Join us Wednesday, May 6th from 5-6pm for Indivisible Charlottesville's first virtual happy hour and meetup! We've all gotten so good at distancing, and now it's time to reconnect with your fellow Indivisibles. So raise your favorite beverage and let's talk about taking meaningful action in these strange times, or just share a small joy that's made you smile. Together we'll figure out how to adapt all our skills and energy to win in November—here in VA-05 and beyond. We'll use Zoom for this event. To get the Zoom link, please RSVP here: https://forms.gle/1TPGqDTbT1GZPwXP9

“Birddogging” is the tactic of putting a policy maker, elected representative, or candidate on the spot, in public and on camera, with inescapable, bullet-proof questions. A birddogger may decide to be perceived as a friend or foe of the politician, and birddoggers may come in groups small or large. This form of simple, direct advocacy is amazingly effective---and yet, astonishingly rare. In 2020’s election year, birddogging is how we will win the policies we need for equity and justice in our community.

Even though politicians like Denver Riggleman have stopped holding town hall meetings out of fear of their own constituents, campaign season has arrived and they must come out in public. Now is the time to learn how to ask your questions in the most effective and compelling way.

Trainer: Elizabeth Deutsch. Elizabeth is the Director of NY State and New England Community Mobilization at Housing Works. She joined the Advocacy Dept. at Housing Works in 2018 after twenty-two years in nursing to use her knowledge of the healthcare system to make effective change in public health policy. She has been an organizer for both federal and local rallies, protests, and non-violent civil disobedience including saving the ACA, fighting the tax scam, and protesting ICE and the Kavanaugh hearings.

RSVP on our Facebook page here or just show up!

Location: Century Room of the Gordon Avenue Library, 1500 Gordon Ave, Charlottesville, VA 22903-1916

After three long years, 2020 is finally here, and we can’t wait to defeat Trump at the ballot box! But to save our democracy, we know we’ve also got to flip the Senate and hold the House in November. In 2018, Indivisible Charlottesville volunteers wrote over 20,000 postcards to voters and dramatically increased Democratic turnout in our House district. Now, we are taking that incredible energy to races across the nation to help flip the Senate with peer-to-peer texting! We’ll be joining the national “Payback Project” to engage voters across nine target states to take action with Indivisibles in their area and mobilize to defeat their Trump-enabling Senators. #TextingIsTheNewPostcards

Why texting?

1. Texting is new and exciting! We're working with National Indivisible to get the same texting app that is used by organizations like Vote.org and at least one presidential campaign.

2. Texting is powerful! You can reach hundreds of voters per hour and the system automatically gathers data.

3. Texting is easy! All you need is your laptop (or a tablet with an external keyboard). We'll walk you through everything you need to know. Once you get set up and comfortable with the program, you can start texting from your phone!

4. Texting is fun! We’ll be gathering in the back room at Beer Run for a snack and beverage and a chance to mingle with Indivisible friends while reaching out to voters.

FAQs:

“Do I need to worry about my privacy?” No! The platform we are using does not use your personal phone number, and voters do not see your last name.

“I don't know what to say.” That's OK! The texting platform automatically fills in the initial outgoing message, and you’ll have dozens of pre-written scripts.

“I really love writing POSTCARDS. Can I still do that?” Yes! We’ll some have some postcards from Postcards to Voters as well! There’ll be something for everyone. But don't forget to BRING YOUR LAPTOP OR TABLET IF YOU WANT TO TEXT!

Come out and learn the ropes so that you can be part of the local team of Indivisible texters that is making a difference in Senate races across the country.

RSVP to our Facebook event here or just show up!

Location: Back Room of Beer Run

BRING YOUR LAPTOP OR TABLET!

Trump did the crime. Riggleman and the GOP said it was OK. What will YOU do about it?

This Wednesday, hundreds of thousands of Americans will mobilize with a simple demand: Reject The Coverup.

Together, we’ll demand:

Accountability -- Trump and the Senators and members of Congress who voted to cover up his crimes will be held accountable by their constituents.

Democracy -- Now more than ever, we need to ensure a free and fair election in 2020, which means real election security reform and an end to voter suppression.

Reform -- As after Watergate, we demand structural reforms to end the corruption and abuses of power that allowed Donald Trump’s criminal behavior in the first place.

It’s up to us to mobilize like never before -- and ensure that this dark moment in our nation’s history is followed by an unprecedented level of civic action.

Join Indivisible Charlottesville to watch the sixth 2020 Democratic Primary debate!

On December 19, the Democratic presidential candidates will take the stage and share their vision for the country. This is another chance for us to compare all the candidates as they dialogue together; it’s also a great chance for us to catch up, meet new people, and cheer on our favorite candidates! Debates are much more fun to watch with friends!

Thursday, December 19th, 8pm- 11pm

Location: Kardinal Hall

RSVP on our Facebook event page now to stay updated!

Impeachment rallies will be held throughout the country on Tuesday, December 17th at 5:30 p.m. local time, the eve of the House of Representatives' likely vote on impeachment.

Register to join us at the Albemarle County Office Building: https://act.moveon.org/event/impeach-and-remove-attend/125948

We need to show Rep. Riggleman that there is overwhelming support for impeachment in VA05. Bring signs, a raincoat, maybe a flashlight, and your friends! #NobodyIsAbovetheLaw

Note: The LOWER LOT of the County Building is open to the public after 5pm. There is also nearby street parking.

Your hard work paid off on Election Day and you deserve to celebrate! We're all thrilled about the new General Assembly, but do you know how YOU can help get progressive legislation passed? Come learn! Join us for a celebratory afternoon as we cheers to our statewide wins and mobilize for the 2020 General Assembly!

If you've got questions about how the General Assembly works, you're not alone! We'll demystify the process and learn more together about what we can expect in the upcoming 2020 legislative session. We'll hear from local groups with experience pushing legislation through and get plugged in to local and statewide efforts to pass progressive legislation up for consideration this session (ERA, Redistricting, Green New Deal, etc). Finally, our state legislators Sally Hudson and Creigh Deeds will be in attendance to share their perspectives on how we can work with them and use our citizen power to finally get the progressive change we want!

Come share food and a beverage as we celebrate together and regroup for 2020!

Election Day is almost here. This is your last chance to Get Out The Vote so we can WIN November 5!

Come help us talk to your neighbors about how critical this election is.

This event has shifts from 10AM to noon, noon to 2PM, 2PM to 4PM, and 4PM to 6PM. Sign up for one, or two, or three! on our Facebook event page here.

Election Day is almost here. This is your last chance to Get Out The Vote so we can WIN November 5!

Come help us talk to your neighbors about how critical this election is.

This event has shifts from 10AM to noon, noon to 2PM, 2PM to 4PM, and 4PM to 6PM. Sign up for one, or two, or three! on our Facebook event page here.

Election Day is almost here. This is your last chance to Get Out The Vote so we can WIN November 5!

Come help us talk to your neighbors about how critical this election is.

This event has shifts from 10AM to noon, noon to 2PM, 2PM to 4PM, and 4PM to 6PM. Sign up for one, or two, or three! on our Facebook event page here.

Election Day is almost here. This is your last chance to Get Out The Vote so we can WIN November 5!

Come help us talk to your neighbors about how critical this election is.

This event has shifts from 10AM to noon, noon to 2PM, 2PM to 4PM, and 4PM to 6PM. Sign up for one, or two, or three! on our Facebook event page here.

Election Day is almost here. This is your last chance to Get Out The Vote so we can WIN November 5!

Come help us talk to your neighbors about how critical this election is.

This event has shifts from 10AM to noon, noon to 2PM, 2PM to 4PM, and 4PM to 6PM. Sign up for one, or two, or three! on our Facebook event page here.

Election Day is almost here. This is your last chance to Get Out The Vote so we can WIN November 5!

Come help us talk to your neighbors about how critical this election is.

This event has shifts from 10AM to noon, noon to 2PM, 2PM to 4PM, and 4PM to 6PM. Sign up for one, or two, or three! on our Facebook event page here.

Last chance to write postcards for the November 5th election! With the election just 3 weeks away, we need YOUR help to get out the vote for progressive candidates in local races. Come out to Kardinal Hall to write postcards, text, and make phone calls to voters in support of:

--Amy Laufer for State Senate

--Jim Hingeley for Albemarle Commonwealth's Attorney and

--Donna Price for Albemarle County Board of Supervisors

This is the last event for postcards, so don't miss it! Bonus: there'll be free swag!

NOTE: Thank you to everyone who brought stamps to donate at our last postcard event. If you are able, please consider bringing some postcard stamps with you on Sunday (link to buy online here).

Find out more about the candidates here.

RSVP on our Facebook page here or just show up!

This Sunday, we're joining NextGEN to mobilize the youth vote at UVA for the 2019 election! Come meet up with fellow volunteers at the UVA GOTV Staging Location—3014 Berkmar Dr.—before heading out to knock doors. Your time and energy could make a huge difference in the turnout on November 5th!

SIGN UP here. Can't make the morning shift? NextGen has afternoon and evening shifts available as well! (See link)

For more information contact UVA NextGEN Organizer Andrew Payne at: 240-585-2616 or andrew.payne@nextgenamerica.org

Hope to see you there!

Last weekend to write postcards for the November 5 election! With the election just 3 weeks away, we need YOUR help to get out the vote for progressive candidates in local races. Come out to Cville Coffee to write postcards, text, and make phone calls to voters in support of:

Amy Laufer for State Senate

Jim Hingeley for Albemarle Commonwealth's Attorney

Donna Price for Albemarle County Board of Supervisors

Note: This is the last weekend for postcards, so come out and join us! There'll be free swag!

NOTE: Thanks to everyone who brought stamps for us to use at our last postcard event. If you are able, please consider bringing some postcard stamps with you on Saturday (here’s a link to buy online).

Find out more about the candidates here.

RSVP on our Facebook page here or just show up!

This November, we have a chance to flip the General Assembly and elect a Progressive Prosecutor in Albemarle County. But we need YOUR help to make it happen! Come meet up with your fellow Indivisibles before heading out to knock doors. Jim Hingeley, Sally Hudson, and Elizabeth Alcorn will be there to send us off!

Never canvassed before? No worries! The campaigns will get you trained with everything you need to know to talk to voters about the important issues on the ballot this year. If you’re not quite ready to canvass on your own, we’ll pair you up with an experienced partner. Got a car and a couple of hours? Driving canvassers is another great way to help out!

Your time and energy could make a huge difference in the turnout on November 5th. And canvassing for multiple campaigns at the same time is a great way to spread the word about these progressive candidates without over-canvassing the area. We’ll be meeting up at the Northside Library. Hope to see you there!

Find out more about the candidates we're supporting here.

Sign up for this event here!

We're joining NextGEN to mobilize the youth vote at UVA for the 2019 election!. Come meet up with fellow volunteers at the UVA GOTV Staging Location- 3014 Berkmar Dr.-- before heading out to knock doors. Your time and energy could make a huge difference in the turnout on November 5th!

SIGN UP here. Can't make the morning shift? NextGen has afternoon and evening shifts available as well! (See link)

For more information contact UVA NextGEN Organizer Andrew Payne at: 240-585-2616 or andrew.payne@nextgenamerica.org

Hope to see you there!

Join your fellow Indivisibles to fill the auditorium in support of Jim Hingeley as he debates Republican opponent Robert Tracci at the League of Women Voters Candidate Forum for Albemarle Commonwealth's Attorney. Defeating Trumpism in Albemarle County means electing a progressive like Jim who will oppose racist policies and fight for justice in our system. We’ll meet up at Milli Coffee at 6:00 to go over some possible questions that will hold Robert Tracci accountable for his terrible record, then we'll walk over the Albemarle County building together. Even if you don’t want to ask a question, please come out to show your support!

WHY IS THIS RACE SO IMPORTANT? Commonwealth’s Attorneys are some of the most powerful elected officials in the country. They have wide discretion in choosing whether to encourage discriminatory policing, use money bail even for minor crimes, “pile on” charges to intimidate people into pleading guilty, force longer prison sentences, and more. Robert Tracci won his last race for Commonwealth’s Attorney by only about 500 votes! Jim Hingeley is an experienced prosecutor who will fight injustice and mass incarceration.

WHY WE MUST DEFEAT ROBERT TRACCI: You may know Robert Tracci as the attorney who failed to get a perjury conviction for Unite the Right organizer Jason Kessler, but he has plenty of other terrible (and Trumpian) views. Here are some lowlights from a recent candidate forum:

--Tracci bragged about 'extracting students from schools and transferring them to the prison system'

--Tracci explained his support of voluntary ICE notifications with Trumpian fear mongering about our immigrant friends, families, and neighbors

--Tracci claimed he is 'non-partisan', accusing Jim & the Progressive Prosecutor movement’s push to end mass incarceration of "violence against victims and the very notion of justice."

RSVP on our Facebook event here or just show up to cheer Jim on!

Meet up at Milli Coffee at 6:00 and we’ll walk over to the County Building!

The Medicare for All Act of 2019 is a piece of legislation that would establish a universal, single-payer healthcare system in the United States. There is a nation wide movement to push this legislation into law, and on October 16 local advocates for Medicare for All will be holding a town hall on the proposal and on the current state of healthcare. In the wake of the recent expose of UVa’s practice of suing its most vulnerable patients, this issue is of particular interest to the Charlottesville community. Come out out and learn more about Medicare for All, and how would prevent situations like this from ever arising again here or anywhere else in this country.

Presented by the Young Democratic Socialists of America at UVA and co=hosted by Indivisible Charlottesville, Cville DSA, and Together Cville.

RSVP on the Facebook page here or just come!

Location: Nau Hall 101

Just three weeks away from the November 5th election, it's critical to act NOW to elect equality champions. Join Cville NOW and Indivisible Charlottesville at a post card and phone party for our General Assembly candidates for Senate, Amy Laufer and Creigh Deeds, and for House of Delegates, Elizabeth Alcorn, Tim Hickey and Jennifer Kitchen. Plus Jim Hingeley, candidate for Albemarle Commonwealth's Attorney.

Bring your phone and a favorite pen if you have one. We'll have everything else you need--plenty of food/drink to fuel you, and candidates stopping by to inspire your democracy work.

Stop in for an hour or come for the evening. This is a work party you don't want to miss!

RSVP on our Facebook page here or just show up.

Join us to watch the fourth 2020 Democratic Primary debate! On October 15, the Democratic presidential candidates will take the stage and share with us their vision for the country. This is another chance for us to compare all the candidates as they dialogue together; it’s also a great chance for us to catch up, meet new people, and cheer on our favorite candidates! Debates are much more fun to watch with activist friends!

Tuesday, October 15: 8pm- 11pm

Location: Kardinal Hall

RSVP now to stay updated!

President Trump used the powers of the office of President of the United States of America to extort a foreign country to manufacture dirt on one of Trump’s domestic political rivals.

A partial transcript of a call between Trump and the President of Ukraine shows the latter asking for military aid to defend his country against Russian aggression and Trump immediately responding, “I would like you to do us a favor, though.” Nice little country you’ve got there, sure would be a shame if anything happened to it.

How did Congressman Riggleman respond to that blatant act of corruption? He said, “Just as the Mueller investigation demonstrated there was no collusion or obstruction by President Trump, the release of the transcript confirmed that President Trump did not engage in any illegal or unethical behavior during his phone conversation with Zelensky.”

That is four lies in one sentence.

Come to Congressman Riggleman’s office in Charlottesville this Thursday at noon and remind him that he swore an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic,” not to protect the most corrupt and lawless President in American history.

We will sign the visitor’s log, fill out a comment sheet, and politely let the office staff know that we expect the Congressman to uphold the law and the Constitution.

Location:

686 Berkmar Circle, 2nd floor (corner of Berkmar Drive and Rio Road)

With the election only a few short weeks away, we are extending our weekend of action and need YOUR help to get out the vote for progressive candidates in local races. Come out to Random Row to write postcards to voters in support of Amy Laufer for State Senate and Jim HIngeley for Albemarle County Commonwealth's Attorney. We'll have everything you need to write postcards and there'll be free swag!

NOTE: We wrote so many postcards last month that we quickly ran out of stamps. Please consider bringing some postcard stamps with you if you are able. (Buy online here.)

RSVP on our Facebook event page here or just join us!

Find out more about the candidates:

Amy Laufer for Senate (17th District)

Jim Hingeley for Albemarle Commonwealth's Attorney

With the election only a few short weeks away, we need YOUR help to get out the vote for three progressive candidates in local races. Come out to the Meeting Space at Stonefield to text and make phone calls to voters in support of Amy Laufer for State Senate, Jim HIngeley for Albemarle County Commonwealth's Attorney, and Donna Price for Albemarle County Board of Supervisors.

RSVP on our Facebook event page here.

Find out more about the candidates:

Amy Laufer for Senate (17th District)

Jim Hingeley for Albemarle Commonwealth's Attorney

Donna Price for Albemarle County Board of Supervisors

Letters to the editor might not seem like the flashiest way to get your elected officials’ attention. But there’s something about a sharp letter to the editor in a local paper that can really get under the skin of the most powerful lawmaker.

In this training, find out how to write letters to the editor on the issues that matter to you. You’ll learn what newspapers require when deciding to publish a letter and how to write a letter that really gets attention. Chuck Hawkins, volunteer with Indivisible Charlottesville, will facilitate. This event is free and open to the community.

Please RSVP “Going” on our Facebook event page here if you plan to attend so we know how many people to expect.

This November, we have a chance to flip the General Assembly AND elect a Progressive Prosecutor in Albemarle County. But we need YOUR help to make it happen! On October 5th, we’re joining the Amy Laufer and Jim Hingeley campaigns to mobilize hundreds of voters — one conversation at a time.

Come meet up with your fellow Indivisibles before heading out to knock doors. The campaigns will get you trained with everything you need to know to talk to voters about the important issues on the ballot this year. If you’re not quite ready to canvass on your own, we’ll get you paired up with an experienced partner. Got a car and a couple of hours? Driving canvassers is another great way to help out!

Your time and energy could make a huge difference in the turnout on November 5th. And canvassing for two campaigns at the same time is a great way to spread the word about these progressive candidates without over-canvassing the area. We’ll be meeting up at the Laufer Campaign Office - 3014 Berkmar Drive, Charlottesville.

RSVP on our Facebook event page here.

Hope to see you there!

With the election only a few short weeks away, we need YOUR help to get out the vote for progressive candidates in local races. Come out to Cville Coffee to write postcards to voters in support of Amy Laufer for State Senate and Jim HIngeley for Albemarle County Commonwealth's Attorney. We'll have everything you need to write postcards and there'll be free swag!

NOTE: We wrote so many postcards last month that we quickly ran out of stamps. Please consider bringing some postcard stamps with you if you are able! (Buy online here.)

RSVP on our Facebook event page here or just join us!

Find out more about the candidates:

Amy Laufer for Senate (17th District)

Jim Hingeley for Albemarle Commonwealth's Attorney

This November, we have a chance to elect a Progressive Prosecutor and Progressive Supervisor in Albemarle County's Scottsville District. But we need YOUR help to make it happen! On October 5th, we’re joining the Jim Hingeley & Donna Price campaigns to mobilize hundreds of voters — one conversation at a time.

Come meet up with your fellow Indivisibles before heading out to knock doors. The campaigns will get you trained with everything you need to know to talk to voters about the important issues on the ballot this year. If you’re not quite ready to canvass on your own, we’ll get you paired up with an experienced partner. Got a car and a couple of hours? Driving canvassers is another great way to help out!

Your time and energy could make a huge difference in the turnout on November 5th. And canvassing for two campaigns at the same time is a great way to spread the word about these progressive candidates without over-canvassing the area. We’ll be meeting up at 1159 Arden Drive, Charlottesviie, VA 22902 (private house). Hope to see you there!

RSVP on our Facebook event page here.

Location is 1159 Arden Drive in Charlottesville, a private residence.