Thursday, December 12 - Public Health & Safety Budget Amendment / New Indivisible Guide
Actions You Can Take
Action 1: Support the Public Health & Safety Budget Amendment
Sign up for public comment at the City Council meeting on Friday at 9 AM
Action 2: Read and share the new Indivisible Guide
Action 1: Support the Public Health & Safety Budget Amendment
Do you have two minutes to support a city-wide effort to support the Public Health & Safety Budget amendment? This amendment would push City Council and the mayor to right-size CPD officer vacancy funds and use the remainder to:
Avoid the proposed $68m property tax
Protect funding for the Department of Public Health & bolster Treatment Not Trauma
Fund & preserve Peacebook - holding +350 youth jobs across the city focused on violence prevention
Preserve the Chicago Empowerment Fund that is used to fund our Guaranteed Income Pilots
Protect Civilian Oversight roles in CPD
For years CPD has held these vacancy funds, but hasn’t successfully hired or grown the force since 2018. Why are we continuing to allocate outrageous amounts (+$200m per year) to this? Instead we should rightsize that number, and redirect to other public safety interventions and avoid a property tax that will affect the lives of us and our neighbors.
Here’s how you can take action:
Contact your alderperson with this click-to-email and click-to-dial tool
Tomorrow, Friday, December 13 at 9am, show up to City Hall to make a public comment at the City Council meeting
Action via Public Health and Safety Chicago
Action 2: Read and Share the New Indivisible Guide
The bottom line is this: Trump wants us to believe he’s all-powerful. He’s not. The original Indivisible Guide focused entirely on Congress. That’s only part of the fight against Trump 2.0. The new guide aims to be as practical as the original, but we widen the scope to include what you can do in cities and states where you have leverage. If we all play our part, we can harness backlash to the horror that’s coming. We can limit harm and break the back of MAGA in the elections to come. We can survive to fight another day.
In a recent interview, the historian of authoritarianism and author of On Tyranny, Timothy Snyder, noted about the moment we’re in: “They want you to be alone. Nobody is going to fix this alone. That’s not how this works.” There’s a role for all of us -- some will play defense, some play offense -- but it all comes down to getting organized in our local groups. Individually, we’re alone and powerless; together, we have power.
Read the new Indivisible Guide to learn how to fight for democracy, and share with your friends. We can’t do this alone.
Action via Indivisible
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.