In this issue:

• Come to our February General Meeting!

• Join us for Trump Regime Takedown’s anniversary at noon on Saturday, February 14, at 999 Van Ness

• Our next General Meeting is Sunday, February 15, 2-4 PM at 683 Florida St.

• ISF Immigration Justice Team Meeting on Tuesday, Jan 17 at 6 PM

• Volunteers needed: Leafleting and press conference Saturday, February 21: CA Democrats, Be Our Voice!

• The next Human Banner is on Saturday, February 21 at 11:30 AM!

• Halt the ICE/CBP Terror Machine! Not a penny more for ICE/CBP brutality!

• Tell Your Senators: Vote NO on Voter Suppression and Stop the SAVE Act

• Support Legislation to Fight Back Against Criminalizing Access to Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth

• Your Kid Could Be Trans

• Our City Blocks, Our People, Our Duty: Sign up for Adopt-A-Corner

• The Big Game is done, but ours is just beginning

• Indivisible SF Supports the UESF Strike

• Thank you for helping protect our city during the Super Bowl

• Fighting to Protect Immigrants: How the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law is fighting for refugees in court.

• The Racism is the Reward: How MAGA builds propaganda, and how we can fight back

• We need you. We have ways you can help.

• Upcoming events: Find them on our Events page! 

Join us for Trump Regime Takedown’s anniversary at noon on Saturday, February 14, at 999 Van Ness

We invite you to join us this Saturday, February 14, for the one-year anniversary of Trump Regime Takedown! It’s awesome that we’ve been able to maintain a weekly protest for an entire year in San Francisco and that couldn’t have happened without you. You all have turned that protest corner into THE place to be with your continued presence and dedication to the expression of our first amendment rights.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with the history of our weekly protests on that corner, it began as Tesla Takedown last February and was later rebranded as Trump Regime Takedown to cover a wider scope of issues (of which there seems no end!). On February 14, we’ll be celebrating the one-year anniversary of holding down that protest corner and we invite you to party in the street with us! 

Please mark your calendars for this Saturday and invite all your friends.

We will have free commemorative giveaways and snacks while they last and music by the Brass Liberation Orchestra.

We will also have a Valentines for the Vulnerable valentine-making activity.

We will invite community members to express love and support to our vulnerable communities: immigrants, black people, brown people, lgbtq+ people, along with the brave protestors risking their lives to help those in need. 

ISF will provide, collect, and display handwritten ‘heart-felt’ messages from those in attendance. We need at least two to three volunteers to help with this action. Email us at [email protected] if you would like to help.

Can’t attend, but still want to make a valentine? If you cannot attend, you are welcome to participate online through various actions from Indivisible's partnership with I Am An Immigrant.

More details about the event on our website.

Our next General Meeting is Sunday, Feb 15, 2-4 PM at 683 Florida St.

Join our upcoming General Meeting this Sunday, February 15th 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. 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.

ISF Immigration Justice Team Meeting on Tuesday, Feb 17 at 6 PM

Join us to plug into powerful & concrete Immigration Defense work rooted right here in San Francisco.  At this meeting, we’ll:

• Talk through what organizers in Minneapolis have taught all of us about responding quickly, documenting abuses, and sustaining visible, nonviolent resistance to ICE terror.

• Share how Indivisible SF members have been taking action, from supporting legal defense efforts for immigrant families to backing community-based protection on the ground.

• Offer clear on-ramps so you can tap in at any level: court support, rapid response, legal and fundraising support, outreach, or simply committing to show up when immigrant neighbors are under threat.

Whether you’re brand-new or already involved, you’ll leave with a clearer picture of the fight, concrete next steps, and a community to take them with.

Join the Zoom meeting on Feb 17 at 6 PM.

Volunteers needed: Leafleting and press conference Saturday, February 21: CA Democrats, Be Our Voice!

The weekend of February 21 is the California Democratic Party convention. State Democrats from the Governor down to local officials will gather at Moscone Center. We will march to tell them: Be Our Voice! 

We want the Democratic Party to represent us, the people, not big-money donors. And we need them to stand with us against fascism and the MAGA regime more than ever.

Join us leafleting to meet our elected officials where they are and tell them: Be Our Voice!

This event is still being planned. If you are interested in volunteering or leafleting, please sign up on this Cryptpad form.

We have transitioned to Cryptpad for some of our volunteer signups to keep your data off of Google and have control over when it is deleted.

The next Human Banner is on Saturday, February 21 at 11:30 AM!

Join peaceful people at 11:30 AM at Stairwell 17 for a family-friendly, inclusive and peaceful event where we will create a new work of human art together on Ocean Beach.

The exact design for this banner is still being determined, though we do know that the message’s theme (always subject to last-minute changes) will most likely feature the story that refuses to die: EPSTEIN!

RSVP on Mobilize. 

Halt the ICE/CBP Terror Machine! Not a penny more for ICE/CBP brutality!

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) bill currently under debate/negotiation in Congress contains yet more increases in funding and authority for ICE/CBP and nothing of substance to rein in their abuses and atrocities. If a new bill is not enacted by this Friday and there is no extension, portions of the DHS will shutdown on Saturday. 

Meanwhile: 

• The Trump regime is terrorizing our communities with brutal immigration enforcement campaigns designed to test the limits of executive power. 

• Their racial and ethnic-cleansing goal is a fundamental assault on the American vision of a multi-cultural democracy. 

Congress has the responsibility to rein in this lawlessness and stop funneling our taxpayer dollars toward these attacks on our families and our liberties. Members of Congress must cut off ICE/CBP slush funds and at a minimum demand major reforms of these reckless agencies’ operations

We must keep the pressure on Congress to protect our families, friends and communities. 

To their credit, last week Senate Minority Leader Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Jeffries  (D-NY), declared that the new DHS bill must contain ten "Guardrails" against the ICE/CBP reign of terror. We must do all in our power to ensure that our Members of Congress hold fast and refuse to cave in on those ten modest reforms. But those ten Guardrails are the bare minimum, Democrats should also be encouraged to do more.  

Contact your Members of Congress and tell them: Not one more penny for ICE brutality!

Tell Your Senators: Vote NO on Voter Suppression and Stop the SAVE Act

After stalling in the Senate last spring, H.R.22 – also known as the SAVE Act – has been reintroduced by Republicans ahead of 2026’s midterms in a continued effort to undermine American voters. We must tell our Representatives to continue to oppose the SAVE Act and any other bill that attempts to disenfranchise voters. 

Call your Members of Congress and tell them: Stop the SAVE Act.

Support Legislation to Fight Back Against Criminalizing Access to Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth

San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors has established resolutions to reflect our city’s reputation and commitment to being the “City on the Hill” and spearheading support for queer and transgender issues. While resolutions are a good first step they are not enforceable! We must demand that our supervisors fulfill the promises of these resolutions with substantive policy changes to make them enforceable. 

We need to flex our strength by contacting our district supervisors to thank them for unanimously reaffirming Resolution 344-24 and to ask them to sponsor new legislation to cement these principles into law. 

Call your Supervisor and tell them: Continue to support legislation to fight back against criminalizing access to gender-affirming care for trans youth.

Your Kid Could Be Trans

Every child deserves a healthy and happy childhood that sets them up for success as adults, no matter their race, class, or gender.

Republican political operators use an ancient and cynical tool of political power: the lie that a misunderstood minority harms children. It’s classic us-versus-them divide-and-conquer tactics.

The reality is, trans people are us. Your child, or another child in your life, could be trans, and they need your love and support.

Read our blog post to learn how you can help protect that kid from Republican attacks.

Our City Blocks, Our People, Our Duty: Sign up for Adopt-A-Corner

Local residents are essential to monitoring our streets for ICE and DHS activity, because real-time community observation can reduce harm, protect due process, and push back against the fear that destabilizes entire neighborhoods. When people who face less legal risk quietly observe and document from a safe distance, they create a factual record that attorneys, rapid response teams, and civil rights groups can use to challenge abuses and support affected families.

We especially need SF neighbors to help protect sensitive locations like schools, where raids traumatize children and deter families from seeking education and other services. If you are able, please sign up for a training session and commit a few hours each week to help keep our community safe.

SF Street Monitors/Patrols Announcements

This is where you’ll find the orientation schedule to prepare for your ICE watch shift in San Francisco. Orientation also prepares you to “adopt” a corner or school for regular monitoring. 

Sign up on Signal at https://rebrand.ly/sfnews4sm

SF Street Monitors/Patrols Discussion

This is where you can talk with others about monitoring, ask questions, and connect with an existing shift in SF. You’ll need to complete an orientation before you can join a shift. 

Sign up on Signal at http://rebrand.ly/sfsmchat

Learn more about street patrols and ICE monitoring at Adopt-A-Corner.

The Big Game is done, but ours is just beginning

2026 is already shaping to be a big year for San Francisco, from the Bay Area hosting the Super Bowl this month to the midterm elections this fall.

Some of us held a voter registration drive at a Chinatown neighborhood Super Bowl pre-game party on Wednesday, February 4. Equipped with voter registration forms available in English, Spanish, and Chinese, we kicked off our efforts to get people registered to vote even before the NFL kick-off the following Sunday.

You, too, should register to vote—or if you think you are registered, check! And then help ensure every eligible voter in your community is actively registered as well. You can do that by talking with your friends as well as by organizing your own registration drives like the one we had last week.

Read more on our blog.

Indivisible SF Supports the UESF Strike

The United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) went on strike on Monday, February 9, as part of the statewide “We Can’t Wait” movement, aimed at improving conditions in California public schools for both students and teachers. The union, representing San Francisco United School District (SFUSD) teachers and paraprofessionals, had invested 10 months into negotiations before calling the strike. They managed to shore up sanctuary protections before the strike began, but remained at odds with the district on other important points including staffing and pay. 

Indivisible SF supports the We Can’t Wait platform and the UESF strike. We encourage you to look to UESF for the most up to date information. As of publication time, these are the ways you can help:

• If you are an SFUSD family, do not send your kids to school, if at all possible.
  Funding is tied to attendance. Each day with no instruction costs the district $7M - $10M. For kids requiring daytime supervision, ask your educators and the other families at your school about “Solidarity Schools.”

• Also avoid “independent study.” The district wants to be able to use independent study packets to say that there was instruction on those days and therefore they should receive funds. Agreeing to independent study could lessen pressure on the district, which may prolong the strike. 

• Ask the churches, libraries, and recreation centers in your neighborhood to support the strike by offering their facilities as “Solidarity Schools.”

• Join or support a picket line! Educators and community members will be on the picket line most of the day. They will need drinks, food, and access to restrooms. If you can’t join the picket line, consider dropping off snacks, water, or coffee/tea. Other needs will arise (cough drops? batteries? hand sanitizer?) so open channels of communication will be especially helpful. Fill out this Adopt A Picket form to be connected via email to the community supporting your local school!

• Volunteer to create and run food distribution points for kids who do need meals, but don’t need full-day supervision.

• Send a message of support for UESF’s demands to the school board, especially if you’re a SFUSD parent. 

• Donate to the UESF Solidarity Strike Fund, if you’re able. 

You can find the web version of our statement on our blog.

Thank you for helping protect our city during the Super Bowl

All last week, organizers around the Bay Area have been on high alert and participating in actions to help protect our communities from ICE.

As far as we are aware, no ICE presence outside of the usual has been confirmed during the Super Bowl, but our resistance and resilience was everywhere and noticed, including in press coverage.

At ISF, one of our members reported that they  joined with RUTA, 1000 Grandmothers, and Veterans for Peace at the Burlingame 101 Pedestrian Overpass.   All along the Highway 101 corridor to Levi Stadium we flew the banners of resistance: ICE OUT, END TYRANNY, NO KINGS. 

Another joined the ICE protest at the Super Bowl stadium in Santa Clara. It was a well-attended, powerful event. You can see the photos here.

Do you have a story of activism during the Super Bowl week that you would like us to share? Email us at [email protected] and tell us about it!

Thank you for helping us keep each other safe.

Fighting to Protect Immigrants: How the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law is fighting for refugees in court.

To halt the indiscriminate arrest and detention of legally admitted refugees by ICE and border patrol agents in Minnesota, the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, as co-counsel alongside the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) and Berger Montague, filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of these refugees and others on Friday, January 23. ​

One of our members has inside knowledge of this lawsuit. Read more about it on our blog.

The Racism is the Reward: How MAGA builds propaganda, and how we can fight back

In the past couple weeks, we have seen some of the most blatant expressions of racism from the Trump administration. This is not just bigotry unleashed: it’s part of a propaganda structure that gives people the permission structure to follow MAGA in behavior in belief. 

Read more about it on our blog.

We need you. We have ways you can help.

Your skills can help us grow our power to resist the MAGA regime.

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.

• Posting on our social media channels. We’re on Mastodon, Bluesky, TikTok, Meta, and more. You don’t have to do all of them—do what you’re comfortable with.

• Joining our on-the-ground flyering team. We’re distributing information on our events and other ways people can help 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 this very newsletter! We meet Tuesdays at 5 PM to put this together.

• Recording or live-streaming our events. We have the equipment. If you can stand in one spot for an hour, you can do this!

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].