We’re taking a different approach to Our Voices this week, with an ear to “voices” from Oregon groups already posted all across the state. While there are many ways to get our message out, from social media posts to meetings at the local café, here we focus on newsletters and blogs from our fellow Indivisibles.
Newsletters and blogs allow for optional commentary, format variety (such as sharing photos and video), creative works such as poetry and essays, and other ways to personalize our activity and involve our communities in a timely manner that is less static than the usual standalone website.
Most of our groups collect an email list somehow (we just tried to list all who specify a newsletter). Many groups maintain websites and/or social media pages that serve similar purposes for posting timely news and events without fully relying on email. In the future, we’ll probably assemble a list of events pages and calendars shared by our various Indivisibles of Oregon.
Share Your Experience!
Take a look at the great work your fellow groups do via the links on this list. Share your experience in the comment form below. Have newsletters been helpful for you, as an organizer or as one who shows up? What formats, apps, and other variations have you found most useful? What drawbacks have you encountered? Ask questions!
Indivisible Newsletters & Blogs in Oregon
- Act for Democracy posts a newsletter once or twice monthly and archives it on their website here in a blog format. They also distribute the newsletter to their mailing list. Subscribe here.
- Consolidated Oregon Indivisible Network (COIN) posts their latest weekly newsletter here in a blog format, and also posts an archive page of past issues. The newsletter landing page is sent out via email. Subscribe here.
- Indivisible Bend hosts a blog under the title Speak Your Mind, for which they invite members’ contributions.
- Indivisible Benton County posts a page of newsletter issues on their website, which they also email to their mailing list. Subscribe here. Their website home page is also in a blog format for a variety of news and commentary posts.
- Indivisible Cedar Mill distributes a newsletter via email. Subscribe here.
- Indivisible Clackamas sends call-to-action and events newsletters weekly (the signup link is on their Facebook page). Subscribe here.
- Indivisible Forest Grove distributes a newsletter via email about once a week. Subscribe here.
- Indivisible Hillsboro distributes a newsletter via email. Subscribe here.
- Indivisible Gold Beach posts a subscription form for their newsletters on their home page. They also post a blog of commentary articles titled Letters to the Editor, by Janet Jeffery.
- Indivisible Lincoln City posts an archive of their newsletter The Tidal Wave on their website. Their home page includes the subscription form to receive the newsletter by email.
- Indivisible North Coast Oregon posts an archive of recent newsletters on their website, with the subscription form on the same page.
- Indivisible Oregon of Portland distributes their newsletter by email. Subscribe here.
- Indivisible PDX D3 links their latest newsletter, as emailed to members, from their website home page. Subscribe here.
- Indivisible Polk County distributes a newsletter to their email list. Subscribe here.
- Indivisible Redmond sends newsletters (and other email news) to its member list. Subscribe here.
- Indivisible Sisters sends newsletters to their member list around once a week, and links an archive of newsletters to their website. Subscribe here.
- Indivisible Washington County posts the IWC Bulletin once or twice a month, with links to all editions here.
- Miller Street Indivisible of Portland’s website includes a blog page titled Community Voices with an invitation for members’ contributions.
- Oregon District 2 Indivisible (ORD2) emails newsletters weekly, with a newsletter archive that also appears on their home page and signup page. Subscribe here. They also have a podcast page featuring the video series Rogue Resistance.
- Portland District 2 Neighbors Indivisible has a blog on their website, and distributes a newsletter via email. Subscribe here.
- Progressive Yamhill posts links to their newsletters, which they also email to their member list. Subscribe here.
- Protect Oregon’s Progress (POP) distributes a newsletter to their email list, and also posts recent issues on their signup page.
- Let us know if we missed your newsletter or blog info!
Indivisible Clackamas publishes a Call to Action and Events newsletters weekly.
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