EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for April 13, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for April 13, 2020! 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. Stay safe and healthy!
Census 2020
- Share & take the Census 2020. 51% households have responded in Escondido.
COVID-19 Local Response
- Read-up on Escondido Temporary Eviction Moratorium FAQs & Economic Disruptions From Coronavirus Hard On San Diego Tenants And Landlords.
- Contact Escondido City Council and thank them for enacting a temporary local eviction moratorium. Ask them to consider enacting a rent & mortgage moratorium as well. See Opinion | The Case for a Rent Moratorium.
COVID-19 Federal Response
- Read-up on Trump leaves trail of unmet promises in coronavirus response and He Could Have Seen What Was Coming: Behind Trump’s Failure on the Virus.
- Read-up on Trump removes independent watchdog for coronavirus funds, upending oversight panel & Trump Removes Glenn Fine As Oversight Leader Of Congressional Coronavirus Bill.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and urge them to pass additional relief for COVID-19. See Urge Congress to Pass Additional Coronavirus Relief Measures, What To Tell Your Members of Congress to Do About Coronavirus and People's Bailouts.
2020 Election
- Read-up on Wisconsin Primary Recap: Voters Forced to Choose Between Their Health and Their Civic Duty and Why Wisconsin Republicans Insisted on an Election in a Pandemic.
- Read-up on Vote-by-Mail Gains Momentum, But It’s Not Fast, Cheap, or Easy and Coronavirus threatens the November election. Can vote by mail save it?
- Read-up on The US post office needs a coronavirus bailout and White House rejects bailout for Postal Service battered by coronavirus.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and tell them that you support legislation such as S.3529 (which will “establish contingency plans for the conduct of elections for Federal office in response to national disasters and emergencies”) as well as include an emergency relief fund for the postal service and election protection. Both Senator Feinstein & Harris are co-sponsors of S.3529. See Demand Your Senators Ensure Safe, Secure Elections During the COVID-19 Outbreak.
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