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Sunday Afternoon Over-the-Freeway Bannering!
We supplement our friends at the Olympia Visibility Brigade (OVB) with additional bannering. Recently, comedian Cliff Cash saw us as he was driving and came up to our protest on Sunday! If was fun meeting him. He gave us a banner and some supplies.
JOIN US! Sundays, 1pm–2:30pm at the Sleater-Kinney I-5 overpass! Bring LARGE signs, flags, costumes, and good spirits! If you’re interested in other dates, or want to help, contact us to join in! We meet at the Lacey Civic Plaza, located at 521 Sleater Kinney Rd SE, in Lacey. (Please do not park in the Applebees parking lot as they need that space for their customers.) There is plenty of space in the old Sears parking lot. Sign up on this Mobilize page so we know the support materials we might need.
We learned a lot with our Ballot Box Observation Project! We quickly organized a project to protect our Thurston County ballot boxes for the WA primary election. While we didn't expect any problems, we used the opportunity to run a trial operation to see what we could learn.
The Thurston County Auditor's Office has things well organized. Left alone we will have a free and fair election in Thurston County.
25 people volunteered on short notice and we covered 13 of the 31 Thurston County ballot boxes. We learned that the Republicans also had a small team monitoring some of the ballot boxes. During this trial, we found one case of a vandalized ballot box and some folks filming voters, but otherwise we were just learning scheduling, observer rules and reporting.
Our intentions: Help keep voting at our drop boxes safe. Alert the authorities of vandalism. Alert the authorities of attempts at voter intimidation. We are not physical protectors. We are simply making sure that there is no hanky-panky. We will report and document issues.
Our rules:
• No talking to voters, no interactions with voters
• No pictures of voters or voter cars, license plates
• No talking to Thurston County workers as they pick up ballots
• No helping with lines
• No electioneering, no pushing for any candidate or issue
• Stay at least 25' from the drop box. Stay out of traffic.
We will need a lot more help for our observer project during the November elections. If you think you might help we will be sending out a sign up request in late September to get the next team organized and trained. This email list will be used for the announcement so by getting this email you are already be on the list to be notified. If some of your friends or neighbors are not on our email list, but may want to help, please pass them this email sign up link.
Ballot Box Observation Project
Dave Little has shared an activity he is working on to help pass the important Virginia redistricting election. He is working with the Center for Common Ground.
They have training slides and provide the process for guided phone banking. As you know, most people these days don’t answer calls from unknown numbers so phone banks usually leave voicemail messages. But a message in a sincere human voice does have an impact. The elections this year, especially the midterms, are going to be a serious battle. Contact us if you are interested in helping.
The Environmental Voter Project
is a non-partisan group that identifies millions of non-voting environmentalists and turns them into consistent voters. Our team member, Sabra Hull, is leading a project to work with them to help more generally impact the vote in swing states. We will be organizing many post card parties and other activities working on the EVP project. One of the fun things about working with EVP is that we then get a report on the voters we contacted to see if they voted! Who votes is public record. So, it will be a project with feedback on our impact! It should be rewarding. Contact us to join in!
Mourning Our Losses
Northwest Indivisible organized a Funeral Procession through the Lakefair event in Olympia, WA, on Saturday, July 18th. It was a walking sign wave with 50+ “tombstones” and 70 people dressed in black. Each tombstone had a message about something we have lost since Trump 2.0. So much of our country is being degraded that we could have had 200 tombstones! We looped around the Lakefair grounds, very peacefully and quietly, for almost an hour. We want to thank the community for being so supportive of this event. Lots of people at Lakefair were reminded of all we have lost.
We got thousands of likes and at least 340 reposts, and a couple other Indivisible groups asked about copying our event, so we shared our artwork.
Our showing of Sundance Official Selection 2025 film Heightened Scrutiny was enjoyed by attendees, and the information shared by No Hate Washington State was much appreciated.
NWI supports the efforts of No Hate in Washington State. They urge you to share their cause, and this November to VOTE NO on IL26-001 and IL26-638, which endanger Washington students with invasive genital exams, forced LGBTQ+ outings, and restricted access to help when they need it most, exposing them to more hate, bullying, and harassment.
Check it out and donate at NoHateWAstate.
Brought by Elma Indivisible and Save Our Democracy, this memorial of white crosses recognizes the people who have been killed by ICE on the streets or while in ICE custody since Trump took office. The Centralia Chronicle has covered the latest additions of crosses—bringing them to 72_74 people killed. First installed in April 2026, 52 people had been killed by ICE. Most of these deaths occurred in ICE detention facilities, caused by: physical abuse by detention center staff (deaths ruled homicides by medical examiners); lack of medical care, delayed treatment, and denial of medications; measles outbreaks; and suicide in the context of rotten food, unsafe drinking water, lack of sanitation, and relentless noise and unceasing light created by the detention staff. ICE agents have also killed people outside of detention centers by shooting and with ICE vehicles.
We Are Inspired by Elma Indivisible!
No Kings 3 was a historic success!
Olympia recorded approximately 4,000 people at the March 28th No Kings 3 event at the State Capitol (WA Republicans had a No King Fergusen rally across the street with only a few dozen supporters.) Our event was completely peaceful, and the Northwest Indivisible booth collected $671.55 for Thurston County Food Bank and $291.37 for our group. It was a glorious day and was pretty much enjoyed by all.