EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for July 24, 2023
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for July 24, 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.
Judiciary Reforms
- Read-up on Lawyers with supreme court business paid Clarence Thomas aide via Venmo and How Harlan Crow Cut His Taxes With Clarence Thomas Cruises.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass legislation to adopt a code of conduct for the Supreme Court such as S.325/H.R.927.
Reproductive Rights
- Read-up on Nebraska Teen Who Used Pills to End Pregnancy Gets 90 Days in Jail, Denied abortion for a doomed pregnancy, she tells Texas court: 'There was no mercy' and Nearly two years after Texas' six-week abortion ban, more babies are dying.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass legislation to “codify access to contraception into federal law” and abortion rights. Note that Representative Issa had previously praised the overturn of Roe vs. Wade and voted against codifying abortion rights. See The escalating MAGA attack on reproductive freedom and Oppose a National Ban on Abortion.
Voting Rights
- Read-up on A Black Man Was Elected Mayor in Rural Alabama, but the White Town Leaders Won’t Let Him Serve.
- Contact Assemblymember Maienschein and State Senator Jones and to urge them to pass legislation such as ACA-4 to “reinstate voting rights to people in prison on felony convictions”.
- 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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