EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for July 20, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for July 20, 2020! Check Your Voter Registration (113 days until Election Day 2020) and take the Census 2020 if you haven’t already (Escondido has a 67.9% response rate so far). Stay safe and healthy!
Voting Rights
- Read-up on Rep. John Lewis fought for voting rights that are still threatened.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and ask them to pass H.R.4 to restore and extend key provisions of the Voting Rights Act. Note that H.R.4 has passed the House. See Support HR 4 to Restore Federal Protections Against Voter Suppression.
Postal Office Funding
- Read-up on Postal Service memos detail ‘difficult’ changes, including slower mail delivery. Analysts say the memos recast the USPS as a business rather than a government service.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express concerns about cost-cutting measures to USPS. Ask them to fund the USPS. See Tell Congress to Save the United States Post Office.
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Trump administration opposes new funds for testing, tracing and CDC in virus relief bill, Trump Administration Strips C.D.C. of Control of Coronavirus Data and Inside Trump’s Failure: The Rush to Abandon Leadership Role on the Virus.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express support for additional COVID-19 relief proposed by the HEROES Act and for continued funding of testing and tracing. Note that the HEROES Act has passed the House. See Indivisible's HEROES Act Summary.
- In-related news: read-up on Possible Conflicts Of Interest In Pandemic Work For Pence Staffer Marc Short.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Black San Diegans Received a Quarter of All Coronavirus-Related Citations and Inside The Final Days Of COVID-19, San Diego County Families Speak Out After Deaths.
- Contact the Mayor McNamara and the rest of Escondido City Council and express concerns about Escondido’s increased COVID-19 positive cases. Ask for more community health communications and education locally in Escondido about COVID-19. As of July 18, 2020, Escondido currently has 935 total positive cases (which is 612.2 per 100k population and up 151 from last week).
- Note that as of July 19, 2020, San Diego County had 157.2 per 100,000 case rate, 16 community outbreaks in a 7 day period and 7% case investigation rate over a 7-day period. See SDC’s COVID-19 Triggers Dashboard and Daily 7/19 Status Update, LA Times’ San Diego County coronavirus cases and California coronavirus cases.
- In-related news: read-up on How The Coronavirus Spread Through One Immigration Facility.
Police Violence
- Read-up on Federal Law Enforcement Use Unmarked Vehicles To Grab Protesters Off Portland Streets and 50 Days Of Protest In Portland. A Violent Police Response. This Is How We Got Here.
- Contact State Senator Jones and ask him to support AB 2054 which “will establish the Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems (C.R.I.S.E.S.) Act pilot grant program, to fundamentally improve emergency responses for vulnerable populations in California, by strengthening, expanding and promoting community-based responses to emergency situations”. AB 2054 passed the Assembly 78-0 on June 18, 2020.
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