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The Health Crisis in America Part 4: Children’s Health and Elder Care on the Brink. In Part 4 of her IndivisiBlog series on the crisis in American healthcare, activist and physician Kim Bergner examines the impact of Trump regime cuts to children’s healthcare and care for the elderly.

Why We Need to Fight for Healthy Air and Water – and for the EPA! In this week’s IndivisiBlog, author Sharon Wilke spotlights the Trump EPA’s push to unleash the chemical companies, power plants, and other polluters.

To learn about efforts to fight disinformation on DEI, explore the USC Race and Equity Center’s National DEI Defense Coalition’s information and resources.

Learn, Act, and Celebrate with Indivisible Mass Coalition (IMC) LGBTQ+ Action Team.

Learn more about the Health Crisis in America. Visit the IndivisiBlog series with author and physician activist Kim Bergner. Part 3 spotlights the challenges to medical research and one of its greatest achievements over the last century: vaccines.

Bergner highlights how we can resist this assault on our health care system and find reliable sources of health and medical information for ourselves.

Interested in Climate Change? Carbon Countdown 2025, sponsored by Sustainable Middlesex and several partnering organizations, included presentations on innovative state climate programs. You can watch a video of the event here

The Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research (LZC) has released Iced In: The Actions and Impacts of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Massachusetts in 2025. This report found patterns of unnecessary violence and suppression of basic rights, fear and instability taking hold in Massachusetts, destabilization of entire institutions and communities.

Learn how the Trump administration and Republican Congress has negatively impacted services for Mass residents and what we can do to support our residents. See Cape Ann Indivisible’s presentation.

LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!

Take Action as a Consumer

Resist and Unsubscribe. Learn how you can take action against the businesses supporting Trump and ICE here.

BOYCOTT STARBUCKS

Starbucks is racking up more federal labor law violations than any other corporation in U.S. history. Don’t cross the picket line and pledge not to buy Starbucks while workers are on strike.

BOYCOTT CITIZENS BANK

Indivisible groups across Massachusetts are trying to De-ICE Citizens Bank. We are urging them to stop financing Core Civic and Geo Group, two groups contracting with ICE to operate detention facilities. More information is found here.

Here are reports of neglect, wrongdoing and harms by these two companies

Also, to find out if your stock portfolio includes investments in private prisons, go here.

Every Wednesday, 12:15-1pm. De-ICE Citizens Bank: Coalition Lunch & Learn Series. Register here.

June 13, 11-12pm in Foxboro. De-ICE Citizens Bank. Register here.

Email Bruce Van Saun, CEO of Citizens Bank, who feels good about his company’s share prices rising while the bank finances the GEO run facility in Newark, NJ where immigrants detained at there have launched a labor and hunger strike to bring attention to inhumane living and work conditions (NJ Monitor, 5/22/26). Ask Mr. Van Saun how he can feel great when his profits come at people’s pain.

Take Action On a Local Level

Data Centers: Mansfield residents approved a data center zoning bylaw at their annual Town Meeting on May 5. It creates strict limits on where and how data centers can operate in Mansfield. The measure effectively bars the kinds of large-scale facilities increasingly appearing across the country, while leaving a narrow pathway for smaller operations under close municipal oversight.

Flock Cameras: Sharon residents will call for a town meeting to consider a bylaw that requires community approval before the installation of any surveillance technology and puts guidelines in place to protect our data.

To learn more about Flock Cameras and why you should be concerned, go here.

Home Depot and Lowes use Flock cameras and share your data. Learn more here and share concerns with others.

Take Action On a State Level

Oppose the Expansion of AI Data Centers

• Call Governor Healey and your state representatives to oppose the construction of these centers.

Don’t Let ICE Buy Our Data

• S.2608, Data Privacy Act
• Prevents the purchase and sale of your private cellphone data that is currently being bought by and sold to (without a warrant) to ICE and other federal agencies.
• Senate passed S.2608 on 9/25/25, and the House version H.4746 is now awaiting a vote in the House.
• Tell your state rep to support this data privacy bill and protect our data.

Protect Immigrants in Massachusetts

• H.5608/S.3072, The Protect Act
• The Protect Act holds federal immigration agents legally accountable for civil rights violations, bars local and state police from participating in civil federal immigration enforcement, prohibits immigration arrests at courthouses, houses of worship, schools, hospitals, and childcare facilities, blocks unauthorized deployment of other states’ National Guards into Massachusetts, prevents racial profiling, and allows parents facing detention or deportation to pre-arrange guardianship for their children.
• These bills passed in their respective chambers and are now in a conference committee to reconcile differences. Here’s a comparison of the two bills.
• Urge your legislators to tell the legislative leadership to convene the conference committee immediately so that a final bill can be enacted before the FIFA World Cup begins on June 11, 2026, when Massachusetts will be under heightened international attention.

Don’t Let Big Tech Companies Get Your Biometric Information

• H.5366 and Governor Healey’s “complementary” proposal, Requires Online ID Checks
• These measures mandate that everyone in the state verify their age to post online, forcing all of us to hand over our government IDs or biometric info to untrustworthy Big Tech companies and third party “ID check” vendors. These mandates won’t keep kids safe and they put us all at risk. Here are 25 reasons to oppose these proposals.
• The House passed this bill. It is expected to go to a conference committee, where the Senate will determine its stance on the social media aspects.
• Tell your state legislators to say no to H.5366 and Gov. Healey’s proposal.

Impose Guardrails on Automatic License Plate Readers (ALPRs), i.e. Flock Cameras

• H.3755, A Bill Establishing Driver Privacy Protections
• This bill limits how government entities can collect, retain, and use data from technologies such as ALPRs. It specifically requires that ALPR data be deleted after 14 days unless connected to a specific criminal investigation and prohibits law enforcement agencies from accessing this data without a valid search warrant.
• This bill advanced out of the Transportation Committee and now awaits action in the House Ways and Means Committee.
• Urge your state representative to support this bill and to tell the House Ways and Means Committee Chair Aaron Michlewitz to advance this bill out of committee.

Protect Immigrants at Schools

• New Mass Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) regulations needed.
• DESE should take action to ensure stronger protections at our school to safeguard our students, families and staff against increased threats from federal immigration enforcement.
• Sign this petition to DESE.

Prevent Racial Gerrymandering in Massachusetts

• After the Louisiana v Callais ruling gutting the Voter Rights Act, we need our state to be proactive in protecting our rights and democracy.
• Call Governor Healy at (617)725-4005 or email and urge her to commit that we will NOT have racist gerrymandering in our state.

Learn a little about the legislative process and what it means to “lobby” your legislator.

Don’t know who your state representative or senator is, find out here!

Take Action On a National Level

Block Trump’s Unqualified & Dangerous Pick for National Intelligence Director

Email Jake Auchincloss and Senators Warren and Markey to block Trump’s appointment of Bill Pulte as director of National Intelligence.

Block Funding for Trump’s Slush Fund for Insurrectionists

Email our Members of Congress and tell them not to fund Trump’s $1.8B slush fund. Tell them to support legislation that would block this money and create guardrails around federal settlement funds.

Stop the Warehousing of Humans

• Urge Representative Jake Auchincloss and Senators Warren and Markey to reject the violence and atrocities taking place at Delaney Detention Center in NJ and use their power to oppose the Trump detention machine.

End the Illegal Blockade on Cuba

Tell Representative Jake Auchincloss to oppose any unauthorized military action against Cuba, push to end sanctions, and demand diplomacy, humanitarian relief, and respect for Cuban sovereignty.

Block Funding of ICE and Border Patrol

• Senate leadership intends to put the final reconciliation bill on the floor for a vote the week of May 18, 2026.
• Tell our Democratic Members of Congress to fiercely oppose the new GOP effort to shovel billions more dollars to ICE and Border Patrol.
• If you have friends and family who live in red states, share this email tool to connect them with their Republican representatives.

Stop the Illegal War in Iran

• It is past the deadline when Trump needs Congressional approve for his war in Iran.
• Tell our Members of Congress to end the illegal war on Iran.

Say No to Warrantless Mass Surveillance

• As of early May 2026, Congress passed a 45-day extension of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Section 702 surveillance authority, delaying a final decision on long-term reauthorization until mid-June.
• Tell our Members of Congress not to authorize Section 702 of FISA without serious privacy guardrails.

Stop Taking Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) Donations

• Tell Representative Auchincloss to reject all Palantir Technologies contributions and donate his existing Palantir funding of $25,000 to local nonprofits. Palantir’s surveillance and data collection tools are used in large-scale raids on immigrant communities and in the war in Iran.

Use the 5 calls app to make contacting your US Representatives and Senators easy! Download it here!

Sign up to phone bank with Indivisible and call voters with Republican members of Congress.

Check out Indivisible’s toolkit on the Louisiana v. Callais decision that gutted the Voting Right Acts.

Take Action to Impact Elections!

Important Election Year Deadlines in Massachusetts

For the primaries

• August 22 - Voter registration deadline
• August 25 - Vote by mail application deadline
• August 22-28 - Early Voting Period

For the November election

• October 24 - Voter registration deadline
• October 27 - Vote by mail application deadline
• October 17-30 - Early Voting Period

Get involved in protecting and expanding the vote in Massachusetts by connecting with these organizations.

OR Join IMC Safeguard Elections Action Team meeting every Wednesday at 4:30pm. Register here.

Learn about all 11 Ballot questions in Massachusetts.

FYI, the ballot question reforming the legislative stipend system will NOT be on the ballot.

June 15, 7-8pm. Progressive Mass Info Session on Gun Violence Prevention on the Ballot. Register here.

Get to know Indivisible Endorsed Candidates for the US House of Representatives and US Senate.

Help Graham Platner in Maine. Sign up for canvassing Saturdays in June & July or help register voters at Portland Pride on June 20.

Help Roy Cooper in North Carolina. Sign up to phone bank every Sunday starting on June 14 from 6-8pm. Register here.

Democratic candidates in New Hampshire for US House of Representatives and Senate will need help too. Contact Indivisible Somerville if interested.

Write Postcards to Voters in Swing States

You can now write postcards to get out the vote for the November 2026 midterm elections! If you can’t join us for one of our in-person postcard writing sessions, sign up here to receive your postcards and write your postcards at home.

Learn more about the research on postcards to swing states! Some super interesting data here! Postcards to Swing States/Progressive Turnout Project wants to send 14.5M postcards to voters in 12 states in 2026. Research shows that these postcards increase turnout by 1.3%. This may not sound like much, but in 2024 control of six state legislative houses was decided by only 4,000 votes. In 2024, Democrats lost the House of Reps by only 7,310 votes.

Write postcards to encourage people across the country to register to vote. Contact Field Team 6.

Louisiana v. Callais Ruling Gutting the Voting Rights Act

Learn more about this decision here, by Civic Nebraska, here by Black Voters Matter, here by the ACLU, and here by United for Democracy.

Go here for a social media tool kit with ready-to-go messages.

Racism is at the core of the assaults on democracy and there have been long-term efforts to erode our tools to fight it. Jasmine Crocket held a live panel Tuesday night right after the ruling. It does an amazing break-down of the impacts, implications and what needs to happen – watch the video.

Until Democrats can enact much-needed court reforms to counter the Supreme Court’s gutting the Voter Rights Act, if you can, please donate to the organizations that will be working overtime to counteract this decision:

• The Legal Defense Fund
• The ACLU Democracy Defenders
• Good Trouble Lives On

REMEMBER

Things are NOT hopeless. This is a setback, NOT the end.

This decision is NOT final. This is a pivot point for what comes next.

WEAR A PAPER CLIP!!!

From Joyce Vance in Civil Discourse, September 20, 2025

On Thursday, E. Jean Carroll started it: Paper Clip Protest.

“Comely Reader! I suggest we all start wearing the paper clip. Subtler than a red hat, more powerful as a CONNECTION,” she wrote, explaining they were also worn during World War II as a sign of resistance against the Nazis.

Norwegian teachers and students wore paper clips to signal their opposition to Nazi occupation. They attached them to their lapels and wore them as jewelry, a symbol of solidarity binding them together as paper clips did with papers. It was a quiet act of defiance, expressing that Norwegians remained united against Nazi rule.