IMCPA&F Weekly Newsletter 6.27.25

Hello Indivisibles,

We’d like to thank everyone for donating to June’s fundraising campaign! We reached our goal of $500 through Indivisible’s donor match program. We can’t wait to use this help to further our mission through protest, rally, and event supplies. We’d also like to thank our members for providing spaces for our community to hold onto each other and keep resisting!

📌Overall Update📌

• Let’s revel in some good news!

  • Montco approved a new policy that prohibits employees from providing information to ICE!

  • Montco mother freed from ICE custody and charges dropped!

• The Finding Common Ground Movement will be holding a Zoom meeting in the second half of July. Please visit: findingcommongroundmovement.com and see if we're something you'd be interested in, or interested in learning more about. Take our survey and spread it!

📌Events📌

Please be sure to check our Meetings and Events page for a calendar view.

• EVERY SATURDAY: Pottstown Pop-up Protest. 10am-12pm. Join us every Saturday at Pottstown Plaza (State and Wilson Streets) for a weekly pop-up protest!

• ALL SUMMER LONG, 5/15-6/27: Montgomery County. The People’s Neighborhood Protests, a rotating series of weekly local demonstrations held from 5-7pm bringing visibility, voice, and collective resistance to the neighborhoods we live in. Come as you are. Bring your voice, your people, your signs, and your love for justice. We’ll also be collecting donations for mutual aid at each location! RSVP here

• Saturday, 7/5, 10am-12pm: Swedeland Park in Upper Merion. Save the date for a protest in the park! Let’s gather and express ourselves and passions. As we know, there is a lot to care about, so we encourage you to bring a sign that tells us what you’re feeling!

• Saturday, 7/12, 12-3pm: Collegeville. IMCPANF’s Civil Rights focus group presents All Together Now, a community pride celebration. Join us for a day of pride, joy, unity, and fun, including: live music, crafts and face painting, local food vendors, raffle items, family friendly activities, and community resources. All proceeds go to The Welcome Project PA.

• Thursday, 7/17: TBD. 7/17 is a day of service and Good Trouble in honor of John Lewis. More information will be shared on our involvement in this opportunity. 

• Sunday, 7/20: Norristown. IMCPANF Family Fun Day at the pavilions at the Norristown Farm Park. 11am- 3pm. Join us for this social event featuring DJ Pooda, games, face painting, fun activities and more!

• Saturday, 7/26, 11am: Phoenixville. IMCPANF’s Healthcare and Science Focus Group is looking for volunteers to help paint a room at Phoenixville’s Free Clinic. If you’d like to help, email EEPHCandS@gmail.com or text 302-363-0794

 Calls to Action To-Do List:

Local Impact:

• Our community partners across Montgomery County and Philadelphia are working to protect our immigrant communities from ICE’s heinous overreach. Thanks to Indivisible Greater Jenkintown for providing this Immigrant Support Action Plan.

• Montco Community Watch: If you have information about ICE detentions, please call 267-279-9205. You can also fill out this form (not for urgent reporting).

• Opportunities to get involved:

  • Interested in joining Norristown’s RRT (Rapid Response Team)? Click here to provide your information. Interested in forming your own RRT? Reach out to IMCPANF@gmail.com to connect with the right resources.

  • Volunteers needed for the All Together Now pride event (7/12)! Please complete the survey linked to learn more.

  • Leafleting: We are partnering with our PA Indivisible groups to print door-hanger/leaflets to distribute to neighbors in your area. You choose your territory. The goal is to educate our neighbors on the latest decisions impacting our community. Our first area of focus is tariffs (see attached photo). Email imcpanf@gmail.com if interested. 

  • Text banking: Did you know that we have a chance to rope in unregistered voters at a success rate of 93%? We are teaming up with Field Team 6 to use data-driven methods to register likely democratic voters. You do not need to use your cell phone. Check out our events below for more information. 

Indivisible National Action Steps:

• Step 1: Call your Dem senator

  • Our sources on Capitol Hill are hearing that Senator Schumer and the Democratic brass haven’t committed to dragging this vote to a grinding, screeching, clanking halt. They’re acting like the MAGA bill is business as usual, and we know it’s anything but.

  • Some of our Democratic Senators need a wake-up call from their constituents ASAP; others just need a reminder that we’ll have their backs when they fight as hard as possible. We’ve provided a script and will connect you to the right office, but you need to make the call.

  • Call your Democratic senators right now and urge them to do everything in their power to delay and disrupt the votes on the big, ugly Republican reconciliation bill.

• Step 2: Share your own amendment

  • The vote-a-rama process we mentioned above allows Senate Democrats to propose change after change to this bill, with virtually no limit on how many painful votes they can force Republicans to take.

  • We want to see as many amendments offered as possible, and we’re calling on this community to help craft some and share them with your senators! Be creative. Go wild. Just try to focus them on taxes and spending -- because that’s all that can go into a reconciliation bill.

  • Your amendment could be something like:

  • An amendment to transfer all the dollars for ICE funding to NPR and PBS, instead

  • An amendment to tax recipients of luxury jets gifted by foreign governments at 100% of the jet's market value

  • An amendment to cut every lawmaker’s salary and per diem by the same percentage SNAP gets cut

  • Send your proposed amendments to your Democratic senators here -- and remind them to do all they can to force as many painful votes as possible.

Thanks for your great efforts. Keep up the great work, and be safe!

Cait, Dean, Karen, and Kelly