Dear Indivisible Members,

Thank you to all who turned out for our November Elections meeting, it was our biggest meeting crowd yet!  If you missed it, here's the YouTube link.

We welcome you to join us next month, on December 10th, for a Holiday Member Social meeting to get to know one another, and have some fun as we gear up for 2026! See details below.

In addition, take a look at the following Actions and Events to keep up the good fight as we move into the final days of 2025...

Upcoming Events

The holiday season is a time to give thanks and we are so thankful for all of our Indivisible WSC members! Join us in celebrating all of our efforts to stand up to the Trump administration this past year.

Join us on Wednesday, Dec. 10 at 7 p.m. at Imperial Oak - 9526 Ogden Avenue in Brookfield

Space is limited - Registration IS Required and you can do so HERE to join us.

Indivisible West Suburban Chicago will provide pizza. If you'd like to bring a sweet treat, a dozen should be enough to share. There will be a cash bar and we will be accepting donations for two local organizations:

BEDS Plus: Donations of $10 gift cards to fast food restaurants (they provide food and warmth during the winter months)

Morton East Student Support Fund: Donations of toiletries, household cleaning supplies, laundry detergent, paper products, shelf-stable pantry items. Kathy Lonergan, Indivisible WSC member and a teacher at Morton East High School, will say a few words and tell us how ICE's presence in the Berwyn/Cicero area is impacting both students and faculty.

To the Editor:

The holiday season is here, and it is often a time for reflection. We have all been through so much in the past year, and I wonder what the younger generations are thinking and feeling. Very often I hear older people say “Where are the young people?” I think they will be sitting around the table this Thanksgiving. Wouldn’t this be a good time to ask some thoughtful questions? Then, instead of sounding accusatory or inserting our own opinions, what would happen if we just listened? As a parent of adult children, I find that I am afraid to bring these things up, because I don’t want them to be worried. I know they are, so let’s find out how we can link arms. This effort is going to take all of us. Here are a few conversation starters that might help:

How do you feel about your future in America? Do you feel hopeful, uncertain, or something else?

What are the biggest pressures you face as a young adult? How do you cope with them?

What do you think is the biggest issue facing young people today in America, and how can it be addressed?

How does the current economic system affect your sense of security and opportunity?

In your opinion, is voting enough to create meaningful change, or is there something more that needs to happen?

Sincerely,

Patti Ernst 

You can submit your own letter to the editor via email to: abbyindivisible@gmail.com

Giving Opportunities

As many of you may remember from our Elections meeting, local member Patty Gamboa alerted us to the aid organization Mano a Mano Unidos she has begun out of her commercial property in Berwyn. She is delivering food, clothes and other items needed by local families affected by ICE in Berwyn, Cicero and beyond.

Patty needs volunteer help and donated food, clothing, toiletries, etc. You can volunteer and/or drop off donations at:

Mano a Mano Unidos, LTD

6236 W. Cermak Road Berwyn, IL 60402

Monday - Friday: 10 a.m. - 6 pm

Saturday: 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.

You can also contact her via phone: (708) 420-6172 or email: pattygamboa345@gmail.com 

Information to pass along to those in need:

Nicor Gas is bringing FREE groceries and resources to customers residing in Maywood, Bellwood, Hillside, Berkely, Western Springs and Westchester.

Community Connection Resource Fair:

Date: Wednesday, December 3, 2025
Time: 5 - 7 p.m.
Place: Old Masonic Building Gymnasium
            200 S 5th Ave.
            Maywood, IL 60153

Get free food and resources from Nicor Gas! 

Energy-saving products, assessments and improvements

Career resources

Energy assistance options and billing support

Housing, food and basic needs assistance options

Free food packages include:

Fresh fruit and vegetables

Pasta and/or rice

Chicken, fish or turkey

Register HERE today to attend and reserve your free grocery package! Food is available while supplies last and will be distributed on a first-come, first-served basis.

Saturday, December 6th at 10AM

Got young kids?  This event is designed for you: parents and caregivers of young children, age 0-8

Join like-minded parents and caregivers as we figure out how to have difficult conversations with our kids about community safety and race, and support each other and our communities in this moment. Register here for the meeting info and Zoom link.

Adults only

From Indivisible National:

Donald Trump is wildly grasping for power that doesn’t belong to him -- and greedy corporations seem more than happy to give it up. They’re donating millions to curry Trump's favor, standing aside as his regime attacks workers and shoppers, and meekly caving to even the weakest, most dubious threats.

Our cowardly corporate leaders need a reminder that real power belongs to the people. And next week, during the biggest shopping weekend of the year, we’re sending them a message.

From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, we’re asking you not to shop from three major corporations enabling Trump’s fascist agenda.

Our Targets:

HOME DEPOT enables ICE terrorism by allowing Trump’s jackboots to violently detain and kidnap workers on its properties.

TARGET caved to MAGA backlash by pulling Pride merch off the shelves, and canceled DEI programs that support Black workers and businesses.

AMAZON provides technology to power ICE deportations while Jeff Bezos spends a fortune kissing up to Trump -- funding both his MAGA agenda and vanity projects like his ballroom.

These aren’t the only companies complicit in Trump's attacks on democracy -- far from it! -- but economic pressure is most effective when it’s concentrated and easy to join in on. We’re focusing our fire on three ubiquitous brands that are among the biggest corporations trying to profit by enabling Trump.

By withholding our support during one of the most important weekends of their year, we’ll make it clear that there’s a price to pay for enabling authoritarianism.

How to take action:

To send a strong message, we need not just you, but your family, friends, and community, to commit to supporting mutual aid or small businesses instead of Home Depot, Target, and Amazon next weekend.

Here are three steps to take right now:

Learn more: Make a plan to join the economic blackout from November 27 – December 1. Understand what we’re asking, why we’re doing this, and how to spend your dollars where they’ll do good.

Let us know you’re with us: Pledge to pause shopping at Home Depot, Target, and Amazon. Don’t give any money to the companies undermining democracy. Support local businesses or mutual aid efforts instead.

Spread the word: Use our graphics and customizable social posts to get others involved. Try to triple your impact by getting three other people to join the blackout.

This holiday season, let’s make our dollars count. Join us to tell Home Depot, Target, Amazon, and the whole corporate world: When you support Trump, we don’t support you.

AT&T Boycott Update

Ongoing Actions

Join our Indivisible Teams

IWSC Elections Team

You may have heard at our last meeting that we are forming an Elections team. If you have yet to reach out, and would like to join us please email: abbyindivisible@gmail.com to learn more.

Cancel Spotify

Spotify is running ads recruiting agents for ICE, the federal agency charged with mass deportation and surveillance of immigrant communities.  We refuse to help fund fascism.  Cancel your spotify subscription–Instructions below. 

Indivisible National's Cancel Spotify campaign

IWSC Accepting Donations

Indivisible West Suburban Chicago is 100% volunteer run.  We use donated funds to pay for supplies and materials for events, website and texting subscriptions,  meeting room and equipment rental, training materials, speakers and more.  We appreciate all donations at: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/indivisiblewestsuburbanchicago610499156

Support Local Food Assistance

In addition to our collections for the Westchester Food Bank, the Share Food Share Love food pantry in Brookfield and the St. Cletus Food pantry in Countryside are also in need of, and accepting donations.

Our sources have indicated that monetary donations are the best way to help fill in the gaps.  Share Food Share Love has a donor that will currently match your donation, doubling the impact.  However, click on any of the organization links above for info on other ways in which you can help. 

Thank you for your support of our local food assistance organizations!

IWSC Bridge Brigade Team

RUSH HOUR RESISTANCE is the goal of our IWSC Bridge Brigade Team. We 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 you've joined you will receive details on times and locations to meet.

Postcard Office Help

2026 News-Boosting Postcards!

From Progressive Turnout Project: 

We need volunteers at the Postcard Office Mon - Fri 9AM-3PM except for our holiday closures: Nov 26-27 and Dec. 23 through Jan 1.

The work involves 2-hour shifts between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. and you’ll be putting rubber bands on postcards and assembling small packages to send to our postcard writers around the country. 

Our goal is 4.5 million News Boosting Postcards with mailing dates between February and April 2026.

The postcard office is located at 231 S Frontage Rd, Unit 11, Willowbrook, IL 60527.  Here's the Office Shift Sign-Up Form .

From your Indivisible WSC Postcard Party Team:

If you want to order the News Boosting postcards for shipment to your home, click HERE.

Or you can pick them up at the Willowbrook office if you are volunteering there anytime soon.

We will schedule postcard parties for January dates. Please review future newsletters and/or the IWSC website (www.indivisiblewsc.org) for details. Until then, Happy Holidays!

Lawn Signs

“In Our America” lawn signs are coming soon! 

Here’s a way for you to show your support for immigrants and others AND “take back” the flag! You can order your lawn sign and get info on porch pick-up by contacting Carrie at  carriefelix11@gmail.com 

Signs will also be available at our December 10th member meeting!

Suggested donation is $10 per sign. 

IWSC Immigrant Rights Team 

Our Immigrant Rights Protection Team is standing up for immigrants to show them they are essential and welcomed members of our communities.

 Once 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 sign up to join the team here.

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.

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  

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.

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

Your local organizers in

Indivisible West Suburban Chicago