Tag: Indivisible Ventura

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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Stop the GOP’s Bloated, Blighted, Budget bill before it hurts someone

(Quote from Trump, and American Progress) (top)

The only change from her advice is to contact your SENATORS.
(https://youtu.be/2dEX7q8MvEA?si=hn5iY_i_Qjqols2T)

BASIC CALLS/EMAILS

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Why is it not a surprise they’re going after the disabled? We have until Monday, June 16, 8:59 pm PDT, to flood them with “significant adverse comments!”

Let’s see…who else in history made it their priority to go after gay and transgender people, those without citizenship (Jews), unions, political opponents and disabled people?

(DREDF.org) “The Department of Energy (DOE) is trying to get rid of important rules of Section 504! DOE is trying to change the rules that new buildings must be accessible to people with disabilities. They are also trying to get rid of other rules that help disability accessibility. Please make your voice heard and say “no” to these changes. You can send in a comment as part of an organization. You can also send a comment on your own. The deadline to send in comments is Monday, June 16, 2025, [by 11:59 pm EDT]”

How to make that “significant adverse comment” by June 16, 8:59 PDT:

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Tell CA’s leaders to Defend their Constituents from Federal Crackdowns on Peaceful Protest.

(Photo header: SEIU California President David Huerta being injured while peacefully protesting in LA on June 6.)

Send letters to our senators, our governor and our attorney general!

Is this our America now? Masked men pushing a student into an unmarked car? A young woman chased down by a dozen officers over the protests of her neighbors? Children being zip-tied or abandoned in a vehicle by ICE? People dragged away from immigration check-ins and fake court hearings? David Huerta, the president of the SEIU California, thrown against a curb by faceless men for peacefully protesting in LA? (see statement from LA Police below) And now, Californians being threatened with our own National Guard troops by the President and Marines by DoD Secretary and All-Star Incompetent Peter Hegseth.

ACTION #1 – Email Senators Schiff and Padilla

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SB 540 – the bill we’ll never notice until it’s too late…and coal companies control CA’s energy future. (updated 9/02!)

Update! Read all about it here!

UPDATE! This is as urgent as it gets – we need to prevent the utility regionalization bill that would give away control of California energy to coal states and to Trump. Leaders in the Assembly may come up with a gut-and-amend bill at the last minute, but it would mirror SB 540 Pathways, which was unable to move through Assembly committees due to its unpopularity. 

The two people who can stop this backroom dealmaking are Pro Tem McGuire and Senator Limon, Chair of the Senate Democratic Caucus, who will be the new Pro Tem next year.

Everyone can call both McGuire and Limon because they are the present and future leaders of the Senate. But if you’re a constituent of either, please mention that in your call. The next three days are crucial!

ACTION #1: Make sure legislators are awake and aware that WE ARE WATCHING THEM!

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Instead of giving the Medicare Advantage corporations a huge rate hike, let’s give all Americans access to a single-payer national healthcare system, like the people in Canada & Greenland have!

Hey, where’s those so-called “waste-cutting” DOGE minions when you actually need them?

Santa Trump and his oligarch-led administration just gave their corporate donors who run Medicare (Taking) Advantage plans an early Christmas present – a $46 BILLION dollar rate hike.

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Tell your legislators to vote “NO!” on the SAVE Act, a trojan horse for Christofascist voter suppression

What these patriarchal Christian Nationalist legislators want is a return to government run like it was by the signers of the Constitution – with only the richest White men being allowed to vote.

UPDATE: THE GREAT VOTER SUPPRESSION BILL has just passed through the House! Even more horrible, four Democratic-name-only legislators helped! Reps. Ed Case of Hawaii; Henry Cuellar of Texas; Jared Golden of Maine; and Marie Gluesenkamp Perez of Washington state.

How close can they get to their ideal before the midterms? A lot closer if they can pass the SAVE Act, a cynically named elitist bill that’s actually a form of voter suppression against women, poorer American citizens and minorities – all those whom the GOP suspects will vote for Democrats.

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