Sat 9/21: “We the People” rally today! – Across the nation, we are coming together to remind lawmakers who they work for…

Indivisible Ventura will be registering voters! Volunteer to help!

Saturday 9/21 – “We the People” will rally and Little Donnie will fly!
Join in at Plaza Park in downtown Ventura – starts at 10 am!

Amy Siskind, author of “The Weekly List – This is How Democracy Ends” and KA McRae created a mission statement for this grassroots protest that fights against Trump’s attempt to divide us. There is room is this statement to include each person’s passionate reasons to fight against this corrupt administration. We are a nation of people with ties to every corner of the earth. That diversity is the basis of our strength and we are stronger together.

Mission Statement: “We the People are marching to be seen and heard. We are marching to remind our elected of cials that they work for us. We are marching because the current regime is a threat to our democracy and values. We are marching to demand action. Silence and inaction are complicity.“

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Fri 9/20: Climate Strike is TODAY! This is an “all-hands-on-deck” march with our present and future world leaders in charge.

Note: Indivisible Ventura will be manning a voter registration table at Climate Strike in Ventura. Volunteers welcome.

Action – “If a Kid Says Help, You Help” – Your presence = support and respect. It’s really that simple.

(from Ventura County Climate Hub) Join to learn, unite, and march to demand immediate climate action. This is just the beginning! We are a cross-generational coalition of Ventura County students, organizations and businesses in solidarity with the Global Climate Strike. Young people and adults will strike all across the US and world to demand transformative action be taken to address the climate crisis on Sept. 20, three days before the UN Climate Summit in NYC.

Come to Mission Park and join the strike to demand that leaders declare a climate emergency and act now to slash greenhouse emissions and draw down carbon dioxide. Questions? CONTACT: Adam Vega, 805-312-6875, adamvega12@gmail.com

12:00 – Meet @ Mission Park
2:00 – March to City Hall
2:30 – 3:00 – Activation @ City Hall
3:00 – 4:00 – Walk back to Mission Park + Wrap

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Thurs 9/19: “What can I do? I’m just one person.” Answer: “A lot. Join in.” Today is 3rd Thursday – Pizza, Camaraderie, & Postcards!

Action #1 – TODAY! Meet at Santino’s for pizza, camaraderie, and social justice – every Third Thursday starting at 11:30 am

Action #1: Virginia: We’re going to send 300 postcards to the good folks in Henrico County, VA to remind them to vote in the Virginia State elections on November 5th!

A postcard stamp is $0.35. (500) postcards equals $175. Donations to help fund this or rolls of stamps are gratefully accepted! We provide pizza, and properly marked postcards.

Action #2: Send birthday greetings to President Carter!: We’ll have cards or bring your own. If you can’t come today, send a birthday greeting to him here, or send one, snail-mail, to
The Carter Center
453 Freedom Parkway
Atlanta, GA 30307

Action #3: Letters to legislators: Depending on time and how many people show up, we’ll have a number of issues we can address with our legislators.

Where: Santino’s Pizza. It’s at 4231 Telegraph Rd., Ventura, 93003

When: Thursday, Sept. 19th, 11:30am – 1:30pm.

RSVP: Nope. Just come. Invite your friends.

What to bring: We provide the pizza, postcards, stationary. If you prefer, you may bring your own stationary. Donations of stamps are always gratefully accepted.

Questions? Email indivisibleventura@gmail.org

We eat, we write, we talk, we plot, we share. Come and join in the fun!

Thurs 9/19: Trump has declared war on America’s future in favor of the fossil-fuel industry. But he’s not the only one. What you can do now… Part 1

Action #1 – Tell Governor Newsom to pass SB-1 NOW!

Click here for information and contact information.

SB-1

Action #2 – “If a Kid Says Help, You Help” – Get ready for Friday’s Climate Strike

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Tues 9/17: Unlike the GOP, we don’t just roll over when our leader does the wrong thing…Call out Newsom and ask him to sign SB-1 now!

Hey CA! News just out – Trump Administration to revoke CA’s authority to set stricter auto emission standards!

Say hello to the man behind the most corrupt administration since the Harding administration tonight! (NYTimes)

Join the “Trump OUT of LA“ action in Pershing Square! Facebook link here.

Action #1 – Call Newsom and tell him to sign SB 1.

His number is (916) 445-2841

(Email him TOO here.)

The Governor is threatening to veto Senate Bill 1, the most important environmental bill this year!

Please call Governor Newsom today to help make sure he signs this vitally important bill

SB 1 resists the Trump Administration’s rollback of key federal environmental protections.

It makes sure that state environmental laws—the California Endangered Species Act, the California Clean Air Act, and major state water laws—fill in any gaps in environmental protection created by the Trump rollbacks.

The bill faced major opposition from certain agricultural and water agency interests that fear the bill will force scientific information to be taken into account as new water projects are considered. These interests support Trump’s environmental rollback agenda, and now they have the Governor’s ear.

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Mon 9/16: Busy day! After you write a comment against religious discrimination, do one on regulation rollbacks for nursing homes.

Your comments on each of these issues don’t need to be long. A couple of heartfelt sentences is good enough. Both of these issues touch just about everyone in this country. What if we all wrote and said, in our own unique voice – “ENOUGH”, you monsters!

Action #1 – Write to protect your LGBTQ family, friends and America from religious persecution, as well as women and religious minorities. Deadline tonight 11:59pm EST.

Comment here!
The proposed regulation is here.
Other people’s comments are here. Read for inspiration. Don’t copy. Identical comments and signatures on petitions will only count as (1) total comment.

America has a long history of slip-sliding towards religious intolerance, but common sense, and our Constitution, has kept us away from that abyss, allowing us to become the most powerful country in the world. Now, the Trump Administration, pandering to their far-right supporters, wants to allow a vastly expandable group of government contractors to discriminate for “religious” reasons against our fellow taxpaying citizens, including our LGBTQ community, women and religious minorities, on what are essentially private matters that are NONE OF THEIR BUSINESS.

Read our posting on this issue here for more information and inspiration.

Action #2 – Write to protect our most fragile citizens from the greed of corporate nursing homes. Deadline tonight 11:59pm EST.

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Sunday 9/15: It’s going to be a busy week! Write a comment, write some postcards, come out for “Climate Strike” & “We the People” – 4 actions for Citizenry v.21.0!

Monday 9/16: Deadline to write a comment opposing this anti-American rule. Protect your family, friends and fellow citizens from taxpayer-funded zealotry.

Monday, 11:59 pm EST, is the deadline to write your comment(s) to protect your family, friends and fellow Americans from the disease of taxpayer-funded religious discrimination in our work places. Read our posting on this issue here for more information and inspiration.

Comment here!

The proposed regulation is here.
Other people’s comments are here. Read for inspiration. Don’t copy. Identical comments and signatures on petitions will only count as (1) total comment.

Thursday 9/19 – It’s “THIRD THURSDAY!” again!

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Fri 9/13: This is it – the last day for bills to pass out of the CA legislature.

Action #1 – Ask the Governor to sign AB 1282 – “No Private ICE Act”

AB 1282 will prohibit the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR), our state prison system, from facilitating or allowing private security corporations to conduct immigration enforcement arrests of individuals in CDCR custody. Currently, private security corporations, specifically notorious global private prison corporation G4S, conduct about 1/3 of the immigration arrests of individuals who have earned their release from CDCR and are subjecting them to inhumane conditions on ICE’s behalf without legal authority to make arrests.

Minimal script: My name is [___], and I am calling to urge Governor Newsom to sign AB 1282, the ‘No Private ICE’ Act. I support AB 1282 because this bill protects immigrants who have earned their release from state prison from being unlawfully arrested by private prison contractors paid by ICE. California should not allow private corporations to profit off of mass deportations.

Action – Call the Governor about the bills heading to his desk and find out how your favorites did in our bill update below.

Today 9/13: – last day for bills to fight their way through both houses of the CA legislature.
Oct. 13: Last day for Governor Newsom to sign or veto bills passed by the Legislature on or before Sept. 13 and in the Governor’s possession after Sept. 13

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Fri 9/13: Carbajal’s anti-drilling bill passes the House. Join in to celebrate today and call your senators!

Action #1 – Congratulate Rep. Salud Carbajal for House passage of his bill banning off-shoring drilling!

All Santa Barbara Indivisibles and local activists are encouraged to attend Rep. Salud Carbajal’s press conference Friday September 13, to celebrate House passage of the “Coastal and Marine Economies Protection Act” (H.R. 1941). This bill bans future offshore oil and gas leasing off the U.S. coasts, and includes Carbajal’s “California Clean Coast Act” (H.R. 279) within it, which permanently prohibit oil and gas leasing off the coast of the State of California.

WHO:

Rep. Salud Carbajal, CA-24
Linda Krop, Chief Counsel, Environmental Defense Center
Michael Lyons, President, Get Oil Out
Dennis Allen, Chairman, Allen Construction
Ben Pitterle, Science & Policy Director, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper
Corley Kenna, Director, Global Communications and Public Relations, Patagonia
Sigrid Wright, CEO, Community Environmental Council

WHEN: Friday, September 13, 12:00 – 12:45 p.m. PDT
WHERE: Shoreline Park, East Parking Lot (closest to the pier), Santa Barbara, CA 93109

OR thank him here: Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA-24): email. DC (202) 225-3601, SB (805) 730-1710 SLO (805) 546-8348

The passage of this bill is crucial for Central Coast communities who have seen the devastation of the 1969 Santa Barbara and 2015 Plains All American Pipeline oil spills, and whose economies are directly tied to clean coasts and healthy ecosystems.
(Who cosponsored this? Check here – Julia Brownley and Katie Hill were cosponsors!)

Action #2 – Ask our legislators to get this passed in the Senate!

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Thurs 9/12: Call your CA legislators! A deceptively-named plastic industry group is trying to kill the plastics bills!

“Californians for Recycling and the Environment (CRE)”, a plastics industry front group, is actively trying to kill SB 54 + AB-1080. They have an slick website and logo, filled with scary promises that we won’t have toothpaste, baby food and dog food. Nonsense. What’s NOT listed is who’s funding it. But according to Calmatters, there are no surprises. “The coalition represents the packaging industry and officially formed “maybe a few weeks ago,” according to spokesman Micah Grant. Despite its effort to kill at least one of the bills, Grant insisted in an email to CalMatters that the group “doesn’t ‘oppose’ SB 54.” However, their “Take Action” page says differently.

Tell your legislator to step up into the future we need. There’s a list at the bottom of nervous ones who haven’t signed onto SB 54 + AB-1080 yet. Call yours if they’re on the list. (Jacqui Irwin – we’re looking at you!) If your legislators AREN’T on the list, call them, thank them and ask them to encourage their colleagues.

Action – “One word: Plastics. There’s a great future in plastics.“

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