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Black History Month Celebration Panel & Luncheon
Thursday, Feb 27, 2020
Panel 10 am – 11am Bookstore Quad Open to All
Luncheon 11am – 1 pm Student Center Study Lounge (RSVP in person at the Student Activities Office)
More information here. Continue reading “Thurs 2/27: Check out Ventura College’s events! Black History Month celebration TODAY, Diversity Festival, art and poetry contests in March.”
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UPDATE: H.R. 35 was passed with a 410-4 majority, over 100 years after the first attempt. The four who actually voted against this bill:
History repeats: From 1922 – “The Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill, proposed by Missouri Republican Representative Leonidas C. Dyer, classified lynching as a federal felony, which would have given the federal government authority to prosecute lynching cases at a time when state and local authorities rarely did. Continue reading “Wed – 2/26: “The past refuses to lie down quietly.” Ask your legislators to pass H.R. 35 – Emmett Till Anti-lynching Act.”
We’ve grouped these actions together, not just because both are quick to do, but because they are also connected. The global warming discussed in Action #2 is destroying agricultural economies in Central America. In Guatemala, it’s driving people into cities overrun with drug gangs and violence, caused both by its location in the drug supply chain from South America and from drug demand from us, the United States. The results of this forced interaction, combined with weak and corrupt law enforcement, ends with many having no choice but to flee for their lives. (Action #1).
Brady members and others who find the continuing GUN SHOWS at our Fair Grounds unacceptable attend to speak during PUBLIC FORUM. Join us! WEAR ORANGE!!
Issues:
(A note from Jim Hines, team leader of the Sierra Club California Wildlife Team)
Swap Meet Justice began as a result of our voter registration efforts. We learned that the people passing us by were permanent legal residents who wanted to become citizens but were facing significant challenges in doing so. These included unaffordable attorney fees for help with the application process, and the impossibility of taking time off from work to meet with them.
Continue reading “Mon 2/24: “Thank you!” to every Swap Meet Justice volunteer!”
Ventura’s resistance movement is strong and varied. Check out our entire list of events and keep track here. Send additions for the list to indivisibleventura@gmail.com
What are we doing? We help our neighbors turn their green cards (permanent residency cards) into citizenship. We also help renew green card and DACA applications and register new voters. Come help! No experience required.
If you’ve never watch Ronald Reagan’s astonishing last speech as president, reminding his listeners that immigration is “the great life force of each generation of new Americans…” watch it here. (Quick timeline of the history of immigration here.) Continue reading “Sun 2/23: Tomorrow is Swap Meet Justice at Oxnard College! Please volunteer and help spread the word to those who need our services!”
Last year, we wrote a post alerting people to write comments to stop University of San Francisco Medical Center’s planned merger with Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital chain that uses religious directives to openly discriminate against women and LGBTQ patients.
The next community showing of this film will be by the Chalice UU on 3/28. Stay tuned to our “Event” page for more details. Ventura’s resistance movement is strong and varied. Check out the entire list and keep track here. Send additions for the list to indivisibleventura@gmail.com
Indivisible Ventura, along with groups and individuals across the country, has been participating in a postcard campaign with the Reclaim our Vote campaign, organized by the Center for Common Ground. This month, the campaign has sent us 400 addresses for the next area of deliberate voter disenfranchisement – Montgomery County, Alabama.
If you have a moment, read these great reports: “Alive and Well: Voter Suppression and Election Mismanagement in Alabama,” and “Systemic Inequality and American Democracy.”
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