EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for February 27, 2023
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for February 27, 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.
Events
- Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 9:00 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 #18 on Identifying Additional Shelter Solutions To Address Homelessness In East County. 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.
Homelessness
- Read-up on The Majority of Homeless Dollars from Escondido’s General Fund Went to Cops.
- 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 County officials may build small houses for the homeless in Santee. Local leaders are not on board.
Safety & Environmental Regulations
- Read-up on NTSB: Overheated wheel bearing led to Ohio train derailment.
- 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.
Labor Rights
- Read-up on Alone and Exploited, Migrant Children Work Brutal Jobs Across the U.S., Child labor violations on the rise as some states look to loosen their rules and In a tight labor market, some states look to another type of worker: Children.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and urge them to pass legislation to increase protections against child labor violations and extend basic workplace protections for child workers in agriculture. See Next labor secretary should protect child farmworkers.
- In-Related News: read-up on Asylum seekers face family separation at border with new app.
Voting Rights
- Read-up on Voting Rights Act's private right of action is in danger.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and urge them to pass legislation to restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
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