Actions for Week of September 27, 2020
Call, text, write voters in ME, swing states, and NY races too. Plus a virtual Sen. Schumer meeting.
This is a busy week, including phone banking, texting, and a long-awaited meeting with Senator Schumer. Make sure to scroll all the way down so you don’t miss anything (plus the quarantine fun at the end).*
**SAVE THE DATE - MONTHLY MEETING - NOTE TIME CHANGE***
October 8, 2020
6:30 PM - 8 PM
Special Guest: Sarah Reeske, Upstate NY Indivisible OrganizerMonthly meeting (last before the election!) at a special time. We’re going to get a special final stretch briefing from Sarah, and then go on to contact voters. We’ve moved the time earlier so we’re not calling too late at night.
WEEKS OF ACTION SIGN UP SHEET
Write, call, or text voters! It makes a difference. We’re up to 4,600 contacts! Let’s keep it going! The full calendar is here.
Monday, September 28th
PHONE BANK TRAINING
8 PM
OR
Wednesday, September 30th
PHONE BANK TRAINING
3 PM
Learn how to use Indivisible’s Hubdialer tool to contact voters and have one-on-one conversations in real time. Your phone number won’t show.Training takes about half an hour.
Tuesday, September 29
SENATOR SCHUMER VIRTUAL MEETING
7 PM
We’ve all got lots of questions for Senator Schumer about the Supreme Court, healthcare, election integrity, and covid help. Here’s our chance to ask them. All you have to do is send an email to Julietta Lopez, Director of Community and External Affairs for Senator Schumer’s office (at the link). Give your name, affiliate organization (that’s us), and your email in the message. You must reply tonight so they have time to send the information to you.
PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE
9 PM
The first presidential debate at 9 PM. This will be broadcast on over the air channels, on cable, and streamed online.
Wednesday, September 30 (and every Wednesday)
FOUR FREEDOMS BIDEN/HARRIS PHONE BANKING
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
Organized by our friends at the Four Freedoms Democratic Club, this will continue each Wednesday until the election. Sign up at the first link. Save the Zoom information for the session.
Thursday, October 1
LETTER WRITING
5:30 PM
By popular demand, we are going to add more letter writing, so check the schedule. Also, you might want to train for both Indivisible and Biden campaign texting. That way, if one is full, you can try the other.
OR
TEXT BANKING
5:30 PM
If you can’t make it Wednesday, join us on Thursday to text bank for the Biden/Harris ticket. They have a different system, so if you need to learn that, go to the Biden campaign training page.
PHONE BANK FOR SARA GIDEON
7 PM
Show Susan Collins exactly what we think of her “concerns” and failure to protect her constituents and the country from Trump’s ravages. Join us (and other NY Indivisibles) to phone bank for Sara! (every other Thursday).
Sunday, October 4
TEXTING FOR NY
Shifts from 2-4, 4-6, and 6-8 (you can join any time, but there will be fun kick offs at the start of each session)
We’re going to have a NY to NY texting campaign! This will support candidates like AOC, Antonio Delgado, Nancy Goroff, and Jackie Gordon. Jackie is running to replace retiring Republican Peter King. Nancy is running against Lee Zeldin (who is awful). Thanks to our upstate organizer Sarah Reeske for setting this up!
WIN2020 with John Dean (yes, that one)
7:30 PM
Featuring John Dean, White House Counsel under Nixon, Watergate whistle-blower and author of the new book Authoritarian Nightmare. Dean will share chilling insights into how someone like Trump wields power, the lengths he and his followers will go to keep it, and what we need to do to stop it. John Dean clearly knows what the actions of one person can do to change the course of history.
Ed McKinley of Win2020 Network, will explain why they are focusing on three key states for the last 30 days—Florida, North Carolina and Arizona, and organizers from those states will tell us how we can help.
Register at the link. (Thanks Margo, and Margo's cousin)
*****RICH MEITIN*****
I have sad news. Rich Meitin (one of the former leaders of our group) has lost his fight with brain cancer. May his memory be for a blessing.
QUARANTINE
ADULTS
A Sonnet a Day
Patrick Stewart has been reading a sonnet a day, every day. This one has a special guest and very good girl
.Ice-Age Brown Bear Found
A perfectly preserved bear has been found in the Arctic (estimated to be about 22,000 years old). Finds such as this (mammoths, woolly rhinos, etc) are becoming more common as the permafrost melts.
Vincent
Van Gogh’s paintings projected onto large, changing walls of color and brush strokes (thanks Melinda!)
Philharmonic in the Street
No concerts in the park this year, so the Philharmonic took to the roads instead
KIDS
Frogs!
Turns out frogs have extra large eyes, and each one is adapted for its environment.
Lion Gymnastics
The Russian judge gives this a 10.
Fish!
How to draw a cartoon fish
Oh oh oh it's magic
How to make a coin "disappear."
****** Your steering committee: Jodi, Margo, Nicole, and Jonathan