Music for a Cause THIS SATURDAY

We hope to see you this Saturday as we come together for Whidbey Rising, a benefit concert to feed our island community. We have an incredible array of island musicians who will inspire and delight you. We’ll have an informal community reception afterward to celebrate the work we are doing (and the fun we are having!) while supporting our neighbors.
 
Whidbey Rising
Saturday November 22
2:00 pm (Doors open at 1:30)
Coupeville High School Performing Arts Center
 
Pay what you can, and please give generously. You can donate now even if you can’t make the concert. Money raised will go to the Whidbey Food Resilience Fund, administered by the Whidbey Community Foundation. It will be shared across the island with food banks, meal programs, and other community-based organizations, ensuring that Whidbey residents have reliable access to nutritious food during the holiday season and beyond.
 
Donate now
Let us know you are coming (arrive early, admission not guaranteed)

“We Ain’t Buying It”
Join a nationwide movement to make sure our dollars count as the holiday season approaches!
 
The "We Ain't Buying It" campaign is an effort to pause shopping with major corporations that are enabling the administration's lawlessness.
From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, pledge to refrain from buying anything from:

• Target: For caving to the administration's demands to roll back diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.
• Home Depot: For allowing ICE to use its property to terrorize laborers.
• Amazon: For (among other things) Jeff Bezos's donation of more than $1 million to the administration and the company's working conditions for warehouse employees and drivers.

Redirect Your Spending: Rather than supporting companies that undermine our democracy, shop small and local with businesses that affirm our humanity and our communities!

Decline to Sign
There are organized efforts underway nationally and here in Washington State to make it harder for people to register to vote and maintain their current registration.
 
Initiative Measure IL26-126 would require all voters to have an enhanced driver's license or provide documentary proof of US citizenship in person. Voters who fail to do so will have their registrations cancelled.
 
Remember that noncitizen voting is so vanishingly rare as to be statistically irrelevant. The Initiative Measure is a voter suppression effort thinly disguised as a "solution" to a made-up problem. It would be both burdensome for eligible voters and costly for counties to implement.
 
Most importantly, it would disenfranchise a significant number of eligible voters, which, of course, is a goal of the administration and its allies. It would disproportionately affect women and less affluent people.
 
Initiative backers have until January 2 to gather and turn in signatures of nearly 309,000 voters, at which point it goes to the State Legislature, where lawmakers could:

• Adopt it as written.
• Approve an alternate initiative, which would appear on the November 2026 ballot next to the original one.
• Decline to act, sending the measure to voters for a decision.

It's better to ensure this measure fails now. If you encounter signature gatherers for Initiative Measure IL26-126, decline to sign!

Opportunity to Act: Tennessee Special Election
There is a special election in Tennessee's 7th Congressional District that presents an opportunity to flip a red seat blue!
 
You can help by participating in a phone bank to get out the vote for Aftyn Behn. Previously, Aftyn was a fellow Indivisible, so you'll have a wonderful opportunity to help send someone who shares our values to Capitol Hill.
 
All you need is a phone and a computer, and organizers will provide brief training before each session, so first-timers are welcome to join! It’s easier and more fun than you think. Yes, you CAN do it!
 
Sign up here!

Community Socials and Membership Meeting
Indivisible and SOS Whidbey are co-sponsoring a get-together TONIGHT in South Whidbey! Please join us to chat, connect, and strengthen ties. 
 
November 20, 6 pm-7:30 pm, Fellowship Hall, United Methodist Church, Langley
Sign up here.
 
Don't forget our other opportunities to join your like-minded neighbors to build community and resilience ... and to have fun!
 
Coupeville Community Social (4th Tuesday of every month)
 
Oak Harbor Community Social (1st Monday of every month)
 
All-island Membership Meeting, Saturday, January 24, 2026, Clinton Community Hall.
 
We hope to see you at one (or more!) of these community socials, and at the all-community concert and fundraiser on Saturday!