EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for August 3, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for Aug. 3, 2020! Check Your Voter Registration (92 days until Election Day 2020) and take the Census 2020 if you haven’t already (Escondido has a 68.7% response rate so far). Stay safe and healthy!
Events
- Tuesday, Aug. 4, 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 #02 on SDC COVID-19 response update. Public comments may be made via eComment service or via email to publiccomment@sdcounty.ca.gov. See Voice Your Opinion.
Voting Rights
- Read-up on John Lewis: Together, You Can Redeem the Soul of Our Nation and watch 'What A Gift John Lewis Was': Obama Eulogizes His Friend And Hero.
- Read-up on Does The Voting Rights Act Have A 2nd Chance? and Voting Rights Act 55th anniversary: Minority voter suppression remains.
- Contact State Senator Jones and ask him to support AB 646 which will restore the right to vote for people on parole if voters approve Proposition 17 in Nov. 2020. It is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee on Tuesday, August 4, 2020.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and ask them to pass H.R.4 to restore and extend key provisions of the Voting Rights Act. Note that H.R.4 has passed the House. See Support HR 4 to Restore Federal Protections Against Voter Suppression.
Postal Office Funding
- Read-up on Postal Service backlog sparks worries that ballot delivery could be delayed in November, Mail Delays Fuel Concern Trump Is Undercutting Postal System Ahead of Voting, and USPS Plans to Slash Hours at Many Post Offices, Hoping to Save A Buck.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and ask them to support H.R.2382 and S.2965 to repeal the requirement for the USPS to “pre-fund retirement health care costs for 75 years into the future” which had placed an undue burden on the USPS. See Demand the Federal Government Support the United States Postal Service and Tell Congress to Save the United States Post Office.
Police Violence
- Read-up on Some Want Police Out Of Mental Health Calls, But How Would That Work?
- Read-up on Protesters Gather In La Mesa to Demand Justice For Women of Color and Arrest Rates For Latinx Students Decline, But SD Unified Students Still Call For Defunding Police.
- Contact State Senator Jones and ask him to support AB 2054 which “will establish the Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems (C.R.I.S.E.S.) Act pilot grant program, to fundamentally improve emergency responses for vulnerable populations in California, by strengthening, expanding and promoting community-based responses to emergency situations”. AB 2054 passed the Assembly 78-0 on June 18, 2020.
- Contact the EUSD Board of Education and Superintendent and ask them to remove police presence from Escondido Unified schools (as Special Resource Officer).
- In-related news: read-up on CBP Provided Munitions San Diego Sheriff's Department Fired At Protesters.
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express support for additional COVID-19 relief proposed by the HEROES Act and for continued funding of testing and tracing. Note that the HEROES Act has passed the House. See Indivisible's HEROES Act Summary.
- In-related news: read-up on Deutsche Bank Opens Review Into Personal Banker to Trump and Kushner and Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner earned at least $36 million in outside income last year, new disclosures show.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Covid-19 in San Francisco: How Trump hurt the city’s war on coronavirus.
- Read-up on Look At San Diego County COVID Deaths By ZIP Code Reveals Huge Disparity, As Moratoriums End, An Eviction Crisis Looms Over San Diego County and July is now the deadliest month of the pandemic in San Diego County.
- Contact the Mayor McNamara and the rest of Escondido City Council and express concerns about Escondido’s increased COVID-19 positive cases. Ask for more community health communications and education locally in Escondido about COVID-19. As of July 25, 2020, Escondido has reached 1,258 total positive cases (which is 823.6 per 100k population and up 143 from last week).
Escondido Indivisible is a grassroots group dedicated to affecting changes in our local community. Our website is at EscondidoIndivisible.com, and our sister group is at Escondido Indivisible on Facebook. Send us links and comments at EscondidoIndivisible50@gmail.com and @EscInd50 on Twitter. 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.
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