The budget fight in Congress is coming to a close, for now, with the passage of Continuing Resolutions. Our MoC’s were able to prevent any poison pills from entering the resolutions, but were unable to enact any restrictions on Trump and the Republicans’ abuses.

Indivisible SF’s November 2019 Voter Guide covers the six City propositions on the November 5th ballot. These propositions cover  funding for affordable and teacher housing, new taxes on ride-hail companies, campaign finance disclosures, regulation of vaping products, and more.

The Business Roundtable just issued a new statement of policy overturning their 40-year-old position that a corporation's sole duty is to generate profit for shareholders. This is more than just a platitude - it’s an acknowledgement of changing attitudes to business.

We met with Sen. Feinstein’s staff earlier this month. Here’s a summary of the meeting.

At our most recent meeting with Sen. Feinstein’s staff in her SF office, we received a letter addressed to seven Indivisible chapters, including us. In it, she laid out her reasoning for voting for the bill, including substantive responses to our concerns.

If you feel the need for some inspiration, please read here the words of one of our members, Bruce Hartford, that he delivered in a speech at the San Francisco Lights for Liberty event on July 12th.

Last week, a $26 billion utility bailout bill, AB1054, passed through the Assembly and Senate with the help of Governor Newsom.

Some Indivisible SF members helped organize the Lights For Liberty vigil on Friday, July 12th, 2019. As part of that, they produced this flyer to hand out to attendees of the event. With the authors’ permission, we’re publishing the PDFs online for the rest of the world to be able to distribute it.

MoCs went to the southern border and witnessed horrifying mistreatment being done in our name.

This is an incomplete collection of press accounts of mistreatment (negligence and/or active abuse) of people detained in ICE and/or CBP facilities.

How can we be effective Indivisible SF citizens? Let's look at communications between constituents and a Member of Congress (MoC). Excerpted from Bruce Hartford's MoC and Their Constituent's Thoughts, 2019

ISF condemns, in the strongest terms, today’s white nationalist and fascist-inspired attack on the Muslim community of New Zealand.

Under the leadership of Mayor Breed, City officials have quietly continued to enact homeless encampment sweeps, despite a court ruling them unconstitutional last year. Learn more about the City's ongoing criminalization of poverty in the midst of a widespread housing crisis, by reading this letter that we sent the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor early in 2019.

Trump’s “national emergency” is a fake emergency, not for national security, but to usurp power that belongs to Congress.

San Francisco may soon expand involuntary conservatorship. We've written a letter to Mayor Breed expressing our opposition to the proposed ordinance, and our support for the opposition coalition led by Seniors and Disability Action.

The Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival is an organization committed to reviving the movement of Martin Luther King, Jr. to demand economic and racial justice for the poor of America.

In honor of Martin Luther King Day, they have issued a set of demands to elected representatives that promote economic justice.

Thanks to hostage-taking by Trump and an abdication of governance on the part of Republicans, we ended up with a prolonged Government Shutdown. How this situation has developed, and what we can do resolve this impasse.

On Saturday, join us at a Candlelight Vigil 5pm-6pm on the corner of Powell St. and Market St. We will hear from CARECEN and SOA Watch about the realities of the migrant caravan at the border, and about the hardships faced by immigrants in ICE detention. We will also be raising money to a fund of 12 groups working directly with immigrants. Donate online or by texting “STOPTHETEARS” to 555888.