Let's Call To Stop ICE Warehouses

We Have No Kings.  The Power Belongs To The People.

Happy Friday, Activists! 

We hope you're having a good week.  And we hope you're getting ready for No Kings 3.  Check out the trainings below that Indivisible is offering to create a safer and more joyous experience. It's going to be fun!

Don't Forget - Join Our Detention Camp Labor Project - Write Some Letters!

Join the over 700 others who have signed up for our new Detention Camp Labor letter-writing program!  You can join the team too and write a couple of letters a week to the companies we are focusing on. Sign up here and we'll give you all the information you need!  Check out the project's background at this link.

 CALL TO ACTION

Tell Congress - Stop ICE Warehouses

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is spending millions on warehouses they plan to repurpose as ICE detention "mega-centers" to hold as many as 10,000 human beings per warehouse. And here in Pennsylvania too.  Draft layouts show "pods" in which individuals are to be held, each pod crammed tightly against the next. The risks and trauma inherent to such crowding almost don't bear mentioning -- because to do so suggests a world in which there is a good way to warehouse human beings. There isn't.  One is the size of 12 football fields and they want to build double it with a second story.

Across the country, concerned Americans have already shown they're unwilling to sit by as these new concentration camps are built and filled. Instead, they've been fighting back and winning -- even in some deep red districts. In Utah, Minnesota, and Oklahoma, from Marshall County, MS to Hanover County, VA, grassroots pressure has swayed politicians and property owners, successfully preventing the sale of commercial spaces to DHS - even a few Republicans.

So the local opposition is starting to work.  We need to keep up the pressure and call and write to our senators and House members to demand that they publicly use every tool at their disposal to oppose any proposed expansion of DHS detention facilities in our community and around the country. 

We cannot accept these proposed horrifying build-outs anywhere - these facilities are well documented as holding human beings in dangerous and horrifying conditions. The facilities already detain over 70,000 people a year, and new “mega-warehouses” will lead to even more people held in inhumane, dangerous conditions. 

Tell our electeds to use their power to reject localized expansions of Trump’s mass detention and deportation agenda.

Here are the contacts to call and write:

Sen. McCormick – Phila office 215-405-9660; D.C. office 202-224-6324; email link

Sen. Fetterman – Phila office 215-241-1090; D.C. 202-224-4254; email link

For outside PA:  Find your senators’ phone numbers and emails at this link.

Rep. Evans – D.C. 202-225-4001; Phila. office (215) 276-0340; email link

Rep. Boyle – D.C. office 202-225-6111; Phila office 215-335-3355; email link

Rep. Scanlon -- D.C. office 202-225-2011; Chester office (610) 626-2020; email link

Outside Philadelphia?  Find your Representative here.

NO KINGS 3!

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On March 28th we'll show that together we can overcome this regime's repression when we unite.  After all, the country belongs to us, the people! 

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We will gather at City Hall starting at noon, with music including a band and a great drum line.  We'll start the march at 12:30 down the Ben Franklin Parkway.  We'll hear music from a DJ as we march.  Then we'll rally at about 1:15 at 22nd Street with some exciting speakers.  And then (drum roll please) more music and a dance party with an exciting musical group!  Sign up here!

Your support is crucial to make No Kings 3 a success and show in no uncertain terms that we stand against the authoritarian takeover of our government. We expect the crowd to be bigger than ever as we show our power against this regime.  

We can't go further without acknowledging and thanking Francis Cretarola and Cathy Lee, our gracious hosts and owners of the glorious, welcoming restaurant Le Virtu.  Our memorable dinner there this week was a reminder that we are united in this fight and that we can find joy in being together.  We are so grateful not only for their generosity and support but also we thank all of the guests who came to support No Kings.  It was simply wonderful to be together in these trying times.  

THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED HELP!

We are getting closer to what we need to fund our No Kings protest and we are grateful for everyone who has donated already.  Thank you!  But there's still a way to go.  We have two ways for you to contribute.

Check out our long-sleeve No Kings t-shirts!

1a.  You can donate $45.00 and receive a LONG SLEEVE No Kings T-shirt!

Our long-sleeve No Kings t-shirts come in three colors – Red, Blue, and Athletic Heather as you can see above. Your t-shirt will be direct shipped to you.

Fill out this form with all the information we need for your t-shirt.

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 1b.  You can donate $35.00 and receive a SHORT SLEEVE No Kings T-shirt! These are our short-sleeve t-shirts with the No Kings logo on the front.  Your t-shirt will be direct shipped to you.

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2.  Donate whatever you can.

Our members' donations have always been a generous, substantial ingredient to our success and we are enormously grateful to all of you who have donated in the past even a very small amount.  Please remember that whatever you do with us -- volunteering or donating, it is all important and it all counts!

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Thank you for helping us say . . .

 SIGN UP TO VOLUNTEER DURING NO KINGS

We really need more peacekeepers!  So please sign up at this link to learn more. 

You can sign up for a training at this link.  Trainings will be held in:

West Chester March 14th

Philadelphia Center City March 21st

You can help us put on a great event by volunteering for other roles during the No Kings. We have lots of positions to be filled so check them out at this link.  Thank you for everything you are doing to make No Kings a big success!  

 CHECK OUT THESE INDIVISIBLE NO KINGS TRAININGS

(All online)

These are important trainings to get ready for No Kings.  We hope you can attend, at least either of the March 18 and March 23 trainings so you know your rights and how to help have a safe, joyous protest.

1. March 18 8pm ET: Know Your Rights: Protest Rights and Safety Practices (for all No Kings Attendees)

2. March 19 8pm ET: No Kings 3 Mass Kickoff Call

March 23 6pm ET: Know Your Rights: Protest Rights and Safety Practices (for all No Kings Attendees)

3. March 23 8pm ET: Conozca sus derechos: Derechos de protesta y prácticas de seguridad (para todos los participantes)

4. March 25 8pm ET: People Power: How to have conversations about No Kings that move people

REGISTER VOTERS!

You can get started on getting out the vote for this May's primary election now!  Register voters so they are ready to vote when election day is here. We'll give you a quick training and you'll be ready to go!  We're filled up for this Saturday's registration drive but you can sign up for next week. 

When:  TOMORROW Saturday, March 14th, 11:00 - 2:00 (two shifts)

Where:  Free Library of Philadelphia Lucien Blackwell Branch, 125 So. 52nd Street, Philadelphia 

Sign up here.

When:  Next Friday, March 20, 1:30 - 2:30 pm

Where:  John F. Street Community Center, 1100 Poplar Street, Philadelphia

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JOIN OUR LEAFLET PHILLY PROJECT!

Join over 450 of your fellow Indivisible Philadelphia activists making a real difference! Just one time every month you’ll hang one hundred eye-catching leaflets on doors in your neighborhood. Sign up here!

JOIN OUR LETTERS TO THE EDITOR TEAM! 

Got something on your mind you want to tell others about?  Or need a topic to write about?  We've got you!  Even if you're just not sure if you want to join, you can sign up and find out more to make your decision.  Sign up here.  

Or just get answers to your questions by emailing us here. 

MORE PROTESTS YOU CAN JOIN

1.  Springfield protest - Every Saturday, 1:00 - 2:00 at the intersection of Baltimore Pike and PA Route 320.  Bring your signs on your favorite topic!  

2. Tesla Takedown Protest - Every Saturday - 11:00 - Noon

Tesla Takedown Devon - At the Tesla showroom, 470 Lancaster Ave, Devon, PA 

3. Every Friday -- 11:15 am - Join Fridays@Fetterman's for the weekly Friday vigil for peace in Gaza/Palestine outside of Senator John Fetterman's office at 200 Chestnut Street from 11:15 am to 12:15 pm. Register here  

4.  Fitz Friday - 4:00 - 5:00 pm -- Protest at Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick's office at One Summit Square, Langhorne, PA. Bring signs about whatever you want. There's a lot to complain about!

5. Every Wednesday 5:30 - 6:30 pm -- Join this resistance group at #WeThePeopleWednesdays for Singing for Sanity at Unitarian Universalist Church, 6900 Stenton Avenue.  More information is here.

6.  Every Wednesday at noon - Outside the Philadelphia ICE Office, 114 N. 8th Street.   Sponsored by New Sanctuary Movement.  This is a 40-week series of Interfaith Prayer Vigils.  

7. Every Monday at Noon - Monday at McCormick's -- Join our friends at Peace, Justice, Sustainability NOW for Monday's at McCormick's,, in front of Senator McCormick's office at 20th and Market Streets.

8.  Every Monday at 11:00 AM - Vigil outside the ICE office, 114 North 8th Street, Phila. sponsored by State Senator Art Haywood and led by local clergy.

9.  Every Friday at 3:00 - Join a vigil outside the ICE office at 114 North 8th Street.  

10. Are you outside the Philadelphia area?  You can see all the protests planned by Indivisibles in your area at this link. 

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