January 12, 2025

EscInd: Action Plan for January 13, 2025

Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s action plan for the week of January 13, 2025! Happy New Year! 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

• Wednesday, January 15, 2025, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #6 on Measure I Citizens Oversight Committee Interviews and Appointments. 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

Climate Change

• Read-up on Why Los Angeles, America's most fire-ready city, became overwhelmed by flames and Fire survivors feel forgotten.

• Read-up on How to help those affected by the California wildfires, Every day is now fire season. Let's get you ready for the next wildfire burning near you, Cheat sheet: Your very short guide to getting packed up right now to evacuate and Cheat sheet: A short guide to giving your home a fighting chance if you need to evacuate (written for LA County, but contain useful info for emergency preparation).

• Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Padilla and Senator Schiff and ask them to pass more legislation and funding to address climate change.

Criminal Justice

• Read-up on In California, Incarcerated Teenagers Help Fight Wildfires and ‘Essential’: nearly 800 incarcerated firefighters deployed as LA battles wildfire.

• Contact Assemblymember Patel and State Senator Jones and ask them to pass more legislation and funding to help improve conditions and make it more easier for incarcerated firefighters to continue their firefighting work after incarceration.

Homelessness

• Read-up on Oceanside locks in safe parking site and Homelessness services group makes up with North County leaders after months of tension.

• Read-up on Escondido sweeps homeless encampment near creek, no shelter beds available, Escondido declares emergency over homeless encampment in Escondido Creek, Escondido declares local emergency over impacts from creek homeless encampments and Escondido will spend millions of dollars to seal off a creek after a sudden encampment sweep.

• Contact the Escondido City Council and ask them to fund more emergency shelter beds and community-based services to meet the immediate needs of our community such as a Safe Sleeping Site Program similar to San Diego City, a Safe Parking Program similar to Encinitas, Oceanside or Vista and a Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement similar to La Mesa.

• In-Related News: read-up on The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweep, What I Learned Reporting on Homeless Encampment Removals, ‘Waiting List to Nowhere’: Homelessness Surveys Trap Black Men on the Streets, A Firsthand Account of What Homelessness in America Is Really Like and Trains, cars, drugs, floods: 495 homeless people died last year in San Diego County.

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.