#ThisIsNotAWebinar!

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Now > Perfect

Welcome! Thank you!

This is not normal!

• A fast moving situation
• Overwhelm is their goal
• We respond with focus
• “Come make me” attitude
• Be there for each other
• Be joyful!
• Care for others

Meeting Agenda

• Goals
• Who are we?
• Indivisible national agenda for 2025
• Indivisible Central Ohio:
• Actions you can take NOW & every day
• Ongoing projects you can join with us & our allies
• Projects we are just getting off the ground
• Ways to help ICO, allied local groups, staying in touch
• Tabling! Information & sign up stations

Goal for this meeting:

Leave ready to take action!

• Learn about daily actions & longer term projects
• Learn about tactics and best practices
• Share your thoughts/Take the lead!
• Sign up & get started!

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Action Break!

• Find your Ohio reps at bit.ly/OHREPS
• Save their info in your contacts
• Add contact info for Gov. DeWine & Senators
• Introduce yourself to two people you don’t know

Indivisible Central Ohio: past & present

• Indivisible Ohio District 12 → Indivisible Central Ohio (ICO)
• Unincorporated, loose affiliation with Indivisible, Swing Left
• Active for 8 years without pause
• Always evolving
• People step up, step back
• Wide variety of projects & actions
• Working with many allied groups
• What project will you lead???

Indivisible National Goals

Our job is to build a backlash against

MAGA’s most unpopular policies, and push our

Democratic electeds to show up as fighters.

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• Say NO to the Project 2025 agenda pushed by the White House & Congress.
• Make sure folks who voted for Trump know how they are being harmed.

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Push Democrats

• Play hardball wherever we’ve got Democrats in local, city, or state office -- pushing them to block, delay, and challenge MAGA’s attacks.
• Support the Democrats who are pushing back hard!

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Work to protect & win elections

Defend against election deniers in swing states & turn national backlash into an electoral majority coalition to deliver wins in 2026

• Upcoming special Congressional elections
• 2025 local elections

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Action Break Preview!

• What are the posters on the walls?
• Why do I have Post-it Notes?
• What will we be during the second half of the program?

Indivisible Central Ohio Current & Planned Projects

/Preview of Tables

Take notes with your ideas on the Post-It Notes!

Federal Advocacy

• Senate Outreach Needed NOW
• Best practices for visits, calls & emails
• Sign up: Wednesdays at Bernie’s (12:30 pm)

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• Oppose Trump’s nominations!
• Tulsi Gabbard; RFK Jr; Kash Patel

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• House Outreach
• Special attention for Mike Carey (R+ 6 only)
• Beatty, Balderson, Jordan, Taylor

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Table 1:

Meryl,

Benita

Action Break

• Download the 5 Calls App!
• Daily calls to Senators & Reps

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• Find an accountability partner for your calls

Ohio Statehouse Advocacy

• Resources from Rachel Coyle & Debby Cooper
• Weekly list of actions to take in the newsletter
• Learn how to track bills & hearings
• Report your activity with our form for accountability! (bit.ly/ICOActionReport)

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Table 2: Debby, Rachel, Lisa, Janine

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Monitor & pressure local government

• Examples:
• City Councils
• School boards
• County commissions
• Just showing up is a start!
• At the table: Spreadsheet with all the local entities, meeting days and times

Table 3: John, Heather, Mary

Issue Advocacy: Public Education

• “Vouchers Hurt Ohio” (VHO) statewide initiative
• Release Time for Religious Instruction (RTRI)
• SB1: Attack on universities and collective bargaining
• Elimination of the U.S. Department of Education
• At the table
• Actions to take with your School Board
• Actions to take with your representatives
• Sign ups for additional actions

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Table 4:

Linda, Betsy, Maureen, Jeanne, Kelly, Sue, Britt

Issue Advocacy: Repro Justice

Anti-science, anti-abortion, anti-queer, anti-evidence politicians WILL restrict access to a broad spectrum of health care.

• Consider ways to protect & resource yourself, your family, & your community.
• Check on friends & family who are vulnerable & experience marginalization.
• Support collectivism.

Table 5:

Sue, PPGO, OWA

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• National org - 10k volunteers in Ohio
• Guns are #1 killer of children in Ohio and US
• 125 Americans die by gun daily
• Columbus chapter works with Community Partners
• Volunteer needs for 2025
• Community outreach/tabling
• Secure Storage outreach - Be SMART
• Interfaith outreach
• Suicide Prevention
• 56% of ALL gun deaths are gun suicide

Issue Advocacy:

Gun Violence Prevention

Moms Demand Action!

Table 5:

Tiffany

Issue Advocacy: Protecting Immigrants

Protecting Immigrants & Supporting Refugees

• Schools & immigration: Protecting vulnerable populations from deportation
• Supporting resettled refugees (CRIS)
• Know your rights (and spread the word)

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Table 6: Maria, Pari, CRIS, ACLU

Issue Advocacy: What’s Next?

We will follow as they come up:

• Health care
• Redistricting 2025
• Rank Choice Voting
• Climate advocacy
• Potential ballot initiatives

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Activism tactics

• Calls (and emails): Tracker
• Action & Accountability hours
• ResistBot
• Letters to the Editor
• Social Media
• Local Newsletters
• Letters & Postcards
• Canvassing & phone calls
• Phone trees
• Leaflet every doorstep

Table 7: Sara, Tiffany, Michelle

Photo of Michelle’s sample Thank you and DO Better cards

ICO Voter Registration Team

• Voter registration & Education!
• Voter Support & Follow up
• Site-Based Vote Tripling (SBVT)
• Campus teams & more

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Table 9: Jackie, Ann, Carol, OVRC

Action Break

Rapid Response Readiness Pledge

• Get notified when we’re hitting the streets.
• bit.ly/ICORRPLEDGE

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Table 8: Amber, Colleen

Action Alerts

• Get occasional calls to action in your inbox.
• bit.ly/ICOACTIONALERT

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Communications & messaging

Team concept: Transform the idea of a Trump mandate into widespread perception of unpopularity

• Guerrilla Marketing (stickers, posters)
• Local newsletters distributed to doorsteps
• Letters to the editor (and LTE training)
• Social media, Podcasts, Op-eds,
• Improved media outreach
• A new form of postcarding & letter writing
• Neighbor2Neighbor canvassing
• Elected official outreach team

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Table 8: Amber, Colleen

Let’s do it!

Protest

TODAY!!

4:30pm

Easton Tesla Dealership!

• Raising anti-racist children and fostering the next generation of social justice activists
• Educate, empower, and engage youth in activism and advocacy

Table 11: Courtney, Lizzy, Jamille

• Marketing expert, graphic design
• Social organizer
• Organize canvassing
• Weekly website update
• Photographer & videographer
• Instagram & Reddit person (Mastodon?)
• Welcoming and orienting new members
• Tracking local candidates & campaigns
• Leafleting and local newsletter project
• Voter welcome packets for apartment complexes

Ways to Help ICO

Table 10: Mia

Email Debby Cooper: cooper.deborah3@gmail.com

Allied Groups in Central Ohio

Thursday Action Group

Clintonville Area Progressives, Columbus South Side Progressives, Dublin Area Progressives, Fairfield Dems, Fighting 21st and 22nd, Gahanna Democrats and Friends, Grandview Ignite, Indivisible Central Ohio - East, Indivisible Delaware, Indivisible Westerville, MidOhio Indivisible, Northwest Area Progressives, Ohio Progressive Action Leaders, Organizing for UA/NW Columbus, Positively Blue, Progress Grove City, Progress Hilliard, ReSisters of Central Ohio, South East Progressives, Upper Arlington Progressive Action, Westerville Progressive Alliance, Worthington Area Democratic Club, Big Walnut Progressives, Big Walnut Community Advocates for Public Education, Your Group Name Here.

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Table 12: Group contacts!

Newsletter: bit.ly/OHCentralnewsletter

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Closed Facebook group: facebook.com/groups/IndivisibleOH12

Website: IndivisibleCentralOhio.org

BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/indivcentraloh.bsky.social

Instagram: @indivCentralOh

YouTube: youtube.com/@indivisiblecentralohio

Email: IndivisibleCentralOhio@gmail.com

Add our bit.ly/ICOCALENDAR

Stay in touch

Thank you!

Let’s get to work!

#LFG

Action Break!

• Put your Post-It Notes on the posters!
• Make your way into the community room
• Sign up
• Get busy!