Tag: Environment

This Week In Resistance – “How do you pronounce that?” Edition

This Week’s Quote:
“When wealth is passed off as merit, bad luck is seen as bad character. This is how ideologues justify punishing the sick and the poor. But poverty is neither a crime nor a character flaw. Stigmatize those who let people die, not those who struggle to live.
– Sarah Kendzior
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It’s decision time for hundreds of pieces of legislation in California this week. Make some calls!

The Senate’s fiscal committee will decide the fate of bills on Thursday, June 1st; the Assembly will do so on Friday, June 2nd.  The ones that pass will then move to the opposite house.

With our strong Democratic majority, California has the ability to counter some of the negative policies coming out of Washington D.C. Our friends at Indivisible San Francisco short-listed some of the most important bills. If you have time this week, please pick the ones that speak the most to you, and make some phone calls.

State Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson and Assemblywoman Monique Limon don’t receive many calls from their constituents, so if we all make our voices heard this week, we can make a real difference.

CALL TO STATE ACTION

TUESDAY 5/30 – FRIDAY 6/2
Pick your favorite bills from the list ISF has put together and let our state MoCs know how you feel.

Assembly: Call State Assembly Member Monique Limón: Sacramento: (916) 319-2037, Santa Barbara: (805) 564-1649, Ventura: (805) 641-3700 If outside of these areas, find your Representatives here.

Your Weekly Dose of Sanity-Saving Good News! 5-year-olds to the rescue!

General Good News!

This week’s good news starts off with the story of how one five-year-old kid named Xander is saving the world, one act of kindness at a time.

This week’s inspirational read is “The Optimism of Uncertainty” from Howard Zinn. We think he’s talking about the Xanders in this world.
(Excerpt) “…Revolutionary change does not come as one cataclysmic moment (beware of such moments!) but as an endless succession of surprises, moving zigzag toward a more decent society. We don’t have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world. Even when we don’t “win,” there is fun and fulfillment in the fact that we have been involved, with other good people, in something worthwhile. We need hope.”

The Onion has given us a gift. We’re guessing parts of this will show up in Snopes queries far into the future. Continue reading “Your Weekly Dose of Sanity-Saving Good News! 5-year-olds to the rescue!” →

Stop Poisoning us, please.

Despite decades of research into the devastating effects of chlorpyrifos, a chemical routinely sprayed on crops like apples, oranges, strawberries, Pruitt’s EPA gave the green light to its continued use on our food. There is no scientific rationale for this decision only an attempt to boost Dow chemical’s bottom line. The EPA comment page on this issue closes June 5.

More Info: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/15/health/pesticides-epa-chlorpyrifos-scott-pruitt.html
EPA comment page: https://www.regulations.gov/comment?D=EPA-HQ-OPP-2007-1005-0100&p=1

Don’t Forget Bears Ears! Oil and Uranium Companies haven’t…

A foreign mining company has it’s eye on expanding the Daneros Uranium Mine and an oil company, EOG Resources, wants to take advantage of old leases to start drilling on the scenic Bluff Bench. The vandals are at the gate! As of Wed May 24th, there are 83,185 comments logged in for your inspiration. Write! 

We have until May 26th, 11:59 ET to get our comments in.

Want some more help?
http://www.grandcanyontrust.org/blog/bears-ears-comment-deadline-approaching
Ready to go? Put them here: https://www.regulations.gov/docket?D=DOI-2017-0002 

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Your Weekly Dose of Sanity-saving Good News: Wonder Women Unleash Their Lassos of Truth Edition!

Women dominated the resistance news cycle this week – Wonder Women Unite! But first, some crazy-good news…

Former FBI director Robert Mueller was appointed as special counsel to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. To everyone who protested or called their member of Congress to demand an investigation: You helped make this happen! Indivisible Ventura hammered this issue from every angle we could think of  – 22 calls to action – and your calls made a difference!

Single payer health care is closer to becoming law in New York and California than ever before but if we want it, everyone is going to have to ask for it. Tell Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson that you care about SB562:  SAC (916) 651-4019, SB  (805) 965-0862, (805) 988-1940 See the full call to action here.

These guys are ROCKSTARS! The ACLU took legal action to force Trump to produce evidence of voter fraud claims. How many executive orders have lawsuits against them? We’ve kinda lost count.

Public support for gay marriage has reached a new high.

Wonder Women Unleash Their Lassos of Truth!

Last Sunday was Mother’s Day.  42 years before it became an official holiday filled with roses, chocolate and Kodak moments, it was something quite different… and we can be proud to say that women have risen again to resist.

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