EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for January 10, 2022
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for January 10, 2022! Happy New Year! 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
- Monday, January 10, 2022, 6:00 PM: Escondido Redistricting Commission Public Hearing in District 3 via Zoom or In-Person at East Valley Community Center, 2245 E. Valley Pkwy, Escondido, CA 92027. Community of Interests Feedback can be made online here. Redistricting information can be found here at escondido.org/independent-redistricting while the City’s Presentation on Redistricting is available here.
- Tuesday, January 11, 2022, 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 #14 on COVID-19 Reponse Update. 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, January 12, 2022, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #12 on Sandag Board Of Directors Representative. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
- Thursday, January 13, 2022, 6:00 PM: Escondido Redistricting Commission Public Hearing in District 4 via Zoom or In-Person at San Pasqual High School, 3300 Bear Valley Pkwy, Escondido CA 92025. Community of Interests Feedback can be made online here. Redistricting information can be found here at escondido.org/independent-redistricting while the City’s Redistricting Presentation is available here.
Future Events
- Tuesday, January 18, 2022, 6:00 PM: Escondido Redistricting Commission Public Hearing in District 1 via Zoom or In-Person at Washington Park Recreation Building, 501 N. Rose St., Escondido CA 92027. Community of Interests Feedback can be made online here. Redistricting information can be found here at escondido.org/independent-redistricting while the City’s Redistricting Presentation is available here.
- Thursday, January 20, 2022, 6:00 PM: Escondido Redistricting Commission Public Hearing in District 2 via Zoom or In-Person at San Pasqual High School, 3300 Bear Valley Pkwy, Escondido CA 92025. Community of Interests Feedback can be made online here. Redistricting information can be found here at escondido.org/independent-redistricting while the City’s Redistricting Presentation is available here.
Redistricting
- Read-up on Escondido Presentation on Redistricting and Escondido redistricting panel to hold series of public meetings
- Read-up on San Diego County supervisors size up, get to know their new districts, California redistricting: What to know about the final maps and New state voting maps create majority Latino congressional district in San Diego.
- Submit Community of Interests Feedback to the Escondido Independent Redistricting Commission. See our previous posts on Communities of Interest Input: How to Keep Communities from Being Split or Underrepresented During Redistricting and Redistricting Update.
Voting Rights & Democracy
- Watch Indivisible Update: Freedom to Vote Act, the Filibuster, and more! (~1 minutes 17 seconds)
- Read-up on Trump's 'Big Lie' endures and poses a threat to U.S. democracy and Here's where election-denying candidates are running to control voting
- Contact Representative Issa, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and urge them to pass legislation such as H.R.4/S.4, H.R.1/S.1 and S.2747 to restore and strengthen the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Note that Representative Issa voted no on H.R.1 & H.R.4 which passed the House but was blocked in the Senate by the filibuster. See Support Democracy Reform with Voting Rights Protections and Demand your Senator Fix the Filibuster to Pass Democracy Reform.
COVID-19 & Recovery
- Read-up on Fine City: On the Eve of Being Back on His Feet, He Was Gone and They Were the Pandemic’s Perfect Victims.
- Read-up on Ambulances forced to wait longer as COVID fills up emergency rooms, Extraordinary number of sick health care workers pushes hospitals to brink, and Hospitals Are in Serious Trouble.
- Comment on Item #14 of the Board of Supervisors Meeting and/or Contact Supervisor Lawson-Remer and express concerns about the rising COVID-19 positive cases and hospitalizations. Ask for more public health measures and resources to contain COVID-19 and help residents prevent or deal with COVID-19 infection, e.g. more accessible free home test kits & N95/K95 masks, more county walk-in testing locations, more county walk-in vaccine locations, etc. 7 of 13 COVID-19 surveillance triggers are in red/failing including for hospitalizations and community outbreaks.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass an inclusive recovery package under H.R.5376. Note that Representative Issa voted No on expanding child tax credits and universal preschool for children ages 3 and 4 among other “safety-net” expansions. See Indivisible's The Build Back Better Act, Explained and Winning an Inclusive Recovery in the Senate.
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