Thursday, July 11 - Referendum for Public Safety / Tuesday Night Postcard Parties
Actions You Can Take
Action 1: Call Ald. Harris and ask her call a meeting of the Rules committee and get the Referendum for Community Power Over Policing ordinance into the Public Safety committee
Call Ald. Harris: (773) 874-3300
Action 2: Tuesday night postcard party in Lincoln Square
Action 1: Move the Referendum for Public Safety
The referendum ordinance for Community Power Over Policing is currently stuck in the Rules Committee, and we need all hands on deck to help get it back to the Public Safety Committee where it belongs and has the best path to the ballot. Learn more about the ordinance.
Ald. Michelle Harris is the chair of the Rules Committee and has the power to move the ordinance, but she must call a meeting of the Rules Committee to move it, and soon.
We need Ald. Harris to call this meeting BEFORE next Wednesday the 17th, when the full City Council will meet. Please call her office today: (773) 874-3300
"My name is ___ and I’m calling to demand that Alderwoman Harris move swiftly to call a meeting of the Rules committee and get the Referendum for Community Power Over Policing ordinance into the Public Safety committee. The power we have over who polices our communities and how our communities are policed is a matter of public safety. We need this ordinance passed urgently so the people can exercise our democratic right to vote on this referendum!"
Please mark your calendar for next Wednesday to join us at the full city council meeting to pack the public comment in support of this historic ordinance! Only WE can stop CPD!
Date: Wednesday, July 17
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Location: Chicago City Hall, 121 N LaSalle St.
Action via CAARPR
Action 2: Tuesday Night Postcard Party
Come enjoy the camaraderie of writing postcards to voters in swing states with fellow Indivisible Chicago activists.
We're back at the Gideon Welles pub in Lincoln Square every Tuesday evening from 6:30 to 8:00pm, writing postcards to get our voters to the polls in November.
If you can sign up in advance, it helps us let our GW hosts know how many people to expect, but last-minute walk-ins are always welcome.
Feel free to bring your own postcards if you've already ordered them from Postcards to Swing States, or just show up and we'll provide you with postcards, scripts, address lists, and pens.
Donations are welcome, either monetary or in the form of postcard stamps. We look forward to seeing you there!
Other ways to obtain postcards
If you’d like to write postcards on your own or host your own gatherings, go to www.turnoutpac.org/postcards, click on “Sign up for postcards,” complete your order and you’ll be mailed your free postcards along with messages to write and voter lists. (Note: If you enter “Indivisible Chicago” to the optional question on the form, “Are you ordering for a grassroots group?”, we can also let you know when postcard parties are scheduled nearby. Postcards will be provided at the parties or you can bring the postcards you’ve ordered.)
Indivisible Evanston is also distributing postcards for the Postcards to Swing State Campaigns. There are two pickup locations in Evanston, one in Deerfield and one in Buffalo Grove. Sign up here.
Postcard writers are responsible for providing the postcard stamps (currently 53 cents), handwriting a short message and addressing the cards. The instructions include a specific mailing date in October, so you have until then to write the postcards.
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.