EscInd: Action Plan for February 17, 2025
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s action plan for the week of February 17, 2025! 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
- Monday, February 17, 2025, 12:00 PM: National Day of Protest at City Hall, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA, 92025.
- Wednesday, February 19, 2025, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at Mitchell Room, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #12 on Interfaith Community Services Conditional Use Permit Modification, #13 on 2024 Omnibus Zoning Code Update and #14 on Annual Update On Mobile Home Park Rent Control Reporting. See Interfaith accepts new conditions to continue operations in Escondido and How Interfaith Squashed Its Beef with the City of Escondido. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.12milesout.com here (When a meeting is in session, a red "Live Streaming - City Council Meeting now in progress" button will be displayed at the top-right corner). Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Future Events
- Wednesday, February 26, 2025, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at Mitchell Room, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.12milesout.com here (When a meeting is in session, a red "Live Streaming - City Council Meeting now in progress" button will be displayed at the top-right corner). Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Actions
Trump Administration
- Read-up on "So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks and Trump Administration Is Still Freezing Funds Despite Court Orders.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Padilla and Senator Schiff and oppose the withholding of congress-approved funding of critical programs and proposed budget cuts of them. See Demand Your Republican Representative Reject Trump's Budget Sabotage and Tell Your Democratic Representative to Use Their Leverage Against the Trump-Musk Coup.
Healthcare
- Read-up on RFK Jr. confirmed as Trump's health secretary, over Democrats' loud objections and How changes to a CDC vaccine panel under Kennedy could reshape policy.
- Read-up on Stress and uncertainty as federal health funding system sputters, Staff at CDC and NIH are reeling as Trump administration cuts workforce, Urgent CDC data and analyses on influenza and bird flu go missing as outbreaks escalate, and Moving past repealing Obamacare, Republicans still plan major health care cuts.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Padilla and and Senator Schiff and ask them to protect Medicaid funding and coverage. See Protect Medicaid Funding.
Immigration
- Read-up on Four Years in a Day: Donald Trump’s Immigration Executive Orders: Tracking the Most Impactful Changes, Californians picked up in recent ICE raids include kids, volunteers and Boxed Up: A Portrait of an Immigrant Community Living Under Threat of Deportations.
- Read-up on Worried about ICE agents entering your community? Advocates say: ‘Know your rights’, ICE Watch Programs Can Protect Immigrants in Your Neighborhood and We asked all 58 California sheriffs about immigration enforcement under Trump. Here’s what they said.
- Read-up on Residents rally against immigration enforcement in Escondido, Increased ICE enforcement sparks fear, protests in North County, Hundreds protest Trump’s mass deportation plans in San Diego County, and Thousands of San Diegans take part in ‘A Day Without Immigrants’ protest.
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