@salemorindivisible.bsky.social
Vision: To build a movement around a progressive agenda, defend the rule of law, and to mobilize diverse coalitions to save our democracy. Objective: Hold public leaders accountable, support immigrants/refugees and marginalized populations.
“To continue supporting local families, Salem Region Indivisible is hosting a benefit concert for the Marion Polk Food Share this month …
… Every $25 concert ticket provides 75 meals for people in our community.”
#TrueNorth #MarionPolkFoodShare #FoodShare #ComfortAndJoy #JamForThePantry #EndHunger
For tickets and more information:
www.showpass.com/comfort-joy/
Can’t attend? Here’s another way to help.
please put “Comfort &Jou 12/14” in the comment box at bottom of page.
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Join us for an evening of Comfort & Joy starring True North Duo, and featuring The Capitals, Tuesday String Band and Rebecca McDade, Sun., Dec. 14 at the BAD Space.
Silent Auction & special brew launched that day!
#TrueNorth #MarionPolkFoodShare #FoodShare #JamForThePantry #EndHunger See less
It’s Giving Tuesday!
Share with us your favorite organization to give to.
#GivingTuesday #FoodShare #MarionPolkFoodShare
Our incredible Autumn, a high school art teacher in Salem, speaking out last night at City Council about the need for a State of Emergency order and in support of Latinos Unidos Siempre.
#ICEOut #ProtectSanctuaryCity #DueProcess #ProtectImmigrantFamilies #ChingaLaMigra #ResistFascism
A person holds a sign urging Salem City Council to approve an emergency declaration in response to recent ICE arrests during a meeting at Loucks Auditorium in Salem Public Library on Dec. 1. Photo by Kevin Neri/Statesman Journal
"This emergency declaration allows us on council to be able to get creative to work with our community partners." –Mai Vang
…Hoy said she was not in favor of the motion because it "didn't do enough." The crowd jeered at that statement.”…
#ICEOut #DueProcess #ProtectImmigrantFamilies
“The declaration does not direct city funding to support immigrants or those affected by immigration enforcement, something that people asked for at last week’s city council meeting and again Monday evening.”
#ICEOut #ProtectSanctuaryState #ProtectSanctuaryCity #DueProcess #ProtectImmigrantFamilies
State Senator Deb Patterson submitted testimony on behalf of the immigrant community.
Although less than last week, the turnout was great!
This meeting was so important, many young people attended, on a school night!
Council members in person and online.
The Declaration of Emergency passed, sans the demand for $300,000 in emergency funds for impacted families.
The vote was 6-3 with Mayor Hoy, Matthews and Gwyn voting against… again.
#ICEOut #ProtectSanctuaryState #ProtectSanctuaryCity #DueProcess #AbolishICE #ProtectImmigrantFamilies
SHOW UP TO CITY COUNCIL TO PROTECT OUR BARRIO! DEC 1 ON NOVEMBER 24TH OVER 200 PEOPLE SHOWED UP TO DEMAND AN EMERGENCY DECLARATION DUE TO ICE DRIVEN TERROR IN SALEM. The City Council needs to hear from us again. They MUST declare a state of emergency and invest at least s300,000 in emergency funds for affected families in our city.
A declaration of emergency must come with material investments for impacted families. When a loved one is detained or derported, families experience economic hardship due to the loss of income, trauma and toxic stress. Impacted families also need funds to access legal support, a fundamental constitutional right, that is continuously being denied to migrant people! At least %20 percent of Salem's population is directly connected to migrants, $300k is just the start to ensure all impacted families have access to resources.
Ways to participate: In person testimony. The City Council will have a sign-up sheet where people will be placed on a list to speak. 6-E is the agenda item we are speaking on. Call in testimony To sign up to provide online comment at the Salem City Council meeting go to https://www.cityofsalem.net, between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm on the day of the meeting. Once you’ve signed up, you will receive and email with instructions how to join the zoom meeting.
Sample Testimony: Introduce yourself and your ward (the neighborhood where you live or work.) Share why this issue matters to you. “I am here because my family, my neighbor or friends are affected by…” You can share a personal story. Connect your story to our collective demands. Why do these demands matter to you? Why are they important. Close out by demanding that you want to see this change. It is urgent that the city of Salem implement these changes.
Last week, LUS called for testimony and a demonstration at the City Council.
The community turned out!
Let's come back tonight! Urge Council to vote to declare a state of emergency over increased ICE arrests.
#ProtectSanctuaryCity #DueProcess #ProtectImmigrantFamilies #ICEOutOfOurBarrio
Here is some wise and excellent advice, first from AOC, and then from our good friend Angela at Parkrose Permaculture in Portland, whose podcast many of us watch routinely on account of her moral passion and good sense.
#resist #resistfascism #resistance #mocktheregime #accessyourrisk
Today is Small Business Saturday!
Several Downtown Salem businesses are offering deals and there is free parking for the day!
#ShopLocal #BuyLocal #SmallBusinessSaturday #BoycottBigBox #BoycottCyberMonday #GivingTuesday
We need as many people as possible to be trained to respond to ICE activity. Please consider taking this training -- so you're ready when it happens. Sign up at bit.ly/MWDecember4
#SupportImmigrantFamiies #ICEOut #ICEOutOfOurCommunities
Happening now!
No Contract, No Coffee: Starbucks Workers are on strike! Don’t cross the picket line this holiday season, and join them on Black Friday (November 28) from 9am to 2pm to help declare that Starbucks Workers Deserve More!
#NoContractNoCoffee #StandWithStarbuckWorkers
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Link to list of Black Friday alternatives, instead of QR code: salemregionindivisible.org/boycott-blac...
Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate!
Remember, use our spending power this season to support
local businesses, makers, swaps and our own creativity!
Boycott Black Friday and
Cyber Monday, no Big Box!
Support our community!
#BoycottBlackFriday #BoycottCyberMonday #BuyLocal #Swaps #NoBigBox
Packed house, impassioned testimonies well after 11pm led to Nordyke’s motion and the Salem City Council to vote moving forward with declaring a state of emergency due to ICE terrorizing our city.
Worth noting: Matthews, Gwyn and Mayor Hoy voted no.
#ICEOut #ProtectSanctuaryState #DueProcess
Salem City Counsel meeting is packed with over 30 in overflow. Testimony is eloquent and firey by LUS and others, including a small child. Very moving!
#ICEOut #ProtectSanctuaryState #ProtectSanctuaryCity #DueProcess #AbolishICE #ProtectImmigrantFamilies
Restore the emergency search and rescue helicopter! Thank you @agdanrayfield.bsky.social!!
#newport #oregon #dungeness #fishermen
Poster that says “Join us tomorrow demand the City Council Protect our Barrio.”
Poster that says: Ways to participate in, In Person, call in Testimony. Go to https:www.cityofsalem.net between 8:00 am and 3:00 pm.
Enough is enough!
Let’s show up and raise our voices for our community. Let’s push for real protection and accountability!
Salem Public Library
Monday, the 24th at 6:00 PM
#ICEOut #ICEOutOfOurBarrio #DueProcess #ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights #AbolishICE
Join us in Salem December 14 for a concert event featuring Kristen Grainger and Dan Wetzel of True North and others as a fundraiser for Marion Polk Food Share.
www.showpass.com/comfort-joy/
SRI Visibility Brigade members had a captive audience at the traffic light at Liberty & Trade, educating the commuters that ICE is terrorizing Salem neighborhoods. ✊
#ICEOut #iceoutofourcommunities #ICEOutOfOurBarrio #Resist #AbolishIce #StandWithImmigrants #VisibilityBrigade #ResistFascism
Now, more than ever we need to Step Up Our Resistance!
#Resist #StepUpYourResistance
“ICE continues to conduct these pick ups in a violent manner, and with no way of ensuring due process.” said Levi Herrera-Lopez, executive director of Mano a Mano.
Note: SRI Visibility Brigade banner lead photo.
#ICEOut #DueProcess #immigrantrightsarehumanrights
Visibility banner drop, on Veterans Day in Salem, OR.
Visibility Brigade banner drop, on Veteran’s Day in Albany, OR.
We teamed up with banner folks in Corvallis and Albany, traveling I5 on Veteran’s Day.
Since April, our Visibility Brigade team has connected with 114,500 cars and counting! Join us. Banner messaging activates voters and shows that RESISTANCE IS POSSIBLE!
Email sri@salemregionindivisible.org
Happening in Salem.
#ICEOut #DueProcess #ImmigrantRightsAreHumanRights #AbolishICE
Veteran Clyde Clevenger leads SRI in the Veteran's parade in Albany today. Members of SRI behind carrying the SRI banner and signs with their veteran loved ones, holding buckets holding buttons, candy and bracelets to hand out to spectators.
Benton County Indivisible members holding sign that says “Vets Defend the Constitution.
Veteran in leather motorcycle jacket petting Westley the fluffy golden doodle, with motorcycles in the background. Westley is building bridges and coalition building.
Marcher holding sign with photo of veteran loved one, saying “John Beck, U.S. Navy Seabees EO Viet Nam. Integrity, Strength of character.”
Happy Veteran's Day!
SRI marched in the Linn Co. Veteran's Day parade, alongside Benton Co. Indivisible, today in Albany, Oregon.
A good day for the whole community to come together.
Blue, red or purple, we all support our veterans!
#VeteransDay #SupportOurVeterans #VetsDefendTheConstitution
On the bright side…
#DontStreamFascism #CancelSpotify #Boycott #BoycottSpotify #WeCanDoThis
A woman in traditional dress sings along side an ofrenda built for those who died by injustice. (An ofrenda is an altar built to honor and deceased loved ones during Dia de los Metros (Day of the Dead.)
Two women hold a large banner with drawing of an ICE agent with a no sign through it while attending the rally.
Two women wearing medical masks, stand near the capitol with signs. One saying “Resist ICE” and the other “Stop Separating Families, Keep ICE out of our Barrio.”
Attended the "Ice Out of Our Barrio" event this Saturday put on by Latinos Unidos Siempre. An ofrenda was built to honor those who died by injustice. Amazing performances, sharing latino culture, brought beauty too these tough times.
#iceoutofourbarrio #iceout #immigrantrights #resist
