Tag: Indivisible Ventura

Stop the Minister of Hate’s sneaky campaign to suppress voting before Oct 20th, 8:59 pm!

WHY IS VOLDEMORT DOING THIS? This video of Paul Weyrich, now-dead founder of the Heritage Foundation, lays out the whole plot in 40 seconds.

His foundation, along with their Project 2025 gang and the GOP want only White wealthy landowners to vote, just like back at the signing of the Constitution. They’ve been working hard for decades to destroy all the pesky constitutional amendments and laws that opened up their private club to us groundlings and they feel this is their time to strike.

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Why “YES” is the Right Vote on Prop. 50 and How to Explain it!

Probably every sentient being in CA received this glossy screed of misinformation, misdirection and outright nonsense from the “No on 50” campaign. It uses different arguments than what the “YES on 50” campaign is focused on, as they are reaching out to the MAGA and undecided demographic. But the damage of an unconstrained Trump for another two years will harm all of us, so we need to be able to competently push back against what they’re shoveling. There are 5 points to cover. Buckle up!

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Make Polluters Pay! Finally!

(Sierra Club) “Make Polluters Pay for Climate Disasters!

From deadly heat waves to raging fires to devastating floods, fossil fuel pollution is fueling extreme weather that endangers lives, destabilizes ecosystems and communities, and costs billions of dollars per year. Families nationwide are left with higher insurance costs, rising food prices, and mounting health bills, all while Big Oil rakes in record profits and pays nothing for the damage they’ve caused.

It doesn’t have to be this way: The Polluters Pay Climate Fund Act in Congress, introduced by Representatives Jerry Nadler (D-NY) and Judy Chu (D-CA) would require oil and gas companies to contribute just a fraction of their profits to a federal Climate Superfund. That funding would go directly to rebuilding communities, protecting frontline neighborhoods, and preparing for future disasters.”

Action Call: It’s time to put people over polluter profits. Tell Congress to act now!

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Federal and State LGBTQ+ legislation update for 2025!

Time to call your legislators again!

Update on the status of Federal and CA State bills that affect the lives of the LGBTQ community.

FEDERAL

  • PRO-LGBTQ legislation
    • Equality Act (S.1503/H.R.15):This landmark bill seeks to amend existing civil rights laws to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. It would cover areas like employment, housing, education, and public accommodations. “The nonpartisan Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) found that nationally, support for a bill like the Equality Act topped 75 percent, which includes a majority of Democrats, Republicans, and Independents. The bill has been endorsed by more than 600 organizations, including civil rights, education, health care, and faith-based organizations, as well as hundreds of major corporations and business associations.” 
    • Senate Cosponsors: Padilla and Schiff – YES
    • House Cosponsors: Brownley and Carbajal – YES
    • Transgender Health Care Access Act (H.R.2487):This bill aims to ensure access to gender-affirming care for transgender individuals. It defines gender-affirming care broadly, encompassing various medical, behavioral, and supportive services related to the treatment of gender dysphoria. This includes improving medical education for gender-affirming care providers, expanding gender-affirming care at community health centers.
  • ANTI-LGBTQ legislation
    • Do No Harm in Medicaid Act (H.R.498):This bill proposes to prohibit federal Medicaid funding for gender transition procedures, including hormone therapy, for individuals under the age of 18, with specific exceptions for what they consider genetic disorders. The GOP tried to sneak this legislation into the similarly duplicitously named “Big, Beautiful Bill” but it was stripped out by the Senate parliamentarian. So it’s still lurking out there.

Action #1: Thank your federal legislators for supporting the LGBTQ community

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You swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. Do your job! Join ACLU’s lawsuit against Trump’s unconstitutional raids NOW!

URGENT ACTION! CONTACT YOUR CITY AND COUNTY OFFICIALS – DEADLINE IS AUG. 12/13

Oxnard has just added their name to the list of cities who’ve recently joined a lawsuit (Vasquez Perdomo v. Noem) initiated by the ACLU which challenges the constitutionality of the Trump administration’s immigration raids. Los Angeles (and Los Angeles County), Pico Rivera, Montebello, Monterey Park, Culver City, Santa Monica and West Hollywood have already signed on. That list should include every city in Ventura County, including the county itself.

These lawsuits are important! Bautista, et al. v. Noem seeks to strike down a new policy enacted by ICE ending bond eligibility for immigrants currently detained by the agency. And there’s been a recent victory. (KTLA.com) “U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are no longer allowed to identify themselves as local police or use deceptive tactics during home arrests in Southern California, following a court-approved settlement reached in a class action lawsuit.”

Action: Email a message to your city councilmembers and county supervisors TODAY! [(2) sample scripts]

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This is the least our state legislators can do for us right now.

Pass AB 1108 – FACTS Act: Preventing Sheriff-Coroner Conflict of Interest!

We’ve been trying to pass this act the removes the conflict of interest for any sheriff investigating officer-involved deaths for the last 7 years. (This video is for a bill from 2018!)

We had a super-majority of Democrats in the CA legislature since 2018! This should have been passed then. Or when it came up again in 2022! Now that our older and more fragile immigrant neighbors are being pulled out of our communities, we need to know that carelessness or cruelty from law enforcement isn’t causing deaths and then covering them up.

We will also be watching and calling out ALL DEMOCRATIC legislators who vote against this bill!

Action calls – Call your state senators, thank your state assemblymembers

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Stop the bill that legalizes Trump’s cuts to vital services!

H.R. 4 rubber stamps $9.4 billion worth of his thefts from funding for foreign aid and public broadcasting.

This is all part of Trump’s efforts, backed by Project 2025 minions, to grab power from Congress for himself. The DOGE kids made cuts previously approved funding to foreign aid and public broadcasting, and this rescissions bill cleans up the crime scene. And this is just the beginning of their campaign of lawlessness.

(cbpp.org) “The Administration illegally impounded the funds at issue for months before proposing the package. Moreover, the Administration is unlawfully withholding much larger amounts of funding that it has not proposed for rescission, and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Director Russell Vought has indicated an intention to ignore existing spending directives in the future “without having to get an affirmative vote [from Congress].”In short, this rescission package is part of a broader Administration effort that threatens to fundamentally upend Congress’s spending power under the Constitution and undermine lawmakers’ ability to negotiate future spending deals in good faith.”

H.R. 4 must pass both chambers by July 18th; if it fails, Trump cannot request these same rescissions again.

Action: Call or email your representative and both senators!

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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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