Tues 5/18: It’s time to get serious about toxins in baby food.

Photo: Exposure to heavy metals arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury pose heightened health risks for babies, even at low levels. Credit: yalehealth via Pixabay

“YES” on S. 1019 – Baby Food Safety Act

Unless it’s punching down, like “gagging” health providers from sharing abortion and contraceptive options, or permitting discrimination against LGBTQ patients, today’s GOP despises regulations as supposed destroyers of personal freedom, jobs and economic growth. Never mind that their political forebear – President Nixon, created the Clean Water Act in response to a river CATCHING ON FIRE! Trump overturned over a 100 health and safety environmental protections and it’s no surprise that Caitlyn Jenner’s biggest plank in her campaign to unseat Governor is to strip out CA’s regulations, while simultaneously increasing them against trans girls and women who compete in sports.

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Other countries think U.S. health care is both expensive and barbaric. They are right.

Ask your legislators to support the State-Based Universal Health Care (SBUHC) Act of 2021

  • Action #1: Call your House Representative to be cosponsors. A call takes less than a minute.
  • Action #2: Email a letter your House representative and their aides to be cosponsors. (Sample letter included)  

AB 1400-CalCare, CA’s latest single-payer proposal to fix for our bloated, yet cruelly inadequate health care system, has been temporarily placed on hold over the question of funding, including whether or not the federal government would grant us a waiver to obtain control over our Medicare and Medicaid costs. (Statement by Asm. Kalra)

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Friday 5/14: Urgent action items!

Social media storm to end the filibuster 10-11 am PDT today.

(DemCast USA) The clock is ticking to pass the S.1 – “For The People Act.” The crisis facing our democracy couldn’t be more real, and addressing it couldn’t be more urgent.

But the Jim Crow filibuster still stands in the way of action. It’s time for us to come together to eliminate the filibuster.

Join us today from 1-2pm ET for a social media storm to spread the word.

Just use this link, chose your message and picture and then share! https://share.demcastusa.com/campaign/7CA72503-BB5D-4D26-A7A8-D135D336E833/tailored_post/facebook/

AB 481 will help stop the flow of military equipment to CA law enforcement agencies.

 AB 481 (Chiu), which will help stop the flow of military equipment to California law enforcement agencies. 

Today, Friday, 5/14/21 is a Day of Action to help to move AB 481 out of the Appropriations Committee.

  1. Tweet Appropriations Committee Chair Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez @LorenaAD80 using sample tweets from the social media toolkit where you can also download & share graphics from the toolkit for Instagram or Twitter.
  2. Call Assemblymember Lorena Gonzalez at (916) 319-2080 to urge her to support AB 481 and move it out of the Appropriations Committee – especially if you live in her district.
  3. Write a letter of support (attached) for the Appropriations Committee. Please submit to the online portal here by tomorrow, 5/14/21, and email it to eIizeth@youth4justice.org. 

Rep. Cheney just accused her own party of undermining democracy. It’s up to us to save it with (3) basic actions.

Need an emotional lift today? Listen to this amazing song for National John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Action Day and remember why we do this work! Remember what we’re fighting for and pick up your phone!

Action #1: “S.1 – For the People Act” – the guardrails for democracy we never knew we needed – until a lawless and corrupt man became president.

The GOP is now at war with itself, with Rep. Liz Cheney accusing fellow GOP legislators who follow Trump of perpetrating the Big Lie which is undermining America.

S. 1 -“For the People Act” will protect Americans’ voting rights NATIONWIDE, and it just advanced to the floor, after being deadlocked 9-9 on partisan lines in the Rules Committee. The meeting’s GOP contingent included Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, armed with destructive amendments which failed, along with Senator Ted Cruz, who called the bill “Jim Crow 2.0” and falsely claimed that it would allow undocumented immigrants to vote. (Apparently the GOP no longer worries about their lies being recorded.) However, despite the GOP’s best efforts, S.1 includes reforms that are broadly popular with Americans across the political spectrum.

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AB 1139 is an investor-owned utility proposal to kill rooftop solar in CA. Seriously.

“NO” on AB-1139 – “Utilities are threatened by solar panels because it cuts into their profits. Tell your legislator to stop their profit grab.

(from Indivisible CA Green Team) Consumers suffer when power is concentrated in the hands of a few. This was the lesson learned from the 2000 electricity crisis and out of that grew California’s commitment to consumer solar and localized energy. 

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This is what the revolution for America’s promise looks like!

Listen to this amazing song for National John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Action Day tomorrow. (See Action #3 below!)

Action #1: Call your senators and have them pass these bills without delay.

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PFAS are forever. Literally. Inside us. Let’s stop making them now.

  • Action #1: Tell your legislators that you want them to support the PFAS Action Act.
  • Action #2: Write a comment to the EPA to stop the dumping of these “forever chemicals” into our drinking water. Deadline May 17.

Action #1: Tell your legislators that you want them to support the PFAS Action Act.

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America hurts its kids. It’s time to stop. “YES” on H.R. 1234 – Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act.

  • Action #1: Tell your legislators to vote “YES” to H.R. 1234 – Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act of 2021.
  • Action #2: Tell Joe Biden to use an executive order to stop corporal punishment now.

Action #1: Tell your legislators to vote “YES” to H.R. 1234 – Ending Corporal Punishment in Schools Act of 2021.

(Trigger warning – violence towards a child.) Video cameras inside our smartphones are affecting justice in ways we could not have conceived of a decade or so ago. A brave teenager’s footage of the murder of George Floyd put a bad cop in jail. Now, we’re hoping that a mother’s video, who filmed the violence as proof that it happened, will be the end of this abusive and racially discriminatory practice of corporal punishment in our country. But it will need your voice to happen.

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May Day! Support American workers. “YES” on the PRO Act.

  • Action #1: Sign this petition to Democratic senators who haven’t signed onto S.420 – The PRO Act yet.
  • Action #2: Contact your senator and tell them vote “YES” on the S.420 – the PRO Act.
  • Action #3: Tell Jeff Bezos that he’s not keeping the customers satisfied.

Action #1: Sign this petition

Amazon won it’s first round of unionization against it’s own workers, but it will not win the public relations war.

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AB-20: Clean Money Act is coming up Thursday morning. (4/29) Put in a call or email to Asm. Steve Bennett.

Minimal script: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want Assemblymember [___] to vote “YES” on AB 20, the “Clean Money Act.”

This act is first up at 10:30 tomorrow (4/29) in the Assembly Elections Committee. Our Asm. Steve Bennett is a member. Call or leave a message on his machine, even after 5:00 pm.

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