WHAT CAN YOU DO TODAY? THIS WEEK?
The people of Minnesota are showing us our future. The deep, daily neighborhood-by-neighborhood organizing is breathtaking. It’s what it looks like when contagious courage becomes endemic.
There’s a big lesson both there and in the regime’s sadistic response. This administration doesn’t intend to deescalate. It’s going to ramp up attacks on our communities while doing everything possible to subvert elections and hold onto power. To defeat fascism, we’re going to have to marry the breadth of No Kings mobilizations with the depth of organizing and noncooperation we’re seeing in Minnesota.
And last week over 200,000 folks joined the Eyes on ICE training Indivisible mass call to learn how to observe and record ICE! Two days after Alex Pretti’s murder, and in historic numbers, our neighbors are training to stand up for their rights, just as Alex did, and just as Renee did, and just as countless Minnesotans are doing now.
We’re going to win. It’s going to take a lot more mobilizing and a lot more training and a lot more organizing. But we’re going to win.
And you know what? This scruffy, eccentric, artsy, passionate little city has what it takes. Look around you! We’re already doing it. In coffee shops, in churches, and in meetings spaces all over the city… people are ORGANIZING.
SO WHAT CAN *YOU* DO TODAY?
Today’s ‘Action For The Day’ is EASY.
Have you ever done a phone bank? It’s like resisting and pushing the line from the comfort of your favorite chair. Phone and text banks are one of THE most powerful tools we have after the mass protests swing back into the ‘in between’.
So TUESDAY we need everyone who can spare part of their late afternoon to sign up to call our neighbors and encourage them to call their Republican senators to demand they rein in ICE’s terror tactics.
Register HERE for ICE OUT For Good Indivisible Phone Bank (3-5pm ET):
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/894386/
WHAT’S GOING ON THE REST OF THE WEEK?
Here’s easy ways you can take impactful action.
NO MORE MONEY FOR DEATH
The DHS budget must halt ICE’s terror, and not hand it more money. Last week, the Senate blocked the House’s Homeland Security appropriations bill that shoveled more money into ICE and CBP while doing very little to stop these agencies’ abuses. Now, we have to keep up the pressure and demand that any bill that replaces it enact ironclad policy accountability measures, and doesn’t add one penny more to ICE’s budget.
Congress must stop shoving billions to this administration’s secret police.
https://indivisibleknoxville.org/tell-congress-no-more-money-for-destruction-and-death/
DEMAND CORPORATIONS STAND WITH US AND STAND UP TO ICE
Join organizers in Minnesota and national partners to pressure corporations including Target, Hilton, Enterprise, Home Depot, and Delta to show up for our communities and stand up to ICE.
Target and Delta are two of the biggest corporate citizens of Minnesota, but have said nothing as ICE has surged in the state and killed two citizens. ICE is using Hilton and Enterprise accommodations and rental vehicles to operate. And Home Depot has stood by while ICE conducts violent raids on their property. Whether they’re actively cooperating or remaining silent, each of these corporations are standing by while ICE terrorizes the communities where they operate.
Call or email each corporation to demand they take action to get ICE out of our communities NOW.
https://indivisibleknoxville.org/tell-corporations-get-ice-out/
TELL YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO REJECT THE GOP’S POWER GRAB IN DC
A Republican resolution that would override a DC funding law passed by the city’s elected council will come before the House on Wednesday; it will then move to the Senate for committee markup. DC residents and allies with representation in Congress need to fight back: DC’s finances and right to self-govern shouldn’t be in the hands of politicians who don’t represent its people.
https://freedcproject.org/news/dcs-money-belongs-to-dc
AND BE SURE YOU HAVE SIGNED UP FOR OUR FIRST PUBLIC MEET & GREET ON FEBRUARY 10th AT 5:30 PM
This will be casual with a SHORT interactive intro on what Indivisible Knoxville has coming up, but the largest portion will be dedicated to the ‘meet & greet’ for people to mingle with like minded Knoxvillians, eat and drink, and discover what opportunities there are to contribute in a way that best suits your lifestyle and availability.
The biggest question we are hearing from people is, “What can I do??”
We hope you leave on the 10th feeling a little more assured in your own abilities to do your ‘something’.
https://indivisibleknoxville.org/events/the-official-2026-whats-next-meet-greet/
THIS IS THE VOLUNTEER STATE FOR HEAVENS SAKE!
Surely they didn’t think we were going to sit quietly while good, decent people (and children… my gawd) are being ripped out of their homes and off the streets, American citizens MURDERED for standing for what’s right, and constitutional rights ripped to shreds.
So let’s amp up the action.
Good Ol’ Rocky Top!