EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for December 4, 2023
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for December 4, 2023! Pick an action or two and commit yourself to doing them. In addition, it’s almost the end of the year and an election year begins. The Presidential Primary Election will be on March 5, 2024 and ~93 days away. Check your voter registration and register to vote if you’re eligible to vote.
Events
- Tuesday, December 4, 2023, 10:00 AM: San Diego County Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting at Board Of Supervisors North Chamber Room 310, 1600 Pacific Highway, Room 402, San Diego, CA 92101. Agenda includes Item #30 on Enhancing Humanitarian Emergency Response And Relief. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at sandiegocounty.gov here. Public comments may be made via eComment service or via email to publiccomment@sdcounty.ca.gov. See Voice Your Opinion.
- Wednesday, December 6, 2023 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #18 on City Council Compensation. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
Escondido City Transparency
- Read-up on Escondido changes policy for online public comments and Escondido City Council ends practice of reading letters aloud.
- Contact the Escondido City Council and ask to reinstate the practice of reading public comments aloud.
- In-Related News: read-up on Racist Concerns Against Escondido City Council Member.
- In-Related News: read-up on Escondido schools quietly removed books, shut down libraries and Escondido Union pulls two ‘banned books’ after parent's complaint.
Judiciary Reforms
- Read-up on Justice Thomas’s R.V. Loan Was Forgiven, Senate Inquiry Finds, The Supreme Court Has Adopted a Conduct Code, but Who Will Enforce It?, Supreme Court adopts a code of ethics for the first time and Subpoenas for Harlan Crow, Leonard Leo Approved by Senate Judiciary in SCOTUS Probe.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Butler and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass legislation to enforce a code of conduct for the Supreme Court (see previous proposed S.325/H.R.927) and expand SCOTUS such as S.1616/H.R.3422. See Demand Your Representative Cosponsor the Judiciary Act of 2023 and Demand your Senator Cosponsor the Judiciary Act of 2023.
Reproductive Rights
- Read-up on Indivisible's Abortion & Reproductive Freedom.
- Read-up on More than 40 California hospitals closed maternity wards in a decade. Is yours one of them? And Maternity wards across California are closing.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Butler and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass legislation to codify abortion, contraception and reproductive rights into federal laws such as H.R.782, H.R.3420 and H.R.4303. Note that Representative Issa had previously praised the overturn of Roe vs. Wade and voted against codifying abortion rights. See Codify Abortion Rights and Indivisible's Abortion & Reproductive Freedom.
Homelessness
- Read-up on As Homelessness Worsens, Cities Are Grappling with Their Response, The Farmworkers Who Live in a Carlsbad Homeless Shelter and Overnight parking for homeless people proposed for Oceanside.
- Contact the Escondido City Council and ask them to do more to address the immediate needs of our community, such as, creating a Safe Parking Program similar to Encinitas and Vista and a Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement similar to La Mesa.
- In-Related News: read-up on One in three San Diegans can’t afford basic needs, new report finds and Food insecurity is on the rise.
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