June 30, 2024

EscInd: Action Plan for June 30, 2024

Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s action plan for the week of June 30, 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

Future Events

• Wednesday, July 10, 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, July 11, 2024, 6:00 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. 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 How election conspiracy theories tore apart this remote Northern California county.

• Read-up on Californians will decide — in 2024 — whether to ban slavery. What will the measure do?

Reproductive Rights

• Read-up on She had a miscarriage, and says a [San Diego] CVS wouldn’t give her a prescribed abortion pill and What two years without Roe looks like, in 8 charts.

• 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.

Homelessness

• Read-up on Escondido Passes New Public Camping Ban Ahead of U.S. Supreme Court Decision, Escondido closes $11.3 million budget gap, approves user fee hike, U.S. Supreme Court Says Cities Can Criminalize Sleeping Outdoors, California homeless camps: Supreme Court OKs a crackdown and San Diego leaders have mixed reactions to Supreme Court’s homelessness ruling.

• Contact the Escondido City Council and oppose criminalizing homelessness, asking 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 or Vista and a Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement similar to La Mesa.

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.