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Email sent to members Monday, April 7, 2025
Email sent to members Monday, April 7, 2025
Action Items
Arkansans for Autonomy Solidarity Day – Little Rock – TOMORROW Tuesday, April 8, 2025 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM CT - Arkansas State Capitol (500 Woodlane St, Little Rock, AR 72201). Casey is organizing a caravan Tuesday morning at 5:30 AM to go to Little Rock for this Arkansas For Autonomy Solidarity Day. You can contact her at cacromer1@gmail.com or 479-871-6350 for more information.
Weekly Protest at the Offices of Sen. Cotton and Rep. Womack (3333 Pinnacle Hills Pkwy, Rogers ) – Thursday, April 10 from 2-6 PM. EXTENDED HOURS! We are going to be there until 6 to accommodate those who cannot come earlier. Meet at the roundabout at Pinnacle Hills and West Northgate. Bring your own signs and flags! Be sure to read the info here about how to legally protest & maps to their offices - https://sites.google.com/view/indivisiblenwa/home/your-right-to-protest RSVP here on Mobilize: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/761892/
Pastor Clint Schnekloth has extended an invitation to Indivisible NWA to an event on Sunday, April 13th at 11:30 a.m at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (2925 N Old Missouri Rd, Fayetteville). It will be a public Christian Liturgy of Protest. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1YaHPZ4hut/
Saturday, April 19 - Indivisible NWA Monthly Meeting – 1 PM at Good Shepherd Lutheran’s Alton Center in Fayetteville (2925 Old Missouri Road). This is our regular monthly meeting of Indivisible NWA - we meet on the third Saturday of every month.
Arkansas
As State Senator Greg Leding says, the end is near for the Arkansas legislative session. Hopefully things will wrap up soon and bring an end (maybe?) to the mischief happening in our state government. In his newsletter, he mentions several important items still working their way through:
• SB290, seeking to allow industrial swine farms in the Buffalo River watershed (BOO! HISS!) squeezed through the Senate Agriculture Committee Tuesday and passed the Senate on Thursday. Call or email your state representative. This is especially important if you live in a rural district. Find your representative using this link https://www.arkansashouse.org/learn/district-map . Contact the Governor using this link: https://governor.arkansas.gov/interact/contact-the-governor/ She opposes the bill, but we want to encourage her to veto it if it passes the House.
• Read about other important items – new prison appropriation (failed so far but it's not gone); SB536, a bill to abolish the state library board (cleared the Senate but failed to earn enough votes to adopt an emergency clause); SB2, to repeal our state’s fluoridation program. More info at Greg’s newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/e668395c1ba9/arleg-update-the-end-is-near
Federal
Oh, lordy, the mess in Washington continues! So many issues – the newest one being the indiscriminate tariffs that are tanking the economy. We HIGHLY recommend you use the 5calls.org website or app to contact your federal officials. 5calls keeps their list of issues updated often. Make those calls every day!
Email sent to members Monday, March 31, 2025
Email sent to members Monday, March 31, 2025
Action Items
Thursday, April 3 – 2 pm – Weekly Protest at the Offices of Sen Cotton and Rep. Womack – 3333 Pinnacle Hills Pkwy, Rogers - Meet at the roundabout at Pinnacle Hills and West Northgate. Bring your own signs and flags! Be sure to read the info here about how to legally protest & maps to their offices - https://sites.google.com/view/indivisiblenwa/home/your-right-to-protest RSVP here if you plan to attend: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/761892/
People’s Veto Day – March to the Square – Saturday April 5, 12-3 PM. Meet at the Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville. More Information can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1BrRydDG6F/ *** The weather looks like rain, so stay tuned for updates. We will send something to members if we hear anything from the organizer.
Saturday, April 19 - Indivisible NWA Monthly Meeting – 1 PM at Good Shepherd Lutheran’s Alton Center in Fayetteville (2925 Old Missouri Road). This is our regular monthly meeting of Indivisible NWA - we meet on the third Saturday of every month.
Arkansas
This is the last few weeks of the Arkansas legislative session, which they anticipate concluding around April 16. Today and tomorrow will be heavy filing days for new bills. One bill that is almost sure to move forward is Senate Bill 426, which would mandate that Arkansas law enforcement agencies help ICE in the apprehension and deportation of undocumented migrants held in local jails and state prisons. The new state prison appropriation bill, Senate Bill 354, will likely also come up for a vote. You can read about more issues in Greg Leding’s weekly newsletter here: https://mailchi.mp/bbeada528e23/arleg-update-back-at-it Greg’s newsletter includes a section on how to contact your Arkansas senator or rep.
Federal
So much is happening at the federal level! We HIGHLY recommend you use the 5calls.org website or app to contact your federal officials every day. They keep their list of issues updated often.
Chris Jones also recommends personal emails (not form letters) to your officials, sticking to one topic per email, and including your name & address. If you haven’t gotten to watch the recordings from our Town Hall on 3/22, including a message from Chris Jones, you can find them here: https://www.youtube.com/@Kate-Indivisible
Email sent to members Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Email sent to members Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Local Actions
Thursday, March 27 – 2 pm – Weekly Protest at the Offices of Sen Cotton and Rep. Womack – 3333 Pinnacle Hills Pkwy, Rogers - Meet at the roundabout at Pinnacle Hills and West Northgate. Bring your own signs and flags! Be sure to read the info here about how to legally protest & maps to their offices - https://sites.google.com/view/indivisiblenwa/home/your-right-to-protest RSVP here if you plan to attend: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/761892/
“Here to Stay” Immigrant March – Monday, March 31st starting at 1:30pm at Murphy Park in Springdale (501 S Pleasant St, Springdale, AR 72764) . More information can be found on their Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/venceremosarkansas
People’s Veto Day – March to the Square – Saturday April 5, 12-3 PM. Meet at the Washington County Courthouse in Fayetteville. More Information can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1BrRydDG6F/
Arkansas
The Arkansas legislature is not in session this week (Spring Break), so no current happenings. But it's a good time to read up on how the AR legislature works in The Determined Constituent Guide by Greg Leding. You can find it on Greg’s website here: https://www.gregleding.com/guide
National
Keeping up with all the news can be stressful. Be sure to take some time to relax and rejuvenate, and limit your media consumption to a few reliable sources. You can use the 5calls.org website or app to get summary updates of the current action items. Please keep calling those officials – it does make a difference!
Email sent to members Monday, March 17, 2025
Email sent to members Monday, March 17, 2025
Thursday, March 20 – 2 pm – Weekly Protest at the Offices of Sen Cotton and Rep. Womack – 3333 Pinnacle Hills Pkwy, Rogers - Meet at the roundabout at Pinnacle Hills and West Northgate. Bring your own signs and flags! Be sure to read the info here about how to legally protest & maps to their offices - https://sites.google.com/view/indivisiblenwa/home/your-right-to-protest RSVP here if you plan to attend: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/761892/
Thursday, March 20, 10 am to 12 noon - Northwest Arkansas Area Local #667 of American Postal Workers will be picketing on the public sidewalk in front of Craft Station PO (on Joyce Blvd in Fayetteville ), promoting public awareness that privatization would be DETRIMENTAL to your postal service. Any and all postal workers (of any union, or non-union) are invited and welcome to join us. Also, the general public, if interested, may join us. For more information, contact Pamela Beck, pjbeck21@gmail.com
Saturday, March 22 – 1-2 PM - Town Hall Meeting! We will be holding an ‘empty chair’ Town Hall at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (2925 Old Missouri Road) in Fayetteville. Please RSVP here https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/763737/ Space is limited, and we would love to see you there! Plan to arrive early to get a seat! If you plan to attend, please read the information on this page – it explains what an ‘empy chair”’ town hall is and other important information, including info on our live streaming on Instagram and Facebook: https://sites.google.com/view/indivisiblenwa/about-the-town-hall
Arkansas
The monkey-business continues with Greg Leding noting that there are only a few more weeks in the legislative session (hopefully!). Read more about it here: https://mailchi.mp/43cb03a145bb/arleg-update-last-week-before-the-recess?e=b4907b4bac and be sure to note the action items in the “three things you can do this week” box!
National
The more things change, the more they stay the same… Aren’t we all getting sick of the chaos in Washington? The crazy continues and the top three new items on 5calls.org are: attend a town hall(!), save the Institute of Museum & Library Services and oppose Dr. Oz as the head of Medicaid & Medicare Services (That makes me laugh -- Dr. Oz?????) Please keep calling those officials – it does make a difference!
Email sent to members Monday, March 10, 2025
Email sent to members Monday, March 10, 2025
Wednesday, March 12, 5:30 PM CT - Online Indivisible Truth Brigade – With social media companies dispensing with fact-checking and some platform owners/acting US presidents intentionally amplifying disinformation, we all have to step up to identify and combat propaganda and divisive lies. This event will feature an orientation and provide specific actions you can take to defend truth online. We highly recommend that you attend before the monthly meeting. Sign up to attend here: https://indivisible.zoom.us/meeting/register/4TGh8CPlTfiF6jpIJtMXnA
Wednesday, March 12, 5:30 PM CT - Online Indivisible Truth Brigade – With social media companies dispensing with fact-checking and some platform owners/acting US presidents intentionally amplifying disinformation, we all have to step up to identify and combat propaganda and divisive lies. This event will feature an orientation and provide specific actions you can take to defend truth online. We highly recommend that you attend before the monthly meeting. Sign up to attend here: https://indivisible.zoom.us/meeting/register/4TGh8CPlTfiF6jpIJtMXnA
Thursday, March 13 – 2 pm – Weekly Protest at the Offices of Sen Cotton and Rep. Womack – 3333 Pinnacle Hills Pkwy, Rogers - Meet at the roundabout at Pinnacle Hills and West Northgate. Bring your own signs and flags! Be sure to read the info here about how to legally protest & maps to their offices - https://sites.google.com/view/indivisiblenwa/home/your-right-to-protest RSVP here if you plan to attend: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/761892/
Saturday, March 15 - Indivisible NWA Monthly Meeting – 1 PM at Good Shepherd Lutheran’s Alton Center in Fayetteville (2925 Old Missouri Road). This is our regular monthly meeting of Indivisible NWA - we meet on the third Saturday of every month. Speakers, postcard writing, snacks and more! Please RSVP here so we know to expect you! https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/755203/ (we realize this slightly overlaps with the VA protest – it’s fine to come late).
HOLD THE DATE! – Saturday, March 22 – Town Hall Meeting! We are working on the details, but we will be holding an ‘empty chair’ Town Hall at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (2925 Old Missouri Road) in Fayetteville. Time is still TBD as we firm up speakers. See the fun flyer here for our missing NWA senators and representatives -- share as you wish! More information to come – stay tuned!
We need help! Volunteers needed for crowd control, greeters, counters and watchers. We have a media person, but we would like to have someone who could Zoom the meeting out. And we hope to have chicken costumes as stand-ins for Womack, Cotton, Boozman, so we will need volunteers to wear those. Let me know if you can help!
We have more events on our calendar here, including a march for immigrants on the 31st: https://sites.google.com/view/indivisiblenwa/home/calendar-of-events
Arkansas
The legislative session continues with Greg Leding describing this week as a “big week”. Read more about it here: https://mailchi.mp/5de638bda5c8/arleg-update-gonna-be-a-big-week and be sure to note the action items in the box!
National
Whew! Where to begin? The crazy continues and the new items on 5calls.org are: unregulated logging, Ukraine, the demise of the Dept of Education, and the NATO ambassadorship. Please keep calling those officials – it does make a difference!
As always, we have info being updated on the IndivisibleNWA.org website. Our website is THE place to send your friends and family if they want to sign up for our email, Facebook group or access other resources.
Email Sent to members Monday, March 3, 2025
Email Sent to members Monday, March 3, 2025
Tomorrow is the sidewalk march in Fayetteville at 1 pm. We hope the weather will cooperate! Right now, the weather people are saying the storms will clear by 11 am. If you think it’s needed, please wear your rain gear & wrap your signs in plastic wrap! More info here. Hope to see you there!
Events
Tonight at 7 PM -- Virtual - Know Your Rights Training for Immigrant Allies (MoveOn), https://www.mobilize.us/moveon/event/756560/
SIDEWALK MARCH AGAINST FACISM – Tomorrow March 4, 1 PM. See info above.
Saturday, March 8 – 10:30 AM - Good Trouble Coffee - https://redwineblue.controlshift.app/groups/not-on-our-watch Please join group and respond to the RSVP link or email Rachel Hill with questions fayettehill@gmail.com
Monday, March 10 - Democratic Party of Benton County 6-7:30 pm. Location TBA. Contact DPBC for more information: dpbccommunications@gmail.com
Our next Indivisible NWA monthly meeting will be at 1 pm on Saturday, March 15th at Good Shepherd Lutheran Church (2925 Old Missouri Rd, Fayetteville, AR 72703). Here's a map showing the location of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church.
Arkansas
Many of the issues remain the same, so we recommend that you follow Senator Greg Leding for current updates: https://mailchi.mp/77ebab9ac703/arleg-update-money-trees?e=b4907b4bac Please contact your Arkansas reps so they know where you stand on these issues! Contact information is on our Resources page
Federal
We hope everyone has been able to access the 5calls app to contact your congress people every day -- It really does help! See the website 5calls.org or the app for current issues.
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Email Sent to members Monday, February 24, 2025
Email Sent to members Monday, February 24, 2025
Events
This Friday, Feb 28 is a national economic boycott. During the boycott, participants are asked to not make any purchases online or in-store, particularly at big retailers. More information: https://thirdact.org/texas/2025/02/10/u-s-economic-blackout-planned-for-feb-28/
Greg Leding’s Constituent Coffee: Friday , Feb 28, 9 AM – 10 AM. At Basecamp Coffee Company, 2850 N. College Ave., Fayetteville. He also sends out an excellent newsletter if you want to keep up with what is happening in the Arkansas legislature: https://www.gregleding.com/newsletter (P.S. buying a coffee on the boycott day is OK – it’s a local business).
Postcard Writing! This Saturday, March 1, from 1 – 2:30 pm at the Washington County Democrats headquarters (1102 S Thompson St Suite G, Springdale, AR 72762.) This is a come-and-go event to address postcards to voters in support of Susan Crawford for Wisconsin Supreme Court. More info on Judge Crawford is here: https://www.crawfordforwi.com/ We will supply addresses, postcards, and pens/markers. Please help us with donations for postage if you can. Please RSVP at this form if you can attend – we have limited room and want to make sure we have enough supplies. https://forms.gle/BzzWToAyQMPSf4cn6
The Washington County Democrats are marching in the Fayetteville Mardi Gras parade this Saturday 3/1 – assemble at 1, parade starts at 2. This is a fun event – masks and beads – not a protest. But it's an opportunity to show people that Democrats are active in the community. Contact volunteers@washcodemocrats.com if you want to participate or for more info.
SIDEWALK MARCH AGAINST FACISM: There will be a march on Tuesday, March 4, starting at 1 pm at the Washington County Courthouse. Then down Dixon, and up Block to Town Square where there will be tables, speakers, and maybe food! A few items to note:
• Bring your signs!
• “Sidewalk March” means we will have to stay on the sidewalks. (We would need a permit to march in the streets – not enough time to get one!)
• We will need volunteers to manage an Indivisible NWA table like we did on President’s Day. Let me know if you can help.
We also heard of another opportunity called Stand Up for Science with an event on March 7. As far as we know, we don't have a Stand Up For Science event locally yet, but the national organizers encourage everyone to participate in a walkout at your campus or workplace at noon (local time), Friday, March 7. Local Event Information
March 15 – Monthly Meeting of Indivisible NWA! We are working on a bigger location – we number in the hundreds now! Stay tuned for more information.
Arkansas
Senator Leding has a good rundown of current Arkansas issues in his newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/b5339bfa2e08/arleg-update-access?e=b4907b4bac The bills related to changing the process to get citizen initiatives on the ballot is still out there – see the section called “In Other News”. He also gives some shocking statistics about Medicaid and kids in Arkansas. Please contact your Arkansas reps so they know where you stand on these issues! Contact information is on our Resources page
Federal
Be sure to avail yourself of 5calls to contact your congressmen – see the website 5calls.org or the app. There is a lot going on, and they update both of these functions regularly with the latest issues. The top three issues this week are
• Stop the Purge of the Federal Workforce
• Oppose Safety Net Cuts (primarily Medicaid)
• Save the Veterans Health Administration (the VA).
There are many others. All really important, so call your senators and representatives every day. It really does help!
Remember that we have more resources on our website indivisiblenwa.org
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Email sent to members Thursday, February 20, 2025
Email sent to members Thursday, February 20, 2025
Arkansas
URGENT! Lisa sent out information last evening (Wednesday 2/19) about HB 1489 Nitrogen Gas for Execution, and asks that we call the House Judiciary Committee before 10 AM today 2/20. Send to indivisiblenwa@gmail.com if you can’t locate her email and we will send it to you – it contains information about who to call.
Several bills would make it much more difficult to gather signatures for the citizen-led initiative petition process. This process allows us to exercise our right to change laws and amend the state Constitution. More information:
Libraries are under attack from a couple directions. PBS is also included on SB 184. Many people believe the final objective of bills like these is to weaken and defund these two important sources of information. Read more:
HB 1422, the “Only Citizens Vote Act” is another attempt to single-out immigrants by labeling their drivers licenses with the phrase “non-citizen”. We already have laws in place to prevent non-citizens from voting, and this labeling could lead to voter suppression and discrimination. More information: https://www.acluarkansas.org/en/legislation/create-only-citizens-vote-act-amend-law-concerning-drivers-licenses-certain-noncitizens
Information on how to contact your Arkansas senators and representatives is located on our website https://sites.google.com/view/indivisiblenwa/home/resources under the Arkansas section.
Federal
Please call Congress to oppose Trump taking the side of Russia against Ukraine, and trying to gaslight the American people (using Russian propaganda) about the cause of the war. He is also attacking our historic ties to NATO. Heather Cox Richardson gives a good overview of this issue here: https://substack.com/home/post/p-157530572?source=queue
Call Congress to oppose the Republican budget that cuts Medicaid to fund tax-breaks for the wealthy. See information: https://arkansasadvocate.com/2025/02/19/repub/u-s-senate-dems-issue-warning-on-massive-cuts-to-medicaid-predicted-in-gop-budget/
Call Congress to oppose the SAVE Act, an attempt to disenfranchise millions of voters under the guise of voter security. This seems to be a common theme, doesn’t it? More information: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-save-act-would-disenfranchise-millions-of-citizens/
Remember that 5calls.org (and the app) is a great way to manage your daily calls to Congress. It’s easy to use and contains everything you will need, including the issues and scripts.
Coming Up
• Feb 28 national economic boycott. Hit 'em where it hurts! During the boycott, participants are asked to not make any purchases online or in-store, particularly at big retailers. More information: https://thirdact.org/texas/2025/02/10/u-s-economic-blackout-planned-for-feb-28/
• 50501 has called for another nationwide protest on March 4, late in the day is what we have heard so far (the president’s State of the Union speech is that evening). We will send more local information as it becomes available.
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