ALERT!
With the Midterm Elections fast approaching, our most pressing need right now is for people to sign up for one or more of our Midterms Elections teams. Until November, we ask you to focus on these three teams. Thank you.
Midterms Election Defense Team
The Election Defense Team (EDT) is undertaking several types of work to ensure free and democratic elections, and to defend the results. It is composed of multiple crews.
To learn more about the EDT's crews — and sign-up for the one(s) that interest you, click here!
Midterms Canvass Crew
This team (also known as the Field Team) organizes canvass events. Currently, its main focus is to support Randy Villegas win the House seat in California District 22.
To join the team, click here.
Midterms House Party Team
This team (also known as the Fundraising Team) organizes house parties to raise money in support of political organizations (notably Movement Voter Project and Flip the Vote) that provide support to progressive candidates around the country.
To sign up, click here.
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Join a Team
The work of IEB is centered around a collection of teams that represent all the different things we do. Check out the Teams list below. Find the one that speaks to you — and select to join it!
If you’d like to volunteer, but don’t know your best fit yet, you can chat with someone from the Welcome Team! In this conversation, you can (1) get your questions answered about how IEB works, (2) talk over what team might be a good fit for you, and/or (3) kick around ideas for more ways for IEB to have impact? Click here to connect with a friendly Welcomer at our Help Desk!
Political Action [Electoral] Teams
These are the teams focused on winning the upcoming midterm elections.
See above for the list of teams and the links to join them.
Political Action [Advocacy with Electeds] Teams
Working with MOCs (Members of Congress) is the bread and butter of indivisible groups! Indivisible is founded on the principle that constituent pressure works. We push our MOCs to do better when they fall short, and cheer them on when they do the right thing.
Senate Team
IEB’s Senate Team is part of a coalition of Northern California Indivisible groups that sets up meetings with staff from Senator Padilla’s and Senator Schiff’s offices. Senate Team members can choose one Senator to focus on, or can work with both. We contribute to meeting agendas, attend meetings, and make our voices heard.
To join the Senate Team: CLICK HERE!
CA-8: West Contra Costa Team
This team gathers the third Wednesday of each month from 7:00-8:00 (mostly on Zoom and sometimes in person). Through engaging with this team, you will find good opportunities for involvement - from candidate meet & greets, to GOTV (get out the vote) activities, to forums on local issues. You will also have the option of joining meetings with House Representative Garamendi, representing District 8.
To join the West Contra Costa Team or find out more: CLICK HERE!
Communications Teams
This is how we get our message out. These teams focus on communicating with our membership and the general public.
Digital Media
This team oversees all of IEB's digital media presence. There are two separate subgroups.
The first subgroup oversees our indivisibleeb website. Primary activities include: writing and posting blog entries (text and graphics), keeping our Events calendar up-to-date — and "back-end" maintenance of the entire site (which runs on WordPress). Prior experience with Wordpress is not required, but desirable.
The second subgroup oversees our Social Media (Bluesky, Facebook, YouTube, etc.). Activities include: posting to the various media on a regular basis, responding to feedback from users — and general maintenance of the accounts. We strive to promote IEB actions and increase user engagement — making our social media presence a significant political force.
To join the Digital Media Team or find out more, CLICK HERE!
Media
This team helps shape the public narrative by getting our actions and perspective covered by the media. The team also works to align our messaging with the broader narrative promoted by progressive messaging experts (in addition to following messaging advice from Indivisible, we primarily turn to: Research Collaborative, Winning the Jobs Narrative, and the Focal Points Strategy Group). Activities include: cultivating relationships with reporters, keeping our local media list up to date, and writing media advisories and press releases about IEB events. In addition, the team will run trainings for IEB members who would like to be effective spokespeople at events, or to publish op-eds or letters to the editor.
No sign-up link available at this time.
Newsletter
This mighty team puts out IEB’s weekly newsletter, informing our membership about how to take action, events to join, more ways to get involved, and what IEB volunteers have been up to.
To let the Newsletter Team know you’re interested in helping out, CLICK HERE!
Overpass Visibility Brigade
The Overpass Visibility Brigade (OVB) uses giant letters to share messages in public spaces - most notably, overpasses! Short, punchy messages that thousands of drivers see in an hour can pique interest, persuade through salience and repetition (if messages appear elsewhere too), and make people feel that they are not alone in their worry, fear, or outrage. This type of narrative-shaping work can draw more people into a movement. Joining the Brigade can mean coming to an art build to make more giant letters, attending an Overpass Visibility Brigade event, or hosting your own event using IEB’s letter library! The Brigade even has a Letter Librarian, who stores the letters and runs a letter check-out system.
To find the Visibility Brigade, join Slack and then join the #overpass-visibility-brigade channel!
Storytelling
This is a small group of IEB folks reaching out to Indivisible chapters in red states to learn from them, help them be a beacon of truth in a sea of red, and support their efforts to hold their Members of Congress accountable using creative methods.
For more information on this team, write to info@indivisibleeb.org, and put “Storytelling” in the subject line.
Issue Action Teams
Join one of IEB's issue-focused Action Teams and be part of a community of passionate, committed people fighting to protect the people and the planet from harm.
Immigration Action Team
The IAT is an IEB action team that supports immigrants in our communities and fights attacks on immigrant rights. Please join us by participating in one or more of the following projects:
1. Join the Direct Support Team. In partnership with local immigrant rights organizations, the Direct Support team helps connect immigrants to services and provides support to those with asylum cases at the Concord Immigration Court. While most roles require at least conversational Spanish, there are some opportunities for English-only volunteers. Online and in-person training is provided. To Join, CLICK HERE.
2. Join the Home Depot Adopt a Corner and Community Defense Team. IEB’s Adopt a Corner Corner patrol is located at Home Depot in Oakland. Our patrols are inspired by the work of the National Day Laborers Network and activists in Minneapolis who organized neighborhood defense networks. When you sign up, we provide training and help you sign up for shifts with our welcoming patrol community. To join, CLICK HERE.
3. Join the Mutual Aid Team. Help support our neighbors with access to food, housing and other basic needs. We seek to promote safety in our communities so that immigrants and all of our neighbors can be free from attacks by ICE, mass detention and incarceration. Our first project is to provide food for our neighbors in need. We are coordinating these efforts with Faith In Action East Bay. To join, CLICK HERE.
4. Join the Know Your Rights Team. We support immigrants and allies with Know Your Rights (KYR) information and guidance for asserting their constitutional rights, especially during interactions with ICE or other law enforcement officials. We currently focus on distributing Know Your Rights Red Cards and Yellow Cards in immigrant and allied communities. To join, CLICK HERE.
LGBTQ+ Action Team
Our LGBTQ+ Action Team works to build solidarity and protect LGBTQ rights, services and supports in the East Bay and beyond.
To join the LGBTQ+ Action Team, CLICK HERE!
Public Bank East Bay Team
We are really excited to put a measure on Berkeley’s November 2026 ballot to provide start-up funds for a public bank in the East Bay! Currently, private banks invest our money in private detention centers, fossil fuels, and wars abroad. A public bank will make the East Bay more resilient to federal chaos and fund a future we want to live in with renewable energy, affordable housing, and thriving small businesses! We have several roles you can take on: signature gatherer, signature-gathering event lead, signature-packet logistics coordinator, and house party host. Other skills or ideas are welcome too!
If you are interested in being on the Public Bank Campaign Team, please sign up HERE.
UC Unbowed
UC Unbowed exists to create collective pressure to strengthen the University of California as a pillar of power in support of democracy.
To learn more about this team, click here.
Bay Biz Watch
As Bay Biz Watch, we are aiming to build a frame which engages IEB members and coalition partners to drive effective, strategic activism that moves regional businesses from compliance to defiance. As a member, you can participate by researching the corporate landscape in the Bay area, organizing members to participate in targeted, corporate-focused campaigns, and by joining such a campaign yourself. Bay Biz Watch can be a strong fit for folks from all backgrounds and is a particularly good way to get involved if you can't often make it to in-person events and/or are especially interested/familiar with the politics of business.
Hope to see you on the team! Join here.
Gaza Action Squad
The Gaza Action Squad opposes the ongoing destruction of the society and people of Gaza and the West Bank, and we do what we can to stop it. We lobby Senators and other legislators to stop military aid to Israel, promote divestment from companies that facilitate genocide, support initiatives such as the Oakland People's Arms Embargo, and meet with people with first-hand knowledge of events in Palestine. We regularly invite speakers to our Zoom meetings. We work with a diverse range of allied groups, including Palestinians, progressive Jews, and secular activists, and welcome anyone who shares our goals and our determination.
To join the squad, click here.
Youth Action Caucus
The Youth Action Caucus provides a space for Indivisible members under 35 to share ideas, address issues impacting young people, and create a motivated and vibrant community of activists. The YAC plans to host events including workshops, socials, and movie nights. Our goal is to encourage new activists to join Indivisible and work alongside action groups to provide community, training, and support.
To join the Young People’s Caucus or find out more: CLICK HERE!
Climate Action Team
IEB’s Climate Action Team works in coalition with other progressive organizations around the state and across the country to support critical climate legislation. In 2025 and early 2026 we were active in the Make Polluters Pay coalition, formed to advance a Polluters Pay Superfund Act in California. That work is currently on hold, pending changes in our governor and state legislature. Meanwhile, we keep an eye on federal legislation that would prevent states from passing such superfund acts (HR 8330 currently.)
Please revisit this site in January 2027 for an update on our new activities. If you’d like to discuss climate change campaign ideas, please contact Joan at joanoak2020@gmail.com
Operations Teams
Operations Teams enable the day-to-day workings of IEB, develop members’ skills, foster solidarity (among members and with allied groups), and facilitate our ability to take more strategic and effective action. These teams help make IEB a “political home” for East Bay residents, lay the foundation for long-term resilience, and build our people power.
Events Team
This team plans many IEB events, including rallies, marches, protests, press conferences, membership meetings, and social events. This team provides the important function of being able to stand up events relatively quickly when Indivisible calls for a national day of action. The key functions on this team are: logistics (scouting and reserving sites for our events); sound (arranging for a sound system that works for the space); speakers (building up a “speakers bureau” of people we can call upon to be in speaker line-ups); promotion (getting the word out and crowd-building); and event project management (overall coordination of events and volunteer management). The Events Team partners closely with two other IEB Teams: the Peacekeeping Team (so that our events are safe and peaceful) and the Media Team (so that our events get press coverage).
To share your interest in the Events Team and tell us about your skills and experience: CLICK HERE!
Power Building Team
The Power-Building Team (PBT) focuses on the work that turns participation into real, durable power. Strong social movement organizations rely on three critical sources of power: solidaristic bonds, distributed leadership, and diversity. The PBT develops and supports these by helping people find welcoming on-ramps into IEB, supporting members to grow into leadership, and building the relationships and practices that make sustained action possible – while intentionally diversifying our membership and leadership. The PBT includes roles like Navigators, Leadership Development Coaches, and Trainers. Do you want to help people find the volunteer roles that light them up? Deepen the bonds among IEB members? Diversify leadership and distribute it more broadly throughout the organization? Then we’d love to hear from you!
To fill out the interest form for the Power Building Team, CLICK HERE!
Safety Team
The Safety Team is absolutely vital to the effectiveness of our movement. Team members (peacekeepers) embody principles of nonviolence. Not only is such a discipline important for safety, but it’s also strategic: nonviolent resistance is much more likely to succeed than movements that turn violent. Peacekeepers wear yellow vests at our protests, rallies, and marches - where they keep protesters safe, direct marchers to stay on the route, and de-escalate any conflicts that may arise. Team members receive trainings in topics such as protest safety, nonviolence, de-escalation and walkie-talkie use.
To join the Safety Team: CLICK HERE!
Welcome Team
This team does the mission-critical work of individual outreach to new members to make them feel welcome, and to help them find good ways to plug in. Even though this team has eleven members, with so many new people coming into IEB each week, our Welcomers have a hard time keeping up! If you love to help people feel at home in a new space, and have been with IEB at least three months (so that you are familiar enough with how IEB works to answer questions about our group), consider joining the Welcome Team!
To let the Welcome Team know that you’re interested in joining: CLICK HERE!
IEB Leadership Teams
The Steering Committee and associated teams coordinate the actions of all the other teams — and oversee activities and decisions that supersede any one group.
Steering Committee (SC)
The SC manages the day-to-day operations of IEB. These operations include: organizing and hosting monthly all-member meetings; raising and spending funds; maintaining the IEB website; approving adding IEB’s signature to sign-on letters; facilitating the endorsement of candidates and initiatives; and overseeing IEB databases The SC also facilitates the launch and flourishing of IEB’s many teams; is the public face of IEB; is accountable to IEB members, and holds ultimate responsibility for IEB’s strategic direction.
We welcome new members! Requirements include: (1) basic alignment with Indivisible’s strategy; (2) a commitment to nonviolence; (3) having been a member for at least six months; (4) experience as a leader within IEB team (preferably a leadership role on an IEB team); (5) willingness to attend all monthly Steering Committee and All-Member meetings; and (6) an ability to dedicate a minimum of 10 hours/month to IEB (including meetings). If you would like to apply (or to find out more about the Steering Committee and how to apply), write to info@indivisibleeb.org and put “SC membership” in the subject line.
Expanded Leadership Team (ELT)
Consists of leaders from all teams
ELT Planning Committee
Consists of volunteers from the SC & ELT
