We are a nonpartisan grass-roots organization
working together to uphold the Constitution
and strengthen our democracy.
Indivisible Citizens of Catawba County met at Congressman Pat Harrigan’s office on August 11, 2026 for an Empty Chair Town Hall. Click to see the video from that event.
Any donations we collect in August up to a maximum of $300 can be double-matched by Indivisible National because we are a battleground state for the upcoming election. Use the Donate link on the navigation header to make your donation through ActBlue. If we collect the maximum, that will give us $900 to use for Get Out the Vote projects and supplies for our voter education events. We appreciate your support.
Join us for our monthly meeting on Thursday, August 27th, 6:00 pm at Unifour Church in Newton. We will hear from Grover Linebarger, the owner of “Pooter Pop” popcorn, who will discuss election defense efforts and and we will also discuss our roadside litter clean-up work.
If you can’t join in person watch on Facebook Live.
ICE Out!! Say Their Names
On July 25, 2026 on Highway 70 in Southwest Hickory, 41 concerned citizens gathered in a protest organized by the Indivisible Citizens of Catawba Valley to mourn the 59 lives taken and hundreds or thousands more shattered by ICE and to demand justice and accountability.
“We were on Highway 70 on Jan. 10, 2026, to protest the unlawful, the outrageous, behavior of ICE agents terrorizing our communities and killing and disappearing our neighbors,” said Deb Johnson, ICCV chair. “At that time, there had been 35 fatalities, starting from Jan. 20, 2025, when the 47th President was inaugurated, due to ICE’s reckless actions – shooting three innocent people while another 32 perished due to lack of care in detention facilities.
“Six months later, the numbers now total 59 lives lost due to a reckless and lawless federal agency,” Johnson continued. “It is past time to abolish ICE and rebuild a humane immigration and customs enforcement program.”
Concerned – outraged and caring – we gathered to show public support for targeted and vulnerable neighbors.
Click for more images from our event
Our Good Trouble event on July 18th was a great way to honor the legacy of civil rights activist Congressman John Lewis. ICCV and NAACP Hickory Branch gathered at Morning Star Baptist Church for an early evening of friendship and to focus on voter rights.
March for Voting Rights
On June 27, 2026 more than 100 people came together at Sally M. Fox Park from three starting points – Piedmont Wagon, Ridgeview Recreation Center, and St. Andrew’s Lutheran Church – in a march organized by the Indivisible Citizens of Catawba Valley (ICCV) to bring attention to the paramount importance of voting and voting rights.
At the park, chants and singing were followed by a formal program. Rev. Reggie Longcrier of Exodus Missionary Baptist Church introduced keynote speaker Rev. Steve Allen of Greensboro. A UNC Chapel Hill-trained attorney, Rev. Allen was the first elected Black Superior Court Judge in Guilford County since Reconstruction. More recently, he was pastor of Greensboro’s Shiloh Baptist Church and resident of the Pulpit Forum of Greensboro.
In his remarks, Rev. Allen spoke about the goal of the nation’s founders to create a framework that would continue “to form a more perfect union.”
“The Constitution sets forth the framework, the blueprint,” Allen said, “and it gives power to the people...not solely to the President, not solely to Congress, and not solely to the Supreme Court.”
While the U.S. system of government was designed for the people to have power, Allen continued, “there are certain people in this country who want to divide us -- because they know that if we are united; if we come together as one; if we come together; if we are united as one, then we have the power to really and truly be free; to have good jobs; to have affordable housing; to have a good and sound education for our children and our children’s children.”
Turning to the multiple efforts to suppress the right to vote, Rev. Allen continued, “If the right to vote was not important to preserving our freedoms in our country why in the world would they be working so hard to take the right to vote away from us? It is because they know that power belongs to the people.”
Click for more images from our event and some of Rev. Allen’s remarks
At our April Monthly meeting, we had a presentation by Julie Noh-Smith on the current state of our healthcare and what can be done to improve it.
Click for more information and the link to sign the petition to demand affordable quality healthcare for all.
Indivisible Citizens of Catawba Valley Stand With Workers and Kids on May 1
Indivisible Citizens of Catawba Valley joined other Indivisible groups, as well as the North Carolina Association of Educators, in a public display of solidarity with workers and kids on May 1.
More than two dozen people, many wearing Indivisible Citizens of Catawba Valley t-shirts, along with one protestor in a frog suit and another dressed as an ICE agent, held signs alongside Highway 70 in southeast Hickory on Friday afternoon to show their support for “Workers Over Billionaires / Kids Over Corporations.”
A small sample of the powerful words delivered by Rev Dr Hanna Broome at our No Kings Rally
Over 1300 people participated in our No Kings Rally on March 28, 2026. Click for more information and pictures from the Rally.
2025 in Review
Click above to view a video of all that we accomplished in 2025
Click above to read the report given by our Chairperson of all our accomplishments in 2025
ICCV is honored to have received the Rev. Dr. M. L. King Annual Spirit of King Organizational Award at the Spirit of King Community Worship on January 18, 2026