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June updates

World Cup bannering begins! Phinneywood Rising is one of 15 groups doing special bannering during World Cup games, exercising our right to free speech and letting the rest of the world know where we stand. Our first effort took place Monday. We are likely to make some changes to the schedule and we definitely need more people. Please ask somebody on the bannering team for details and/or come to Thursday's meeting at 6 p.m. at the usual location for more details.

URGENT: A new federal rule would put all scientific, infrastructure and other federal grant decisions into the hands of the Office of Management and Budget, allowing OMB to ignore peer review, decide against funding any grant at the president's whim, cancel any grant at any time, and gag scientists by preventing them from using grant money to publish or attend conferences without written permission. This is a three-alarm fire, but you can help by providing original comments by July 13.

Read more here from Seattle Indivisible about how you can take action.

Here are a few notes on some of the major points of May's de-escalation traing.

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Phinneywood Rising's bannering project takes place Tuesdays from 4:30-5:30 p.m. and will continue that schedule during World Cup games. Find out why the regulars at this event love to be out there dancing and waving signs to the approximately 2,000 motorists that pass by. Bannering takes place at the Highway 99 north pedestrian overpass at Woodland Park. Here's a map of the exact location. Here's a little write-up about why bannering matters.

Rally for Democracy

Thursdays: Rally for Democracy at 73rd & Greenwood (Ken's Market), 4:30 - 5:30 p.m. An hour of noisemaking, sign and handwaving, and conversations on the sidewalk.

Brews & Bitchin'

Phinneywood Rising's hour of brainstorming, socializing and networking will move to once monthly for the summer. This is an unstructured hour of conversation and contemplation to help us think of new ways to drive the resistance. Bring your best ideas, and help us make the opposition better and stronger!

Join the Signing Resistance

One of our members is working on getting a group together for some occasional Singing Resistance-type action in North Seattle. No singing experience necessary! Clap-along enthusiasts welcome!!

Here's more information about the Singing Resistance. If you're interested, please fill out the form and let us know of your availability.

Fighting ICE

Join Phinneywood Neighbors Protecting Neighbors (FB link here) to protect one another and provide aid to vulnerable community members.

Learn how to be an observer: Here's a YouTube video by No Kings organizers about how to document and record ICE encounters. Fast-forward through the first 8 minutes to get to the heart of the workshop.

The League of Women Voters has published a comprehensive guide to immigrant and protester rights, including downloadable cards and trainings. Check it out.

And the City of Seattle's Stand Together: Let's Make Seattle a Welcoming City is worth a read to understand Seattle's policy on immigration enforcement.

Save these dates

June 14: Dance party with Dance4Democracy and Southend Indivisible. (Dance4Democracy is the line-dancing group, not to be confused with the event that raised money for Movement Voter Project.) Ping one of the PWR leaders for details.
June 18: Phinneywood Rising's June meeting. Save the date! Details will come via email.
June 25: Communities Rising will meet at Wallingford's Keystone Church to discuss how to take action against the Office of Management and Budget's (OMB) move to politicize federal grant-making.
Aug. 2: Communities Rising picnic at Green Lake

"A syndicated grassroots organization is community-led, volunteer-driven, and hyper-local at its core, but it belongs to something bigger. It’s part of a network of similar groups, sharing strategies, resources, and ultimately, national-scale impact. The power doesn’t flow down from a national office or a major donor. It flows up, from neighbors trusting neighbors, from people who know each other’s streets and kids and coffee orders deciding to act together." -- Jess Primavera

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