming healthcare also affect cis people who may need hormonal interventions for other health problems.
We support gender-affirming care for children and adults and stand with our beloved trans community members. And we ask you to join us in stopping disingenuous, bigoted attacks on healthcare.
Leave public comments on the two HHS rules banning trans care, and read more on our blog.
Justice for all ICE victims
The nation has been shocked and outraged by the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent in Minneapolis. We held a rapid-response candlelight vigil and protest the evening after the news broke, and then our weekly Trump Regime Takedown protest joined the ICE Out for Good nationwide mobilization that Saturday, along with other actions including a human banner on Ocean Beach. A couple hundred showed up to the vigil on short notice, and about a thousand came to Trump Regime Takedown. We thank you on both counts.
But ICE didn’t just kill one white woman. She is one of a growing number of people whom immigration agents have shot or otherwise harmed since the return of the MAGA regime—all of whom deserve justice, and to be in our thoughts as we resist the regime’s racist campaign of terror.
Read this broader context, and about the ways you can help keep your neighbors safe, in our blog post.
Truth, Reality, and the Piercing of White Privilege
The callous killing of Renee Nicole Good has pierced the illusory protective gear of white privilege, particularly for white women. Underneath outrage and grief is a new reality that will eventually need to be examined and may be difficult to accept. Tragic events have a way of shaking things up. Is a change in the collective consciousness in the air? Will it manifest positive and necessary change/s in 2026?
Read about the possibilities opening up for America in our blog post.
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:
Making artwork for our calls to action, blog posts, and other projects.
Maintaining our website, newsletter, and Zoom account.
Maintaining our social media platforms including Mastodon, Bluesky, TikTok, Meta, and more.
Joining and building out an on-the-ground flyering team. We’re looking to distribute information on our events in the real world. We want people who can print and post flyers around their neighborhood. It’s a great way to get your steps in.
Publishing our newsletter with MailChimp 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.
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].
