3.27.25 IMHK general meeting

Notes and upcoming events!

Past community meeting recaps:

• IMHK Town Hall 3/22:

  • Highlights: Around 200 people attended the empty chair town hall! The livestream recording has been visited over 600 times!

  • Areas for improvement: Expanding our community aid resources portion at the end. A bigger venue.

• Indivisible Rural Caucus call 3/26:

  • Consider holding a community issues town hall to discuss specific issues. Avoid partisan politics and invite experts to speak as well.

  • Check out Indivisible’s Truth Brigade for training on how to respond and counter misinformation

• Indivisible + 50501 Hands Off! national call 3/21:

  • Emphasize, when talking to the media, that this is a national event.

    This is an opportunity to do new outreach to organizations and communities wherever you live, seeding new relationships.

  • Teamwork can be hard. We come from all walks of life, and we’re not always going to see eye to eye. We not only need more seats at the table, we need a bigger table entirely. Be kind. Support each other. Work together. Find where you can bring different resources and expertise together.

    

Upcoming events of interest:

• Saturday 3/29 @ 5pm: Riley County Democratic Party fundraiser

• Monday 3/31 @ 6pm: IMHK LGBTQ+ affinity group free movie screening of Transhood, Manhattan Public Library Auditorium.

  • Also @ 6pm: Understanding Anti-Trans Legislation & Community Resources in Kansas, by ACLU and Loud Light via Zoom.

• Various dates @ 6-8:30pm: Phone banking with Loud Light, online.

  • Tuesday 4/1 Voting Rights

  • Wednesday 4/2 Immigrant Rights

  • Tuesday 4/8 Reproductive Rights

  • Wednesday 4/9 LGBTQ+ Rights

• Wednesday 4/02 @ 7-8pm: De-escalation training, Zoom.

• Saturday 04/05 @ 11:30am - 1pm: IMHK Hands Off! protest, across from City Hall (11th & Poyntz).

  • Saturday 04/05 @ 12pm: 50501 Hands Off! protest, Topeka State Capitol.

• Wednesday 04/09 @ 6-8pm: Pride in SERVE-ice, 2326 Sky-Vue Lane Flint Hills Bread Basket.

• Saturday 04/12 @ 12-5:30pm: IMHK tabling at Little Apple Pride, City Park.

• Wednesday 04/16 @ 7pm: IMHK advisory committees meeting, location TBD.

• Wednesday 04/30 @ 7pm: IMHK general meeting, Manhattan Public Library, Auditorium.