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I wanted to report on my current activities to help save our ailing country! First, I have decided to host a version of a One Million Rising meeting, as requested by the current series of Zoom calls cosponsored by national Indivisible, NoKings.org, and some other organizations.

One of the trainers on these calls was a trainer on the request for neighborhood meetings after the election back in November, when we were all extremely traumatized and attending gazillions of Zoom meetings to figure out how to not lose our minds…at that time, they called the neighborhood meetings they were asking for “Worth Fighting For,” and I hosted one back in early December.

My little group of about 9 people decided they wanted to continue meeting after that first get together, where I had planned to give them a number of resources, which I did, including Hopium Chronicles, of course, and turn them over to Indivisible Evanston, my wonderful, active Indivisible group. But when my group wanted to keep meeting occasionally, I agreed, and we meet about every 2 months in person, and we have a text group where I send out messages about activism opportunities, and some of us have demonstrated together here in Chicago.

I’m especially proud that one young couple in our group from the north side of Chicago, drove up to Kenosha, WI to canvass for the first time in the Supreme Court race there! Thrilled to have mentored the younger generation into door knocking! That can be a tough sell, but they loved it.

Anyways, I’m going to have a meeting on August 10th in my home to get more folks together to talk about what else we can do to engage in active non compliance with creeping authoritarianism. I hope to add some folks to my already existing group.

Next, I’ve decided to work on a Resolution of Condemnation for my community, Evanston, IL and have already reached out to the mayor, whom I have known for years, to see what he thinks of the concept…he got back to me right away with a phone message that said that he’s very intrigued at the notion, so I’m looking forward to connecting with him about it and learning about how to pursue it with the city council.

I’ve also done some phonebanking for the Georgia Democratic Party, which is calling folks in danger of being knocked off the voter rolls if they don’t update their registrations before Aug. 18th. I reached a lot of folks who have moved out of state, but also some who agreed to update their registrations…always worth doing!

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Catherine Giovannoni's avatar

Thanks, Simon!

I recently was listening to a podcast where the person speaking said that in their entire lifetime, Democrats have always been the party creating jobs. I think your important message is breaking through.

Having lived my life in and around DC, I'm heartsick to learn that Trump is going to disfigure the White House to add on a gigantic, tacky, gold-embellished balloom. He's literally going to take a wrecking ball to OUR White House, the people's house. I sure hope Dems send a film crew because we should at least get good footage for commercials. I hope someone is keeping a list of all the shitty things he's done so we can just undo them once we're back in power.

I called Congressman Raskin and Senators Alsobrooks and Van Hollen to ask them to get louder about the tariffs and to do whatever they can do in the budget process to stop Trump from creating an army of brownshirts via ICE. I'm writing postcards to Virginia voters today.

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