*** Week of June 2nd ACTION ITEMS***

  • Wednesday June 4th 4PM - Paramus Tesla Takedown - Paramus, NJ 530 Rt 17 -To Register Click HERE

  • Thursday June 5th - Three Call Thursday - Pick an Issue and use 5Calls to Call your Reps - Click HERE

  • Friday June 6th 6:30 PM - Moms Demand Action Wear Orange Bridge Lighting, Nyack Memorial Park, Nyack NY - To Register Click HERE

  • Saturday June 7th 12PM - IROC Weekly Protest Nanuet Four Corners, Nanuet NY Route 59 and N Middletown Rd - To Register Click HERE

  • Saturday June 7th 12PM - Nyack 15th Annual African-American Day Parade and Festival, Nyack Memorial Park, Nyack NY - Note: Line up on Broadway and Main to watch the parade, Festival follows at Nyack Memorial Park

  • Saturday June 7th 1PM - Mt Kisco Tesla Takedown - 115 Mount Kisco Ave - To Register Click HERE

  • Sunday June 8th 11AM - 26th Annual Rockland Pride Sunday, Downtown Nyack NY  - Note: 11am parade step-off, event runs 11am-5pm

  • Wednesday June 11th 4PM - Paramus Tesla Takedown - Paramus, NJ 530 Rt 17 -To Register Click HERE

  • Thursday June 12 5PM - BIPOC Pride Block Party, 28 S. Franklin St, Nyack NY

  • Thursday June 12 6PM - 2nd Annual Proyecto Faro Benefit, Marydell Faith & Life Center, 640 N Midland Ave, Upper Nyack NY - To Register Click HERE

  • Saturday June 14th 12-2 PM - NO KINGS IROC Protest Four Corners, Nanuet NY Route 59 and N Middletown Rd - To Register Click HERE

    Other Useful Resources: (website has a full list of resources)

  • Need a protest sign we’ve got you covered! Click HERE

  • Please consider adding your name to the General Strike Card by clicking HERE. Strikes have worked historically but we need massive numbers and full commitment. Join the movement to stay up to date.

  • To stay up to date on the funding freeze on all grant for scientific research head over to: https://fedfreeze.org/#info

  • Make calls on ANY issues you care about (easy to use and they provide scripts) - https://5calls.org

  • Great resource for future protests: https://www.fiftyfifty.one/

 
 

Weekly Newsletter - Week of June 2nd

📰 IN THIS ISSUE

  • D.C. Download: Last Week In Headlines

  • What’s Coming Up in Congress

  • Postering in the Park - Get Ready for No Kings! With Us

  • IROC’s No Kings! Rally - June 14th

  • Solidarity Season: Showing Up For Our Friends in June

  • Get Loud: Local Events & Actions

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🔥 D.C. DOWNLOAD - News Recap for May 12–18

🧨 DC DOWNLOAD: Week of May 26–June 1 Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill," a sweeping package of tax cuts, military expansion, and border funding is hitting resistance in the Senate, with Republican infighting stalling its progress. Medicaid cuts and scrapped clean energy funds aren’t exactly winning hearts, and even Rand Paul is pushing back on the proposed $5 trillion debt ceiling hike (despite voting for the tax breaks that helped create it). Meanwhile, Trump’s trade war is back in style, with tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum set to double to 50%, a sudden 180 after green-lighting the Nippon Steel buyout of U.S. Steel. In true authoritarian fashion, the administration is also targeting international students, gutting $3.7 billion in clean energy grants, and trying to choke off funding for NPR and PBS, all while tossing out celebrity pardons like party favors. Todd and Julie Chrisley, anyone?

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📞 Call to Action: Tell Your Senators To Reject This Budget Disaster 

We know we sound like a broken record, but call and then call again! 

Don’t sit this one out. Call your Senators. Then call three friends and tell them to call. Think beyond your group chat, reach out to your cousin in Texas, your college roommate in Arizona, your aunt in Kentucky. The more states we activate, the stronger the wall of resistance.

Need help? Use 5Calls.org to get started. Every issue in this bill deserves its own defense, but it starts with you picking up the phone.

Use 5Calls.org or call your Senators directly (info HERE). This is a full-court press and every issue has its own action. Whether it’s defending Medicaid, protecting reproductive care, or pushing back against tax handouts for the wealthy, your voice matters right now.

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🏛️ What’s Coming Up in Congress (Week of June 2, 2025)

In the Senate:

Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” is under review — a sweeping package that makes his 2017 tax cuts permanent, slashes green energy funding, eliminates taxes on tips and overtime, boosts border and defense spending, and adds Medicaid restrictions. But it’s already hitting procedural roadblocks. Several non-budget items (like deregulating gun silencers, banning Medicaid coverage for gender-affirming care, and blocking state-level AI laws) may violate reconciliation rules and get tossed by the Senate parliamentarian. Internal GOP tensions over the bill's scope are also slowing things down.

In the House:

The House is back in session Tuesday, June 3, with evening votes expected. On the docket:

  • H.R. 2483 – SUPPORT for Patients & Communities Reauthorization Act

  • H.R. 2931 – Save SBA from Sanctuary Cities Act

  • H.R. 2987 – Capping Excessive Awarding of SBLC Entrants Act

  • H.R. 2966 – American Entrepreneurs First Act

It’s a mix of healthcare, small biz policy, and GOP messaging bills aimed at immigration and entrepreneurship.

For the most current updates on congressional schedules and legislative activities, you can visit the official websites:

House of Representatives Schedule

Senate Floor Schedule

📣 Poster in the Park for no kings!

✊🏽 No Kings Poster Painting
📅 Tuesday June 10th | 🕕 6-7PM
📍 Nyack Memorial Park Upper Level, Nyack NY

Join us next Tuesday evening for a little painting and community. Let’s turn our angst into art! Bring supplies, cardboard, paint or markers should do the trick!

 

👑 IROC's No Kings! Rally - Jun 14th 12-2 PM

NO KINGS. NO CROWNS. NO TYRANTS.

We didn’t throw off a monarchy just to hand the reins to a con man in a bad suit.
We dumped tea in 1773. Declared independence in 1776. Fought off tyranny until 1783.
And now, in 2025, Trump is clawing for a throne this country already reduced to rubble.

He wants power without accountability. A crown without a people.
But we know how this story ends, kings fall when the people rise.

Join us as we make it loud and clear:
We don’t do monarchs. We do DEMOCRACY.

📍 Saturday, June 14th | 12–2PM | Four Corners, Nanuet, NY
Bring your signs, your voices, and your revolutionary spirit.
Because history can’t repeat, so we must resist.

🎨 Get crafty with your signs and have fun -  just keep it on topic and respectful. Let’s turn Route 59 into an act of resistance through art.

Click HERE to Register

Solidarity Season: Showing Up For Our Friends in June

 
 

📣 Join Moms Demand Action for Wear Orange

🧡 Friday, June 6th | 6:30–9:00 PM
📍 Nyack Memorial Park - 4 Depew Ave, Nyack, NY

Bring a chair, a picnic, and your community spirit as we gather to honor the lives lost to gun violence and uplift the voices of survivors. Together, we remember. Together, we rise. The night ends with the bridge lighting, a beacon of hope, resilience, and resolve.

Wear Orange. Be seen. Take a stand.

🎉 Nyack’s 15th Annual African-American Day Parade

📅 Saturday, June 7 | Step-off at 12 PM
📍 Downtown Nyack

Join the Village of Nyack as they honor heritage, history, and Black excellence at Nyack’s 15th Annual African-American Day Parade! Come celebrate a powerful legacy of resilience, culture, and community with marching bands, dancers, local leaders, and vibrant displays of pride. Bring your family, your joy, and your voice because when we uplift Black history, we uplift all of us.

Unity. Culture. Celebration. See you there!

🏳️‍🌈 Rockland County Pride Parade

📅 Sunday, June 8 | Parade kicks off at 11 AM
📍 Downtown Nyack

Get ready to celebrate love, identity, and unapologetic joy at Rockland County Pride Day! The parade kicks off at 11 AM and rolls right into a full day of music, community, food, and fierce celebration. Whether you're marching, dancing, or cheering from the sidelines, come stand proud with us and show that Rockland is a place where everyone belongs.

Pride is protest. Pride is celebration. Pride is now. ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜

🌟 Proyecto Faro’s 2nd Annual Fundraiser

📅 Thursday, June 12th | 6–9 PM
📍 Marydell Faith & Life Center, 640 N. Midland Ave, Nyack

Join us for an evening of community, culture, and collective action at Proyecto Faro’s 2nd Annual Fundraiser. Come learn about the vital work this grassroots immigrant justice organization is doing right here in Rockland and how you can support it. Enjoy music, food, and stories that uplift the power and resilience of our neighbors. 

Because when we invest in justice, we invest in each other.