EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for April 6, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for April 6, 2020! Stay safe and healthy!
- Tuesday, April 7, 2020, 9:00 AM: Board Of Supervisors Regular Meeting via teleconference. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at sandiegocounty.gov here Agenda includes item #04 on COVID-19 responses and proposed actions. Public comments may be made via eComment service or via email to publiccomment@sdcounty.ca.gov.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2020, 6:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting via teleconference. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Agenda includes item #17 on city enactment of state eviction moratorium. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Census 2020
- Share info about Census 2020: What Is the 2020 Census?, Ways To Respond, Questions Asked and Sample questionnaire in English and Spanish/Español.
- Take the Census 2020 if you have already received an official invitation from the Census Bureau (invitations started being mail mid-March).
Escondido City Council District 2
COVID-19 Local Response
- Read-up on Opinion | The Case for a Rent Moratorium.
- Read-up on Board Of Supervisors’ meeting agenda, item #04 on COVID responses and proposed actions and Escondido City Council’s meeting agenda, item #17 on city enactment of state eviction moratorium.
- Contact Supervisor Gaspar and ask for the county to enact a rent & mortgage moratorium in addition to an eviction moratorium previously passed.
- Contact Escondido City Council and express support for an eviction moratorium as well as ask for the city enact a rent & mortgage moratorium.
COVID-19 Federal Response
- Read-up on COMIC: Grocery Workers Relay Fears, Pleas And Pride As Pandemic Hits and Location Data Says It All: Staying at Home During Coronavirus Is a Luxury.
- Read-up on Denial and dysfunction plagued U.S. government as coronavirus raged, Trump administration's lack of a unified coronavirus strategy will cost lives, say a dozen experts and Trump administration ended coronavirus detection program.
- 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.
Trump Abuse of Power
- Read-up on Trump to Fire Intelligence Watchdog Who Had Key Role in Ukraine Complaint.
- Read-up on Opinion | Trump to Governors: I’d Like You to Do Us a Favor, Though, Trump’s Strategic National Stockpile looks empty amid ventilator, mask, and PPE shortage and Kushner Firm Built Coronavirus Website Trump Promised.
- Read-up on Trump’s Company Seeks to Ease Financial Crunch as Coronavirus Takes Toll and Trump Organization has laid off about 1,500 employees as pandemic hits business.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express your concerns about President Trump’s continuing abuse of power and his family’s conflicts of interest.
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