Rowdy at the rotary!
Tuesday, September 2 | 4:00-5:00 PM
Shelburne Street Rotary at Locust Street | Burlington
Bring your signs and voices to the south end and exercise your free speech! Then, head down to the postcard party.
Membership Meeting and Postcard Party
Tuesday, September 2 | 5:30-7:30 PM
Queen City Brewery | 703 Pine Street | Burlington
September’s membership meeting will include a postcard party. We’ll bring the postcards, you bring a pen, and we’ll reach out to legislators, governors, officials, and policy-makers to tell them we don’t want autocracy, disappearances, thieving officials, and a corrupt government! Food and drink available.
Vermont Fair & Impartial Policing Policy (FIPP)
The FIPP limits local police involvement in immigration enforcement: if an undocumented immigrant poses no threat to an officer or the public, officers should not share their personal information with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) or Border Patrol (CBP). By law, all Vermont law enforcement agencies (sheriffs and municipal or state police) must adopt the policy and commit to treating everyone fairly. Community members are invited to provide comments on the latest version of the FIPP by September 1. You can find a copy of the policy here and an explainer here. You can leave a comment through this survey
Reach out to the Governor
Send a thank you message to Governor Scott for refusing to send the Vermont National Guard to Washington D.C. to be part of Trump’s autocratic military occupation of our cities. Encourage him to check with VT Attorney General Charity Clark before cooperating with any intrusive and questionable requests by the Federal Government, in case Vermont might join a lawsuit challenging the request. You can reach the Governor here.
Socialize AND organize with QCVI
Thursday, September 18
Skinny Pancake | 60 Lake Street | Burlington
Join us downtown for a party and fundraiser. Fun! Details soon. Save the date!
Front Porch Forum
We post our newsletters in our neighborhood Front Porch forum and they generate a lot of interest and action. You can help by posting on YOUR neighborhood forum. https://frontporchforum.com/ Thanks for the assist!
Redistricting
First, Trump had his flunkies in Texas redraw the state’s congressional district map to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of Democrats and create 5 non-competitive seats for MAGA Republicans. Then, California Governor Newsom proposed doing the same in California to flip 5 seats the other way. However, in California, it has to go to the people for a vote. Redistricting is a bad idea in normal times, but these times aren’t normal. Unfortunately, the League of Women Voters in California has come out against Governor Newsom’s redistricting plan. LWV’s opinion does matter, and this amendment could fail if we don’t rally everyone to support it. Please consider sending them an email at lwvc@lwvc.org asking them to change course.
How to “win” an election
How did the voters shift so rapidly from mild Progressivism to extreme autocracy-cum-fascism? One possibility is that they didn’t. The Election Truth Alliance has been investigating the possibility that the elections were rigged. In North Carolina, the precinct-level returns are striking: Trump got lots more votes on Election Day than other Republicans, but not in the mail-in ballots and only in precincts with more registered voters. The data are consistent with systematic vote switching and ballot stuffing in precincts large enough to justify the effort. (No sense monkeying with the machines in a precinct that only has a small number of voters.) You can find out more here.
Queen City Vermont Indivisible is a group of concerned individuals seeking to preserve democracy, resist autocracy, and empower our community through nonviolent protests, actions, and local events.
Be well, take care of each other, have fun, and fight the good fight!
https://queencityvtindivisible.org/
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