Hey, Speaker Rivas! What have you done about their future electrical bills?
The oligarchs behind Project 2025 are not just interested in the demise of democracy on a federal level. We must remain vigilant to their profiteering incursions at state and local levels as well.
(What the heck is Project 2025? Quick primer here.)
(Indivisible CA Green Team ) Our calls have immense power! But it’s a process and we can’t let up.
- Thanks to everyone’s calls, Senator Becker’s solar bill (SB 1374 – restoring owners’ rights to credited for consuming their own solar energy) just passed in the Senate. One week ago they did not have the votes.
- Thanks to everyone’s calls, Asm. Jacqui Irwin’s AB 1999, which caps utility companies endless appetite for tax increases, did not “die” at the request of utility lobbyists, who’ve been funding climate opposition with our money. Your calls to Asm. Petri Norris kept it going.
- Now, we need calls to rescue Irwin’s bill from legislative limbo. Assembly Speaker Rivas has “parked” it the Rules Committee,’ where it can be conveniently forgotten. Make sure he know we are watching by CALLING HIM OUT EVERY DAY!
Emergency! Solar bills gutted & high utility bills will follow! Call state legislators TODAY and Monday
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(From Indivisible CA Green Team) On April 17, Assembly Energy Chair Petrie-Norris allowed poison pill amendments to AB 2256 and AB 2619, gutting two great bills that would have required the CPUC to include all the benefits of rooftop solar in their NEM proposal. These amendments were so unacceptable that both authors had to pull their bills.
This coming Wednesday, April 24, we have another shot. AB 2256 is on the agenda, and Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin’s bill – AB 1999, the repeal of the utility tax, needs to be heard, as well. We need everyone to call Asm Petrie-Norris to pass these 2 bills with no amendments and our own assemblymembers to have them apply pressure! The utilities are doing everything to kill these bills that harm their profits so that our rates can continue to go up with no end in sight. (First post on this issue here.) Note:
- Everyone, even non-constituents, can call Ass. Petrie-Norris, as she is the chair of the committee.
- Speak for yourself and/or behalf of any groups you belong to, as either a leader or member. (Indivisible Ventura is one of the 300 nonprofit groups who submitted a letter in support AB 1999)
- We need many many calls. This is a make or break moment.
Two scripts – 35 seconds each – We timed them!
Continue reading “Emergency! Solar bills gutted & high utility bills will follow! Call state legislators TODAY and Monday”Stop the utilities’ money grab! Take rooftop solar back!
We need your calls today and Monday! CA should be a leader in rooftop solar and it should be affordable for everyone!
After our utilities and our CA Public Utility Commission colluded to tank our solar industry and eliminate 17,000 good jobs, a group of state lawmakers are proposing to get rooftop solar growing again while also protecting our right to make solar energy without taxes or penalties. The hearings on this are next week, Tuesday and Wednesday. The utilities are pulling out all stops to kill our important bills, especially AB 1999, the repeal of the utility tax.
Call your state assemblymember and senator to tell them to pass these bills and get rooftop solar growing again.
Continue reading “Stop the utilities’ money grab! Take rooftop solar back!”The Postal Service Reform Act passed, but the biggest risk to the USPS is still in charge. Write to Biden!
Postmaster General Louis DeJoy’s charge under the Trump administration was to get the USPS ready to sell off to an oligarch donor, using the same arguments that tricked other countries into killing their national postal services. His methodology – closing locations, cutting staff, raising prices and slowing service enough to threaten the 2020 election – was, as Noam Chomsky observed, “…the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.”
Continue reading “The Postal Service Reform Act passed, but the biggest risk to the USPS is still in charge. Write to Biden!”Indivisible Ventura’s Voting Guide for the 2024 Primary Election
Note: this post will be periodically updated! (02/17/2024)
VOTER GUIDE QUICK LINKS TO: Federal candidates, State candidates, Proposition 1, Judges, County Supervisors, Local Measures
Continue reading “Indivisible Ventura’s Voting Guide for the 2024 Primary Election”Today in “Did that just happen?”: A candidate for public office told a story about cats…
Did Bruce Boyer reveal that he may have overlooked voter fraud and/or committed it himself at the Jan. 23rd Board of Supervisors meeting?
Experts believe that real election fraud remains “vanishingly rare.” Proof? Despite determined investigations and bottomless funding, the hard-right Heritage Foundation, authors of the authoritarian Project 2025, has only located 1,500 instances across the entire nation since 1982(!!!), against literally billion of ballots, to justify their story that voter fraud is rampant in America and their drafting of voter suppression legislation.
Will the 1,501st addition to their pathetic collection come from right here in Ventura County? Mr. Boyer may have thought he was just teaching us a lesson, but you and our county and state election officials will be the judge. Roll the film!
Join in! – We’re translating “Project 2025” – the GOP’s plan to destroy democracy.
Why are we doing this? Project 2025 is the GOP’s authoritarian roadmap to dismantling a thriving, inclusive democracy for all, and Trump will use it every bit of it!
- TLDR? We’ve reduced Project 2025’s +900 pages to 4, along with (2) great short videos!
- TLDR? We’ve reduced Trump’s equally alarming Agenda 47 here.
- You think this is all fearmongering nonsense? GOP-controlled states are already test-driving Project 2025 agenda.
Here’s a preview of Trump’s associated Agenda 47 overlay, which we describe here.
Thank farmworkers with (3) actions that make a difference.
Type in your address and find out your pesticide risk in Ventura County here.
Action #1: 12/14/2023 – VENTURA – Attend a meeting! Pesticide Notification Public Hearing In Ventura (4:30 pm) Ventura County Fairgrounds, Santa Rosa Hall, 10 West Harbor Blvd., Ventura.
On Thursday afternoon, we have an opportunity locally to speak out for Environmental Justice, calling for the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to protect farmworkers (and schoolchildren, and the rest of us!) from fumigant pesticide exposure. DPR is taking comments regarding their statewide program for notification of the application of certain pesticides–we must let them know that their system needs to be more specific than they have planned right now.
Public health data show that the incident of childhood asthma is increasing, and in part that’s because fumigant pesticides are all too frequently applied without us knowing it. We all breathe the same air. We all need to be protected from fumigant pesticide exposure. DPR needs to step up and do that.
- NOTIFICATION: Demand that the proposed notification system inform the public of the exact location, date, and time that a pesticide will be applied so that adequate protective precautions can be taken.
- RECOMMENDED SAFETY PRECAUTIONS: Farmworkers need to know if protective clothing should be worn and specific behaviors engaged in to keep their exposure risk minimal.
- CHILD SAFETY: Schools need to know when to warn families that airborne pesticides are going to be wafting through the environment from nearby agricultural fields, threatening their children’s well-being.
Trump’s “Schedule F” stands for “Fascism.” You can do something to stop this.
(3) actions, one of which is due by Nov. 17th.
Before Trump left office, he signed “Schedule F,” an executive order to fill the entire executive branch with his lackeys. Biden rescinded it, but without a law, it waits for any GOP president to resurrect a “spoils” system of corruption!
With the backing of the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 – the ‘Far-Right Playbook for American Authoritarianism‘, Trump has repeated his threat to “gut the existing U.S. government and ‘install a pre-vetted, pro-Trump army of up to 54,000 loyalists’ to take over senior legal, judicial, defense, regulatory, and domestic policy jobs in the civil service.” This would effectively removing any guardrails to his actions, no matter how unconstitutional or destructive they may be. By removing career officials’ protection from forced politicization with “Schedule F, “…Donald Trump is telling us, loud and clear, that he wants to end American democracy as we know it.”
ACTION #1: Call your representatives!
We originally published this post in August of 2022. We have updated the bill numbers and names.
Continue reading “Trump’s “Schedule F” stands for “Fascism.” You can do something to stop this.”The Supreme Court’s toothless code of ethics is a joke. Tell your legislators to pass a real one.
See ProPublica’s report on Clarence Thomas’ corruption here (Harlan Crow) and here (Koch Network). The video report is here.
Act now: Call/email your legislators to call out SCOTUS corruption!
Minimal email/call script for representatives: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want Rep. [___] to know that we are not falling for the Supreme Court’s new enforcement-free “code of conduct” that continues to privilege wealthy conservative billlionaires over the interests of the rest of us. It also gives a free pass to misconduct that could have affected earlier decisions and discourages recusals in future ones. I want to thank Rep. [Brownley/Carbajal] for co-sponsoring H.R. 926 the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act, which creates a way to investigate and disqualify corrupted justices.
Continue reading “The Supreme Court’s toothless code of ethics is a joke. Tell your legislators to pass a real one.”
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