It’s the best medicine I can prescribe or recommend for what ails this country!!!
DO IT!!! Yes, I’m SHOUTING!!!
trump ‘n’ comp got you down? Make your stomach churn acid? Give you headaches? And/or nightmares? Feeling a sense of helplessness or futilty?
Go to google and find “Indivisible near me”! (Or “Indivisible groups near me”!) When we were moving, I looked up where we were headed and found these folks on Facebook.
You’re apt to find more than you even need. You’ll figure out who serves you based on your county and your Congressional district. Some of the people you’ll meet will have been involved since the Women’s March and subsequent Huddles.
You’ll also find:
- People who are experts at local activism.
- People with really credible expertise in many areas of urgent needs, subjects, issues, and crises.
- People who are otherwise connected - also members of other Democratic and Democratic Party groups, climate crisis groups like the Citizens Climate Lobby, gun violence groups like Moms Demand Action, advocates for the poor, unions, teachers, schools, women’s issues, healthcare issues, peace advocates, immigration activists, and even some liberal-leaning church-related groups.
- People who are connected to actual office-holders and candidates for same.
If you’re moving into a new state or area, THIS is the way to find new friends. You’re already on the same page, sharing the same world view, and you already have a lot in common. We moved in January. We’re already folded in on the social circuit here - meeting people who are working on this shit, doing everything they can to thwart, defy, obstruct, challenge, complicate, mess up, or flat out undo the damage this monster in OUR White House has been doing.
Like last night’s dinner before fireworks was. We had two volunteers with the campaign to flip a local district from red to blue, and a woman who’s running for a State Senate seat. They stayed for the whole thing, not just dinner but the hanging out and schmoozing part too. There was even a table set up (near the drinks!) with literature, campaign statements and backgrounders, business cards, reference sheets in local/regional bills and ballot measures, sign-up sheets for volunteering and for being added to more-info lists, and donation envelopes.
AND there were people involved in other stuff outside politics. Like the art show coming up next month in a neighboring community that I didn’t know about til last night, and now want to attend. I met a woman who was also a mosaic artist who showed me photos of her work. Now, I can’t wait to see them up close and talk shop with her on that subject also.
The Indivisible movement is OUTSTANDING!! And it pays many many dividends, some of them totally unexpected. DO it. Run, don’t walk!
HIGHLY Recommended!
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