EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for January 11, 2021
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for January 11, 2021! Indivisible National published Tell them that you’re concerned Democracy Guide: A Practical Guide for Fixing Our Democracy which outlined (1) Making the Most of a Democratic Trifecta: Four Lessons From 2009, (2) Fix Our Democracy and (3) Understand Your Member Of Congress, Understand Our Power. Take a moment to read the guide. Our resistance continues. Stay safe and healthy!
Events
- Tuesday, January 12, 2020, 9:00 AM: San Diego County Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting via teleconference. Agenda includes item #04 on SDC COVID-19 response update, #8 on declaring racism as a public health crisis and #10 on a collaborative, data-driven, and equitable response to COVID-19 in San Diego County (along with other frameworks for our future under items #8-12). 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 13, 2021, 6:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting via teleconference. Agenda includes item #16 on Future Agenda Item Policy and item #17 on Review of City Council Meeting Start Time. Deputy Mayor Morasco is attempting with a newly elected Republican majority to revert reforms made in 2019: (1) require again that any placed in the agenda must require two council members approval and (2) move council meetings from 6:00 p.m. back to 4:00 p.m. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
- Thursday, January 14, 2021, 1:00 PM: Escondido Library Board of Trustees Meeting via teleconference. Agenda includes Strategic Plan Committee Update and Library Metrics Update. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form. Audio recordings of previous LBoT meetings are available at escondido.org here.
Escondido City Council
- Comment on item #16 on Future Agenda Item Policy and item #17 on Review of City Council Meeting Start Time and oppose changes to (1) require again that any placed in the agenda must require two council members approval and (2) move council meetings from 6:00 p.m. back to 4:00 p.m. Deputy Mayor Morasco is attempting with a newly elected Republican majority to revert reforms made in 2019.
- Contact Escondido City Council and let them know that you oppose changes to (1) requiring again that any placed in the agenda must require two council members approval and (2) move council meetings from 6:00 p.m. back to 4:00 p.m. Deputy Mayor Morasco is attempting with a newly elected Republican majority to revert reforms made in 2019.
Trump Abuse of Power
- Read-up on Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in call legal experts say could amount to obstruction, White House Forced Georgia U.S. Attorney to Resign and White House pushed top federal prosecutor in Atlanta to resign: WSJ.
Trump Attempted Coup
- Listen to Race And The Capitol Riot: An American Story We've Heard Before (13 minutes).
- Read-up on They Say This Isn’t America. For Most Of Us, It Is and Black Capitol Police Officers Describe The Racism They Faced.
- Read-up on Inside the Capitol siege: How barricaded lawmakers and aides sounded urgent pleas for help as police lost control, Inside the Harrowing Day When the Capitol Went Into Lockdown and Analysis: Trump's rage ignites mob assault on democracy.
- Watch Politically Speaking San Diego: Chaos at the Capitol and read-up Reps. Jacobs, Vargas Describe A 'Horrifying Wednesday,' Call For Consequences For Trump.
- Read-up on The 147 Republicans Who Voted To Overturn Election Results, Editorial: Rep. Darrell Issa should be ashamed he voted to overturn Biden's election win over Trump, Readers React: Darrell Issa, other Trump apologists share some blame for Capitol chaos, and Politics Report: A Disturbing Week.
- Contact Representative Issa and condemn his vote to overturn our election results. Call him to impeach and remove President Trump from Office. Representative Issa voted to delegitimize and overturn a fair and free election. He voted to legitimize lies that incited a white supremecist, pro-Trump and right-wing extremist mob to violently lay seige on our capitol and democracy, to attempt assassinations on our congressional leaders and to stop the peaceful certification and transfer of power. Rep. Issa needs to resign. He needs to be censured. He needs to be expelled from Congress.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and urge her to impeach and remove President Trump from Office. President Trump needs to be held accountable for inciting a violent attempted coup at the Capitol and be disqualified from running for reelection. See Demand Your Representative Take Immediate Action to Remove Donald Trump from Office, Demand Your Senator Return to Congress to Support the Conviction and Permanent Disqualification of Donald Trump and Impeach and Remove Donald Trump.
- In related news: read-up on In an Instagram video, Escondido coffee-shop owner who was in Washington. D.C., during the riot this week says it's a time to fight and 'take our freedoms back', San Diego Coffee Shop Owner Receives Online Backlash After Reportedly Attending Washington DC Capitol Insurrection and American Legion removes Escondido post commander from national leadership role over Proud Boys affiliation.
COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Escondido Seeing Rise in COVID-19 Cases Within First Week of New Year and State says more than 100 residents sick with COVID-19 at Escondido nursing home. From December: ‘It's Called Freedom': Small Businesses Openly Defy State Shutdown Orders.
- Contact the Board of Supervisors and express support for the regional stay-at-home order. Tell them that you’re concerned about increased community spread of COVID-19 (we’re up at 53.4 case rate, 42 community outbreaks, and ICU capacity down at 15%).
- Contact the Escondido City Council and express concerns about the spread of COVID-19 in Escondido (we’re at 91 case rate and 9,119 total cases). Tell them that you're concerned about businesses not complying with public health orders. Ask them to rescind permits for businesses who are not complying with public health orders and for more strident enforcement against those businesses. See North County Restaurants Defy Closure Orders (scroll down).
Escondido Indivisible is a grassroots group dedicated to affecting changes in our local community. Our website is at EscondidoIndivisible.com, and our sister group is at Escondido Indivisible on Facebook. Send us links and comments at EscondidoIndivisible50@gmail.com and @EscInd50 on Twitter. And feel free to forward our newsletter to interested parties! If you were forwarded this letter, you can subscribe here, and check the archive here.
Don't miss what's next. Subscribe to Escondido Indivisible: