12-9-24 Newsletter

 

INCO's Rally to Impeach and Remove: Nobody is Above the Law, December 17, 2019 * INCO MEETING * Showing Up for Each Other Saturday, December 14 11 am - 12:30 location for this meeting: Astoria Senior Center, 1111 Exchange Parking on street and across Exchange in the parking lots On the agenda: INCO in 2025 INCO's Local Issues and Action Team Resisting the Trump agenda INCO on social media and in the community What's on your mind? HOW ORDINARY PEOPLE STOPPED A WANNABE DICTATOR "And finally, the events in South Korea emphasize that for all people often look to larger-than-life figures to define our nations, our history is in fact made up of regular people doing the best they can."  Be inspired by the public's successful angry opposition to the their president's declaration of martial law in South Korea. Heather Cox Richardson describes it here. Timothy Snyder, author of ON TYRANNY, describes "clear lessons for Americans to learn right now."  INCO recommends both articles. "Through these events in South Korea, we have now been duly warned of the risks of autocratic takeover. The future of our democracy may very well depend on whether we can match the kind of response we just witnessed. We must take the South Koreans’ complete rejection of military dictatorship as an inspiring example and pledge to defend democracy with equal passion, resolve and action." -- Jay Kuo, Status Kuo, December 4, 2024 SOCIAL JUSTICE, CLIMATE, ENVIRONMENT, AND MORE The 40-plus Indivisible groups in Oregon have strong allies. Check out last week's COINversation with representatives from the ACLU, Rural Organizing Project (ROP), and Western States Center.  Sign up here to get COIN newsletters and alerts. Work with Indivisible volunteers from across Oregon on these COIN teams:                        * State Legislative Team  * Social and Economic Justice Team  * Climate/Energy Environment (CEE) Team  * State Accountability Team (new)  * Communications Team (new) Sign up for a COIN team here. OUR OPPORTUNITY "Here's my idea for today: rather than continue to wallow in our despair, rejoice in the fact that we are living in one of the most consequential times in our nation's history since its founding. We have the opportunity in this moment to move the idea of America significantly further toward its ideal -- equality, freedom and justice. What a blessing!" -- Dan Stipe, Reader's Comment, Today's Edition, December 4, 2024 "... we must distinguish between what Trump says he will do and what he can actually accomplish. While the damage inflicted will be bad, it won’t be as bad as his outlandish promises. Our job is to make Trump and the GOP choke on every ridiculous, mean-spirited, half-baked, greedy, out-of-touch, oligarchical proposal designed to enrich Trump and his already-rich pals—regardless of whether he is able to deliver on them." -- Robert Hubbell, Today's Edition, December 7, 2024 Your members of Congress won't know what you want if you don't tell them. Calls are fast and easy, and you often get to talk with a staff member. Senator Ron Wyden     202-224-5244 Senator Jeff Merkley    202-224-3753 Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici    202-225-0855 LEARNING FROM OUR MISTAKES “'The essence of democracy is not about avoiding mistakes entirely, but about having the opportunities to learn from them,” Prof. Sungmin Cho, a political scientist at Sungkyunkwan University commented on X in the aftermath of this week’s failed self-coup by South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol. “In non-democracy, rulers pretend they do not make mistake[s]. When they do, they do not allow citizens to discuss and learn from it.'” -- Ruth Ben-Ghiat, Lucid newsletter, December 5, 2024 THE FIRST FIVE LESSONS Trump is copying the steps of other wannabe and actual dictators seeking and trying to hold onto power. Historian Timothy Snyder describes those steps in his acclaimed book, ON TYRANNY: TWENTY LESSONS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. He wrote this book following Trump's election in 2016. INCO encourages you to read it. 1. Do not obey in advance. 2. Defend institutions. 3. Beware the one-party state. 4. Take responsibility for the face of the world. (Notice and respond to symbols displayed and worn.) 5. Remember professional ethics.    The GOP's Project 2025 is the game plan for Trump tyranny.  • Project 2025 Explained -- An in-depth analysis of the MAGA playbook by Indivisible • A long list of major features of Project 2025 from Robert Hubbell in his Today's Edition newsletter • The 920-page Project 2025 document is here. Find a topic that interests you in the Project 2025 table of contents.   OUR CONSTANTLY CHANGING WORLD -- Washington Post, December 8, 2024 FUN STUFF Impeaching Joe Biden? Watch this clip of Representative Jared Moskowitz (D-FLA) describing the House's "investigation" of Joe Biden. Be sure to watch Representative Jamie Raskin listening at upper left.  * * * * * * * * * * * *  A Substack reader released the unpublished parts of Project 2025: * Dates for Trump and Elon Musk to take over Amazon, Google, Facebook, CNN, and MacDonald's * Dates for Trump and Elon Musk  * Steve Bannon becomes Trump's VP, regardless of whose name is on the ballot * Female applicants for White House jobs must disclose their bra sizes  * It's legal to cheat at golf * Trump wins every round of golf he plays * Don Jr, Eric, Ivanka, Jared, Tiffany, and Barron Trump - and possibly Lauren Boebert - will draw straws as to which Ambassador or Cabinet Secretary they'll be. * Since SCOTUS has followed Project 2025's blueprint so far, the Republican justices will shut down the court, retire with gold-plated parachutes, and let Trump or the Heritage Foundation decide any future legal issues. Hint: There won't be any future legal issues, because Trump will make the laws.  INCO INSIGHTS “Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.” -- Jonathan Alter 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 here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter  •  December 9, 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.