Dear Indivisible Members,

THANK YOU to all of our members and neighbors for showing up and speaking out at the La Grange No Kings rally this past Saturday. Over 4K people attended and peacefully exercised their First Amendment rights! We’re not sure about you, but after Saturday we are hopeful, motivated and inspired to keep fighting! 

Big thanks to our team's NO KINGS LaGrange organizers, marshals, volunteers, and the Lyons Township Young Dems for coming together to make it happen.

Onward!

Below are events and actions beginning this weekend and into November. We'll see you out there, and we hope to see you at our November Meeting on the 12th (details below).

Events this Week: 

The Indivisible Illinois phone banks are wrapping up the final 2 weeks this year. After Nov 2, there will be a hiatus until 2026. So, If you want to help get Abigail Spanberger elected Governor of Virginia and/or want to call voters in the IL-12 (Mike Bost's district), IL-15 (Mary Miller's district) and IL-16 (Darin LaHood's district), to let the voters know they voted to cut Medicaid, this weekend and next weekend are your last chance. 

Phone bankers from all over the country are welcome. If you have never phone banked before, we train. You will need a computer and a phone. RSVP for the phone bank of your choice below.

Sat 10/25 5 pm CT Virginia Phone Bank

Sun 10/26 4 pm CT Medicaid Phone Bank- IL Calls

Sat 11/1 5 pm CT Virginia Phone Bank

Sun 11/2 4 pm CT Medicaid Phone Bank- IL Calls

Join Indivisible Illinois for an important virtual panel discussion: "Protecting Our Communities: State-Level Strategies Against Federal Overreach."

As federal policies increasingly challenge democratic norms and threaten the safety of our communities, it’s more critical than ever to understand how we can take action at the state level. This panel will bring together legislative experts, policy advocates, and legal analysts to explore how we can serve as a firewall against federal authoritarian overreach.

Sign up for the Zoom meeting on Monday, October 27th at 7:30 PM here.

November Events

Across the country, immigrant families are being detained, disappeared, and torn from their loved ones. The Disappeared in America Weekend of Action is a national mobilization to protect immigrants, expose corporate complicity, and honor the lives lost in detention. There are two events near us on Sunday, November 2:

1. A protest at the Home Depot in Cicero from 9-10 a.m. Sunday, November 2nd. Get details and sign up here.

Day laborers who gather in Home Depot parking lots have been kidnapped by ICE agents across the country. The raids are terrifying, chaotic and sometimes deadly. These atrocities are happening on Home Depot’s properties, with its silence. The Home Depot company has not resisted or condemned these raids. Tell Home Depot: ICE Out! Cicero and the neighboring Little Village community in Chicago have been especially targeted by ICE and our brothers and sisters in those communities need our support.

2. Day of the Dead Mass Ofrenda (Offering) at the Broadview ICE facility from 4-6 p.m. Sunday, November 2nd. Get details and sign up here.

Join the community in protesting ICE and remembering those Disappeared In America

Monday, November 3rd at 6PM. Register here for details and to attend.

District IL7 Illinoisans have a critical primary election ahead to fill Danny Davis' newly open seat. Join our candidate forum for an opportunity to hear directly from the people who want to represent you and learn where they stand on the issues that matter most. This event is free and open to the public.

Co-hosted by: Citizen Action/Illinois The Illinois Alliance for Retired Americans Illinois Education Association Personal PAC Chicago Votes Housing Action Illinois SEIU HCIIMK Illinois Environmental Council Illinois Coalition on Immigration and Refugee Rights Environmental Law and Policy Center Equality Illinois Illinois Federation of Teachers Rainbow PUSH Access Living Shriver Center on Poverty Law Invest to Elect Indivisible Illinois She Votes IL Illinois NOW Women's Alliance Chicago League of Women Voters Arc of Illinois The People's Lobby Chicago Women Take Action Chicago Cares Coalition For A Better Chinese American Community Sunrise Movement Chicago Democratic Women of the South Suburbs.

November marks one year until the 2026 midterm elections. With that in mind our November meeting will be dedicated to Elections and Voting Rights.

The voting rights of likely Democratic voters are being targeted at every level, from states all the way up to the Supreme Court.

Election integrity has been vilified in the past by the right, but where are we now with Dominion Voting Systems being purchased by an ex-GOP election official? 

What will be most important/closely watched House and Senate races in 2026? What are the stakes, and what happens next if Dems take one or both chambers?

Join us to discuss these topics, with some guest speakers as well. We look forward to planning for 2026 together. Sign up HERE to join us.

We will also be collecting for the local Westchester Food Pantry at this meeting. Please bring non-perishable items, or paper bags with handles that you would like to donate. 

The Westchester Food Pantry is most in need of:

Ready-made-meals in a can (like Spaghetti-Os), cereal, mayo, salad dressing, jam/jelly and cranberry sauce. They also appreciate cash donations, which you can do here.

Music for Democracy!

Wednesday, November 19th at 6:30PM at Robert's Westside in Forest Park.

Come out on Nov. 19 for the concert Music for Democracy: A Fundraiser for PASO West Suburban Action Project, which features live music from Dave Rudolf & friends, The Vaughan Building and Summer Kwai & friends, and inspiring speakers. This event aims to lift spirits and motivate us to keep fighting. You can find concert details and RSVP HERE. Indivisible WSC is a sponsor for the event and hopes you can attend.

December- Save the Date!

Ongoing Actions:

As we protest in the streets, and as we try to mitigate the immediate harms the administration is doing to immigrants and other targeted communities, Indivisible is asking us to be anti-racist in our approach. Watch this 90 min Indivisible recording from the Solidarity in Action series that makes the case for:

*Pro-democracy organizations to be explicitly anti-racist in how we frame our activism.

*How we must not focus solely on class systems, economic inequality, or oligarchy as the frame, but instead must consciously use anti-racist framing, and

*What is required of us who volunteer in pro-democracy movements to practice true solidarity.

You can watch the video by clicking the pic above or HERE.

IWSC Bridge Brigade Team

RUSH HOUR RESISTANCE is the goal of the newly formed IWSC Bridge Brigade Team. We will create messages and post them on bridges, while waving to traffic from the safety of overpass bridges.

Providing physical messaging in the real world to connect with and activate voters to demonstrate that resistance is possible. Join our team HERE, and help make it happen! Once our team is formed, we will meet virtually to share details.

Postcards to Swing States

From Progressive Turnout Project:

"We've had 13,500 postcard orders in just the past two weeks, and it's a race against the clock to get our current queue of more than 6,500 orders shipped out in time for writers to have enough time before their mailing dates. So we need as much help as we can get now through the beginning of October at the postcard office, located  at 231 S Frontage Rd, Unit 11, Willowbrook, IL 60527.

Here's the Office Shift Sign-Up Form.

Overall, we'll take orders through October 6th for our current programs for Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. With the late surge in orders, we've got a good chance to hit our goal of 11 million postcards in 2025! Thank you all so very much!"

IWSC Immigrant Rights Team 

The Trump administration is deploying ICE into our communities to spread fear and terror among immigrants. But we don’t have to go along with this. Our Immigrant Rights Protection Team is standing up for immigrants to show them they are essential and welcomed members of our communities.

 If you join the team, you’ll be kept informed of protests as well as other immigrant rights protection work, including our new Signs of Solidarity campaign, Know Your Rights, and Rapid Response protests and trainings.

You can join the team here to learn more about opportunities of all kids to help or respond.  

Ground Avelo Airlines

Avelo Airlines wants you to think they’re “refreshingly simple.” What they don’t put on the billboards and “hello, avelo” marketing posters: they’re the first commercial airline in the U.S. to sign a deportation charter contract with ICE. Unmarked, secretive flights. No guarantee of due process. Public money subsidizing mass deportations. 

Indivisible is working to stop Avelo Airlines for profiteering from deportations! Learn how here.

Indivisible Illinois is Canvassing NOW in key districts! This program will focus on setting up canvassing across the state and in key battleground districts in neighboring states. Whether you want to canvass in your own neighborhood or help us flip critical districts, in Illinois and surrounding states we want you on board. Sign up here to receive more info on this effort.

Coming Together in Community

We've learned from much experience that coming together in community is the best way to create lasting change and tackle problems together. Sign up here to learn about hosting a small house party to screen a film or virtual training with your friends & fellow members. We'll take you through all the steps from there.

Another way you can help is to join us as volunteers at various events. You can sign up to be on the list for volunteer opportunities as they arise HERE:

Join our Witness Slip Team

Our group's Witness Slip Team is off to a great start! We combine efforts to let Illinois legislators know our support or opposition to a bill. The process is simple and makes an impact. Click the link below to join us. Once you join you will receive instructions and periodic emails that will require a quick turnaround to file a witness slip online.

IL Witness Slip Team Group signup  

Food Pantry Donations

You can now donate your garden's produce to the St. Cletus Food Pantry! 

If your vegetable garden is blooming and you want to share the wealth, consider donating some of your bounty to the St. Cletus Food Pantry! On average, they serve 170 households per week and fresh produce is always in demand. They can accept produce donations on Wednesdays from 9 am - 1 pm and Thursdays from 10 am - 1 pm. Please bring your donations into the pantry - do not put them in the donation bins. The pantry is located at 600 W. 55th St. in La Grange. NOTE: They are not accepting donations Sept 3-4.

The St. Cletus Food Bank also accepts donated non-perishable items in the donation bins at 600 W. 55th St any time!

The Westchester Food Pantry is also grateful for all items we can send their way.  We will now be collecting food for the Westchester Food Pantry at our monthly meetings. Feel free to bring canned, non-perishable items, or paper bags with handles, to our monthly meetings and we will get them to the pantry.

You may also drop off your items for the Westchester Food Bank to any of the locations below:

LaGrange Park

621 SHERWOOD ROAD - porch drop anytime

346 N. ASHLAND- porch drop anytime

Western Springs

5405 CAROLINE AVE- porch drop anytime

First Congregational Church- 1106 Chestnut St. - Inside doors Mon-Fri 9-2pm and Sunday mornings.

Adopt a Local Board

Local government is crucial to our daily lives and immediate communities. We need folks who are willing to attend local meetings of Village Trustees, School Boards, Library Boards and so on, and keep our elected officials committee up to date on what's going on at the most local level, and hold our elected officials accountable. Sign up HERE to help! If you would like to learn more you can email Abby at abbyindivisible@gmail.com. 

Take Action - Texting Team

Our group will be piloting  the use of texting to our members when a rapid response is needed for legislation, witness slips, protests, and any other immediate actions. Some of you may have volunteered for texting programs during the recent elections. If you would be interested in being a part of this effort, either helping to organize or in sending and moderating  texts, email Jeanette  at jiq@valeko.com for further information.

Project 2025 Tracker

The group Red Wine and Blue has created a Reality of Project 2025 website – a resource which not only explains how extremists are implementing this plan, but what we can do to stop it. We wanted to share this site to educate ourselves and continuously monitor this. You can check out the website here

Take Action - 5 Calls website

Take action any time from any place - Click here to link to the 5 calls website.

Take Action - Truth and Share

Access the website by clicking here.

If you would like to donate to Indivisible West Suburban Chicago to help our ongoing expenses, please click this link. Thank you.

With love and solidarity in all we have come through, and on our journey ahead,

Your local organizers in

Indivisible West Suburban Chicago