EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for August 6, 2018
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for August 6, 2018! It’s less than 93 days until the Primary Election on November 6, 2018. Be sure to confirm that you’re registered to vote at sdvote.com. If you’re not registered to vote, you can register at registertovote.ca.gov. The deadline is October 22, 2018. If you would like to request a vote-by-mail ballot, you can mail an request application to the Registrar Of Voters.
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Future Events
- Saturday, September 8, 20188, 10:00 AM - 2:00 PM: Rise for Climate March at Civic Center Plaza, City Hall, 202 C Street, San Diego, CA 92101.
Monday
- Read-up on The Weekly List: Week 90
- Read-up on Frontline Documentary Explores Impact Of Family Separation Policy and watch Separated: Children at the Border.
Tuesday
- Read-up on California Urges Resistance To Census Citizenship Question.
- Comment on U.S. Census Bureau's proposal to ask about citizenship on 2020 Census which is open for comments until today, Tuesday, August 7, 2018. See All Californians Count and Speak Out Against the Census Immigration Question.
Wednesday
- Read-up on Senate Democrats to end boycott, plan to meet with Kavanaugh later this month and The Partisan Battle Brett Kavanaugh Now Regrets.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Harris and ask them to block President Trump’s SCOTUS nomination, Justice Brett Kavanaugh. See Your Senators Are Home For Recess. Tell Them to #StopKavanaugh and #SaveSCOTUS, Why We Must Stop Kavanaugh From Becoming Trump’s Next Supreme Court Justice and Block Brett Kavanaugh for the US Supreme Court.
Thursday
- Read-up on Senators targeted in "widespread" hacking attempts by Russia, Senate intel committee grapples with social media's threat to democracy and Facebook finds ‘sophisticated’ efforts to disrupt elections.
- Contact Rep. Hunter and ask for tougher sanctions on Russia and for congressional hearings and legislations that will combat and protect future U.S. elections from foreign interference. See Mandate Paper Ballots to Protect Our Elections and Safeguard Our Elections with Mandated Online Political Ad Disclosure.
Friday
- Read-up on A Reader’s Guide to the Family Separation Case.
- Contact Rep. Hunter and ask him to support legislations such H.R.5950 (HELP Separated Children Act), S.2468 (Fair Day in Court for Kids Act of 2018) and S.3036 (Keep Families Together Act) to “strengthen protections for immigrant families while they are in ICE custody”. See Family Separation: Trump’s Cruel Immigration Policy.
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