EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for January 29, 2018
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for January 29, 2018! It’s okay if you can’t do everything on the plan. Pick 1 action every day or 3-5 actions for the week and commit yourself to doing them. Whatever your commitment, as President Obama said in his farewell speech: Believe in your ability to bring change. Show up, dive in, stay at it.
Events | SDC Events Calendar
Future Events
- Saturday, February 10, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM: Escondido Democratic Club’s General Membership Meeting at the Park Avenue Community Center (formerly Joslyn Senior Center), Auditorium Room, 210 E. Park Avenue, Ste. A, Escondido CA 92025.
- Saturday, February 17, 2018, 9:30 AM–1:00 PM: Super Saturday Monthly Canvass, a joint effort between the Escondido Democratic Club and Escondido Indivisible. Sign up at Super Saturday Monthly Canvass. ***Date Change***
- Friday-Sunday, February 23-25, 2018: California Democrats State Convention at San Diego Convention Center, 111 W Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA 92101.
Monday
- Read-up on The Weekly List: Week 63.
- Contact Senator Feinstein & Harris and thank them again for standing with Dreamers. Reiterate your support for a clean DREAM Act and a path for citizenship for Dreamers & Temporary Protected Status (TPS) recipients. Express concerns about the White House’s demands for a $25 billion border wall & a 50% cut to legal immigration. See The Trump Shutdown: What Was at Stake for Dreamers, TPS Holders and Our Country & Dream Hero Call Script.
Tuesday
- Contact Rep. Hunter and ask him to co-sponsor H.R.3654 (Special Counsel Independence Protection Act) which allows a special counsel only to be removed after judicial review or H.R.4669 (Special Counsel Integrity Act) which allows a special counsel to be removed only by a Senate-confirmed Attorney General, but also allow the removed special counsel to file for a judicial within 14 days of their removal. See Protect Mueller and the Russia Investigation.
- Contact Senator Feinstein & Harris and ask them to co-sponsor S.1735 (Special Counsel Independence Protection Act) which allows a special counsel only to be removed after judicial review or S.1741 (Special Counsel Integrity Act) which allows a special counsel to be removed only by a Senate-confirmed Attorney General, but also allow the removed special counsel to file for a judicial within 14 days of their removal.
Wednesday
- Read-up on Five ways financial laws could change in 2018 & Democrats Add Momentum to G.O.P. Push to Loosen Banking Rules.
- Contact Senator Feinstein & Harris and ask them to vote no on S.2155 (Economic Growth, Regulatory Relief, and Consumer Protection Act) which rolls back Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform. See Republicans Are Planning to Unravel Wall Street Reform & Stop the Sneaky Rollback of Dodd-Frank Protections.
Thursday
- Read-up on San Diego Supervisor Kristin Gaspar Running For Issa's Seat In Congress.
- Contact County Board of Supervisor Gaspar and ask her to introduce Senator Feinstein’s resolution “opposing Trump’s plan for new offshore drilling development and new oil and gas leases off the California coast.” See California vs. the feds over offshore drilling & Ventura County Board of Supervisors opposes expansion of offshore drilling.
Friday
- Read-up on How California lawmakers are preparing for more natural disasters & California Lawmakers Introduce Bills To Prepare For Future Natural Disasters.
- Contact Assemblymember Waldron and ask her to vote yes on AB-1877 which “requires the state to translate its emergency communications into the language other than English that is most spoken in an affected area.”
Saturday & Sunday
- Read-up on Living with the Muslim Ban & Stories from Puerto Rico.
- Read-up on Top White House staffers have not been granted final approval of their financial reports & Trump business ethics pledges left plenty room for profiting.
- Read-up on What Women Thought Of Trump Through Year One & Deep in Clinton country, voters stand by their candidate.
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