3 actions to do during lunch today!

If you get our newsletter, you’ve already had notice of #2 and #3. We were just alerted to #1 this morning.

#1 – Speak out against VCCCD trustee Joe “I-only-won-because-2-Dem-opponents-split-the-vote” Piechowski’s transphobic resolution. Deadline: TODAY – MONDAY, DEC. 1, 3:00 pm.

(This one has the earliest deadline!)

Ventura County Community College District trustee Joe Piechowski is literally the residue at the bottom of the barrel, because 64% of voters split their votes between Democratic candidates Bernardo Perez and Ruth Luevanos. But this residue isn’t wasting his chance to push regressive policies, and now we need to stand up against his resolution to pressure the 3C2A and state leaders into excluding transgender and intersex athletes from women’s sports. He’s misusing Title IX to justify discrimination as “fairness” using selective science based on questionable evidence. This resolution isn’t about protecting women’s sports. It’s about creating a gateway for anti-trans policy in our local colleges.

Urge the board to reject his discriminatory resolution and instead support policies that uphold Title IX’s actual purpose: ensuring equal access and opportunity for all student-athletes.

They meet on December 2! (agenda) Please submit a written comment by today- December 1st, 3pm. to the board here (https://form.jotform.com/253288279842168) Also, could be emailed here (boardoftrusteesclerk@vcccd.edu)

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Take a holiday from supporting the oligarchy!

Target caved to Trump and rolled back their diversity, equity, and inclusion policies.
Home Depot has done nothing to protect immigrants in their stores as ICE continues to conduct violent raids on their property.
Amazon has funded the Trump administration through donations and discounted government contracts(including for ICE), all in exchange for massive corporate tax breaks.

Thanksgiving weekend is a peak shopping time. Last year, more than 196 million Americans shopped over the holiday weekend. So it’s an opportune time to send a message to Target, Home Depot, and Amazon: if you collaborate with Trump, we won’t shop with you. They’ll be forced to take notice when they don’t get the record numbers of shoppers they’re anticipating.

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“Who are you? Am I being arrested or kidnapped?”

“Democracy cannot exist in darkness, nor can it exist behind a mask.”

– Benjamin Remy, Senior Staff Attorney for NY Legal Assistance Group’s Immigrant Protection Unit

“We’re not sure who these armed men are. They show up without uniforms, they show up completely masked. They refused to give I.D. Who are these people? And frankly, the vests that they have look like they ordered them from Amazon. Are they bounty hunters? Are they vigilantes? If they are federal officers, why is it that they do not identify themselves?”

– Mayor Karen Bass

Both federal and state legislators have listened to our calls for reform, as these unidentifiable masked entities accelerate disappearing people from our communities, sometimes with brutal force. There are now at least three federal actions and two CA state bills to call your legislators to support.

Federal Actions – 3 Calls

Minimal script: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want [Rep._____/ Senator (call both)] to co-sponsor and vote for the VISIBLE Act, No Masks for ICE Act, Police not ICE Act of 2025 and the No Secret Police Act.
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URGENT! TUESDAY – 03/18/2025 – Ventura Council – Item #15 – Community Autonomy, Rights, and Equality (CARE) Policy

Arrive as close to 5:00 pm as possible. Item may be heard at ±6:00pm – Location: Ventura City Hall

The Community Autonomy, Rights, and Equality (CARE) Policy which will be heard at the Ventura City Council on Tuesday, March 18th. (Agenda) This is an important democratic-values issue, and Oxnard, Simi, TO, and Santa Barbara will all be watching to see how it plays out.

ACTION:

We need to make our Democrat-endorsed councilmembers aware of our expectations BEFORE THE MEETING!
- Contact your city council member with the email in the chart below and tell them you want them to vote “YES” on Item #15. For the ones marked “D”, you can use the word “democratic values” somewhere in your message. For the others, remind them that there are vulnerable people in their district and they are responsible for representing them as well.
- Not sure which district you live in? Check out this map.

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Our descent into fascism must not be “bipartisan!”

Democratic legislators AT ALL LEVELS and officials endorsed by Democratic clubs must stop collaborating with the GOP agenda now!

Action #1 – Just say “NO” to Trump’s toxic nominees, especially this guy, Russell Vought – the Christo-fascist behind Project 2025.

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4 dozen House Democrats helped pass MAGA’s xenophobic Laken Riley Act. WTH, Democrats, what you doing?!?

Thank the ones who did the right thing! Spank the ones who didn’t!

(rollingstone) “On Tuesday, four dozen House Democrats joined Republicans in passing a viciously right-wing immigration bill — legislation that, just last year, was seen as a conservative messaging bill. Six Democratic lawmakers flipped their positions, voting for the legislation after rejecting it last year. There’s a strong likelihood that the immigration bill will pass in the Senate, too, after most of the Democratic caucus voted to begin debate on the legislation.”

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Resistance Action to Help Dreamers & DACA recipients!

Contact the Biden Administration and urge Mayorkas and Biden to finalize and publish the H-1B modernization rule to move DACA recipients to a more secure status and to expedite the processing of existing applications.

Action #1: Urge DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to finalize the H-1B modernization rule.

EMAIL: (Here’s our take. We aren’t immigration experts, so we’re emphasizing that he finish the work he started. Use personal stories if you can.)

Sec. Mayorkas, I’m writing to urge you to finalize the H-1B modernization rule. Your actions as USCIS director during the Obama administration to implement the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process in just 60 days, protected our friends and neighbors, and there’s no amount of thanks we can give you for that.

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11/23 – Continuing actions this week!

Update! We, along with 68 other CA groups, made the national news!

(theHill)“A coalition of nearly 70 California progressive grassroots groups urged Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) either to call for the “swift passage” of both the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act by the end of this month or to resign.“ (Letter attached at the bottom of this post.)

Action #1: Dear Senator Feinstein, it’s time to drop the filibuster for the “Freedom to Vote Act” and the “John Lewis Voting Rights Act.” And postpone your holiday until AFTER the BBB Act is passed.
Action #2: Dear Governor Newsom, We need you to step up for solar…
Action #3: Write a comment to protect DACA recipients – DEADLINE November 29 at 11:59 pm EST

We’ve just had another infuriating episode of #WhiteTearsWin. Kyle “Property over People” Rittenhouse walked away with 2 dead and one permanently damaged body in his wake, along with what Anthony Huber’s parents stated is “the unacceptable message that armed civilians can show up in any town, incite violence, and then use the danger they have created to justify shooting people in the street.” Hopefully his victims’ families will be able to sue him for damages in a civil trial, but that’s cold comfort. If an action comes from this, we will bring it forward.

Meanwhile, we need to take a moment to focus on some wins (see our header above), and the work we need to do next. Some of these you can do during business hours today or Monday, and all have an component you can do this weekend.

Action #1: Dear Senator Feinstein, it’s time to drop the filibuster for the “Freedom to Vote Act” and the “John Lewis Voting Rights Act.” And postpone your holiday until AFTER the BBB Act is passed.

We know from early on in our Indivisible movement that Feinstein will move if enough people flood her office with comments. (Yes, she was ready to rubber-stamp that horrid Jeff Sessions as Attorney General before we’all found out.) So make her phones ring in every office, it really only takes minutes to contact them all and say the short phone script. (Program your phone to save time! “MOC” = “Member of Congress”) Then fill up her email box over the weekend and make ourselves HEARD!

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Tues. 7/14: Speak out against the Trump administration’s deadly new asylum proposal – deadline Wednesday – 7/15

Article regarding Salvadoran deaths here.

Write a comment against Trump’s proposed human rights violating asylum changes. Deadline 7/15 (Wednesday) 11:59 pm EST.

Over the last three years, the Trump administration has drastically altered the U.S. asylum system. From attempts to ban asylum seekers who entered the United States between Ports of Entry, to forcing more than 60,000 to wait in squalor in Mexico while their cases wind their way through backlogged immigration courts, gaining access to the U.S. asylum system has become fraught with challenges. Continue reading “Tues. 7/14: Speak out against the Trump administration’s deadly new asylum proposal – deadline Wednesday – 7/15” →

Mon. 9/23: Asylum America – Write a comment today! Deadline 11:59 pm EST.

Unless our people came here unwillingly, or were standing on the shore watching the first ships land, we are beneficiaries of asylum – our people were refugees from failed crops and starvation, from joblessness, from poverty, from corruption, from religious persecution and from threats against their lives. (Even ~~Swedish~~ German former brothel owners were welcome to return after being banished from the country of their birth for draft dodging.) In our forefather’s shoes, we walked down a gangplank into America and a new life.

We owe a debt, those of us who got here before cruel immigration limits kicked in, for there was nowhere else to go. Pay it back by standing indivisible with the people coming here now. They too, are running from failed crops and starvation, from joblessness, from poverty, from corruption and from threats against their lives, and they need our help.

Action: Write a comment to oppose Trump’s proposal to further bloat the anti-American “Expedited Removal” rule. Due tonight!

“Expedited removal . . . represented a dramatic assault on the due process rights . . . . [It grants] extraordinary and unprecedented power to low-level immigration officers to remove individuals without review and without a fair hearing.” – ACLU

Your voice matters and is needed now more than ever. Your comment doesn’t need to be long. A few sentences are fine. It just needs to sound exactly LIKE YOU.
PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, don’t copy anyone else’s comment verbatim. It will be thrown out by the moderator. Don’t bother with petitions either, as all the signatures only count as “1”.