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A better finder rename 10 08 download free. Chameleon 1989. Former congressional staffers are publicizing their newly released 'Indivisible Guide,' a manual for people, groups, and organizations who want to resist the incoming rightwing administration through grassroots action.
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President-elect Donald Trump rose to power while losing the popular vote by a historic margin, and his lack of a mandate means a vocal and organized resistance can weaken Republican resolve and '[stiffen] Democratic spines,' the guide states.
'We know this because we've seen it before,' write the authors, former staffers who witnessed the Tea Party surge in President Barack Obama's first term. 'We saw these activists take on a popular president with a mandate for change and a supermajority in Congress.'
'We believe that protecting our values, our neighbors, and ourselves will require mounting a similar resistance to the Trump agenda—but a resistance built on the values of inclusion, tolerance, and fairness,' they write. 'If a small minority in the Tea Party can stop President Obama, then we the majority can stop a petty tyrant named Trump.'
The guide, which began as a Google doc last month and whose full title is Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda, outlines a step-by-step process of grassroots organizing and advocacy targeting Members of Congress (MoCs), from coordinated calls to sit-ins and photo op disruption.
It also encourages people to form localized activist groups to pressure their congressional representatives to resist Trump's agenda.
MSNBC‘s Rachel Maddow covered the guide on her show Wednesday:
The guide is another form of organized opposition to the incoming administration, which has named cabinet nominees who would seemingly undermine the departments they were picked to lead.
On Wednesday, a coalition of thousands of activists, civic leaders, scientists, and journalists took out a full-page ad in the New York Times calling for people to coordinate long-term protests to resist Trump's 'fascist regime,' and the Women's March on Washington is poised to be the largest inauguration day protest in history.
Meanwhile, action is stirring around the country. Climate campaigners on Tuesday announced the launch of the 'official pushback' against Trump's environmental plans, and leaders of the NAACP were arrested earlier this week after organizing a sit-in at Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions' office. Sessions, the nominee for Attorney General, was once deemed too racist to serve as a federal judge.
Some Democrats and allied forces are also gearing up to resist the coming Republican agenda, and progressive nonprofits last month reported an unprecedented wave of donations since the November election.
The congressional guide acknowledges these multi-faceted developments—indeed, that is part of the plan. 'This is not a panacea, nor is it intended to stand alone,' the authors write. 'We strongly urge you to marry the strategy in this guide with a broader commitment to creating a more just society, building local power, and addressing systemic injustice and racism.'
'We wrote this guide because we believe that the coming years will see an unprecedented movement of Americans rising up across the country to protect our values, our neighbors, and ourselves,' they write. 'Our goal is to provide practical understanding of how your [MoCs] think, and how you can demonstrate to them the depth and power of the opposition to Donald Trump and Republican congressional overreach.'
Indivisible is a progressive movement in the United States initiated in 2016 as a reaction to the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States. The movement began with the online publication of a handbook written by Congressional staffers with suggestions for peacefully but effectively resisting the move to the right in the executive branch of the United States government under the Trump administration that was widely anticipated and feared by progressives.[1] According to Peter Dreier, the goal of Indivisible is to 'save American democracy' and 'resume the project of creating a humane America that is more like social democracy than corporate plutocracy.'[2]
In 2019, Indivisible's Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin were included in Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2019.[3]
Origin[edit]
The movement started with the online publication of a 23-page handbook, Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda.[4] The authors of the document, most notably Ezra Levin, Jeremy Haile, Leah Greenberg, and Angel Padilla,[4][5] were former Congressional staffers. Greenberg worked as an aide to Democratic Representative Tom Perriello of Virginia,[6] while Levin, Greenberg's husband, worked as an aide to Lloyd Doggett, a Democratic Party member of the United States House of Representatives from Texas. After the 2016 presidential election, in mid-December 2016, Levin and Greenberg began working on an online guide in the form of a Google Document on how to make contact with congressional aides as a way of grieving over Trump's victory. Angel Padilla, and Jeremy Haile, and dozens of other staffers for Democratic members of the United States Congress joined in the creation of the online publication.[6][7]
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The authors modeled their document after the Tea Party movement, which focused on local activism and obstructing the Democratic Party's agenda following the election of President Barack Obama in 2008.[8] They thought that similar action taken by the left could be effective against what they perceived as Trump's 'bigoted and anti-democratic agenda'.[9] The purpose of the guide was to encourage resistance to Trump's presidency, most notably by targeting Republican elected members of Congress by attending town halls, calling congressional officials, visiting their offices, and showing up at public events.[10]
It was first published online on Google Docs on December 14, 2016, with Levin posting a link to it on his personal Twitter account. It soon went viral,[8] with, among others, Robert Reich, Jonathan Chait, George Takei and Miranda July circulating it online.[11]
History[edit]
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Since the guide's publication, its authors have created a website with further resources on using the guide and organizing local movements. The guide is continuously updated and is available in English and Spanish.[4] By February 4, 2017, less than two months from the publication of the Indivisible Guide, and about two weeks after Trump's inauguration, more than 3,800 local groups identifying as 'Indivisibles' had formed and declared their support for the movement.[12] In February, they organized as a 501(c) organization.[6]
Many groups attended town halls,[13] demonstrated against nominees for Trump's Cabinet, and worked with organizers of the Women's March. John Kasich and Mo Brooks acknowledged that the protests would impact efforts to repeal the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.[14][15] The movement was cited as a cause for the initial failure of Republicans to pass the American Health Care Act of 2017.[16]
In 2018, the group and its volunteers contributed money, endorsement and volunteer time to many House races, helping Democrats win back control of the chamber.[17] In 2019, the group endorsed a series of events aimed at supporting the impeachment of Donald Trump.[18]
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Maddow, Rachel (February 2, 2017). 'Anti-Donald Trump Backlash Outpacing Tea Party'. MSNBC. Retrieved July 18, 2017 – via YouTube.
- ^Dreier, Peter (April 4, 2017). 'The Anti-Trump Movement: Recover, Resist, Reform'. The American Prospect. Retrieved July 28, 2017.
- ^'Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin: The 100 Most Influential People of 2019'. TIME. Retrieved September 22, 2020.
- ^ abc'Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting the Trump Agenda'. Indivisible Guide. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
- ^Caey Tolan (May 13, 2017). 'Meet the husband-wife duo who are sparking a liberal Tea Party movement'. mercurynews.com. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
- ^ abc'Inside the protest movement that has Republicans reeling'. politico. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
- ^MSNBC (January 5, 2017). 'Online Guide Helps Focus Anti-Donald Trump Movement - Rachel Maddow - MSNBC'. Retrieved July 18, 2017 – via YouTube.
- ^ abBethea, Charles (December 16, 2016). 'The Crowdsourced Guide to Fighting Trump's Agenda'. The New Yorker. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
- ^Levin, Ezra; Greenberg, Leah; Padilla, Angel (January 2, 2017). 'To Stop Trump, Democrats Can Learn From the Tea Party'. The New York Times. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
- ^Criss, Doug (February 11, 2017). 'What is Indivisible? Political group hopes to be flip side of tea party'. CNN. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
- ^Homans, Charles (March 13, 2017). 'The New Party of No'. The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
- ^'local action groups'. indivisibleguide.com. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
- ^Zremski, Jerry (February 18, 2017). 'Raucous crowds overwhelm Reed town hall meetings'. buffalonews.com. Retrieved July 18, 2017.
- ^Fuller, Matt (February 26, 2017). 'John Kasich Admits Protesters Are Affecting Obamacare Debate'. Retrieved April 17, 2017 – via Huff Post.
- ^Massie, Chris. 'GOP Rep. Mo Brooks says town hall protests may prevent Obamacare repeal'. CNN. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
- ^'Left out of AHCA fight, Democrats let their grass roots lead — and win'. washington post. Retrieved April 17, 2017.
- ^Voght, Kara. 'The untold story of the progressive insurgency that is remaking Congress'. Mother Jones. Retrieved November 13, 2019.
- ^'Impeachment Group to Spend 31 Million Targeting Senate Republicans'. Washington Post. October 1, 2019.
Further reading[edit]
- Bethea, Charles (December 16, 2016). 'The Crowdsourced Guide to Fighting Trump's Agenda'. News Desk. New Yorker.
- Maddow, Rachel (January 4, 2017). 'What is the 'Indivisible' guide?'. The Rachel Maddow Show. MSNBC.
- Maddow, Rachel (January 5, 2017). 'Online Guide Helps Focus Anti-Donald Trump Movement'. The Rachel Maddow Show MSNBC. Retrieved July 18, 2017 – via YouTube.
- Hobson, Jeremy (February 7, 2017). 'Grass-Roots Organizers Channel Trump Protests Into Progressive Tea Party'. Here & Now. NPR. WBUR.
- McCammon, Sarah (February 8, 2017). 'In Living Rooms Around The Country, Activists Organize To Oppose Trump'. Morning Edition. NPR. Retrieved February 28, 2017.
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