4-29-24 Newsletter

 

Tuesday's COINversation is about how candidates for Oregon's Secretary of State will safeguard elections and provide oversight and audits of state agencies, etc. Dan Ruby is the Democratic candidate opposing MAGA incumbent Cliff Bentz in the deeply red OR-2. Register for this Zoom event here. Oregon Capital Insider has profiles of the candidates and their goals for serving as Oregon's Attorney General. INDIVISIBLE WILL MATCH YOUR DONATION TO INCO We've reached 70% of our goal of $500. Please help us reach 100%. THANK YOU! Donate to INCO now, and your donation will be matched by Indivisible up to $500!    We are only $150 from our goal of $500! Indivisible will match your donation for a limited time, so please donate now. That could mean $1000 for supplies to write voters and to support campaigns and other activities. INCO writers have already written hundreds of postcards this year and will be writing hundreds more, and those cards need stamps - 53¢ each!   Please help INCO Get Out the Vote and defend democracy this election year. Donate ONLY through this form to double the impact of your donation!  PATCHWORK QUILT OR WITCH'S CAULDRON? "What the Constitution Means to Me" is delightful interactive theater about the US Constitution. The author, Heidi Schreck, earned her college tuition by winning Constitutional debate competitions across the United States and then developed this 2019 prize-winning "hilarious, hopeful, and achingly human show." It's on Amazon Prime and worth watching, especially for her views about feminism, reproductive rights, and amendments to the Constitution. Some of INCO's postcard writers got to visit with Tessa Scheller last week when she came to thank them for their postcards for her for Clatsop County Commissioner, District 2.   WRITE TO VOTERS TUESDAYS  •  3 - 4:30 pm WineKraft, 77 11th Street, Astoria On the RiverWalk, just inside the east end of the building, up the ramp on your left No purchase necessary. NEW!  WEDNESDAYS  •  3 - 4:30 pm Private home in Seaside Please contact geneiajam60@gmail.com for details.   INCO provides postcards, scripts, pens, stamps, and Wite-Out. We'll help you get started if you're new to writing voters. Please support INCO's postcard writers by helping pay for postage. When you donate here, Indivisible national will match your donation. Thank you! INCO endorses Tessa Scheller for County Commissioner, District 2 The last day to register to vote in the May 21 election is Tuesday, April 30. Please remind potential voters to be sure they're registered.    "It's not Republican voters who elect Republican politicians. It’s Democratic voters who stay home that elect Republicans . . . ."  — Brian Hassett PUBLIC OPINION AND OUR FREEDOMS “The point is that the relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them.”  -- George Orwell, "Freedom of the Park" "KING TRUMP" INCO recommends this conversation about "King Trump" and SCOTUS on this New Yorker podcast with Neal Katyal, Jane Mayer, Evan Osnos, and Susan Glasser.   COURT TIME If you want clear info and interpretation about Trump's legal hassles, SCOTUS, or other important news about the law, INCO recommends the following sources. What sources do you count on? Send details for the newsletter to incoregon@gmail.com.   These 3 lawyers write clear, insightful newsletters for non-lawyers on Substack: Jay Kuo, Status Kuo Joyce Vance, Civil Discourse Robert Hubbell, Today's Edition   George Conway Explains It All (To Sarah Longwell) is a weekly (or more) podcast/video on YouTube where George, an attorney long involved in politics, explains legal issues to Sarah, publisher of The Bulwark. Always informative and even entertaining. INCO INSIGHTS “For the great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie - deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth -  persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.” —President John F. Kennedy, 1962 Sign listing towns in Maine. Photo by Peter Ralston. Indivisible defends democracy by opposing authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption. Comments, news, and photos to INCO at incoregon@gmail.com.  Resources and other information at www.incoregon.org and www.indivisible.org. Encourage others to sign up for the INCO newsletter at our website or here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter   April 29, 2024 Website Email Facebook Copyright © 2024 INDIVISIBLE North Coast Oregon, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or signed up at a community group meeting. Our mailing address is: *|766 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103:HTML|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.

4-22-24 Newsletter

 

REVERBERATIONS OF COMPASSION “You have heard of collateral damage. Now hear of collateral renewal. Every time we act in kindness, in mercy, in love: the impact of our actions radiates out to touch many more lives than the ones in our immediate vicinity. Others we do not know will be affected. The reverberations of our compassion will circle the world. Collateral renewal – healing rippling out, never ending." -- Stephen Charleston EARTH DAY Earth Day came out of recognizing that people are part of nature, not its adversary. Heather Cox Richardson describes its meaning and history as we celebrate Earth Day today, April 22, 2024. INDIVISIBLE WILL MATCH YOUR DONATION TO INCO We've reached 35% of our goal. Please help us reach 100%. THANK YOU! Donate to INCO now, and your donation will be matched by Indivisible up to $500!    Please support INCO's mission to Get Out the Vote and defend democracy in this urgent election year. That could mean $1000 for supplies to write voters and to support campaigns and other activities. INCO writers have already written hundreds of cards this year and will be writing hundreds more, and those cards need stamps - 53¢ each!  Donate ONLY through this form to double the impact of your donation!  WRITE TO VOTERS TUESDAYS  •  3 - 4:30 pm WineKraft, 77 11th Street, Astoria On the RiverWalk, just inside the east end of the building, up the ramp on your left No purchase necessary. NEW!  WEDNESDAYS  •  3 - 4:30 pm Private home in Seaside Please contact geneiajam60@gmail.com for details.   INCO provides postcards, scripts, pens, stamps, and Wite-Out. We'll help you get started if you're new to writing voters. Write postcards with us to support Tessa Scheller, candidate for Clatsop County Commissioner, District 2. You can support INCO's postcard writers by helping pay for postage. When you donate here, Indivisible national will match your donation. Thank you! CHOOSING OUR REPRESENTATIVES The last day to register to vote in the May 21 election is Tuesday, April 30. Please remind potential voters to be sure they're registered.  INCO endorses Tessa Scheller for County Commissioner, District 2 Learn more about Tessa on Facebook.  Donate to her campaign online here, or mail a check to: Tessa for D2 PO Box 211 Astoria, OR 97103  INCO endorses Logan Laity for State Representative, District 32 Learn more about Logan here. Donate to his campaign online here, or mail a check to:      Logan for Community                                                             PO Box 161 Tillamook, OR 97141 PUBLIC SCHOOLS AND PUBLIC SPACES "I figured out over the years that public schools are some of the last public spaces in our country that have not been privatized. I figured out they are the epicenter of so many communities. I figured out they are the places we learn civil discourse and learn to get along with folks who aren’t like us. I figured out they are (small d) democratic institutions meant to make us better. We are better for them." -- Jess Piper, The View from Rural Missouri newsletter, April 3, 2024 IMAGINING THE FUTURE “For all its marvelous creativity, the human imagination often fails when turned to the future…. When Donald Trump is the subject, imagination falters further. Trump operates so far outside the normal bounds of human behavior — never mind normal political behavior — that it is difficult to accept what he may actually do, even when he declares his intentions openly.”   — David From, The Atlantic, January-February, 2024 -- Reader's comment, Substack, March 26, 2024 INCO INSIGHTS "The world is so full of a number of things, that we should all be as happy as kings." - Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish poet and novelist Sign listing towns in Maine. Photo by Peter Ralston. Indivisible defends democracy by opposing authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption. Comments, news, and photos to INCO at incoregon@gmail.com.  Resources and other information at www.incoregon.org and www.indivisible.org. Encourage others to sign up for the INCO newsletter at our website or here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter   April 22, 2024 Website Email Facebook Copyright © 2024 INDIVISIBLE North Coast Oregon, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or signed up at a community group meeting. Our mailing address is: *|766 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103:HTML|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.