Tag: Indivisible Ventura

Wed. – 5/1: Taking back the real May Day! Not just one day off in September, but justice 24/7. Come join in!

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Ventura event details here.               Oxnard event details here.

Today, almost every major industrial nation is celebrating International Workers’ Day, a holiday based on the 1886 Haymarket Riot by immigrant workers in Chicago. It was a major historical event which involved freedom of speech, freedom of the press, the right to free assembly, the right to a fair trial by a jury of peers and the right of workers to organize and fight for things like the eight-hour day. It should be a huge celebration here too.

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Tues 4/30: Spread a little love. It’s good for the recipient. It’s good for you.

Cards filled out by Indivisible Ventura members and friends...

UPDATE! Ocasio-Cortez and Omar cards added!

Action – Send out some love…

This project was started to give our support to two new congresswomen, Reps. Ocasio-Cortez and Omar, who’d been getting an inordinate amount of hate mail and serious death threats. Whether or not we agree with every policy or word they’ve ever spoken, we stand indivisible in their defense and wanted them to know that we respect and support them.

In the course of making the cards, we met Onjena Yo, an amazing artist from Brooklyn who makes multinational patriotic graphic designs melding our flag with those of the original countries of immigrant families. She volunteered her designs for Puerto Rico (Ocasio-Cortez) and Somalia (Omar) and suddenly, our project became bi-coastal.

You never know what can happen, so write.

Print out our “heart” postcards on cardstock or use your own. Write “Dear_______” and let your words fill in behind it. It doesn’t have to be eloquent or poetic, grammatically correct or even spelled perfectly. Crossouts and white-out – completely OK. Pictures, stickers, crayon. All good.

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Tues 4/30: Californians! Protect our landmark climate change bill! “NO” on SB-386

Graphics: Jessica Craven – Chop Wood, Carry Water

Action – Stop the shenanigans going on in Sacramento!

Some legislators are trying a sneaky workaround to gut SB 100, – “CA Renewables Portfolio Standard Program (RPS): emissions of greenhouse gases“,  the landmark climate bill signed into law last year. More information on SB 100 here. and this memory refresher video …


 SB 386, which passed through the Senate Energy Committee last week, would effectively gut and undermine SB 100 by allowing electricity generated from EXISTING LARGE HYDRO DAMS to count towards the 60% renewable energy standard established under SB 100.  Since the irrigation districts are already fully sourced, this means they can take credit for their hydro, and then sell off their existing “Renewable Portfolio Standards” (RPS) compliant resources, which effectively guts SB 350 and SB 100.  If they can count existing large hydro, there are no new renewable resources needed.

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Tues – 4/30: #WeAreIndivisible. Take the 2020 pledge.

We must defeat Donald Trump.

  • The first step is a primary contest that produces a strong Democratic nominee.
  • The second step is winning the general election. We will not accept anything less.

To ensure this outcome, I pledge to:

Make the primary constructive.

We’ll make the primary election about our hopes for the future, and a robust debate of values, vision and the contest of ideas. We’ll remain grounded in our shared values, even if we support different candidates.

Rally behind the winner.

We’ll support the ultimate Democratic nominee, whoever it is — period. No Monday morning quarterbacking. No third-party threats.

 


Do the work to beat Trump.

We’re the grassroots army that’s going to power the nominee to victory, and we’ll show up to make calls, knock doors, and do whatever it takes.

Mon 4/29: April 30th – House Rules Committee – 1st hearing on Medicare for All. How you can help… Part 2

This is historic. The House Rules Committee just announced it will be holding the first-ever hearing on Medicare for All this Tuesday, April 30th, at 10 AM.

Action – Activate other legislators, including ours!

Watch this amazing short documentary on health insurance – it’s not just about patient bankruptcies, but on how our current system affects our businesses, our schools, our essential services like police and fire, our doctors, our economy, our deficit, our tax bills, our infrastructure and our environment.

Fix It: Healthcare At The Tipping Point from Thomas Marko on Vimeo.

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Mon 4/29: April 30th – House Rules Committee – 1st hearing on Medicare for All. How you can help… Part 1

This is historic. The House Rules Committee just announced it will be holding the first-ever hearing on Medicare for All this Tuesday, April 30th, at 10 AM.

Action – Activate your “family and friends” committee!

Our Reps. Brownley and Carbajal aren’t on the Rules Committee, and we can’t call other people’s representatives. (What!? Why not?)  So look at the list below of committee membership, and look to see if any of the hold-outs are in districts of your families and friends. If you don’t know, don’t worry.

Your friends have friends who have friends. This is our secret power!

ACTIVATE YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA! Call/email/facebook/tweet/instagram/etc. to your social circle to get the members of these legislators’ districts to call their offices. Continue reading “Mon 4/29: April 30th – House Rules Committee – 1st hearing on Medicare for All. How you can help… Part 1” →

Fri 4/26: A judge stopped Trump’s offshore pillaging. So now he’s coming to frack CA: Public Hearing – May 23/ Comment period open!/Call Newsom.

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Action #1: Mark your calendars for May 23. Work out your carpools to the Santa Barbara meeting! 

Kern County is the most-fracked county in California by a wide margin. This region also has the worst air quality in the nation, as well as highly elevated rates of cancer and respiratory illness. For the people that live here, fracking means more oil extraction, more crippling climate impacts, and more impacts on their health.

Yesterday, while we were busy writing comments against the administration’s proposal to strip “streamline” the power of states to control drilling activities off their own coastlines, Trump had to delay his plans to give offshore drilling leases to his favorite donors, due to a court decision blocking fossil fuel activity in parts of the Arctic and Atlantic oceans. But he and his EnergyDominance™ team (fossil-fuel-lobbyists-now-getting-government-paychecks) are concentrating on striking back at coastal states who oppose him and turning America into one big corporate-owned Superfund site.

Jim Hines, our Sierra Club advisor and early warning system sent this today…

“Greetings Energy Activists:
On this morning’s conference call with the executive staff at the U.S. Dept. of the Interior, the major topic was the advancement of the President’s ‘America’s Energy Dominance Program’, and wouldn’t you know it, but Ventura and Santa Barbara counties were mentioned. Continue reading “Fri 4/26: A judge stopped Trump’s offshore pillaging. So now he’s coming to frack CA: Public Hearing – May 23/ Comment period open!/Call Newsom.” →

Fri 4/26: Howl for the wolves! – Part 1. Goal: quarter million comments by 5/14.

Action #1 – Stop Trump from removing Endangered Species Act protections from wolves. – write a comment (Deadline 5/14) 

But first, a message and a meeting…

(A message from Jim Hines, Sierra Club California/Nevada Wildlife Team)
“The howl of the wolf in the American wilderness may be heard no more.
 A recently released proposal by the Trump Administration would remove all federal endangered species act protections for wolves and this opens the door for a number of individual western states to allow hunting of wolves. My Sierra Club wildlife team is working on getting people to the 7 upcoming public hearings across America on this issue. We are also asking people to submit their written comments using this link.
Help us protect wolves.“

UPDATE: CA PUBLIC HEARING TO PROTECT GRAY WOLVES – CANCELLED! 

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Thurs 4/25: Tonight! – Santa Barbara Town Hall by Congressman Salud Carbajal

Thurs 4/25: Rep. Salud Carbajal Town Hall

Facebook event here.

RSVP here for free tickets.

Description:  Rep. Salud Carbajal (CA-24) is hosting a town hall meeting in Santa Barbara to answer questions directly from Central Coast residents and provide an overview of legislation the 116th Congress has put forward in its first 100 days of session. Carbajal looks forward to hearing about the top priorities of his constituents.

This town hall meeting is free and open to the public.

Date: Thu, April 25, 2019

Time: 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM PDT

Location: Santa Barbara County Education Office Auditorium
4400 Cathedral Oaks Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110

Sat 4/27: Katie Hill (CA-25) Town Hall

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Sunday 4/28: “Swap Meet Justice!” citizenship fair! Come join us!

Action  – THIS Sunday, 4/28 – Come join us at “Swap Meet Justice!” and help spread the word!

You do not need to be a lawyer. You do not need to speak another language. However, all volunteers with bilingual skills are appreciated.

Every last Sunday of the month!

When: 8am-3pm,  4/28, 5/26, 6/30, 7/28, 8/25, 9/29, 10/27, 11/24, and 12/29. You may come for a shorter amount of time, but please come at 8:30 for new volunteer orientation. We also don’t start new applications after 1:30 or 2:00, so we can finish in time for the marketplace’s closing.

Where: Oxnard College Marketplace & Swap Meet (Map below, more information, hand-outs and posters for printing all here.)

Where is the Oxnard College Swap Meet? And when I get there, where do I go?

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