Tag: Indivisible Ventura

“Don’t tell me what you value.* Show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.*” – Joe Biden

*Note: The GOP does not value the same things we do.

The GOP does not value public education and is actively trying to “drown it in a bathtub.” Same for Medicaid, Social Security, affordable health care, consumer, workplace and environmental protections, civil rights, voting access and anything else that inconveniences corporations or helps people they consider unworthy. If we want this, we need to be loud.

  • Action #1: – Call and email your legislators. It’s time that students got some relief.
  • Action #2: – Tell Joe the same damn thing.
  • Action #3: – Stop a future debt nightmare at its source. Pass H.R. 2730/S.1288 – College for All Act of 2021
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Emergency Action! – Stop PG&E’s decimation of our trees to line their shareholders’ pockets!

Action #1: CALL & EMAIL TODAY! The vote on SB-396 is now on Wednesday, 3/16. We have little time to stop this!

Apologies for the late notice, but it took experts time to understand the implications of SB-396 Forestry: electrical transmission or distribution lines: clearances: notice and opportunity to be heard. Call your assemblymember first thing on Monday and email his/her/their inboxes OVER THE WEEKEND! Your email can use the script here, or borrow some or all of the Indivisible CA Green Team’s letter below.

Minimal call script: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want Assemblymember [___] to vote “NO” on SB-396, another PG&E profit-grab for their shareholders at the expense of the people, wildlife and habitat threatened by fire and our dangerously warming climate.

Contact:

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Gaslighted…federal, state and local actions against our most toxic industry.

Quote:  Svitlana Krakovska, Ukraine’s leading climate scientist
  • Action #1 – FEDERAL: Tell Biden and your federal legislators to declare a CLIMATE EMERGENCY – we need to untangle ourselves from a fossil fuel addiction that keeps us hostage to dictators and greedy, unscrupulous corporations.
  • Action #2 – LOCAL: Help Ventura County residents ensure safe drinking water for all with “YES on A&B!”
  • ACTION #3 – STATE: DIVEST billions of fossil fuel investment from CalPERS and CalSTRS with SB-1173.

Gaslighted – our grim addiction to an amoral industry.

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The GOP exported their own brand of violence against women around the world – the #GlobalGagRule. Time to stop it.

Action #1: Remove the global gag rule permanently through legislation!

Biden’s action to rescind the #GlobalGagRule was important, but it’s a temporary fix. The laws to permanently repeal it are H.R.556/S.142 – Global HER Act and H.R.1670 – Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act. This legislation would protect access to sexual and reproductive health care across the globe from the whims of future U.S. presidents. But we don’t have endless time to do this. GOP legislators have already proposed misogynistic legislation of their own to make the gag rule permanent.

Minimum script for our representatives: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want to thank Rep. [___] for supporting the health and lives of women worldwide by cosponsoring the H.R.556 – Global HER Act and H.R.1670 – Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act. Please get these bills passed now!

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Biden put in a temporary fix to stop this international human rights violation that kills women. Now we need to pass some laws.

  • Action #1: Remove the “Global Gag Rule” permanently through legislation!
  • Action #2: Quantify the damage. Pass H.R.3576/S.1864 – Reproductive Rights are Human Rights Act.

Action #1: Remove the global gag rule permanently through legislation!

Biden’s action to rescind the #GlobalGagRule was important, but it’s a temporary fix. The laws to permanently repeal it are H.R.556/S.142 – Global HER Act and H.R.1670 – Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act. This legislation would protect access to sexual and reproductive health care across the globe from the whims of future U.S. presidents. But we don’t have endless time to do this. GOP legislators have already proposed misogynistic legislation of their own to make the gag rule permanent.

Minimum script for our representatives: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want to thank Rep. [___] for supporting the health and lives of women worldwide by cosponsoring the H.R.556 – Global HER Act and H.R.1670 – Abortion is Health Care Everywhere Act. Please get these bills passed now!

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UPDATE: Call your legislators! “Yes” to actions on local, state and federal gun legislation.

Watching a war unfold in front of us, it’s easy to forget the seeds of violence here. Now is the time to create urgency, both in the CA legislature and in Congress, for these bills to be passed. Even if you’ve called on them before, call again. Remind your legislators that these are the bills that save lives!

  • UPDATE: Action #1: LOCAL – AB-1769 prohibits gun shows at the Ventura County Fair and Event Center.
  • UPDATE Action #2: STATE – SB.915 prohibits gun shows at all CA state-owned property.
  • Action #3: FEDERAL – Pass national background check laws and close the “Charleston Loophole.“
  • Action #4: FEDERAL – For those who didn’t come home from school that Valentine’s Day, and all those before and since…it’s time to pass H.R.1808/S.736 – Assault Weapons Ban of 2021

UPDATE: Action #1: LOCAL – AB-1769 prohibits gun shows at the Ventura County Fair and Event Center – This bill will be heard in the Assembly Public Safety Committee March 8th, at 9am.

Minimal script for Asm. Steve Bennett: I’m calling from [zip code] and I would like to thank Assemblymember [Steve Bennett] for introducing AB-1769 – Firearms: Prohibited places and to communicate our support to Public Safety Committee members for their meeting on Tuesday.

Minimal script for other assemblymembers: I’m calling from [zip code] and I would like Assemblymember [____] to communicate with Public Safety Committee members your constituent’s support for AB-1769 – Firearms: Prohibited places.

Contact:

  • State Assemblymember Steve Bennett (CA-37): email, SAC (916) 319-2037, SB (805) 564-1649, VTA (805) 641-3700
  • State Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (CA-44): email, SAC (916) 319-2044, CAM (805) 482-1904, OX (805) 483-4488
  • Not your people? Don’t know?: findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov
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(2) California actions! Divest from Russia and expand access to justice here!

  • Action #1: Tell our state legislators to pass the bill divesting our public pension funds from Russia.
  • Action #2: Tell CA legislators that the CA Immigration Legal Fellowship is a critical service for immigrants in rural communities!

Action #1: Tell our state legislators to pass the bill divesting our public pension funds from Russia.

Companies are divesting from Russia, including BP, Shell, Maersk, Visa and Mastercard, and WarnerMedia (they’re withholding “The Batman” movie from Russia this weekend). So how about the California’s public pension funds, the two largest in the nation?

How large?

State Senate Majority Leader Mike McGuire said Monday he planned to introduce a bill that would require the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CALPERS) and California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CALSTRS) to disentangle themselves from investments tied to Russia. The two systems have recently held more than $1.7 billion combined in such assets, according to Reuters.

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What we can and should be doing now. – Update for Sunday 3/6

  • Action #1: Help strengthen democracy here. UPDATE: Join DEMCAST’s Team to fight Russian disinformation!
  • Action #2: Ask Biden to protect Ukrainians currently in the U.S. and prepare for Ukrainian refugees.
  • Action #3: Ask FOX the question…”Seriously, why are you allowing your employees to give “aid and comfort” to an enemy of the United States?” 
  • Action #4: Here’s a list of organizations AND actions to help. 

#1: Help strengthen democracy here.

On Sunday, Swap Meet Justice volunteers headed out in the early morning to set up our monthly citizenship fair at Oxnard College. We did this so good, hardworking people can gain a voice in our country. We did it because the road to becoming an citizen is difficult, racist and unfair. And we did it in the name of our own forebears who left behind everything they knew to escape poverty, famine, brutal repression and yes, war. And now war will again force traumatized people from their homes.

As we watch the Ukraine tragedy unfold, it is disheartening to see our own countrymen, including a former president, giving “aid and comfort” to a war criminal who has attacked orphanages and kindergartens and is now threatening the world with nuclear weapons. However, what we can do right now is concentrate on strenthening what Putin, and his GOP gaslighters (excellent article here) fear most – democracy itself. Join in – here are a few options (Do not be afraid that you’ve never done these kinds of activities before. There is training for you, and questions are always welcomed.):

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The vote over whether all women retain control of their wombs starts on Monday, Feb. 28th. FLOOD your senators’ phones now!

(Photo credit, quote)
  • Action #1: Tell your senator to pass S.1975 – Women’s Health Protection Act NOW!
  • Action #2: Demand that SCOTUS Justice Amy Coney Barrett and other Catholic justices “recuse” themselves on abortion cases.
  • Action #3: Share information on how to find abortion pills, how to use them safely and to make the information common knowledge.

Action #1: Tell your senator to pass S.1975 – Women’s Health Protection Act NOW!

If Roe v. Wade falls to the phalanx of religious right SCOTUS members, 26 states will ban abortion immediately. Even now, over 700 women die in childbirth each year and over 50,000 women end up with life-threatening injuries they may never recover from, physically, emotionally or financially.

(This action is based on both CA senators having already cosponsored this bill.)

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Gigi Sohn for FCC! Call your senators and ask them to publicly support her nomination.

In the video below, Gigi Sohn introduces herself and fights back against the GOP smear campaign and efforts to disqualify her for her public advocacy.

She will need support from every Democratis senator, including Sen. Ben Lujan (D-NM), currently on sick leave, to take the fifth seat on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) board. There she can break the toxic deadlock that favors telecom giants, repair the damage to net neutrality done under the Trump administration and tackle the issues behind the growing number of underserved and uhappy cable customers.

FIRE UP YOUR PHONES! Call your Senators to vote for Gigi Sohn For FCC NOW! 

3 CALLS! – Minimal script for senators AND Sen. Cantwell, Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee: I’m calling from [zip code] and I want to tell Sen. [__] that I support Gigi Sohn for FCC chair! She’s a strong advocate for net neutrality, and personal and data privacy, issues important for every American. I’m also want the Senator to make a public statement of their support for her.

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(2) fast environmental actions!

STATE ACTION: Ask your state legislators to take the “No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge.”

(From +350 Conejo/San Fernando Valley) Fossil Fuel Money is Toxic! Every election year, fossil fuel companies spend millions to stop climate action and maintain their profits. During the 2020 election cycle, California legislators received more than $3 million in fossil fuel-affiliated money — and a third of those dollars went to Democrats. 

To make real progress on climate, we need elected officials who will stand up for the planet, not polluters. We’re partnering with the team behind the No Fossil Fuel Money Pledge to keep our California legislators accountable. Please contact your representatives and urge them to take the pledge to reject contributions over $200 from individuals and companies connected to fossil fuels. 

Taking the pledge means that a politician or candidate’s campaign will adopt a policy to not knowingly accept any contributions over $200 from the PACs, lobbyists, or SEC-named executives of fossil fuel companies — companies whose primary business is the extraction, processing, distribution, or sale of oil, gas, or coal.

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