The Importance of Local and National Collaboration

The Importance of Local and National Collaboration
Neither the Indivisible Guide nor the organization’s brilliantly effective map built the 2017 resistance movement wave, but they were critical in allowing our group to conceive of ourselves as powerful political agents.
Stephanie Klein-Davis/The Roanoke Times via AP
Members of Charlottesville Indivisible attended a demonstration in Moneta, Virginia, May 9, 2017, before a town hall event with Republican Rep. Tom Garrett.
This article is part of the Prospect
On a cold January day in 2017, my group of friends and activists delivered New Year’s cards to the office of Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), the powerful House Judiciary Committee chair. It was a surreal afternoon—we were never allowed in his office and talked to his chief of staff in a hallway. It was my first-ever congressional office visit.

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