Dear Indivisible Members,
IMPORTANT UPDATE!
Due to heightened interest in our Elections Meeting on November 12th, we have exceeded capacity of our original location, so we WILL NOT MEET at the Brookfield Library.
The NEW LOCATION is the Local 150 Operating Engineers Building, 6200 Joliet Road, Countryside.
We are thrilled with the heightened interest in this meeting and the important work ahead of us. We did want to share that securing the new location to accommodate us all has required a substantial rental fee. ONLY if you are able, we are suggesting a $5 donation per person to Indivisible West Suburban Chicago to help us cover the cost. Donations are accepted online at: https://secure.actblue.com/donate/indivisiblewestsuburbanchicago610499156
See below for all the details on Wednesday's Elections Meeting, as well as many upcoming events to take part in. We hope to see you out there!
November Events
November Member Meeting - Wednesday, Nov.12th
Due to heightened interest, we have exceeded capacity at our original location. The new address is:
Local 150 Operating Engineers Building,
6200 Joliet Road, Countryside.
Your GPS app may direct drivers to the La Grange Rd entrance of the venue, where the gate may be locked. If so, please enter from Joliet Rd and proceed to the south entrance of the building.
the new location has a rental fee. ONLY if you are able, we are suggesting a $5 donation per person. DONATIONS ACCEPTED ONLINE at https://secure.actblue.com/donate/indivisiblewestsuburbanchicago610499156
If your plans have changed and you cannot attend in person, please email us at indivisiblews@gmail.com.
November marks one year until the 2026 midterm elections. With that, and fresh insights from the 2025 elections this week in mind, our November meeting will be dedicated to the 2026 Elections and Voting Rights.
Our Guest Panel will include:
*Terrie Pickerill, Democratic political strategist and President of the Illinois Women's Institute for Leadership Training Academy
*Patrick Watson, Indivisible IL Executive Committee member
*Kathy Cortez, VP of Issues and Advocacy, Illinois League of Women Voters
Sign up HERE to join us. If you previously signed up, but your plans have changed and you cannot attend in person, please email us at indivisiblews@gmail.com.
NOTE THE NEW LOCATION for this meeting! Local 150 Operating Engineers Building, 6200 Joliet Road, Countryside. Please enter from Joliet Rd (LaGrange Rd entrance is locked) and proceed to the south entrance of the building.
As always, and with the SNAP crisis ongoing, we will be collecting for the local Westchester Food Pantry at this meeting. Please bring non-perishable items, or paper bags with handles that you would like to donate.
The Westchester Food Pantry is most in need of:
Thanksgiving-related foods such as canned cranberries, chicken broth, boxed stuffing, mash potatoes along with ready-made-meals in a can (like Spaghetti-Os), cereal, mayo, salad dressing, jam/jelly and cranberry sauce. They also appreciate cash donations, which you can do here.
Best Buddies Food Drive-
Sunday, Nov. 9th
Best Buddies and Helping Paws will host their annual Food Drive on Sunday, November 9th, from 12-2 PM by the Main Entrance at RBHS (Door A). All donations will go to the Share Food Share Love Food Pantry. See above for suggested donation items. Thank you for your support!
Postcard Parties-Nov. 11th & 13th
Come to the Thomas Ford Library (Tuesday morning) or the Hop District Brewery (Thursday evening) to write postcards for upcoming important Tennessee election. We supply postcards and addresses...You supply stamps!!
Tuesday, November 11th
Thomas Ford Memorial Library
800 Chestnut
WESTERN SPRINGS, IL, IL 60558
10:00 AM to NOON CST
Thursday, November 13th
Hop District Brewery
23 E 31st St
La Grange Park, IL 60526
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM CST
Protest AT&T's complicity with ICE-
Sunday, Nov. 16th
AT&T has a multi-year, multimillion-dollar contract with ICE, which is using AT&T’s communications systems and equipment to target, detain and disappear people. AT&T also lobbied for and is profiting from the regime’s big billionaires' bill. We will be gathering on Sunday, November 16th at 3PM at AT&T's La Grange location, 1 N. La Grange Road, to send a message to AT&T that the people oppose its partnership with this oppressive regime.
Sign up HERE to join us.
A core principle of all Indivisible events is a commitment to nonviolent action. We expect all participants to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events.
Music for Democracy Concert- Wednesday, Nov. 19th
Music for Democracy!
Wednesday, November 19th at 6:30PM at Robert's Westside in Forest Park.
Come out on Nov. 19 for the concert Music for Democracy: A Fundraiser for PASO West Suburban Action Project, which features live music from Dave Rudolf & friends, The Vaughan Building and Summer Kwai & friends, and inspiring speakers. This event aims to lift spirits and motivate us to keep fighting. You can find concert details and RSVP HERE. Indivisible WSC is a sponsor for the event and hopes you can attend.
Upcoming Events
December- Save the Date!
Ongoing Actions
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.
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 this time of crisis when the GOP is refusing to fund SNAP payments to our most vulnerable neighbors, and purposely stymieing court orders to do so, area food pantries are a literal lifeline. 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 to help ease the pain.
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!
South Suburban Relentless- Saturday Protests
Protest in Orland Park, hosted by Indivisible South Suburban Relentless
Saturday, Nov. 15th, then every other Saturday going forward at 11am at the intersection of 147th and LaGrange Road.
Bring your voice, signs, music, and if needed, a chair. Parking is available in the Orland Square Mall parking lot behind Portillos
IWSC Bridge Brigade Team
RUSH HOUR RESISTANCE is the goal of the newly formed IWSC Bridge Brigade Team. We will 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 our team is formed, we will meet virtually to share details.
Postcards to Swing States
From Progressive Turnout Project:
"We've had 13,500 postcard orders in just the past two weeks, and it's a race against the clock to get our current queue of more than 6,500 orders shipped out in time for writers to have enough time before their mailing dates. So we need as much help as we can get now through the beginning of October at the postcard office, located at 231 S Frontage Rd, Unit 11, Willowbrook, IL 60527.
Here's the Office Shift Sign-Up Form.
Overall, we'll take orders through October 6th for our current programs for Virginia, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. With the late surge in orders, we've got a good chance to hit our goal of 11 million postcards in 2025! Thank you all so very much!"
IWSC Immigrant Rights Team
The Trump administration is deploying ICE into our communities to spread fear and terror among immigrants. But we don’t have to go along with this. Our Immigrant Rights Protection Team is standing up for immigrants to show them they are essential and welcomed members of our communities.
If 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 join the team here to learn more about opportunities of all kids to help or respond.
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.
If you missed the 3 ONE MILLION RISING training sessions, click here to view all 3 on-line. (Be sure to scroll down a bit.)
Canvassing with Indivisible Illinois
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.
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
