No Kings Will Be Epic!
- indivisible
- 8 hours ago
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Happy Tuesday, Activists!  We hope you're having a good week so far. I know our subject line today is bold, but please pardon our exuberance. It's because we have great news about our speaker list for No Kings. You can see some of them below.   And don't forget to get your No Kings t-shirts! You can see our recent fundraising email here with everything you can do to help us fund No Kings. Thank you all for your very kind donations! If you haven't already, sign up to get a No Kings t-shirt to wear to the rally! They're cool and we have well over 200 orders already. We want to see a sea of No Kings t-shirts at the rally! If you've ordered already you should receive your shirt in about a week.  As for the wine tasting event, we didn't say it earlier, but Vicki Miller is the wine expert who will lead the event. Vicki is a certified wine educator (yes, a past life) who has led many such wine tasting events for over a decade. It'll be fun, so make a donation and come on out!   POSTCARDS - YOU ARE AMAZING! Orders are closed now.  Due to the overwhelming response we have received from you, our postcard reserves are now depleted! We have enough cards to fulfill the current orders, but not any more. So we are closing this campaign so we have time to deliver all the postcards that have been ordered and so you'll have enough time to mail them in time for the election.  Thank you so much for being part of this campaign! You all are wonderful, and you've done an amazing job. We'll have more next year in the early spring to get people to sign up to vote by mail. So be on the lookout for that!    JOIN LEAFLET PHILLY!  Our Leaflet Philly project is going strong! If you sign up by TOMORROW you can participate in this month's important leaflet campaign to get out the vote. We always need more of you taking this action with us. And the great thing is that it's fun, it's easy, and it doesn't take a lot of your time. The link below works! (Sorry, the one on Friday did not work.)  Read all the details and how to sign up at this link.   TOMORROW - LEARN ABOUT HELPING TO RETAIN OUR JUSTICES  Join our friends at Commonwealth Communications, the Pennsylvania Alliance, and the Justice Project TOMORROW, October 8 at 6:30PM for an online event about the upcomig PA Supreme Court retention race.  This briefing is for everyone and will provide the resources and information you need to help defend the PA Supreme Court and protect our freedoms in the Commonwealth. It will cover what retention is, why this election is crucial in protecting our rights and freedoms here in PA, the available opportunities for you to make an impact, and messaging guidance to help you reach out to people you know.    |
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SHOW OUR POWER AT NO KINGS 2.0!  We have several exciting speakers, and among them are Congressman Jamie Raskin, Congressman Brendan Boyle, and Congresswoman Mary Gay Scanlon! Wow! Plus, we have other amazing speakers who will be a surprise! We are working hard on making this an amazing event and we can't wait to see you there!   The next No Kings peaceful protest will be on Saturday, October 18th. Our plan is for a rally and march from City Hall to Independence Mall where we'll have music and hear from some exciting speakers. However, please be aware that these locations may change depending on how big we expect the crowd to be. So PLEASE sign up and urge your friends to as well, so we have an idea about crowd size. Thanks!  Also, you can sign up to be a Peacekeeper (formerly called a marshal), which would really help. Training is provided if you have not already been trained.   When: Saturday, October 18, Noon - 3:00 Where: North apron of City Hall with a march to Independence Mall  Again, don't forget to get your t-shirts! We'll have to close the order forms in a few days to allow for shipping. Thank you for your donations to help us make this a success!   REGISTER VOTERS  PLEASE REMEMBER - IF YOU SIGNED UP AND CANNOT MAKE IT please, please, please reply to this email and tell us so others can sign up.  Philadelphia Museum of Art Join us to register voters as the museum celebrates Hispanic & Latino Heritage Month. Where:  2600 Benjamin Franklin Parkway When: THIS FRIDAY, October 10, 6:00 - 8:00 pm  Philly AIDS Thrift Where:  710 S 5th St, Philadelphia, PA 19147 When: Saturdays, October 11 and more Sign up here to pick your date and time.  NEW: OURfest Block Party & Festival - This is a massive outdoor festival in the Gayborhood, featuring live entertainment, vendor marketplace, resource fair, food trucks and beer gardens, art installations, dance spaces and cutural exhibits.  Where: Along 13th Street. Once you sign up we can tell you where our table will be. When: Sunday, October 12, noon to 6:00 PM, three shifts   BALLOT & ELECTION DAY INFO  Check out our Friday email at this link for all your ballot and election information. In the meantime, here is our all-encompassing informational piece (thank you Christy!) about this election, how the unusual voting works and why. And of course the candidates on the ballot, with some helpful information about them. The most important races are of course the statewide judicial races for PA Supreme Court, Commonwealth Court and Superior Court.   GET VOTERS OUT FOR THE NOVEMBER 4th ELECTION Here's what you can do to help elect and retain our good justices and judges.  Donate directly to the justices campaigns on their websites -- Dougherty's is here;  Donohue's is here; Wecht's is here. PHONE BANK TO TALK TO VOTERS!  You can phone bank and talk to Pennsylvania voters about what you saw on our video meeting with the justices! Our friends at Red To Blue with One PA are hosting virtual phone banks to get out the vote. So sign up and make a difference! They will use the easy Scale to Win autodialer and will provide plenty of training and support for new callers.  When: Every Thursday, 6:00 - 8:00 PM Where: Zoom CANVASS TO VOTERS  Canvassing is the gold standard for convincing voters to the vote. You can canvass to voters in Northeast Philly now!  Sign up here to see the dates and for more information.   HELP CURE BALLOTS  You can avoid any trouble with your ballot by filling it out correctly. Here's is Spotlight PA's complete guide to requesting, completing, and returning your mail ballot.  However, many voters make mistakes with their ballots that need to be corrected in order to be counted. Historically, Democrats have used mail ballots in PA more than twice as often as Republicans. A significant number of those mail ballots have had errors on their envelopes or ID errors which were never fixed, or "cured," so those votes were never counted!  It is projected that in the upcoming election, roughly 5,000 - 6,000 ballots will again have errors. These ballots will not count unless voters are informed and take action. But you can help fix this!  Our friends at VoteProPros are once again running ballot cure canvasses. If you volunteer you'll be making sure that voters with ballot errors are informed and are able to make their votes count.  Voters are first contacted by phone but if they don't answer then the cure canvassers go to their homes to explain how to fix their ballot. Think about it, you will have the chance to actually help a voter have their vote counted when it otherwise wouldn't be.  To be a canvasser, there is a zoom training during the first 2 weeks of October. Canvassing will take place over 10 days from October 23rd to November 4th (Election Day) and you will likely canvass in pairs. And of course there will be plenty of support throughout.  Sign up here to volunteer.   PROTEST AT ONE OF THESE  1.  Avelo protests! Bring your signs and tell Wilmington to stop hosting Avelo when it flies our neighbors to detention camps for ICE. Where: Wilmington Airport, 151 N Dupont Hwy (near the intersection of Rt. 13 and School Lane), New Castle, DE 19720 When: This Saturday, September 27th, 11:00 am to Noon.  2. Springfield protest - Bring your signs on your favorite topic!  Every Saturday 1:00 - 2:00 protest in Springfield at the intersection of Baltimore Pike and PA Route 320.  3. Tesla Takedown Protest Every Saturday - 11:00 - Noon Tesla Takedown Devon - At the Tesla showroom, 470 Lancaster Ave, Devon, PA  4. 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   5.  Every Friday, 5:00 - 6:00 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!  6.  Every Wednesday 4:00 pm -- Join this resistance group at #WeThePeopleWednesdays for Singing for Sanity at Richard Allen Lane train station, Cresheim and Allen Lanes.  7. Every Monday at Noon -- 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.  Are you outside the Philadelphia area? You can see all the protests planned by Indivisibles in your area at this link.   And One More Thing: Did someone forward this newsletter to you? Sign up here to get it in your inbox.  Share our social media pages to make sure you and everyone you know is updated on our projects for this year’s critical elections. Follow us on Facebook, Bluesky, and Instagram  |