Quote of the Week:“Across the country, authoritarian forces are getting bolder and more dangerous. Trump and his allies are not hiding their agenda: mass deportations, rollbacks of civil rights, weaponized courts, and full-scale attacks on our democracy. We don’t have to wait until it’s too late. We can stop this. But it’ll take all of us—not just on single days of mass action, but through sustained organizing in our communities.” –Indivisible National, July 3, 2025 Join Indivisible National’s One Million Rising to Fight Authoritarianism:  This summer, Indivisible National is launching One Million Rising—a nation-wide effort to train one million people in the strategic logic and practice of non-cooperation, as well as the basics of community organizing and campaign design. Be part of this three-session training to learn how we can motivate, train, and equip our movement in the practice of strategic non-cooperation to push back against implementation of fascist programs. These trainings take place every other Wednesday at 5pm PT starting July 16. Sign up now! Invite a friend to watch with you! Session 1 (Weds., July 16, 5pm): The Moment & Your Mission - Get oriented to making meaning of this moment and the role you can play in coordinated strategic action. Session 2 (Weds., July 30, 5pm): How to Make it Happen - This train-the-trainer session is how we get to one million. Learn not just our strategy, but how you can train others and get them on board. You'll host your first community resistance gathering after this session. Session 3 (Weds., August 13, 5pm): What Now? - You'll be onboarded to basic campaign design and learn how to implement it locally as well as get plugged into our next national campaign work. Your second community resistance gathering will move this action forward. Action: Sign up Here. Get Out on the Streets: Want the scoop on upcoming rallies, marches, and related events? Visit OI’s Rallies, Marches, Town Halls and Boycotts webpage! Join OI’s 2025 Elections Volunteer Support Team  Olympia Indivisible has developed a reputation of being our region's most organized and energized campaign support volunteers for progressive candidates. How do we do this? Teamwork! Our Elections Volunteer Support team (EVS Team) connects with the campaigns of candidates our membership endorsed. Team members take part in these campaigns and relay information to our membership about opportunities to do volunteer campaign support during the electoral season. Consequential races are taking place right here in Thurston County. Our EVS team has 12 members right now. We need 5 more members to ensure that we can connect with candidates for all of our school boards, city councils, and Port races. Do your part to help progressive, pro-democracy candidates win the day here at home! Action: Sign up to be a member or co-lead of the Elections Volunteer Support Team Federal Actions:Defend Naturalized Citizens from Legal Abuse Photo: by Nitish Meena on Unsplash The Trump regime has revived a McCarthy-era tactic: finding ways to revoke the citizenship of naturalized immigrants, who comprise more than half of all our immigrants. Earning citizenship is a long haul: you must live here at least five years or serve in the armed forces, speak English, pass a US history and civics test, and interview with an Immigration agent. If all goes well, you are allowed to take the oath and become a citizen – but a false statement in the application or membership in a “disqualifying organization” is enough to trigger denaturalization. Denaturalization is a civil process, not criminal, so you have no right to counsel. You may retain your citizenship, but it will cost you. As usual, Trump’s targets are overwhelmingly people of color: the largest fraction of naturalized citizens is from Mexico, followed by India, the Philippines, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. Action 1: Get in contact with the Washington Immigrant Solidarity Network (WAISN). the Immigrant Defense Project, the Amica Center, or another immigrant defense organization of your choice. Action 2: Get trained to be a community volunteer with Washington Immigration Solidarity Network WAISN.
Keep Virginia Blue - Call Voters with Indivisible Oregon and Sister District!  Photo: by Museums Victoria on Unsplash Virginia is having a statewide general election in November 2025. Keeping the Democratic majority in the House of Delegates will protect and expand the freedoms of Virginians. Join Indivisible Oregon & Sister District Portland+ every Wednesday 3-5pm PT to flip VA District 41 from red to blue and elect a fantastic group of candidates -- challengers and incumbents – to the VA State House. Progressives worked hard to flip the VA House of Delegates in 2023 by just 975 votes. Now we must protect this Democratic majority so we can continue to defend our freedoms, especially with the growing threats coming from the federal government. Virginia must remain a firewall against right-wing extremism. The country will be watching the 2025 Virginia elections as a harbinger for the 2026 midterms. A strong performance for our side will send a powerful message of defiance to the MAGA regime and generate national momentum for progressive successes in the 2026 midterms. Action: Sign up to phonebank for Democracy, Wednesdays from 3-5pm PT. WA State Actions:Ask WA Congressional Delegation to Facilitate a Change in Tuan Phan’s Deportation from South Sudan to Vietnam  Photo: from Khmer Anti-Deportation Advocacy Group Rally From the OI State Executive Team Background: Tuan Thanh Phan, a Vietnamese national, settled in Washington in 1991 when he was 9 years old. Phan had just finished serving a 25-year sentence in March when he was detained by Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents. Because of his criminal conviction, he lost his lawful permanent resident status in 2009. His family expected he would be deported to Vietnam. Instead, Tuan and seven other formerly incarcerated men were put on a plane to South Sudan, a country he has no connection to, and poses life-threatening risk given rising violence there. The plane he was on was re-routed to a US military base in East Africa while the lower and higher courts determine the fates of individuals being deported. On July 3, the Supreme Court ruled that the men can be deported to South Sudan. The family asked Governor Ferguson for a pardon, which he denied and instead, the Governor has asked the Congressional delegation to work to change the deportation to Vietnam as originally planned. Action: Contact the Congressional delegation to ask that they facilitate a change in the deportation destination for Tuan Phan to be Vietnam rather than the dangerous and unstable South Sudan.
Local Actions: Easy English Coaches Help Immigrants Photo: by Erick Matahine on Unsplash If you can read this out loud, you can help immigrants master English at the Multicultural Service Center of the South Sound’s free drop-in English program. The commitment is minimal: come any of three evenings, between 6pm and 8pm, and chat with whoever shows up. The students are immigrants improving their English in one-on-one informal conversations. You get some guidance and materials from program director Jennifer Miller, but in your conversations you and your student have free reign.
You get to know some charming people and have the pleasure of watching them improve their grasp of one of the world’s most difficult languages with a view toward passing the citizenship exam. Just show up at 1101 Eastside St SE, Olympia, on a Monday or Wednesday evening and introduce yourself, or click here to register. |
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