On Tuesday, we asked people to comment on a proposed rollback of CA’s Clean Car Standards (Due 10/26), reminding us that even during the distractions of this election season, the Trump administrations’ efforts to push all of our environmental protections through a regulatory shredding machine, continues without pause. We need to gather our wits, our computers and smartphones, and keep fighting on this moving battle line.
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Saturday – Candlelight Vigil for Victims of Hate
This has been a hellish week in America…
A white supremacist Trump fan sent bombs to Democratic political leaders, donors, and CNN; black people were murdered at a grocery store after the domestic terrorist was locked out of the predominantly black church he was targeting; and a rabid anti-semite, inflamed with conspiracy theories, attacked a synagogue, killing 11 in the deadliest targeting of the Jewish community in American history. The administration is preparing to erase the existence of transgender people and troops are gathering at our borders to stop people who are coming to plead for their lives. And now, our president appears ready to create a class of stateless citizens, an act similar to one that preceded the worst atrocities of the Holocaust.
Martin Luther King said that “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
This is the time when our vote and our efforts can mean more than ever. But we also need time to mourn these losses and reaffirm our vision and purpose together as a community. Come to Mission Park (right across from the Mission in downtown Ventura) and spread some light and love with us in a vigil for the victims of hate and for a better and more just America.
We’re starting at 5:00. Sundown is just after 6:00. We will be there until 7:00. Wear warm clothes, and bring candles or fire-safe alternatives.
Share our Facebook link with others who need a moment to reconnect with the good-hearted people of our community.
By choosing to attend this event, you are committing to participate nonviolently and in accordance with the law, to work to de-escalate confrontations with others, and to obey the orders of authorized event marshals and of law enforcement. You also acknowledge that you are solely responsible for any injury or damage to your person or property resulting from or occurring during this event and that you release all event sponsors and organizers (and their officers, directors, employees, and agents) from any liability for that injury or damage.
Tues -10/30: Phone banking this week!
Updated 10/30/18
Never phonebanked before, or want to brush-up on your skills? Click here.
Action #1 – Phone bank swing state voters with Indivisible national.
Indivisible has shifts available for us to call constituents in Mississippi, Indiana, California, Florida, and Texas. Sign up to phone bank here help these great candidates get elected.
The training webinar is on Tues, October 30 (today) at 8pm ET
Sign up here.
- GOTV for Baria/Espy, MS-Sen: Monday, October 29, 12pm-9pm Eastern
- GOTV for Liz Watson, IN-9: Monday, October 29, 12pm-9pm Eastern
- GOTV for Ammar Campa-Najjar, CA-50: Tuesday, October 30, 12pm-11pm Eastern
- GOTV for Andrew Janz, CA-22: Wednesday, October 31, 12pm-11pm Eastern
- GOTV for Harley Rouda, CA-48: Thursday, November 1, 12pm-11pm Eastern
- GOTV for Harley Rouda, CA-48: Friday, November 2, 12pm-11pm Eastern
- GOTV for Andrew Gillum, FL-Gov: Saturday, November 3, 10am-9pm Eastern
- GOTV for Beto O’Rourke, TX-Sen: Saturday, November 3, 10am-9pm Eastern
- GOTV for Andrew Gillum, FL-Gov: Sunday, November 4, 10am-9pm Eastern
- GOTV for Beto O’Rourke, TX-Sen: Sunday, November 4, 10am-9pm Eastern
- GOTV for Andrew Gillum, FL-Gov: Monday, November 5, 9am-9pm Eastern
- GOTV for Beto O’Rourke, TX-Sen: Monday, November 5, 9am-9pm Eastern
- GOTV for Andrew Gillum, FL-Gov: Tuesday, November 6, 9am-8pm Eastern
- GOTV for Beto O’Rourke, TX-Sen: Tuesday, November 6, 9am-8pm Eastern
Mon 10/29: Calling for more poll workers!
Action – If you’re not in Indivisible Ventura’s adopt-a-poll crew, volunteer to be a regular poll worker in Thousand Oaks, Simi, Moorpark, Oxnard or Port Hueneme.
We the People: What we political newbies keep learning is how essential the private citizen is in keeping the lights on in this democratic experiment we call America. One may think that state governments are in completely in charge of elections…organizing, facilitating and sometimes suppressing them, and we just show up to vote. But the person handing you your ballot and helping you feed it into the voting machine is a regular civilian, just like you.
After the polls close, and everybody else is home watching the early returns on television, county parking lots are transformed into a klieg-light bright islands of activity, as regular citizens – two representatives from every polling place in our huge county, pull their cars up, one after another, to return voting equipment and relinquish their sealed bags of ballots.
This, at the end, is what democracy looks like. Something to be very proud of. Something to protect and aid.
In Ventura County, they need more of you to help make our experiment work!
Continue reading “Mon 10/29: Calling for more poll workers!”
Fri – 10/26: Part 3 – Your crazy-busy weekend: Hands-on volunteering – Last-Sunday Citizenship/DACA fair.
In case you missed Parts 1 & 2…
Part 1 – Sunday rally in Ventura for the “Trial of the Century”
Part 2 – Create your weekend Canvassing Plan
Reminder: Deadline today on CA Clean Car Standard comments!
Today is the last day to comment on the Trump administrations’ rollback of our CA Clean Car Standards here. Just because Congress is out, doesn’t mean the destruction of our environment is on hiatus too…
Part 3 – Oct. 28, Sun. – October’s Last-Sunday Free Citizenship/DACA Fair
Fri – 10/26: Part 2 – Your crazy-busy weekend: Create your canvassing plan.
Why we need EVERYONE to canvass…
- No, not just extroverts who love knocking on doors and talking to people.
- No, not just expert canvassers.
- No, not just political wonks who know the argument for everything.
Everyone!
Steve Knight, (R-CA 25) a Trump-clone, won his race last time when there were more Democrats than Republicans in his district!
Hmmm….that’s not right…
We need to convince people that their votes are important in protecting themselves and their families – health care, social security, Medicare, Medicaid, education, the environment and climate change, immigration policy, net neutrality, LGBTQ+ and civil rights are all on the chopping block. Continue reading “Fri – 10/26: Part 2 – Your crazy-busy weekend: Create your canvassing plan.”
Fri – 10/26: Part 1 – Your crazy-busy weekend: Sunday: Rally for the Trial of the Century
October 28, 2018 • 3:30 PM
Rallies Planned for Cities Nationwide to Back Climate Youth Battling Trump in #TrialoftheCentury
“All of us have a responsibility to double down in supporting the young people holding the U.S. government responsible for perpetuating climate change and threatening our collective future.”
Read about the Juliana v. United States case here and here and follow #youthvgov on twitter.
Then, join in a rally (By Martha Fellows of Ojai and 350 Local Group Network) at our Ventura County Government Center, at the corner of S. Victoria Ave and Telephone Road, to be a part of the #TrialoftheCentury and support the young plaintiffs in the historic Juliana v. United States court case.
Our freedom depends on a climate system that will sustain human life. Let’s show the government that it has a duty to prepare and implement a Climate Recovery Plan to protect our basic and most fundamental rights!
You can RSVP here.
Thurs 10/25: All Trump’s “Affordable” power plan will cost us are the lives of 1400 of our most vulnerable. Every year.
On Tuesday, we asked people to comment on a proposed rollback of CA’s Clean Car Standards (Due 10/26), reminding us that even during the distractions of this election season, the Trump administrations’ efforts to push all of our environmental protections through a regulatory shredding machine, continues without pause. We need to gather our wits, our computers and smartphones, and keep fighting on this moving battle line.
Action – Comment on Trumps’ proposal to replace the “Clean Power Plan” (CPP) with his criminally inferior “Affordable Clean Energy” (ACE) plan. – DEADLINE OCT. 31st. 11:59 EST
Wed. 10/24: The GOP would like y’all to use the restroom that matches your birth certificate…Sure. No problem.
This is a photo of Jake Miller, better known by his stage name Buck Angel. He is an transgender American adult film producer and amazing motivational speaker. Because he started out life as a baby named “Susan“, proposed federal regulations might soon force him to use women’s restrooms and suffer various other indignities. All because the GOP, the party of “smaller, less intrusive government”, just released this inhumane and unscientific pronouncement…
“The sex listed on a person’s birth certificate, as originally issued, shall constitute definitive proof of a person’s sex unless rebutted by reliable genetic evidence.”
– Department of Health and Human Services memo, according to the New York Times.
Not only does this effectively erase the existence of the 1.4 MILLION transgender American citizens, who, often from early childhood, have struggled with being born into the “wrong” body, but it’s going to make the lives of the 1-in-1500 babies born with intersex conditions much more complicated too. Twenty-first century, people!
Tues – 10/23: They’re coming for our air. Deadline – Oct. 26.
LOS ANGELES: Downtown highrise buildings are shown cloaked in dirty air shortly after sunrise September 11, 2002 in Los Angeles, California. Although air quality in Los Angeles has improved in recent decades, smog levels remain among the nation’s worst. Numerous wildfires in the region have also contributed to Los Angeles’ air pollution problem. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)
While Congress is out, the lights are off in D.C., and our president is distracting us before the election with “scary migrants” and imaginary “middle-class tax cuts”…one type of GOP destruction is continuing to roll off the chutes with machine-like efficiency – the removal of rules protecting us and our environment from the rapacious greed of his new regime.
Action – Stop Trump’s proposed rollback of CA Clean Car Standards – Deadline Oct. 26, (this Friday) 11:59 ET
“There is no safe level of air pollution.” (Newsweek) (BusinessInsider) (LATimes) Continue reading “Tues – 10/23: They’re coming for our air. Deadline – Oct. 26.”
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