EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for February 20, 2023
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for February 20, 2023! 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.
Homelessness
- Read-up on Interfaith readies to open new shelter for families in Escondido and Newly homeless population growing twice as fast as those finding housing.
- 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. Escondido’s cooperation with Interfaith means we will have ~85 shelter beds total this year. Escondido has 182 unsheltered people and 429 total people experiencing homelessness counted last year in 2022 Point-in-Time, and North County as a whole had “only 150 shelter beds entirely” last year vs. “about 2,000 individuals experiencing homelessness just in North County”.
- In-Related News: read-up on "Hunger cliff" looms as 32 states set to slash food-stamp benefits and SNAP benefits to be a flashpoint in Farm Bill debate.
LGBTQ+ Rights
- Read-up on California will try to enshrine right to same-sex marriage and 'A pivotal time': LGBTQ Task Force enters 50th year fighting blitz of anti-LGBTQ bills .
- Contact Assemblymember Waldron and State Senator Jones and ask them to support ACA-5 to “rescind Proposition 8” and “enshrine marriage equality in the state constitution” through a ballot measure.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass the Equality Act to “amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex, sexual orientation and gender identity”. The bill passed the House in 2019 and 2021 but the Senate failed to act on both times. See What Is The Equality Act? Anti-Discrimination Law Explained.
- In-Related News: read-up on #TBT Trans woman tells her side of the story in Santee.
Safety & Environment Regulations
- Read-up on What array of toxic chemicals leaked from the Ohio train derailment?, ‘32 Nasty:’ Rail Workers Say They Knew the Train That Derailed in East Palestine Was Dangerous and The East Palestine disaster raised public awareness of toxic spills, which are a disturbingly constant feature of U.S. capitalism.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass legislation for “improved brake standards” and other safety measures for railway and rail workers. See After the Ohio Derailment Disaster, the Rail Industry Can Do Better.
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