Federal Advocacy Committee

From its inception Indivisible National and EVI have focused on Advocacy, putting pressure on our elected officials to do better. As Ezra Levin, the Founder of Indivisible says: 

WE ARE NOT AN ARM OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY

Yes, we help elect Democrats to office but we focus on electing candidates who share our progressive values. THEN we work to keep them accountable to those who voted for them. 

Twice a year during Recess weeks when our Reps are in town, we join Indivisible National and Indivisible groups across the country for a Week of Action. For example, during the past five years EVI was part of a coalition that forced Dianne Feinstein to hold her first Town Hall in 27 years. We confronted Brad Sherman to  FIGHT HARDER for the ACA, Trump's Tax Scam and his Supreme Court appointees. 

Separately, EVI has held multiple protests, demonstrations, and actions about Trump's destruction of our democracy. We protested the Muslim Ban, joined the Women's Marches, and we insisted that our representatives hold Trump accountable for his criminal actions leading to TWO Impeachments. During election season we were part of the grassroots earthquake that turned the 2018 House BLUE by holding multiple voter registration drives, and text and phone banks for our progressive candidates. 

We  established regular meetings with our Congressional Representatives, a continuing process that resulted in genuine change for issues like the Santa Susanna environmental disaster, and forcing mitigation against intolerable conditions at for-profit immigration/detention facilities. 

Now we are focused on assuring that this President and this Congress succeed in their effort to enact the progressive agenda that we elected them to fulfill. This means putting pressure on them to: