“What’s Next” This Week

Revised due to Labor Day Week End cancelations

“What’s NEXT” This WEEK

WEEKLY Edition

Rallies, Zooms, Meetings & Phone Banks

August 31st – September 7th … Times Vary w/Zoom & In-Person Events

Wednesday, September 2 @2pm – Zoom

Join NWSOFA-Indivisible

“How To / Hands On” Zoom Tech session:

“work faster, efficient”

Wednesday, September 2nd @2pm Central / 3pm Eastern l ZOOM

Today’s Focus: “How to use Tech to work faster, more efficient and produce a more professional evvent or product “

_NOTE: Every 2nd Wednesday Hands On/ How To will move to NOON to allow Indivisible Leadership to attend the Monthly Indivisible National Leadership meetings at 2 pm central.. ALL other Wednesday’s will be at 2 pm central / 3 eastern… _

WORKING HANDS-ON / HOW-TO SESSION

This is a place where Indivisible NWSOFA (Northwest Suburbs Organizing for Action) can connect, brainstorm, and find resources. Here, we engage in passionate discussions and sometimes disagreements, but our greater goal is to support the group and our shared mission.

For the best experience, please join from a computer or tablet with internet access. Ask your Questions.. Let’s Get Organized & Connected!

Thursday, September 3rd @ 5:00pm – Zoom

Join Sorting Soup’s

Sorting the Firehose of Information:

Thursday at 5 pm Central / 6pm eastern

_Every Thursday at 5:00 p.m. CDT, Sorting Soup—our Thursday edition—is a weekly space to make sense of the nonstop firehose of news. Together, we sort through major headlines, court decisions, policy developments, cultural moments, and the stories competing for our attention. Bring your questions, useful context, and curiosity as we distinguish what is urgent, what is meaningful, and what deserves a closer look._

Sorting Soup is also a place to process what the news brings up. Through honest conversation and critical thinking, we make room for frustration, concern, hope, and determination—while connecting national developments to the realities in our own communities. The aim is not simply to keep up, but to leave with clearer shared understanding and a stronger sense of what we can do next.

Each gathering continues our focus on Self-Care as Radical Resistance. We will share a short self-care message recognizing that rest, boundaries, connection, nourishment, and care for our well-being are not distractions from meaningful work; they are how we sustain ourselves and one another for the long haul.

Through the November 3 midterm elections, we will also emphasize community-facing voter engagement. We’ll highlight tabling opportunities, explore adaptable voter-education tools, and identify practical calls to action each week—from sharing trustworthy information and inviting neighbors into the work to helping build the participation essential to a healthy democracy.

Tuesday, Sept 3rd @7pm – Zoom

NEW NWSOFA Series

NWSOFA–Indivisible invites you to a new limited Zoom series

“Origin Stories”

Chapter One, “What Drove the Revolution?

“with Author Joel Edward Goza”

Thursday, September 3rd @7pm Central / 8pm Eastern l ZOOM

_NWSOFA–Indivisible invites you to Origin Stories, a new limited Zoom series beginning Thursday, September 3, at 7:00 p.m. CDT. Together, we’ll explore the stories Americans are taught about our country’s founding—and why those stories still matter in today’s struggle for democracy and social justice._

Author Joel Edward Goza will guide the series through a critical examination of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers, and the Constitution they created.

Rather than treating the nation’s origins as settled history, Origin Stories asks how those foundational ideals, contradictions, and conflicts continue to shape the political realities we face today.

The series will also look to the agents of change throughout American history—people and movements who confronted injustice, expanded democracy, and challenged the country to live up to its promises.

Their work offers both context and inspiration for the challenges before us now.

Joel Edward Goza is the author of America’s Unholy Ghosts: The Racist Roots of Our Faith and Politics and Rebirth of a Nation: Reparations and Remaking America.

_Join NWSOFA–Indivisible on Zoom for Chapter One, “What Drove the Revolution?”, Thursday, September 3 at 7:00 p.m. CDT._

Friday, September 4th @ 7:00pm – Zoom

Join Indivisible ILLINOIS, Indivisibles: NWSOFA, Evanston & Dupage

NO KINGS NO LIES – No Lies Lab

Let’s fight Voter Suppression and Fear Mongering around Communism

Friday, September 4th @ noon Central / 1pm eastern

Join us today at Noon (central) August 7th for NO KINGS NO LIES: No Lies Lab (formerly Truth Brigade Illinois) from noon to 1:30.

From noon to 1:00, we will create and post messages on social media fighting disinformation and sharing the truth.

For the last half hour we will amplify our messages and other messaging on social media to spread the truth.

Let’s fight voter suppression by pushing back against disinformation and let’s message on fear mongering on communism.

Sunday, August 30 @ 9am & 5pm – Zoom

Join The Literature & Ladle Society (Book Club)

Two sessions on Sunday

B) This Is the Plan* by Ben Wikler

Sundays Bookclub @9am & 5pm central – ZOOM

This fall, The Ladle & Literature Society—also known as the Sorting Soup Book Club—offers two routes into the work of sustaining ourselves and building power. Beginning Sunday, August 30, we’ll gather around books that take both the personal toll of organizing and the practical work of winning seriously. Choose the conversation that best meets the moment—or join both, because the mess is multifaceted and, frankly, so are we.

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle

*Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle* by Emily and Amelia Nagoski explores why stress lingers in our bodies long after the immediate crisis has passed, and how we can interrupt the cycle through rest, connection, movement, boundaries, and joy. Organizers are regularly asked to absorb urgency, outrage, grief, and other people’s needs; without ways to process that load, exhaustion becomes a predictable political outcome. This discussion is for anyone who wants to build a practice of care sturdy enough to support the long haul—because a movement cannot afford to treat its people as disposable.

This Is the Plan* by Ben Wikler

If self-care is not your jam, *This Is the Plan* by Ben Wikler offers a clear-eyed, battle-tested guide to turning frustration into durable political power. Drawing on organizing lessons from Wisconsin and beyond, Wikler emphasizes disciplined planning, real relationships, broad coalitions, and the unglamorous infrastructure required to win. It is an antidote to doomscrolling and magical thinking: organized people change what looks inevitable by showing up, making a plan, and bringing others with them. Join *Burnout* on Sundays at 9:00 a.m. CST, beginning August 30, or *This Is the Plan* on Sundays at 5:00 p.m. CST.

Sunday, Sept 6 @ 4pm and Tuesday, Sept 8 @6pm – Zoom

Reoccurring Weekly Events, Zoom

Join “COFFEE & CONVERSATION”:

Discussion from Attendees –

Weekday M-F @9 AM CT Zoom!

Every morning M-F- Start Your Day off with great conversations.. and a cup of coffee.. talking about “Stuff” with fellow Progressives…

Extremely Casual .. attendees join from across the US and World..Reacting to the News Cycle of the Day!

Sorting Soup:

Sorting the firehose of information- Thurs@5:00 / Sun@9am &5pm CDT – Zoom

Thursdays @5PM ..Sorting Soup is our weekly gathering where we make sense of the “firehose of information” — serving up news, court cases,.

Sunday is the book club @9am & 5pm CDT ”

Join our Daily Substack

Recaps of Coffee & Conversation / Happy / UnHappy Hour

HANDS-ON / HOW-TO SESSION

Tech session: Using Today’s TECH .. tips and traps

Wednesday @2 pm CDT – Zoom

“Using today’s Tech: “to Promote your messages.. Discussions cover multiple topics .. Wednesday @2 pm CDT

A group of tech users .. discuss’s how to use today’s tech to be more efficient and effective while sharing their screens hands on .. open questions1

Join Fridays “Happy Hour”

Every Friday @5 continuing strong!:

Typically we like to hear.. What is/are you/your groups plans fo Resist

We want to know WHAT YOUR OR YOUR Groups are doing to Rally, organize and educate ..

Are you becoming “Strategically Non-Cooperative”

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