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Publication by Indivisible Eastside

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Directory of Alternative Crisis Response Models v1.4a (1)

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Progress reports on Eastside cities

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Since 2020, the Right to Breathe Committee has been collecting feedback from Black people on their experiences as central evidence of the changes being made. Additionally we are doing assessments with all the participating municipalities to track their green, amber and red status in each of the domains. For more information on the nine domains click here.

While all Eastside cities received a call to action to engage with Leaders of Color to address the ongoing racial injustice in our communities. 7 months after the murder of George Floyd, only Kirkland, Bellevue, Redmond, and Issaquah chose to engage in sustained policy and implementation discussions centering the needs of Black people on the Eastside.

The Right To Breathe Committee calls on all local governments, school districts, service clubs, and business interests to engage in meaningful efforts to ensure safety and respect for Black people.

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Since 2020, the Right to Breathe Committee has been collecting feedback from Black people on their experiences as central evidence of the changes being made. Additionally we are doing assessments with all the participating municipalities to track their green, amber and red status in each of the domains.

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The origins of policing in America | Perspective

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Eastside Coalition Against Hate and Bias

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Eastside Coalition Against Hate and Bias

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Provides survivors of hate and bias motivated incidents an alternative to law enforcement for reporting their experiences.

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In late 2020, Eastside For All joined the King County Coalition Against Hate and Bias. The Coalition is a community-led initiative to address hate and bias incidents by strengthening and networking communities who experience racist and bigoted treatment and all forms of oppression.

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CALLS TO ACTION | INFORMATION | SUPPORT This centralized resource for East King County RACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY is built, maintained, and powered by community. Would you like to help keep this resource strong? Contact us - thank you!

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CALLS TO ACTION | INFORMATION | SUPPORT This centralized resource for East King County RACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCACY is built, maintained, and powered by community. Would you like to help keep this resource strong? Contact us - thank you!

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IE's Racial Equity Bellevue team published "Alternative Crisis Response Models"

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Mission

Indivisible Eastside is a local chapter of the Indivisible Movement, inspired by the Indivisible Guide . The Indivisible Guide was written by a group of former Congressional staffers who witnessed the success of the Tea Party and turned their experiences into a practical guide for resisting Donald Trump's agenda.

Indivisible Eastside's mission is to facilitate grassroots engagement with our legislators in the Eastside region of metropolitan Seattle to:

1. Advance progressive, compassionate and antiracist policies and government;

2. Repair, improve and reform damaged social and democratic institutions fractured by decades of conservative policy and the recent Trump administration.

How we Implement our Mission

We are a SHARED RESOURCE on current governmental activities, critical legislative issues, marches, rallies, and group and individual actions and events.

FB Page, FB Group, Website, Email, Instagram, Twitter, Monthly meetings

We are a GATEWAY to making our voices heard through protest actions and building electoral power.

Protest Actions: weekly actions, group events, #AlphabetResistance, rallies, protests, card/letter/editor writing, calling and more.
Building Electoral Power for Progressive Policies and Government

Turn the constituent power into electoral power, taking back the Senate and by winning Governors' races and state legislatures!

Expand the Electorate, by working with local groups and partner organizations to engage folks who are currently underrepresented in both voter registration and voter turnout.

Steering Committee

As of Jan 1, 2021 we have a 8-member Steering Committee. The Steering Committee provides leadership and supports the group's activities through organizing, managing volunteers and taking care of logistics and finances. It plans & executes events like postcards to voters, letterwriting, Alphabet Resistance & canvassing. It also establishes liaisons to sister organizations around the Greater Seattle area, moderates and administers our social media accounts, does a ton of research and organization for everything from monthly meetings and weekly actions to emergency protests so our members can be effective. Here are the current members of the Indivisible Eastside Steering Committee:

Allison H - co-founder/communications, weekly actions

Louise P - website/communications, weekly actions

Jennifer H - facebook, letterwriting

Rhiannon P-B - facebook, twitter

Joan Y - congressional diva/postcards

Linda K - Alphabet Resistance/finance

Hanna F - state legislation, weekly actions

Kat P - Indivisible Town Halls, communications

Yvonne B - Truth Brigade, VoteForward

Who We are

Indivisible Eastside was founded as a Facebook Group on January 3, 2017 by several friends from Bellevue, WA. We grew to hundreds of members and a dedicated team of over 50 volunteers in less than a month.

In 2020 Indivisible Eastside:

Held 12 All Group Meetings with speakers on a variety of topics

Performed 5 #AlphabetResistance actions

Attended State Legislator meetings

Published 150 Actions in 52 Weekly Newsletters (and 150 Facebook posts)

Reached out to 750 Weekly Actions Newsletter subscribers (300 considered "Active")

Reached out to 850 Facebook Page followers (77% Women 20% Men)

Connected with 2,152 Facebook Group members (about 500 considered "Active")

Wrote 50,000 Postcards and 12,000 letters to voters

Principles

All members of Indivisible Eastside adhere to the following principles.

1. Focus - We resist all attempts of the Trump Administration and their enablers to divide our people, undermine our democratic values and further harm working American families. The Trump administration's divisive, anti-democratic and pro-elitist efforts will be relentlessly opposed at every turn. We have no agenda and no goals other than to protect our country and our neighbors from this clear and present threat.

2. Action - Participation matters! Whether it means organizing, calling MoCs, showing up at town halls, or reaching out to others. Small yet powerful groups of focused citizens are already having an impact. We will be better organized and more broadly based than the Tea Party, and therefore more influential-only if we commit to action. Each of us can find a way to participate that's appropriate for our skills and values.

3. Facts - People come here looking for ways to act, not ways to whip each other into a frenzy. We will verify truth and understand issues before acting on them. This means no posting of memes or click-bait, no ranting, etc to our social media. Frustration and other negative emotions are channeled into deliberate, effective action and collaboration.

4. Cohesion - We act as one and remember that we are all on the same team. We are Indivisible: respectful, inclusive, fair, and focused. Voice disagreement, but disrespectful behavior will result in a warning and then ejection from the group. Cohesion is the main reason for keeping our focus narrow-advocating policy or individual issues risks breeding division within the group.

To contact us, email hello@indivisibleeastside.com or visit the Volunteer page.

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Indivisible Eastside's mission is to facilitate grassroots engagement with our legislators in the Eastside region of metropolitan Seattle to: Advance progressive, compassionate and antiracist policies and government; Repair, improve and reform damaged social and democratic institutions fractured by decades of conservative policy and the recent Trump administration.

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Published a report on School Resource Officer data in the Lake WA School District

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Indivisible Kirkland | Promoting progressive ideals in Kirkland and beyond

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Current Calls to Action are now released on:

Our old calls to action can be found here.

Members of United States Congress

(Not sure what Congressional District you're in? Check here.)

Members of Washington State Legislature

Kirkland spans three state legislative districts - 1, 45 and 48. Not sure what Legislative District you're in? Check here.

1st Legislative District:

45th Legislative District:

48th Legislative District:

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Our old calls to action can be found here. (Not sure what Congressional District you're in? Check here.) Kirkland spans three state legislative districts - 1, 45 and 48. Not sure what Legislative District you're in? Check here. 1st Legislative District: 45th Legislative District: 48th Legislative District:

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SRO (School Resource Officer) Report: LWSD

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SRO (School Resource Officer) Report: LWSD

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Published by Indivisible Kirkland

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to ensure safety and respect for Black people through the development, implementation, and awareness of policies that are consistent with these core principles: Abolishing systemic Anti-Blackness to ensure equal justice; Oversight and accountability through equitable, shared decision-making – nothing about us without us; De-escalation of encounters with people enforcing laws and rules against Black people.

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The RTB Committee has been negotiating policy change in King County, since the murder of George Floyd in 2020.

These changes are organized into a set of domains and are tracked city by city. The RTB Committee released the RTB Dashboard, to the Black community and respective municipalities, to acknowledge progress made and empower communities members to be apart of implementing the changes.
Get Involved
If you are interested in joining the movement please complete the RTB Pledge and one of our team members will be in contact with you.

The RTB committee host a bi-weekly community forums for Black people. The meetings are intended to create healing, provide strategic updates and to capture the thoughts and concerns of Black people. To join these meetings, 2nd and 4th Thursday, please complete the RTB Pledge.

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These changes are organized into a set of domains and are tracked city by city. The RTB Committee released the RTB Dashboard, to the Black community and respective municipalities, to acknowledge progress made and empower communities members to be apart of implementing the changes.

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What is community safety to you? What budget decisions should our cities be making when it comes to public safety funds?
We host conversations with our Black and brown community members to identify policy priorities and encourage leadership to impact systemic change. As local advocacy issues arise involving policing, including the topic of school resource officers (SRO's), you can find information and calls to action in our Advocacy Hub.

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What is community safety to you? What budget decisions should our cities be making when it comes to public safety funds? We host conversations with our Black and brown community members to identify policy priorities and encourage leadership to impact systemic change.

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Links to Cities' Engagement Plans - stay tuned for calls to action. Sign up for your city's emails to stay informed.

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The ability to walk in the neighborhood without fear of being approached by the police

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The ability to walk in the neighborhood without fear of being approached by the police

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Enough resources to meet people's basic needs

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Enough resources to meet people's basic needs

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Use public safety dollars for community based groups

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Use public safety dollars for community based groups

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Care and Safety Assistants instead of SRO's, increase in mental health, restorative justice resources in schools (Charlottesville City Schools)

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Care and Safety Assistants instead of SRO's, increase in mental health, restorative justice resources in schools (Charlottesville City Schools)

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Are community response teams another form of policing? How are they trained? How do they interact with communities?

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Are community response teams another form of policing? How are they trained? How do they interact with communities?

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Free college, housing, a thriving wage, food security

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Free college, housing, a thriving wage, food security

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How is public safety measured? (Typically in ways that justify more policing) How should/could we measure it?

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How is public safety measured? (Typically in ways that justify more policing) How should/could we measure it?

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Measure public safety in new ways, based on how communities define safety

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Measure public safety in new ways, based on how communities define safety

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Score cards that tell the story; Make this data public

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Think of our cities like our bodies: take care of the areas that hurt

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Think of our cities like our bodies: take care of the areas that hurt

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What about wage theft? Corporate pollution of the planet...

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Contact Susan Cozzins for more information and to join: email

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A location or phone number to call to de-escalate

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A location or phone number to call to de-escalate

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Community Response Model (RADAR, Community Watch, etc.)

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Community Response Model (RADAR, Community Watch, etc.)

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A hotline for crisis response and safety resources

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A hotline for crisis response and safety resources

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Address the hurt in perpetrators. Turn towards restorative Justice!

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Address the hurt in perpetrators. Turn towards restorative Justice!