Early Voting Starts Tomorrow!
Early Voting Starts Tomorrow!
We are asking you to vote early starting tomorrow, Oct. 25, and thru Nov. 2. Please also text or call FIVE (5) of your friends and ask them to vote early. Do that immediately. Ask friends, family, and co-workers: "What is your voting plan?" or "When are you planning to vote?" Just get them to the polls! Make sure they know how important it is to vote for Democratic candidates in this election, because many of the Republicans on the ballot are MAGA or MAGA complicit.
Be sure to vote for Elizabeth Snyder Fortino and Judge Candace Randall for Supreme Court Justice. They both have extensive endorsements from our allies and have participated in our IMV events.
Everything you need to know about voting in Oneida County HERE.
Everything you need to know about voting in Herkimer County HERE.
You really only have a right if you're not afraid to exercise it. VOTE!
Volunteers Needed Tomorrow for Our IMV Harvest on the Hill "Kids Vote" Table
For many IMVers the most fun event we do every year is Harvest on the Hill, where hundreds and hundreds of kids and their families trick or treat down James Street in Utica. We have a big ballot box and kids vote on their favorite candy while we talk to their grown ups about the importance of voting --on the very first day of Early Voting!
If you can volunteer (yes, you can wear a costume if you want), please text Sarah R. at (512) 799-6535. We need 10-12 volunteers for this event.
Harvest on the Hill (Utica)
Saturday, October 25 -two shifts
11:00 am-1:30 pm set up & staff table
1:30 pm -3:00 pm staff table
Distribute candy and help kids vote. Register voters and help their grown ups make their 2025 voting plan.
Climate Crisis Working Group
After Saturday’s NO KINGS biggest peaceful protest in American history…what is next? Well the CCWG has a call to Action in direct reply to the Trump administration. The Trump regime is bullying and trying to intimidate all New Yorkers, especially Governor Hochul and NYSDEC, to grant water quality permits to build the NESE (Northeast Supply Enhancement) and Constitution fracked-gas pipelines. These pipelines were denied in the past due to dangers posed to water quality and those same threats exist today. If granted, these pipelines would cost the ratepayers of New York billions of dollars over the next few decades.
Take Action: Call Governor Hochul (877-559-7809) or email (legislative.secretary@exec.ny.gov):
“Governor Hochul: show courage and stand up to Trump’s authoritarian regime, as did over 7 million Americans this past Saturday, by saying NO to the NESE and Constitution fracked-gas pipelines and say YES to CLEAN ENERGY such as SOLAR, WIND and BATTERIES.”
Disappeared in America Freedom Vigil
Join us for a Freedom Vigil as we stand in solidarity with immigrant families and demand an end to the detention and deportation of nonviolent, law-abiding community members. This is a special focus for the weekly Thursday rally.
Thursday, Oct. 30
4:00-5:30 pm
Alexander Pirnie Federal Building
10 Broad Street, Utica
Across the country, people are gathering outside ICE facilities, local jails, courthouses, and other centers of power to shine a light on the erosion of due process and the rise of authoritarian overreach. Together, we affirm that justice, compassion, and the rule of law must apply to everyone—regardless of immigration status.
This moment matters because the government’s attacks on immigrants are not only tearing families apart—they are setting dangerous precedents that threaten the constitutional rights of all Americans. When due process is denied to one group, the foundation of democracy itself is weakened. By coming together in public, peaceful resistance, we send a clear message: our communities believe in fairness, dignity, and accountability.
This event will be a peaceful, family-friendly event featuring community speakers, moments of reflection, and opportunities to take action. Please bring candles, signs, and your commitment to stand with those whose rights and dignity are under threat. Sign up on Mobilize: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/861696/
No Kings: What's Next
First, if you need a Saturday No Kings Rally again, show up in Rome at noon tomorrow. Be sure to bring signs about voting! The calendar is full of additional events.
We hope that you not only attended Tuesday's Post-No Kings Mass Call (the largest call Indivisible has ever had), but also participated in the IMV meeting last night! So many of our IMV action groups were still working at their tables, even after 7:30 pm, on all their strategies and next steps. Lots of good stuff brewing, including the kernels of what will become our 2026 Goals -the big targets we want to achieve for our group, for federal (think midterms!), state, and local levels, and for our overall resistance movement. We're organizing ourselves --locally, in 175 NYS groups, and in thousands of groups across the country--to defend, demand, and improve democracy, and we're going to do it strategically together.
Seven million people showed up for the largest ever single day protest in American history last Saturday. It was amazing to see, and every last one of the 2700 events was peaceful. Then we watched as one man, obsessed with his own gilded grandiosity, ordered the destruction of the historic East Wing of the White House--a visual image that captured his ongoing destruction and degradation of the Constitution, American norms and values, and basic respect for the American people.But we are not giving up.
If you happened to be on Indivisible's What's the Plan? Zoom call yesterday with Ezra and Leah (Indivisible Co-founders), you know the energy was high, in spite of the shutdown and the lies that continue to come from Trump, his administration, and Mike Johnson. Ezra Levin closes the call by saying,"We're gonna win, y'all. This is the No Kings era. Trump is just living in it."
We also liked Marc Elias' recent words about the Department of Justice being used as a weapon against Trump's perceived opponents. "...those setbacks will include the persecution of many more opposition leaders and organizations. When that happens, we may lose our sense of shock--but we must not lose our sense of outrage. We can acknowledge that this is now the normal way the DOJ operates without accepting that it is moral or right.
Most importantly, we must endure the feeling of loss without giving in to hopelessness. Our fight for democracy is a righteous one. It will be long and hard, but if we remain focused and committed, it is one we will win."
We believe if we work together in non-violent resistance and political action, we will win. And when we do, so will American democracy.
It's not a spectator sport.
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