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https://www.change.org/overturnindianacellphoneban

Indiana's governer, Mike Braun, has signed a bill that would ban cellphones from being in school, but also require students to put them in an inaccesable location for the entire school day.

This poses a danger due to the increased amount of school shootings, and would make it harder to call authorities or student's guardians in case of an emergency.

To add onto it, the bill protects teachers from any sort of legal liability if they physically grab your phone from you, allows administrators to search you if they have suspicion that you have a phone on you (which is unconstitutional, violating our Fourth Amendment right to search and seizure), and allow for students to be expelled if they get caught with their phone on them five times.

This is far too extreme, poses a safety risk, supresses our rights, and allows for educators to basically ruin a students record via expulsion over a phone.

If we reach enough signatures, we have the potential to overturn this. Students, think about your future if this law is enacted, and parents need to think about the consequences this could have on their children.

Every single week people ask us the same thing:

“Where are the protests?”

“How do I get involved?”

“Is anything even happening in Indiana?”

Yes. A fuck ton actually.

This issue is packed with protests, mutual aid, organizing meetings, ICE detention actions, rapid response groups, art builds, town halls, community events, and ways to plug in no matter where you live in Indiana.

People across this state are putting in real work right now. Quietly, consistently, and often without recognition. And the truth is, movements survive because ordinary people decide to show up anyway.

Not because they have free time. Not because they aren’t scared. Not because somebody else will handle it. But because they understand what’s at stake.

Inside this issue:

❁ Statewide repeating protests & rallies

✿ May 16th End ICE Detention Day of Action events

❀ Mutual aid & rapid response resources

❁ Activist meetings, DSA events, Democratic clubs & organizing spaces

✿ Town halls, utilities fights & data center resistance

❀ Art builds, book clubs, craftivism & community care events

You do not have to do everything. But you should do something. Show up. Share resources. Bring water. Attend the meeting. Make the phone call. Help build the world YOU keep wishing existed.

❁ Website: https://www.hoosiersrise.org

✿ Database: https://www.data.hoosiersrise.org

❀ Sheet: https://www.hoosiersrise.org/sheet

❁ Linktree: https://linktr.ee/HoosiersRise

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❁ We contacted every candidate

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