Come join us and Indivisible San Mateo for weekly Saturday vigils is near Hillsdale Shopping Center, El Camino Real near 31st Avenue, San Mateo, 1 PM- 2:30 PM. This Saturday the 17th: No Kings 4: Vote Early. It will include a mile march to the City Hall election dropbox...bring your completed ballot!  

Back From the Brink has a weekly podcast about nuclear weapons and being active around such issues. Use this link to go there any time and see their previous and their latest: https://preventnuclearwar.org/podcast/

Costs of Pentagon and War: This year we will spend over $1 trillion on the military for the first time since WW II. The National Priorities Project has a counter and links to tradeoffs on which we could better spend that money. Go to https://www.nationalpriorities.org/cost-of/?redirect=cow

Upcoming Events

Sunday, November 15: A video with Timothy Snyder and Rep. Ro Khanna

In our generally measured but joyous celebration of the recent midterm election results, there is a lot to think about as to how the coming Democratic majority can and should conduct business. Historian, author and Professor Emeritus Timothy Snyder has been going there on a regular basis with a video Substack called “Now We Act”. The program, found on YouTube, features conversations between Snyder and various members of Congress.

Recently Snyder’s guest was South Bay Rep. Ro Khanna. The two talked about the state of our union up to now and the ways it can be changed and improved beginning on January 3, 2027. The subjects include foreign and domestic policy, the economy, and governance.

This Sunday, November 15 at 7 PM, PASMC will screen the 30-minute conversation between Snyder and Khanna, followed by a discussion about it – what we can learn and take away from it, and how we might take action in the coming months. The Zoom link is https://us02web.zoom.us/j/3289220486?omn=89459195826.

Snyder is the author of (among other books) “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century”, a relatively short (and highly recommended) book from 2017; also “On Freedom” (2024) and “The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America (2018)”.

Rep. Ro Khanna has been a member of the House of Representatives since 2017, representing California’s 17th Congressional District. He is also a member of the House Progressive Caucus. His name has come up as a possible Presidential candidate for 2028.