Dear Indivisible Members,
We look forward to coming together one last time this year at our Holiday Gathering next Wednesday, December 10th, see details below to register.
If you have feedback to share on your year of activism we'd love to hear about it in a Letter to the Editor, which you can submit via email to: abbyindivisible@gmail.com
We wish you all a peaceful Holiday Season and hope you'll save the date for our Take Action Together meeting on January 28th to kick-off 2026!
Upcoming Events
Holiday Gathering- Wednesday, Dec.10th
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 also be a cash bar.
For the past year, we have often asked each other “What can we do? I don’t know what to do.” Most of us in this group have not had our daily lives interrupted by everything that we see going on in the news. We know it’s coming, and we do what we can. Sometimes the best thing to do is also the easiest.
At our December gathering on the 10th, we will hear from our very own member, Kathy Lonergan. She is a teacher at Morton East high school in Cicero and she sees the families who are devastated by cruelty of this administration. Something easy for us to do would be to send a few dollars to the Morton East Student support fund or by donating the requested items:
• Toiletries (soap, toothpaste, deodorant, shampoo)
• Household cleaning supplies
• Laundry detergent
• Paper products (toilet paper, paper towels)
• Food items
• Other essentials
A trip to Costco this week can bring a sense of stability and comfort to a family in need. We will also have a QR code available if you would prefer. Also, our good neighbors at BEDS would welcome $10.00 gift cards to fast food restaurants or coffee shops. This allows their clients a bite to eat and a place to stay warm. Again, it’s a fairly easy thing that we can do and it makes a difference. The harder work is ahead of us.
We look forward to sharing some food and drink this Wednesday!
Lawn signs will also be available at this gathering! See info below.
Giving Opportunities
Mano a Mano Unidos
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
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.
While our sources have indicated that monetary donations are the best way to help fill in the gaps, you can click on any of the organization links above for info on all the ways you can help.
Thank you for your support of our local food assistance organizations!
Upcoming and Ongoing Events & Actions :
We will kick-off 2026 with a January meeting designed to learn how you can help, and then take action right away. Our meeting will take the form of an activity fair where you can learn about the activities we participate in: postcards to get out the vote, witness slips and getting bills passed, making rally and bridge signs, phone banking, canvassing, immigration right work, and so much more. Each station will have a way to get started right then and there, and connect with the folks who are interested in each project.
Save the Date - January 28th, 2026 and we'll be in touch with more information.
AT&T Boycott Update
Scan the above QR code or click this link.
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.
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.
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.
IWSC 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.
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
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 now available!
“In Our America” lawn signs are available for porch pick-up! Here’s a way for you to show your support for immigrants and others AND “take back” the flag!
Suggested donation is $10 per sign.
Email carriefelix11@gmail.com for more information.
Signs will also be available at our December 10th member meeting!
Signs are corrugated plastic 4mm, 18" x 24" (standard), double sided, full color, wire stakes (included)
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:
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.
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.
Indivisible West Suburban Chicago meeting - November 12, 2025
With love and solidarity in all we have come through, and on our journey ahead,
Your local organizers in
Indivisible West Suburban Chicago