EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for August 26, 2019
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for August 26, 2019! 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.
Future Events
- Wednesday, September 4, 2019, 6:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025.
Housing
- Read-up on Grow the San Diego Way's Analysis of Real Housing Need Forecast and Stop Dismissing Concerns About the Risks of New Homes in Wildfire Zones. The new/old housing project proposal, Safari Highlands/Harvest Hills, is a prime example of the folly of putting residential housing in high wildlife zones. This project may be voted on by the city council before the end of the year. It makes no sense, will exacerbate traffic, put 1,000s of people at risk, and undo any progress we make in a climate plan.
- Contact SANDAG and ask them to consider the above information and fix the inflated the housing forecast that SANDAG has relied on.
Trump Impeachment
- Listen to The Report, Episode Six: Back Channels.
- Contact Rep. Hunter, Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and ask them to support H.Res.257 to begin investigating whether Trump should be impeached. See Demand the House Open an Impeachment Inquiry, Demand your member of Congress support Rep. Tlaib's Impeachment Resolution and Impeach Trump Now.
- In related news: read-up on How YouTube Radicalized Brazil and The Global Machine Behind the Rise of Far-Right Nationalism.
Immigration
- Read-up on Panel Rules Soap, Sleep Essential To Migrant Kids' Safety, The US won't vaccinate migrant children against flu at border camps and Migrant families could be indefinitely detained under new Trump rule,
- Contact Rep. Hunter, Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express concerns about Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau’s final rule to overturn the Flores settlement and detain migrant children and their families indefinitely. See Block the Indefinite Detention of Migrant Families. Note: The Trump administration decided to proceed with proposed rule to overturn the Flores settlement after the comments period ended in November 2018 and receiving 100,073 comments, many opposing the rule.
- In related news: read-up on The Administration Rushed on a Sweeping Immigration Policy. We Found Substantive, Sloppy Mistakes.
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