DECEMBER 2, 2025
Social Connections Strengthen Democracies
WE’RE HAVING A SOCIAL!
Indivisible Helena Membership Meeting
Thursday, Dec. 4
6 p.m. – 7:50 p.m.
L & C Library, Large Community Room
Food and soft beverages provided.
Have a friend who is interested in learning more about IH or how they can be part of resisting this assault on our democracy? Bring them to the gathering. Let’s help build courage, make new friends, and grow this movement towards an inclusive, compassionate community.
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Don’t Let the Cold Take Our Unhoused Community Members
Volunteer to Be an Emergency Shelter Assistant
United Way of the Lewis & Clark Area and several partner organizations are recruiting faith communities and other organizations/sites to serve as emergency shelters during dangerous, cold weather, and they need volunteers in various capacities at their shelter sites. Please consider volunteering and taking the training. Let’s keep everyone safe this winter.
Volunteer Training:
Thursday, December 4
Noon – 1 p.m.
United Way Conference Room
75 E Lyndale Ave
Let United Way Know If You Plan to Attend
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This Week’s To-Do List
Make Good Trouble in Helena!
1. The Boycotts aren’t ending: Re-commit!
Target
Amazon
Home Depot
Spotify
Starbucks
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2. Honk & Wave
Saturday, December 6
Noon to 1 p.m., 11th and Montana Ave.
Keep on waving, and keep ‘em honking!
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3. Donate to Helena Food Share and Helena YWCA
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Get Your No Kings Yard Signs!
We’ve got ‘em, you want ‘em
Available at the December 4, IH Membership Meeting, or request by email, and we’ll get them to you. The No Kings sign campaign is here until we are sure there will be NO KINGS, EVER!
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Good Reads
Heather Cox Richardson
Letters from an AmericanSubstack
11/29/2025
The MAGA / GOP coalition is fraying. The military pillar is even showing cracks with the quiet resignation of Admiral Alvin Holsey, through whom the attacks on and killings of Venezuelans in the Caribbean go.
“He’s refusing to be the hinge between an unlawful order and the officer who carried it out.” (Bruce Fanger, The Four-Star General Who Walked Away Mid-War: Admiral Holsey and the Breaking Point Inside the Pentagon, White Rose USA November).
And then there are the two senators, Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi) and Jack Reed (D-Rhode Island), both at the top of the Senate Armed Services Committee, who have demanded that Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth show the written orders and the legal reasoning for the orders to attack the boat and then shoot the survivors.
“And both men know that if they let Hegseth’s alleged order stand unchallenged, they’re signing off on a doctrine where the United States can kill unarmed survivors in peacetime and call it national security.” (Bruce Fanger, The Senators Who Just Put Pete Hegseth on Notice, White Rose USA, 29 November 2025)
HCR lines out the other crumbling pillars.
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Pussy Riot Post
November 28, 2025
Pussy Riot is about to be officially labeled an extremist organization in Russia.
Photo: @maxavdeev
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When we were in that church basement in Moscow dreaming up Pussy Riot, K. and I imagined Pussy Riot growing into a movement. Fourteen years later, the Prosecutor General’s Office is demanding that we be declared an extremist organization.
If on December 15 the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow grants the Prosecutor General’s request, we’ll be officially placed in the same category as the Azov, LGBT, the Jehovah’s Witnesses, the Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar People and Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation.
I’m laughing in disbelief.
But at the same time I want to remind everyone that someone has to be the voice of common sense. And in this distorted world this voice now has to come from punks, artists, tricksters, holy fools.
Singing in the streets is not extremism. Doing street actions is not extremism.
Extremism is invading other countries and committing war crimes. Being anti-fascist and wearing a Pikachu costume… is not extremism.
Pussy Riot have always stood – and will continue to stand – with Saint Nikolai, who wasn’t afraid to throw a piece of raw meat at the feet of Ivan the Terrible himself, calling him out: “You eat human flesh and blood.”
And if telling the truth is “extreme,” then hold my Red Bull.
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Together, we’ll make sure the U.S. has NO KING.
