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Opportunity to Join Our New Team

North Kitsap Indivisible is forming a Sign Team. Learn how to make deer fence freeway signs plus techniques and training on deploying, recovering and storing these large signs. NKI plans to have recurring sign deployments at scheduled rallies  and shorter notice pop-up deployments in various locations with messaging based on current events and anti-Democracy Regime actions.  Contact NKI and volunteer even if you only have time to occasionally hold one end of the sign at a rally. View some current freeway signs and different ways of deploying signs here.

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Featured Event

Saturday, May 9th – 10am to Noon

Community Conversations for Democracy #2
Topic: Elections with expert panel featuring Paul Andrews, Kitsap County Auditor and the League of Women Voters. Hosted by North Kitsap Indivisible.
Click here for more information and to RSVP

Watch last months Conversation: Expert Panel Discussing Immigration

Why We Resist

Neoliberalism comes to America. In America, it was inflation that opened the door to Milton Friedman’s neoliberalism. Neoliberalism is a political approach that favors free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending. This is a concise read that defines how economic policies favored the wealthy and diminished the protections to “We. the People” and Mother Earth.

Trump’s new conditions on DEI, immigration could cut off states’ wildfire funding. Washington state has been unable to issue the latest round of Community Wildfire Defense Grants, a federal program that helps neighborhoods and towns reduce fuels and fortify homes in wildfire-prone areas. Geissler, the state forester, said roughly 10 communities in Washington were set to receive large grants under the program, but the federal funding has been held up by the state’s refusal to sign the new terms and conditions.

SCOTUS Drops The Other Shoe on the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court’s Decision in Louisiana v. Callais Completes the Decimation of the Voting Rights Act

ICE

Local ICE Action: ICE detained and abducted a local resident on the morning of May 6 at the Silverdale 76 gas station on Silverdale Way. He has a wife and two children. . There are few details but this video was posted on Facebook showing the abduction. Quoting from the video: “It looks  like one of the officers is pointing at the person with what appears to be a gun”. A local pastor is in contact with the family and will meet with their detained family member. A go-fund-me page will be set up with the family’s permission. Please be aware that this is now happening to our local neighbors. Be like residents of Minneapolis…FIGHT BACK AND SUPPORT NEIGHBORS AT RISK.

After fleeing India, a family of four is being detained in a controversial Texas facility, facing deteriorating health, inedible food and substandard education

In a report published this month, the legal services non-profit Raíces and advocacy group Human Rights First documented “widespread due process violations, inhumane conditions, and lasting physical and psychological harm inflicted on families” incarcerated at Dilley.

Senate Republicans advance $140bn plan to fund Trump immigration crackdown amid DHS shutdown. Senate Republicans propose package including $1bn that could go to Trump ballroom

Wars – We can’t keep up with the madness

The Epstein Files – No need to explain further

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What Resistance Looks Like

Governor Ferguson, Attorney General Brown seek court order to permit health inspections at Northwest ICE Processing Center. Governor Bob Ferguson and Attorney General Nick Brown announced legal action against The GEO Group, the private company that owns and operates the Northwest ICE Processing Center. The action asks the court to order The GEO Group to allow inspectors from the state Department of Health into the immigration detention facility to ensure it is following state law, and to investigate the more than 3,500 complaints from detainees about conditions in the facility.

Action: Tell Costco: Don’t Cave to Extremists—Dispense Mifepristone Now!

To: Costco President and CEO Ron Vachris and members of the Costco Board

Why is this important? Costco has announced that its pharmacies will NOT dispense mifepristone—a safe, FDA-approved abortion pill used in the majority of abortions nationwide. This dangerous decision is a concession to anti-abortion extremists, not a reflection of what customers or patients need.

Sign petition and more information here from MOVE ON

Action: Your weekly to-dos

1.Tell your Democratic Members of Congress to fiercely oppose the new GOP effort to shovel billions more dollars to ICE and Border Patrol. 

2.Tell your Members of Congress to end the illegal war on Iran. 

Local Acts of Resistance

View inspiring pictures here  – May Day in Kingston.

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Elections and Candidates

NKI will be researching, informing and recommending

Candidate filing begins, kicking off Washington election season

There are at least 14 open seats in the state House as representatives retire or run for other offices. In the Senate, five members are not returning. Looking beyond legislative races, five of the nine seats on the state Supreme Court are up for election. Chief Justice Debra Stephens is the only incumbent running.

WA Supreme Court has five (5) positions on the ballot. It is very important that we elect the best candidates who will make decisions on important issues such as the Sheriff Eligibility Law. WA Supreme Court rejects state’s attempt to unblock sheriff eligibility law. A Washington Supreme Court commissioner on Tuesday declined to pause a judge’s ruling that blocked a new law setting stricter qualifications for sheriffs. Deputy Commissioner Walter Burton agreed with sheriffs challenging the law that the status quo from past years should remain while litigation continues, even as candidates for sheriff file to run for election this week. 

Tarra Simmons resolves campaign donations complaint against her

PDC complaint dismissed after Simmons agrees to a statement of understanding and $300 fine. Complaint against Rep. Simmons dismissed. NOTE: Tarra Simmons is the State Representative in the 23rd LD running against Democratic challenger Daria Ilgen.

Donald Trump doesn’t just want a ballroom. He needs a ballroom, in the way a medieval king needs a bigger throne room to feel safe from invading peasants.

Every event, crisis, or stray headline now somehow circles back to the same conclusion: if only there were a 90,000-square-foot, gold-trimmed, lawsuit-defying mega-ballroom on the White House lawn, none of this would be happening. Security breach? Ballroom. Legal setback? Ballroom. Constitution? Iimproved by ballroom.

Kindred Organizations

Indivisible Bremerton: Facebook, Website, Current Newsletter
Indivisible Bainbridge Island: Website, Current Newsletter
South Kitsap Indivisible: Website, Facebook, Calendar
Poulsbo for All: Website, Facebook, Calendar
Save Secular Healthcare WA: Website, Current Newsletter
Kingston Alliance for Democracy: Facebook
Kitsap Palestine Solidarity Coalition: Facebook
Kitsap ERACE Coalition: Facebook, Calendar
50501 Bainbridge Island: Private Facebook Group
Health Care is a Human Right WA: Newsletter
WA Immigration Solidarity Network (WAISN): Website
West Sound chapter of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA): Website

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