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Please note: there will be no newsletter next week, due to the Thanksgiving holiday. 
Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving surrounded by friends and family. We are grateful for community, hope, and you. Thank you for your continued support and activism.

Dear All,

As we head into Thanksgiving week, we want to acknowledge something that we all feel: gratitude for each other. This year has tested Americans in ways that would have been unthinkable a decade (or even a year) ago. We've watched democratic norms erode, rights narrow, and decision-makers make choices that harm the many in order to please the few.

And through it all, ordinary people have refused to give up or look away.

I'm grateful for every person who showed up at a No Kings rally, who made a phone call, who wrote a postcard or an email or a comment on a news article, who had a tough conversation with a friend or neighbor, and who still believes that our democracy is worth fighting for.

At a moment when political leaders have let us down, it's the people who continue to hold the line.

The holiday week is often about rest--but it's also about recommitment. Thanksgiving isn't passive; it's a reminder of who and what we're working to protect.

Read on for events and other ways to show your commitment over the next few weeks:

Join Us and RSVP

Thanksgiving through Dec 1st

Thanksgiving is traditionally the beginning of the holiday shopping season. This year, we are focusing on a targeted economic action: intentionally pausing purchases from three specific companies to apply strategic economic pressure.



• Target, for caving to this administration’s biased attacks on DEI
• Home Depot, for allowing and colluding with ICE to kidnap our neighbors on their properties
• Amazon, for funding this administration to secure their own corporate tax cuts.
  

This Thanksgiving, choose freedom over shopping. Family over corporations. We encourage you to support Black, Immigrant and POC-owned businesses, small and local shops, retailers that have stood firm for democracy and inclusion.

Actions: In person

Check out Indivisible’s Commitment to Non-Violence

Are you new to in-person protesting/stand-outs? Would you like a buddy for your first rally? Contact us at IndivisibleWin@gmail.com and we’ll try to connect you with other like-minded locals.

Actions: Remote / From Home

More Actions and Events

To find additional events and actions in our immediate area and beyond, whether in-person or from your own own home, click on the logos below:

IndivisibleWIN: Our Calendar offers details and links to both in-person actions/events in our area, as well as remote opportunities you can join from home.

Indivisible: The National Indivisible organization provides links to all upcoming events and volunteer opportunities in our area.

Mobilize: This organization provides a comprehensive listing of upcoming events, petitions, and volunteer opportunities sponsored by multiple activist organizations, including Indivisible.

Indivisibles in the Community

Volunteer Ventures MA, a Lexington-based nonprofit, hosted a Soup Jar Making event on Sunday November 9 at Temple Shir Tikvah in Winchester. In 2 hours, volunteers assembled 480 jars of dry ingredients for soup that will have a shelf-life of about 1 year. They have been distributed to a number of food banks, including The EnKa Pantry. There were roughly 90 volunteers total, from Winchester and beyond. 

Did you participate in a rally, volunteer event, protest, or gathering? Send your photos to us at indivisiblewin@gmail.com.

Overheard

...perhaps you will be sharing [Thanksgiving] with family and friends who have different political opinions than you.

Sometimes if I’m speaking with someone whose politics are quite different from mine, I sort of open up the conversation by saying help me understand what I am not seeing here, and the conversation goes a bit deeper."

~ Gloria Legvold
IndivisibleWIN member

Stay Involved

During this holiday time, take time with family and time to rest--and then come back ready. Our work continues: more rallies, more organizing, more conversations that shift hearts and minds. Democracy doesn’t sustain itself; people do.

Enjoy the holiday, hug your people, and know that we’ll be back the following week with actions, updates, and ways to stay engaged.

In solidarity,

The IndivisibleWIN Steering Committee

Eve Coffey, chair

Sanji Alwis, advisor

Patricia Brady

Billy Corcoran

Roger Hain

Vanessa Linsey

Amy Sawyer

Kim Whittaker

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Together, we will make a difference!