Aloha Reader, Mahalo nui to all who showed up for the Rise-Up Rally to Guarantee Our Freedoms on Sunday! A great way to cap the Rise Up and Sing Out concert - and impressive turnout for a pop-up on short notice. These 100-person rallies have a great vibe - a perfect size to meet and talk with new friends. Guarantee Our Freedoms Pop-Up 😊 Two Newsletters. Everything You Need to Know. KIND was a pioneer among Indivisible chapters in Hawai'i - one of the first to build a local website and launch...
14 days ago • 3 min read
Aloha Reader, A little over a year ago, Kona Indivisible launched a website and newsletter with a simple goal: keep our community informed and ready to act. What we didn't expect was everyone else saying, "We want that, too!" — and by everyone, we mean chapter leaders and the statewide network leadership across all four islands. So we got to work. KIND set out to build something bigger: a communications overhaul that gives every Indivisible chapter in Hawai'i a home, a voice, and a shared...
23 days ago • 4 min read
Aloha Reader, From statehouse news to street-level action, there's a lot happening in Kona this week — and we want you in the middle of all of it. State News On Thursday, the Lieutenant Governor (LG) race became much more interesting. State House Representative Della Au Belatti announced that she withdrew from the CD1 Congressional Primary and entered the statewide Democratic Primary for Lieutenant Governor. We are working with our friends in the Indivisible Hawai'i Statewide Network to give...
29 days ago • 3 min read
Aloha Reader, On this Memorial Day, Andy Borowitz captures our national our: "In what has become a Memorial Day tradition for him, on Monday, Donald J. Trump laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Podiatrist." But let's not focus on him any longer today. Instead, let's concentrate on the future. We’ve been writing a lot about SB2471, now Act 11, the landmark dark money stopping Hawai'i legislation. Indivisibles in Hawai'i made this happen – and this is big news now on the national stage....
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
Aloha Reader, It’s been another good week for the State of Hawai'i, thanks to Indivisibles like you 😊🎉. State News On Tuesday, we rallied statewide to urge Governor Green to sign SB2471 into law. Pop-up on Tuesday rallying Governor Greene - and it worked!! 🎉🎉 WIN: Thursday, less than two days after our rallies, The Atlantic ran a major article on Hawai’i’s proposed law. The same day, Governor Green signed the bill into law and the Associated Press covered it. The next day Hawaii Public Radio...
about 1 month ago • 3 min read
Aloha Reader, It was a good week for the State of Hawai'i. We had record success in advancing bills through the state legislature on a long list of priorities related to Migrant Rights, Affordability for Working Families, Good Government/Fair Elections, Healthcare Access, LGBTQ+ Rights, and Gun Safety. We covered the details in a webinar on Friday, available now on our YouTube channel. Today, I want to focus on the most historic bill of all, and it happened only because of you. Don't believe?...
about 2 months ago • 6 min read
Aloha Reader, Mahalo nui to all of you who showed up to support "Workers over Billionaires" last Friday, and a huge shout-out to those of you who joined the May Day call for a national economic boycott. Here you can find a fun collection of photos. Click for more images! Although this was a bad week for democracy nationally, it had a surprise positive ending in Hawai'i. STATE NEWS SB 2471 – Sunshine over Dark Money – advances to floor vote PARTIAL WIN: Minutes before the 6 pm deadline on...
about 2 months ago • 7 min read
Aloha Reader, Mahalo to all who showed up Saturday for the pop-up protest supporting the Detention Watch Network to demand an end to ICE detention warehouses. We have the next protest planned for May 1, and you will find more info in the local section below. It's been another intense week, so don't skip over the National and State updates. Let's dive in. NATIONAL NEWS WHCA Dinner You’ve no doubt seen footage of the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner last night. We will...
2 months ago • 7 min read
Aloha Reader, Yep, we write long emails, but so much is going on 🙃😊 Each newsletter is designed to be easy to read and skimmable, so look for headlines on national, state, county, and local happenings. This way, you can quickly find the information that interests you most. Let's get started. NATIONAL NEWS Iran war: Who knows? On Friday, Iran announced that the Strait of Hormuz was fully open. Trump made several unsubstantiated and conflicting claims regarding the Strait of Hormuz and an...
2 months ago • 7 min read