EscInd: Action Plan for April 22, 2024
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s action plan for the week of April 22, 2024! Pick an action or two and commit yourself to doing them. As President Obama said in his farewell speech: Believe in your ability to bring change. Show up, dive in, stay at it.
Events
Saturday, April 27, 2024, 08:30 - 11:30: City of Escondido Arbor Day Tree Planting at House of Prayer Lutheran Church, 795 N. Rose Street, Escondido, CA 92027. Sign-up at the Volunteer Event Registration.
Future Events
Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Thursday, May 9, 2024, 3:00 PM: Escondido Library Board of Trustees Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form. Audio recordings of previous LBoT meetings are available at escondido.org here.
Actions
Election 2024
Plan to vote. The Presidential Election will be on November 5, 2024 which will be ~198 days from now. Register to vote if you’re eligible to vote, check your voter registration, sign-up to track your mail ballot and plan to vote. Information is not available yet, but our Escondido municipal election will include District 3 and 4.
Read-up on A crush of lawsuits over voting in multiple states is creating a shadow war for the 2024 election.
Homelessness
Read-up on Escondido’s Inspiration for New Homelessness Policy? Huntington Beach and What the Supreme Court case on tent encampments could mean for homeless people.
Contact the Escondido City Council and ask them to do more to address the immediate needs of our community, such as, creating a Safe Parking Program similar to Encinitas and Vista and a Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement similar to La Mesa.
In Brief: Escondido City Council adopted a policy in February that “rejects Housing First and calls for a “public safety-first” approach” to addressing homelessness. Escondido at last count had about ~304 unhoused residents in 2023, but only ~85 shelter beds then and now maybe only ~49 after the city council had denied funding for one of two homelessness shelters. Focusing on enforcing code ordinances and criminalizing homelessness is not meeting the immediate needs of our community for emergency shelters and affordable housing.
Reproductive Rights
Read-up on The history of Arizona’s 1864 near-total abortion ban and Texas, Idaho abortion bans test against federal emergency medicine rule.
Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Butler and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass legislation to codify abortion, contraception and reproductive rights into federal laws such as H.R.782, H.R.3420 and H.R.4303. Note that Representative Issa had previously praised the overturn of Roe vs. Wade and voted against codifying abortion rights. See Codify Abortion Rights and Indivisible's Abortion & Reproductive Freedom.
Escondido Indivisible is a grassroots group dedicated to affecting changes in our local community. Our website is at EscondidoIndivisible.com. Send us links and comments at EscondidoIndivisible50@gmail.com. And feel free to forward our newsletter to interested parties! If you were forwarded this letter, you can subscribe here, and check the archive here.