2025 Weekly Newsletters
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Indivisible Tucson Announcements
July 6, 2025 Indivisible Tucson Announcements July 6, 2025 OUTLINE 1. Monthly Meeting Tomorrow (July 7) 3:30 p.m. 2. Tomorrow's Featured Speaker: Dr. Teresa Ruiz, running for Superintendent of Public Instruction 3. Take the survey about our monthly meeting time 4. Vote in the CD-7 Special Election Primary 5. Pressure Ciscomani 6. Boycott and Build 7. One Million Rising 8. Additional resources 1. Monthly Meeting Tomorrow (July 7) 3:30 p.m. Next ITAA General Membership meeting 7/7, 3:30 p.m. 2. Tomorrow's Featured Speaker: Dr. Teresa Ruiz, running for Superintendent of Public Instruction Dr. Teresa Ruiz, candidate for Arizona State Superintendent of Public Education A first-generation college student, Dr. Ruiz dreamt of making a difference in the lives of students in her community of South Phoenix. She earned degrees from Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University, which led to a career teaching math in public schools at the middle school, high school, and college levels. Subsequently, she earned her doctoral degree from ASU and completed her career as the 8th President of Glendale Community College. Now Dr. Ruiz is putting her experience to use by aspiring to become Arizona’s next Superintendent of Public Instruction. She believes deeply in the power of education to uplift and change people’s lives, strengthening their families and their communities. Dr. Ruiz states: “Arizona will be prosperous, safe, and strong when children and adults are supported in having opportunities to continue learning. We must strengthen the pipeline of learning throughout the K-12 system and beyond so Arizona will be a strong and economically vibrant place for everyone.” More about Dr Ruiz: in-depth interview Dr. Teresa Leyba Ruiz Has a Million Reasons to Become the Next Superintendent of Public Instruction; All of Them Arizona’s Children March 12, 2025 by David Gordon https://blogforarizona.net/dr-teresa-leyba-ruiz-has-a-million-reasons-to-become-the-next-superintendent-of-public-instruction-all-of-them-arizonas-children/ 3. Take the survey about our monthly meeting time WE ARE TAKING A SURVEY ABOUT THE TIME OF THE MONTHLY MEETING! If you attend or would like to attend our monthly meetings, please take this very short survey to let us know what time you prefer to meet. The survey will remain open until July 14. [This version of the newsletter is posted on a public-facing website, and so we are not including internal links.] 4. Vote in the CD-7 Special Election Primary 5. Pressure Ciscomani MESSAGE FROM PRESSURE CISCOMANI TEAM The word of the week is RELENTLESS. We will not give up because the Ciscomani and his Republican masters in Washington passed the Big Bad Budget Bill; we are keeping the pressure on, and turning the pressure up. SEE THE ATTACHED FLYER! jpg: Juan-Watch-DJT-Quote.jpg pdf: Juan-Watch-DJT-Quote.pdf Preview: download the full size jpg above. We will be sending regular messaging for you to post, and, ideally, to distribute on social media. You can post on Facebook, Instagram, Substack, X, Bluesky...anywhere you can. You can even post directly to Ciscomani's facebook page. Go to our Hold Ciscomani Accountable Facebook and Instagram pages and like, comment, share our posts to maximize impact. Social media helps us reach swing voters with our message. Finally, those of you in CD 06 should contact Ciscomani by phone or email as frequently as you can, every day if you want, to let him know this: You voted with the millionaires and your Republican masters, not with us, your constituents. We will remember in November. If you want to join our team, contact me at [email protected]. We are building a vets team to be part of our coalition. We have a small group and we are growing. Contact me if you are a vet and you want to join us. Thanks Ken 6. Boycott and Build MESSAGE FROM THE BOYCOTT AND BUILD GROUP Want to participate in the Boycott and Build group or just have an interest in learning what we are up to? Please join us this Thursday July 10th at 3pm on Zoom. Reach out to Lisa Vaughn at [email protected] for the meeting link and to be added to the email list for the Boycott and Build group. WANT TO DONATE $14.99 A MONTH TO THE TRUMP REGIME? We certainly hope your answer is a resounding NO! But what if the question we were asking was this instead? For just $14.99 a month you can have quick, convenient access to all the best priced, largest assortment of products that you so love. Sound good? For just $14.99 plus tax you can elevate your shopping experience and gain access to free delivery, award-winning TV, exclusive deals, and more. Want to Join? Click the SIGN ME UP button now. Did you just click the button to say YES, sign me up? What if we now added this “FINE PRINT” to the question above: Your $14.99 will go directly to support the TRUMP regime! If your answer is still a resounding NO, why continue sending $14.99 a month to Jeff Bezos for your Amazon Prime membership? Please connect the dots! Educate yourself on how your $14.99/month for Amazon Prime, plus every other dollar you spend on Amazon has the not so hidden externalized cost of bankrolling the Trumps. You pay Jeff Bezos, Jeff Bezos uses your money to buy favor from the Trumps. See the connection? When you say YES to Amazon and Jeff Bezos, you vote YES for the Trumps and oligarchy. As the AMAZON BOYCOTT continues we take a deeper dive into why we all need to understand the impacts of buying from Amazon. When you click BUY think about EVERYTHING you are actually buying! Here are just a few of the many ways the profits from your Amazon purchases are being used to bankroll Trump: 1) $1 MILLION dollars to support Trump’s inauguration. 2) $40 MILLION for Melania Trump documentary (reportedly highest they ever paid for a documentary and 3X more than highest next bidder for the same documentary). 3) Bought rights to Donald Trump’s “The Apprentice” to air on Amazon Prime. 4) Bought the Washington Post and kept the editorial board’s endorsement of Kamala Harris for President from running. 5) According to United for Respect, Amazon and Bezos PAC contributions have a clear partisan preference, with two-thirds of their combined spending going to Republicans. STOP! No more excuses! Don’t click that BUY button! When you support Bezos you cannot look away from the fact that you are also supporting the very things we all are working so hard here at Indivisible to fight. Shopping at Amazon while fighting with your heart and soul to defeat Trump, Ciscomani, and all the others who support a government that benefits the wealthy while stripping the rest of us of economic opportunity and freedom seems as baffling as trying to understand why Americans being hurt by Trump’s policies gladly vote for him. FINE PRINT: We get it. We know Amazon is such a huge monopoly that it is impossible to find some products anywhere but there. And we know some of us live paycheck to paycheck. If you truly NEED a product unavailable ANYWHERE else for a price you can personally truly AFFORD without literally taking food off your table, then please know there is no shame in strategically buying a specific product from Amazon. We all have to make choices every day we likely wish we could make differently, but if we honestly have no other option because of the very broken capitalistic system we live in, we have to just consciously make as few of those choices as absolutely necessary. And then make better choices every time we possibly can. That is the only way we begin to free ourselves and build an economy that truly works for us all and helps build a healthy democracy at the same time. THIS WEEK’S CHALLENGE! BREAK FREE FROM AMAZON! Say loudly and clearly to Amazon: If you support Trump and the broken policies he and the GOP stood for this week, gleefully passing the BIG UGLY BUDGET BILL, I will NOT be your customer. Do all of these you can this week to boycott Amazon and AMAZON PRIME DAYS 1) Download the free e-book “How to Resist Amazon and Why” on JULY 8th from bookshop.org. 2) Go cold turkey and cancel your Amazon Prime Membership (otherwise at least pause it) 3) Do NOT visit the Amazon website for anything other than cancelling your membership (every time you visit their site they benefit even if you do not buy) 4) Disinvest if you own stock in Amazon 5) Do not click on any Amazon advertisement that you see anywhere -- in searches, social media, etc. (again they make money) 6) Post about what you are doing and the great local business alternatives you find 7) Ask your friends and family to do all of the above and post on social media YES! Jeff Bezos is using YOUR money to bankroll the Trumps and here is WHY: Still not making the connection about why Jeff Bezos is bankrolling the Trumps? Seems pretty plain and simple -- greed! The less regulation and investigations into Bezos’s many businesses, the more money he pockets. The more he adds to his extreme wealth, the more he will continue to use it to buy greater and greater influence and power. What does that look like? Using his extreme wealth to gain: Business friendly (non-existent or lenient) regulations so he can grow his monopolistic business in any ways he chooses, regardless of the real harms caused to free and fair competition, worker rights, the environment, our privacy, our freedoms, a healthy democracy and so much more. Business friendly tax laws allowing companies like Amazon to pay very little tax, sometimes even $0 in tax, while using tax-dollar created services to support their business. Federal taxpayer funded contracts and sweet deals that benefit Amazon, while again, paying as little as possible into those very taxes that he benefits greatly from. And the list goes on and on and on, but always leads back to Jeff Bezos being willing to screw all of us over, even to the extent of destroying our democracy, all in an effort to get richer and more powerful. BOYCOTT AMAZON THIS WEEK! If you can't go all out, start with a commitment for just this week. See how great it feels and be inspired to keep boycotting Jeff Bezos until he starts caring about the survival of our democracy more than he cares about further enriching himself. Boycott Amazon forever if that is what it takes. We cannot support people like Jeff Bezos and expect to have a free and fair society and a strong democracy. Help defeat oligarchy - BOYCOTT AMAZON and all Jeff Bezos owned businesses. 7. One Million Rising One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism This is a series of events from No Kings! https://www.mobilize.us/nokings/event/803953/ Session 1: The Moment & Your Mission - July 16 Get oriented to making meaning of this moment and the role you can play in coordinated strategic action. Session 2: How to Make it Happen - July 30 This train-the-trainer session is how we get to one million. Learn not just our strategy, but how you can train others and get them on board. You'll host your first community resistance gathering after this session. Session 3: What Now? - August 13 You'll be onboarded to basic campaign design and learn how to implement it locally as well as get plugged into our next national campaign work. Your second community resistance gathering will move this action forward. Sign up for all 3 sessions to get the most out of this experience. Watch it live with a friend in person, and get ready now to host your own community resistance gatherings after the second and third sessions. This is how we get to 1 million! 8. Additional resources Indivisible National - weekly What's the Plan? zoom call Link to join the weekly What's The Plan https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/773746/ TAKE ACTION TUCSON - good source for info about local events https://www.takeactiontucson.org/ LOCAL MEDIA: TUCSON SENTINEL https://www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/report/070425_cisco_big_bad_op/the-ice-men-cometh-ciscomani-votes-bring-secret-police-mass-deportations-tucson/ "On Tyranny" free resources to use and to share, now or any time. From Timothy Snyder https://timothysnyder.org/resources/ That's it for this week's announcements. Looking forward to seeing many of you on tomorrow's Zoom call!! -- Margrit of ITAA Copyright © 2025 ITAA Inc., All rights reserved. |
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