Tuesday, January 23rd - WisDem Voter Protection / Bring Chicago Home Phone Bank / “Wisconsin Wednesday” phone calls
Actions You Can Take
Action 1: WisDem Voter Protection Team kickoff with Ben Wikler
TONIGHT January 23 at 6pm on Zoom
Action 2: TONIGHT: Make Phone Calls with Bring Chicago Home Coalition
Action 3: TOMORROW Make easy and fun calls for "Wisconsin Wednesdays"
Action 1: TONIGHT WisDem Voter Protection Team Kickoff
Join the WisDems Voter Protection Team — and special guest, WisDems Chair Ben Wikler — in kicking off our 2024 program TONIGHT, January 23 at 6pm CT on Zoom! We'll hear from Chair Wikler about what's at stake in 2024, share our plans to protect voting rights across the state, and explain all the ways you can get involved in the fight for democracy in 2024. Sign up here.
Action 2: TONIGHT Make Phone Calls with Bring Chicago Home Coalition
Join us virtually to make phone calls for Bring Chicago Home! We’ll be talking to fellow Chicagoans about the Bring Chicago Home referendum and why it's important we VOTE YES to more housing in the upcoming March primary. Sign up here.
What is Bring Chicago Home?
With over 68,000 people homeless in Chicago, the Bring Chicago Home coalition aims to create a dedicated revenue stream for the city to address homelessness by funding more permanent housing and supportive services. The proposal would be funded by changing the Real Estate Transfer Tax (RETT), a one-time tax on properties when they are sold, to a progressive structure. So properties sold for under a $1 million--roughly 96% of real estate sales in Chicago--would receive a tax cut, while properties sold for over $1 million would see a slight increase to the transfer tax. In order to enact this policy, Chicago voters need to VOTE YES on the referendum that will be on the March 19 primary ballot.
TONIGHT, Tue Jan 23 2024, 5:30pm - 8:00pm
Sign up here to phone bank. For more information go to the Bring Chicago Home coalition.
Action 3: TOMORROW Make easy and fun calls for "Wisconsin Wednesdays"
Building Voting Power Together in Kenosha Wisconsin
We are working with WisDems in Kenosha County to help build a long term "home team" in the northside of Kenosha city itself (KNT). The Goal over the next 2 months is to identify Kenosha North Town Activists who will carry the weight of shifting Kenosha away from MAGA not only with local elections in the spring, but become the core "home team" to win the Presidential and Senate Election in 2024 as well as working to turn Wisconsin Congressional District 1, blue .
Let's consolidate what we helped Wisconsin do over the last few election cycles!
Phone Banking to identify strong dems and encourage them to become activists in their own neighborhood Kenosha Northside. These should be EASY and FUN CALLS, because our calls are to folks who we think are strong dems, and if they are interested invite them to a gathering of volunteers Feb 29th.
This gathering will be part party and part kick off of Kenosha North Team. Those of you who participate in this project are also invited.
Sign up for "Wisconsin Wednesdays" phone banks evenings on Jan. 24th, Jan 31st and Feb 7th.
If you have never phone banked before please email Geri (geri@indivisiblechicago.com) separately so we can pay attention to getting you started. For everyone, there will be a brief orientation to the short script, and the tech. As always there will be a debrief.
While some of these Daily Actions come from our own work as Indivisible Chicago Alliance, others are from our many partners working to advance the progressive agenda. We invite you to join us in supporting their work. Postings from partners do not imply Indivisible Chicago Alliance endorsement of specific policies and positions.