• Generally hosted on Sundays from 3-5 pm at St. John's Lutheran Church (81 Christopher Street)
  
• Group uses Slack for organization, discussion, and collaboration
  
• Many Indivisible groups in NYC area. This one is https://www.nyindivisible.com but makes no claims to be the ‘one and only’ or anything like that. Hopes to one day bring all NY indivisible groups under a single umbrella, but considers that a long-term goal and is not devoting resources to it in the short-term.

• Recommendation to read the Indivisible Guide: https://www.indivisibleguide.com/
  
• Written by former congressional staffers to provide guidance on how local groups can leverage similar tactics as the Tea Party to impact the actions of members of congress (MoCs).
  
• Because progressives are a minority in both the House and Senate and do not control the Whitehouse, the guide recommends a “defensive” strategy (stopping Trumps agenda, as opposed to developing and pushing new policy)
  
• Several local advocacy “tools” for influencing MoCs described, including Town Halls, other local events, coordinated office calls, and district office visits.

• Petitions
  
• Emails
  
• Faxes
  
• Postcards
  
• Letters
  
• Phone Calls
  
• Town Halls
  
• In-person meetings in local offices
  
• In-person meetings in DC

• Letter Writing
  
  • Group is organizing letter-writing “tables” around the city. Basically, they set up tables with pre-written letters on several topics and ask passers-by to fill in their address and sign their name. They’ll then mail the letters to the appropriate MoC.
    
  • Targets have included (or are planned to include): US Congress, NYS Legislature, NYC Council, and NYC Mayors office
    
  • Group is actively looking for volunteers to take shifts at these tables, particularly on the weekends
• Town Halls
  
  • Group is organizing attendance of MoC-driven Town Halls, but also hosting a variety of Town-Hall events themselves
    
  • Somewhat different approach from other groups in that they are hosting and running the events (and inviting MoCs, NYC councilmembers, etc.), but executing the events whether they have buy-in from specific members of government or not
    
  • Indivisible-hosted events are focused on providing information to attendees on what actions they can take to influence the specific topic at hand (preventing Obamacare repeal, for example)
    
  • Next Indivisible-hosted Town Hall is tentatively scheduled for next congressional recess (March 16), but they’re having trouble getting a big enough venue (had 400-500 people attended last event), so they’re considering pushing back to the April congressional recess.
    
  • Next topic likely to be women’s issues, focused on POC and immigrant communities.
    
  • Group called “United for Action” sent someone to ask NY Indivisible to co-host an event they’re holding on March 12th at 5:00pm to discuss how to prevent Obamacare repeal. Specifically, how to apply pressure to Dan Donovan (R-NY 11th District, Staten Island).
• Organized Calling
  
  • Speaker noted that they’ve been in touch with congressional offices, who have told them that call intensity and volume has been dropping off over the past week
    
  • Group is looking for people to organize phone-trees and other group-calling of congressional offices
    
  • General request that everyone continue to make calls and ask their friends and family to make calls
    
  • Recommendation of app called “5 Calls”. I checked it out – seems really intuitive. Provides list of topics and gives you a script and a clickable phone number for whoever is the call target.
• Social Media
  
  • NY Indivisible has a broad online presence – Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Webpage, Slack, etc.
    
  • Looking for help both managing their various platforms and generating content
• Elections
  
  • Working group on elections is applying information from SwingLeft, Flippable, Sister District, Justice Democrats and other groups
    
  • Currently focused on Georgia District 6 special election to fill Tom Price’s seat. Date of special election is April 18th.
    
  • Reaching out to other Indivisible groups in Georgia and to Jon Ossoff’s campaign to see how we can help.
    
  • Currently organizing phone-banking sessions, but waiting on the Ossoff campaign to provide a call-list and script
    
  • Recommendation to amplify social-media presence of Ossof campaign by linking/retweeting/sharing on social media.
    
  • Fundraising is another major topic that nobody has really committed to yet, beyond individual donations and forwarding around the fundraising email from the Ossoff campaign.
    
  • For general fundraising, I offered to take the first step by researching options and legality and reporting back to the group.

get that OUT of my face has issued a correction as of 08:59 on Mar 11, 2017