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This Week in Resistance – “Snatch a knot in their Ass” Edition

(Awesome picture from 2007 Bethesda Softworks, LLC. No, this is not real)

Yes, we can take a well-earned minute to glory in the GOP’s healthcare debacle in the Senate Thursday night. But not for long, as it was a very close vote. 49 senators voted against all decency and humanity to risk destroying our healthcare system, people’s lives and a major part of our economy.

Our President has vowed to destroy any bits of Obamacare that survived this vote, while his minions work tirelessly to dismantle every aspect of our government and sell off its parts to the highest or most well-connected bidders.

But that’s business as usual…at least, for one of his businesses.

In addition to learning a sprightly new phrase from Georgia Congressman Buddy Carter, who spent, good god, a whole 27.5 hours working on this healthcare thing, let’s talk about what happened this week…

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Update from Sierra Club’s Jim Hines

(Sleeping endangered Hawaiian Monk Seal on Poipu Beach in Kauai)

Four Actions for you to take (updated)

1. Review of National Marine Sanctuary extended to Aug. 15th.

2. Public comment on retaining 5-yr. moratorium on offshore oil leasing until Aug. 17.

3. Pruitt is attacking the definition of “Waters of the United States” to assist polluters and those who would destroy wetlands. Comments due 8/28/17.

4. Take Action: Submit a public comment against the Keystone XL pipeline here.

Other Highlights:

– Four National Monuments protected from reduction or elimination

– Dep. Sec. of Interior testified that “Endangered Species Act” is an economic burden

– Foreign companies, including Russia, investing in drilling on our public lands

– The Secretary want to disallow CA’s drift net regulations

– Large staff increases at the BLM to process drilling & mining applications.

– Letter to Secretary of the US Department Wilbur L. Ross from 20 members of Congress, including our own Salud Carbajal and Julia Brownley.

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Health care – I’m making calls. What else can I do? (Update 7/27)

(This column is being updated as new information comes in…)

Be sure you check in with this new calling method before you put down your phone.

Share your story. 

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Protect Our Care is gathering stories to email to Senate healthcare staffers.  We can tell our story via video, photo, text.  We can submit our stories here:
https://tinyurl.com/tell-your-health-care-story

You can also join thousands of people sharing personal stories and tag #HowTheACASavedMyLife.

Write a letter to the editor of your local newspaper.

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These letters can have a large effect on their audience, mostly older and more conservative readers. State your truth. Describe the future for kids and grandkids. Bring it home to their kitchen table.

Here’s a column chock-full of right-wing nonsense to get you started. Look for others in your local papers.
http://www.vcstar.com/story/opinion/columnists/2017/07/23/trap-and-tyranny-free-entitlements/500558001/

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Trump has put our Channel Islands are on the block. We need more time to fight.

Rep. Carbajal (D-CA) and Senator Gary Peters (D-MI), are urging U.S. Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross to extend the public comment period to 90 days on Executive Order 13795 which would roll back environmental protections of Marine Sanctuaries (read Channel Islands).

Support their effort, and if you haven’t already made a public comment please do so before July 26th, 11:59pm ET by clicking here: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=NOAA-NOS-2017-0066

More Info:

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As Senator Murkowski said, “She did not come to Washington to hurt people.” Let’s thank her.

Thanks to three Republican women senators, Obamacare might just survive the GOP’s campaign to repeal it. The fight is not over, so keep calling our own senators with words of encouragement in this fight, but let’s thank these women for their courage to stand up against their own party and for wanting to see something better for their constituents and the rest of us.

1) Senator Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV):  https://www.capito.senate.gov/contact/contact-shelley
2) Senator Susan Collins (R-ME): https://www.collins.senate.gov/contact

3) Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK):  https://www.murkowski.senate.gov/contact/email

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How much toxic waste inside of your kids is OK? Insist on protections!

In the fall of 2015, the EPA finalized a rule which set federal limits on the amount of toxic metals that may be allowed in power plant wastewater; wastewater which, in turn, is then dumped into our nation’s water resources. However, it looks like the Trump administration, with Scott Pruitt at the helm of the EPA, is looking to delay the compliance deadlines for the rule.

The public comment period runs ends tomorrow at 11:59 pm, so let the EPA know right away that we do not want the compliance date to be moved back.

Comment Here: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=EPA-HQ-OW-2009-0819-6485

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Provide Comments to Dept. of the Interior. Save our Channel Islands!

Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is on the hit list for possible elimination by the Trump Administration. Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said he envisions “dozens of offshore oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel, but first we have to remove the overly strict regulations imposed as a result of the protected marine sanctuary“. The process has started.

Provide your comments through this link before July 26, 2017.

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/06/26/2017-13308/review-of-national-marine-sanctuaries-and-marine-national-monuments-designated-or-expanded-since

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Thank Senators Feinstein and Harris for standing up for civil rights in our schools!

Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris were among 34 Senators who sent a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos detailing their concerns over her failure to support civil rights within the realm of public education.  Let’s thank them by email for signing the letter and let them know that their constituents support civil rights at all levels of public education.

Thank Senator Harris: https://www.harris.senate.gov/content/contact-senator

AND Senator Feinstein: https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/e-mail-me

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USA is Not for Sale – Thank our MoC for insisting Trump complies with the emoluments clause

 

Because Trump refuses to divest himself of his business holdings or fully disclose his conflicts of interest to Congress, 196 members of congress have filed a lawsuit to force Trump to comply with the emoluments clause in the constitution.  Let’s take some time today to thank Representative [Carbajal/Brownley], who has signed on to the lawsuit.

 (Write your District Representative)

Rep. Julia Brownley 300 E. Esplanade Drive, Suite 470, Oxnard, CA, 93036 or juliabrownley.house.gov

Rep. Salud Carbajal 360 S. Hope Ave, Suite C-301, Santa Barbara, CA, 93105 or carbajal.house.gov

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Let’s Thank Our People for Doing the Right Thing!

Our legislators stepped up, so let’s thank them. They’re cosponsoring the Equality Act (S.1006/ HR 2282)! 

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prevents discrimination because of race, skin color, sex, religion, and national origin. However, it does not cover sexual orientation or gender identity. In 30 states, LGBTQ people can legally be fired, harassed at work, barred from businesses and denied housing because of their sexual orientation and/or gender identity. Let’s fix this now!
Script for Senators: I’m writing to thank Sen.  (___) for cosponsoring S.1006. It’s shameful that in the twenty first century, it’s still legal to discriminate against other Americans. It’s time that all people can feel safe and respected in their own country.

Script for Representatives: I’m writing to thank Rep.  (___) for cosponsoring HR 2282. It’s shameful that in the twenty first century, it’s still legal to discriminate against other Americans. It’s time that all people can feel safe and respected in their own country.

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