Help Spread the Word about Medicare for All at the Ventura St. Patrick’s Day Parade!

We will be crowd canvassing on March 16th and you should join us!

Where: St. Patrick’s Day Parade, Main Street, Downtown Ventura
When: March 16th, 9:00am. Meet at Marie Shannon Confections – 27 S. Chestnut (near Main)
RSVP: None. Just come – coffee, delicious sweet & savory baked goods, and training is all included!
Questions? Email indivisibleventura@gmail.org

The Medicare for All Movement has begun!

Many of our top 2020 candidates in the Senate are ALL IN – as well as many favorites from the House.

The time to get to work is NOW. 70% of Americans now support Medicare for All, including 52% of Republicans.

Get up to speed! Know your stuff!

  • Canvassing Best Practices: here.
  • Crowd Canvass Script: here
  • Talking points: here.

Read this: Continue reading “Help Spread the Word about Medicare for All at the Ventura St. Patrick’s Day Parade!” →

Tues – 3/5: “The Wall – The Senate!” Season 2 – Call your legislators!

Action #1 – Got GOP senators? Tell them to stop being such big babies.

H.J. Res 46 –  the resolution to end Trump’s #FakeNationalEmergency, passed the House last week and it’s heading for a vote in the Senate. Mitch McConnell is now dealing with an explosion of defecting GOP senators, possibly 15, which puts it in striking range of a veto-proof majority and a huge and embarrassing defeat for the president. Many GOP senators are now swarming about, trying to subvert the intent of the House Resolution so that the president won’t give them a sad nickname.

“I think people want to find a way to give the president all the money he asked for but yet discourage the use of emergency declarations,” said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

No, Senator, that’s not at all what people want. That’s what you nervous weasels want.

  • We want him to stop stealing American taxpayer dollars to prop up his reelection campaign by keeping ridiculous promises to people who believed Mexico would pay for a wall.
  • We want him to stop stealing American taxpayer dollars from HUD, DHS and the Army Corps of Engineers to pay for this medieval wall, which was revealed by the El Chapo trial to be completely useless.

Minimal script to a GOP senator: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want Sen. [___] to know how disappointed I am in [his/her/their] willingness to let a president seize yet another power from Congress and to allow my tax dollars to be wasted on this wall.

Continue reading “Tues – 3/5: “The Wall – The Senate!” Season 2 – Call your legislators!” →

Mon – 3/4: Basic Democracy needs an active offense. Take 2 fast actions!

Action #1 – Thank our legislators for their support of H.R. 1 – “For the People Act”.

Indivisible National calls it: “…a big, bold, progressive vision for the future”

Rep. Zoe Lofgren said it “ends the dominance of big money in our politics. It ensures public officials work in the public interest.”

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell calls it a “power grab“.

So you know it’s good!

Minimal script for our reps: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want to thank Rep. [___] for cosponsoring  H.R.- 1 -“For the People Act”. Please vote down amendmentsthat would water down the bill, and reject any Republican “Motion to Recommit.“

(Rep-check here. Thank Brownley and Carbajal!) Continue reading “Mon – 3/4: Basic Democracy needs an active offense. Take 2 fast actions!” →

Mon – 3/4: Rushing is up! Ask all your red state F&F’s to call their senators!

Action #1 – These are so close, the right-wing can taste it…

(Specific information about nominees in BOLD type.)

(from the Senate Calendar for Monday). “The Senate stands adjourned until 3:00pm on Monday, March 4, 2019 …the Senate will resume consideration of Executive Calendar #15, Allison Jones Rushing, of North Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.” (Fast read here from the Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights here) Continue reading “Mon – 3/4: Rushing is up! Ask all your red state F&F’s to call their senators!” →

Sat – 3/2: Join us in a Medicare4all Crowd Canvass at the AIDS Walk on March 2nd!

Join us to crowd canvass and talk to residents in our community about Medicare for All! We’ll talk to residents about what it provides, ask for their support, and ask them to call their Representative. We’ll teach you how to canvass and everybody works with partners. Come make some new friends and meet up with old ones.

  • RSVP to help us here.
  • AIDS Walk Ventura County information here.
  • Date/Time: March 02, 2019 • 9:30 AM – 12:30 PM
  • Location: Plaza Park Aids Walk • 651 E Thompson Blvd, Ventura, CA 93003
  • Host Contact Info: IndivisibleVentura@gmail.com
    Volunteers needed for set up at 8am, tear down at 1pm – and all points in between to speak with attendees about Medicare for All. Come for as long as you’d like.
    Come, find our booth, enjoy the day, and cheer on the Walkers!
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    This crowd canvass is one of hundreds of events are happening across the country as activists come together to win Medicare for All. Check out more events and share the map at: https://medicare4all.org/actions/
    • Canvassing Best Practices: here.
    • Crowd Canvass Script: here
    • Talking points: here.

    Thanks for joining us in the fight for health care justice.

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Fri – 3/1: Fast Friday actions – Here come the right-wing judges!

Action #1 – These are so close, the right-wing can taste it…

(Specific information about nominees in BOLD type.)

(from the Senate Calendar for Monday). “The Senate stands adjourned until 3:00pm on Monday, March 4, 2019 …the Senate will resume consideration of Executive Calendar #15, Allison Jones Rushing, of North Carolina, to be United States Circuit Judge for the Fourth Circuit.” Continue reading “Fri – 3/1: Fast Friday actions – Here come the right-wing judges!” →

Thurs 2/28: Say “NO” to Andrew Wheeler, the once and future coal lobbyist nominee for the EPA.

(Graphic from opinionfront.com)

Action Update – Let’s use our power of oversight to hem this guy in.

He’s in, on a basic party-line vote with only Sen. Collins crossing the aisle. Our EPA, as well as the GOP itself, are now completely owned by the fossil-fuel industry (read “Background” below). So where do we go now? RESIST, of course! We propose a serious email to all your legislators.

New minimal email:

“Until we are in a position to remove Andrew Wheeler, coal-industry mole and climate-change denier, from his new position at the EPA and repair the damage he’s causing, we want you to commit to using our power of Congressional oversight to investigate the following issues:

Corruption: Wheeler, after it was first rumored he would be considered for the EPA last March, raised funds for Republican senators on the committee that makes the preliminary decision on confirming appointments to the agency.  (intercept)

Continue reading “Thurs 2/28: Say “NO” to Andrew Wheeler, the once and future coal lobbyist nominee for the EPA.” →

Wed 2/27: H.R. 1384 – Medicare For All Act of 2019. It begins.

Action #1: Call your Representative if they aren’t a “YES”. Thank them if they are.

UPDATE 2/28: The bill is listed here, still without the text, and cosponsors are up here.

  • Here’s the list of cosponsors for every state. Check for your representative.
  • Read about the bill here and here..

Minimal script for reps: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want Rep. [____] to know that I voted for [him/her] to put H.R.1384 – “Medicare For All” on the map, just like Social Security in 1935, and Medicare in 1965.

Minimal script for senators: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want Senator [____] to cosponsor the matching version of HR1384 – “Medicare For All”.

Contact
Rep. Julia Brownley: email, (CA-26): DC (202) 225-5811, Oxnard (805) 379-1779, T.O. (805) 379-1779
or Rep. Salud Carbajal: email. (CA-24): DC (202) 225-3601, SB (805) 730-1710 SLO (805) 546-8348
Senator Feinstein: email, DC (202) 224-3841, LA (310) 914-7300, SF (415) 393-0707, SD (619) 231-9712, Fresno (559) 485-7430
and Senator Harris: email, DC (202) 224-3553, LA (213) 894-5000, SAC (916) 448-2787, Fresno (559) 497-5109, SF (415) 355-9041, SD (619) 239-3884
Who is my representative/senator?: https://whoismyrepresentative.com

Action #2: Join us in a Medicare4all Crowd Canvass at the AIDS Walk on March 2nd!

Continue reading “Wed 2/27: H.R. 1384 – Medicare For All Act of 2019. It begins.” →

Wed – 2/27: Congress – take your power back now!

Quote from this great essay by Captain John Byron, U.S. Navy (Ret.)

Action: Block Trump’s Ability to Unilaterally Wage War in Venezuela, Iran and Yemen, and anywhere else…

In the nationwide daily Civics 101 class we now live in, it took the border wall debacle to remind Congress that they are in charge of the nation’s purse. It’s also time for them to take back their power of declaring war, both to halt our current 18-year run of continuous undeclared combat, and to stop Trump’s plans to distract us from Cohen and Mueller with new armed traumas against Venezuela, Iran and Yemen. Rep. Barbara Lee came so close in 2017 to stopping this runaway executive-branch war machine, only to have her legislation stripped from the Defense Department spending bill by now mercifully former-House Speaker Paul D. Ryan. Let’s help her out now.

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Mon – 2/25: They’re voting on H.J.Res. 46 – #FakeNationalEmergency tomorrow!

We marched and rallied all across the country on President’s Day and most of our congressmembers heard us!  (KEYT)(VC Star)(VCStar)(VC Star images)

Action #1 – Thank our legislators for stepping up!

Our Reps. Brownley and Carbajal are two of the 225 legislators cosponsoring Rep. Joaquin Castro’s (D-TX) H.J.Res.46 – “Relating to a national emergency declared by the President on February 15, 2019”. Thank them for doing the right thing!

(Note: If your legislator isn’t on the list, call them and tell them to sign.)

Contact
Rep. Julia Brownley: email
or Rep. Salud Carbajal: email.
Not your representatives?: https://whoismyrepresentative.com

Action #2 – Call your friends and family in Red states & ask them to call their legislator’s offices.

Continue reading “Mon – 2/25: They’re voting on H.J.Res. 46 – #FakeNationalEmergency tomorrow!” →