EscInd: Action Plan for June 3, 2024
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s action plan for the week of June 3, 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
- Wednesday, June 5, 2024, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #8 on Community Survey Results and Item #10 on Capital Improvement Program Budget Status. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Future Events
- Thursday, June 13, 2024, 4:00 PM: Escondido Library Board of Trustees Special 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.
- Wednesday, June 19, 2024, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda may include LS&S Management Agreement. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Actions
Election 2024
- Plan to vote. The Presidential Election will be on November 5, 2024. 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 What was Trump convicted of? Details on the 34 counts and his guilty verdict, Donald Trump is found guilty in hush money case and Donald Trump found guilty in New York hush money trial.
- Read-up on For the Women Who Accused the Trump Campaign of Harassment, It’s Been More Harassment and Trump supporters try to dox jurors and post violent threats after his conviction.
Judiciary Reforms
- Read-up on Martha-Ann Alito told The Post in 2021 that flag was ‘signal of distress’, Inside the Clash That Prompted the Alitos’ Upside-Down Flag, Neighbors say Alitos used security detail car to intimidate them after sign dispute and Jamie Raskin: How to Force Justices Alito and Thomas to Recuse Themselves in the Jan. 6 Cases.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Butler and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass legislation to enforce a code of conduct for the Supreme Court (see previous proposed S.325/H.R.927) and expand SCOTUS such as S.1616/H.R.3422. See Demand Your Representative Cosponsor the Judiciary Act of 2023 and Demand your Senator Cosponsor the Judiciary Act of 2023.
Homelessness
- Read-up on Homelessness count increases by 3% from last year, Point-in-Time Count reveals, Homelessness Spikes Again in San Diego County and Why North County Cities Saw Big Increases in Homelessness.
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In Brief: San Diego County Regional Task Force on Homelessness (RTFH) reports 549 residents in Escondido who are experiencing homelessness in 2024, up from 488 or 13% increase from 2023. Of which, 401 are unsheltered, up from 304 or 32% increase from 2023 and the highest unsheltered population in North County.
Escondido currently reports about 126 emergency shelter beds in inventory which is not enough to meet the immediate needs of our community. The Escondido City Council had previously denied funding for one of two homelessness shelters in Escondido and adopted a policy that rejects Housing First and calls for a “public safety-first” approach to addressing homelessness.
- 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-Related News: read-up on Oceanside’s Sales Tax Measure Brings in Millions Each Year. Here’s Where It’s Going.
Reproductive Rights
- Read-up on New rules are in the works about abortion bans in Texas. Almost nobody's happy. and The abortion debate is headed to the ballot box. Here's where voters will decide.
- 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.
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