June 20, 2025 by pbcnow

Introducing SPLC’s new Education Justice series: Learning for Justice Podcast

CELEBRATE JUNETEENTH WITH A COMMITMENT TO DISRUPT THE CONTINUUM OF HARD HISTORY

Learning for Justice is relaunching the Teaching Hard History podcast series with host Hasan Kwame Jeffries, Ph.D., to resist current efforts to erase and alter our nation’s history. As we celebrate Juneteenth, we uplift liberation and Black joy and culture. And we commit to learning and teaching the hard history that is foundational to the United States and the ongoing movement for freedom and equality.

Teaching Hard History begins with the long and brutal legacy of slavery and reaches through the victories of and violent responses to the Civil Rights Movement and Black Americans’ experiences during the Jim Crow era to the issues we face today. This is American history that we all need to know and that should be taught in schools and in communities.

Learn more with the updated Season 1, Episode 1: Slavery and the Civil War, Part 1. And join us each week as we highlight an episode from the series and include a new resource page with essential ideas and teaching recommendations from the conversation and updated resources.

Learning for Justice

June 19, 2025 by pbcnow

Your next Easy A: Watch and lift up the trans community

There are two pieces of breaking news this week that are devastating to transgender kids — the Trump administration officially announced they are ending a specialized LGBTQ+ suicide prevention service, and the U.S. Supreme Court upheld bans on healthcare for trans kids. Our hearts are with the families who are hurt by this news.

WATCH THIS: SUPPORTING THE TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY

Attacks on transgender people’s rights are increasing, while at the same time, companies and organizations are pulling back their support of Pride Month. But not Red Wine & Blue! Watch this one-minute video about why seeing and uplifting our trans friends, family, and neighbors is so important right now.

WATCH

June 19, 2025 by pbcnow

Block the Bill: Tax Trouble!

Your Activist Homework, Day 2

SOUTH PBC INDIVISIBLE

JUN 18

To Our Strong and Courageous Members!

Rolling with our #NoKings energy, we are continuing our Block the Billcampaign, calling on you, our Indivisible Members, to put pressure on Senators Rick Scott and Ashley Moody to vote against the budget reconciliation bill. Urge them to oppose the House reconciliation bill, H.R.1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act. Please commit to calling at least twice a week up until July 4. There are so many bad things hidden in this bill, that you could call even more often, and have something different to say each time.

Washington DC Phone Numbers:

Senator Rick Scott – (202) 224-5274

Senator Ashley Moody – (202) 224-3041

There are currently 1,199 of you on our mailing list, and our goal is to have at least 5% of you commit to making these calls – that’s 60 people. Please be one of our callers! We’d love to have you share your calling achievements by leaving a comment!

Block the Bill, Day 2

Robbing the Poor to Give to the Rich

The Senate plans to vote on Trump’s horrific “Big Beautiful Bill” by July 4.Up until then, Congress Callers and South PBC Indivisible will be posting twice-weekly Block the Bill messages about different problems with the bill, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Day 1 of the Block the Bill campaign helped you call your Senators to defend your healthcare.

TODAY’S ISSUE: TAXES & WEALTH REDISTRIBUTION

The bill is designed to give massive tax breaks to corporations and the ultra-rich, offset by cutting services that most Americans rely on and raising costs on less wealthy families. Even with extremely harsh cuts, the budget cannot be balanced and the bill would result in a huge deficit.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities says “The House Republican reconciliation bill would give huge tax breaks to wealthy individuals, businesses, and large corporations while leaving behind or raising costs for millions of working families.” Additionally, the tax provisions would raise the federal deficit to nearly $4 trillion.
The Congressional Budget Office’s analysis shows the massive redistribution of wealth from the bottom to the top.
Penn Wharton says “The top 10% of the income distribution receives about 70 percent of the total value of the legislation…. Lower-income households and some in the middle class are worse off, despite positive economic effects. All future generations are worse off.”

CALL TO ACTION

Call your Senators (find their contact info HERE) and urge them to oppose the House reconciliation bill, H.R.1, the “One Big Beautiful Bill” Act.

SCRIPT

Hello, my name is [FIRST & LAST NAME] and I’m a constituent from [CITY, ZIP].

I’m calling to urge [SEN NAME] to oppose the budget reconciliation bill, known as the “Big Beautiful Bill.” This bill gives massive tax breaks to billionaires and wealthy corporations while cutting our health care, nutrition, and education to pay for them, and will still blow up the deficit. There is no scenario in which this is fair to your constituents. Congress should keep its promises to voters, to lower costs for everyday people, by making the wealthy and corporations pay their fair share. Please protect your constituents by voting NO on the budget reconciliation bill.

Vote for FREE @ NOW National Conference via Zoom

Dear NOW members,

We’ve heard you. We’ve shared your frustration about the registration information listed on the National Conference page on the NOW.org website.

Although it has been long-standing policy that NOW does not require members to pay to attend NOW business meetings and national conferences, there has been confusion about the online registration wording and payment format. One member even commented to us that they considered paying a fee to vote at a NOW conference as a “poll tax.”

We reached out to the National Action Center to request that they edit the online registration page to make it clear that you do not need to pay to register to vote at the conference.

We’re glad to report that at our request, the NOW conference page has been revised with the following information:

*NOW’s bylaws allow for members to participate in membership meetings without a fee. Please contact Vice President Bear Atwood (at vp@now.org) if you would like to register under that provision.

The last thing we should be worrying about as we craft ACT NOW’s action plan to STOP the SAVE Act is voting at our own national conference for our executive officers.

Thank you for reaching out to us with your concerns. We’ll continue to listen and take action for you.

For NOW,

Kim Villanueva and Rose Brunache

ACT NOW candidates for President and Vice President

Learn more about ACT NOW here: https://linktr.ee/KimRoseNow2025

Join our list of endorsers HERE or email your endorsement statement to kimrosenow2025@gmail.com.

Are you registered for the 2025 NOW Conference? You must have been a NOW member for 90 days prior to the conference in order to vote in the 2025 NOW officer elections. Voting will be electronic for both in-person and virtual attendees.

ACT NOW: Grassroots action = National impact

Kim Villanueva, Candidate for NOW President

Rose Brunache, Candidate for NOW Vice President

Website: linktr.ee/KimRoseNow2025

Paid for and authorized by ACT NOW Susan Bramlet Lavin, Treasurer

415 Adelia, Springfield, Illinois * KimRoseNOW2025@gmail.com * 217-971-5602

June 6, 2025 by pbcnow

FAU partners campus police with ICE, makes foreign students deportation targets

Opinion piece from Frank Cerabino at the Palm Beach Post April 21, 2025:

“I thought the main job of the campus police — after zealously enforcing parking regulations on campus — was to keep the students safe from harm.”

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/opinion/columns/2025/04/21/florida-atlantic-university-campus-police-ice-agents-immigration/83096056007/

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