EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for July 27, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for July 27, 2020! Check Your Voter Registration (~99 days until Election Day 2020) and take the Census 2020 if you haven’t already (Escondido has a 68.2% response rate so far). Stay safe and healthy!
Immigration
- Read-up on AP Exclusive: Migrant kids held in US hotels, then expelled. Excerpt: “At least two 1-year-olds were held for three days. But some young children, including 3- to 5-year-olds, were detained for two weeks or longer. One 5-year-old was detained for 19 days in the McAllen hotel.”
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express concerns about continuing reports of inhumane treatment of children seeking asylums in the U.S.
Postal Office Funding
- Read-up on Critics Say Changes To USPS May Completely Transform The Post Office, Trump-appointed USPS Postmaster General plans to slow mail delivery and Trump's new postmaster general could corrupt a key institution ahead of Election Day.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and ask them to support H.R.2382 and S.2965 to repeal the requirement for the USPS to “pre-fund retirement health care costs for 75 years into the future” which had placed an undue burden on the USPS. See Demand the Federal Government Support the United States Postal Service and Tell Congress to Save the United States Post Office.
Voting Rights
- Read-up on As Concerns About Voting Build, The Supreme Court Refuses To Step In.
- Contact State Senator Jones and ask him to support AB 646 which will restore the right to vote for people on parole if voters approve Proposition 17 in Nov. 2020. It is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Elections and Constitutional Amendments Committee on Tuesday, August 4, 2020.
- 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.
- In-related news: read-up on [Escondido] Proposal to put term limits measure on ballot fails.
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on The crisis that shocked the world: America’s response to the coronavirus and US Covid-19 coronavirus hospitalizations surge to peak.
- Read-up on End of $600 Unemployment Bonus Could Push Millions Past the Brink, $600 Weekly Unemployment Benefit Ends, Sparking Fears Of Evictions and The Eviction Ban Worked, but It’s Almost Over. Some Landlords Are Getting Ready.
- 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 Trump’s Request of an Ambassador: Get the British Open for Me and Spin, deride, attack: How Trump’s handling of Trump University presaged his presidency.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Chicano Federation: County's COVID-19 Outreach To Latinos Lacks Urgency.
- 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 25, 2020, Escondido has reached 1,115 total positive cases (which is 730 per 100k population and up 180 from last week).
- Note that as of July 26, 2020, San Diego County had 242.4 per 100,000 case rate, 11 community outbreaks in a 7 day period and 10% case investigation rate over a 7-day period. In the last 2 weeks since July 11th, we have reported new 111 deaths, 82 ICU and 339 hospitalization cases in SDC. See SDC’s COVID-19 Triggers Dashboard and Daily 7/26 Status Update, LA Times’ San Diego County coronavirus cases and California coronavirus cases.
- In-related news: read-up on How to Understand COVID-19 Numbers.
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