upcoming actions:
One last push--help us get out the vote!
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This is the most important thing, other than voting, that you can do to help this Blue Wave. Experience shows that nothing helps to get voters energized and ready to participate than having a neighbor knock on their door and talk to them about the things that they consider most important.
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This is the most important thing, other than voting, that you can do to help this Blue Wave. Experience shows that nothing helps to get voters energized and ready to participate than having a neighbor knock on their door and talk to them about the things that they consider most important.
EVERY WEEK:
Indivisible Congressional Calendar: Daily recommended call, research and scripts.
5 calls: Tailors scripts and research to your location and the issues that matter to you.
Wall of Us: Weekly list of 4 coordinated actions to resist the Trump Agenda. This week:
My Civic Workout: Weekly list of 4 actions of increasing complexity to teach us about an important issue. This week:
Have you met Resist Bot? It sends faxes to your Representatives from text messages.
Indivisible Congressional Calendar: Daily recommended call, research and scripts.
5 calls: Tailors scripts and research to your location and the issues that matter to you.
Wall of Us: Weekly list of 4 coordinated actions to resist the Trump Agenda. This week:
My Civic Workout: Weekly list of 4 actions of increasing complexity to teach us about an important issue. This week:
Have you met Resist Bot? It sends faxes to your Representatives from text messages.
past events
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Canvassing, postcards, and mimosas weekend fun! We're going to keep having these events, so come get involved! We need as many people as possible to get the word out.
A letter to Rep. Goolatte from Lawyer Moms and their allies about the separation and detention of families. 6-29-18
Roanoke Indivisible celebrated our first birthday. 2017 was quite a year! January 3, 2017, we delivered New Year cards to Rep. Goodlatte's office and showed up on the Rachel Maddow show. January 3, 2018, we had cake at Bread Craft and then shared a couple of slices of cake with the staff in the offices of Senator Kaine and Senator Warner. Finally, we delivered retirement cards to Rep. Bob Goodlatte.
Roanoke Indivisible organized a welcome tent at Senator Tim Kaine's health care event.
Visits to Senator Kaine and Senator Warner on the National Day of Action to save our health care, July 18 2017
Event: Ask Me Anything About Immigration March 25 2017
Our fist Town Hall February 22 with Rep. Goodlatte did not produce a live version of the Congressman, but was attended by almost 300 of his constituents, all of whom had concerns that were passed on to his office. We hope that he will choose to attend the next Town Hall meeting in person.
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The Families Belong Together Rally on the Art Walk in Downtown Roanoke included an Ask Me Anything About Immigration panel, letters and signatures to representatives, crafts for children, a lie-in with the same mylar blankets given to children in detention facilities, and many chants, songs, and poems. It was a demonstration of the community in the Roanoke Valley coming together behind the reunification of the families of asylum seekers, and over 500 people participated.
Celebration of Rep. Goodlatte's birthday! Hundreds of cards came from all over the country to remind Rep. Goodlatte of the importance of ethics, health care, DACA, and many more issues as well as to ask him to commence impeachment proceedings.
The Mayor and City Council organized a Peace and Solidarity vigil in remembrance of the victims of white nationalist terrorism in nearby Charlottesville. From there, many people headed to the Martin Luther King Memorial Bridge and statue for Roanoke Indivisible's Peace vigil.
A visit from Senator Tim Kaine at Parkway Brewery gave our leadership an opportunity to show him our support.
Post-Session Food Raiser, April 11 2017
Organizational Meeting of Roanoke Indivisible February 12, 2017
Demonstrations at the airport to support refugees.
New Year's letter deliveries at Congressman Goodlatte's office (thanks to Ivonne Wallace Fuentes for the video).
Visit to Congressman Goodlatte's office January 26, 2017 (video thanks to Brienne Spangler-Nida).
February 17 and 18 2017 we all learned more about the Constitution at am Ask Me Anything panel.
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A note from the Authors:
We are doing this in our own time without coordination or support from our employers.We’re not selling anything. Email us with questions, edits, recommendations, stories about what is helpful at RoanokeIndivisible@gmail.com. And please spread the word! Only folks who know this exists will use it.
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