EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for July 6, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for June 29, 2020! Check Your Voter Registration (121 days until Election Day 2020) and take the Census 2020 if you haven’t already (Escondido has a 67.5% response rate so far). Stay safe and healthy!
Events
- Tuesday, July 7, 2020, 9:00 AM: Board of Supervisors Regular Meeting via teleconference. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at sandiegocounty.gov here Agenda includes item #04 on SDC COVID-19 response updates and item #12 on small businesses COVID-19 relief fund. Public comments may be made via eComment service or via email to publiccomment@sdcounty.ca.gov. See Voice Your Opinion.
- Thursday, July 9, 2020, 1:00 PM: Library Board of Trustees Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. No agenda posted as of Sunday, July 5th. Check the Library Board of Trustees Agendas for updates and audio recordings of previous LBoT meetings are available at escondido.org here.
Election 2020
- Read-up on Props To You, Californians: A Preview Of What’s On Your November Ballot.
- Read-up on Voter Suppression: November's Looming Election Crisis.
Trump Presidency
- Read-up on Trump's phone calls alarm US officials, from pandering to Putin to abusing allies and ignoring his own advisers and AP sources: White House aware of Russian bounties in 2019.
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on The US has 4% of the world's population but 25% of its coronavirus cases, The Week America Lost Control of the Pandemic and After months of being silenced, CDC is easing back into public view.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express support for additional COVID-19 relief proposed by the HEROES Act. Note that the HEROES Act has passed the House. See Indivisible's HEROES Act Summary.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Shut Out: Why Some Minority-Owned Businesses Can’t Get Financial Help During COVID-19 .
- Read-up on 'The Data Is Headed In The Wrong Direction;' San Diego Health Care Systems React To Rising COVID-19 Cases and How California went from success story to virus hot spot.
- Contact Supervisor Gaspar and Board of Supervisors and tell them that you support pausing the re-opening of San Diego County in light of rising COVID-19 cases. Supervisor Gaspar was quoted on July 2nd saying: “We need to protect the most vulnerable in our population, but we also cannot continue to `toggle' our economy [...] We can no more turn our economy on and off, than we can turn this virus on and off. We need to figure out a way to live with both. That is the new normal." But asking our community to “live with both” means asking us to risk our health and lives and to “live with” 387 COVID-19 related deaths in San Diego County, 6,334 in California and 129,676 in the United States alone so far.
- 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. Escondido currently has 652 total positive cases (which is 430.4 per 100k population and up 118 from last week) compared to our neighbors: San Marcos with 310 (up 92), Vista with 382 (up 96), Carlsbad with 235 (up 880), Rancho Santa Fe with 31 (up 88) and Poway with 99 (up 17).
- Note that in 7 days from June 28th to July 4th, San Diego County had 3,392 new positive cases, 152 new hospitalization cases, 31 new intensive care cases and 26 new death cases. See LA Times’ San Diego County coronavirus cases and California coronavirus cases.
Police Violence
- Read-up on San Diego Students March To Get Police Out Of Schools, Black Youth More Likely To Be Detained By San Diego Unified Police and Why Black Lives Matter Wants Police Out Of Schools.
- Contact the EUSD Board of Education and Superintendent and ask them to remove police presence from Escondido Unified schools (as Special Resource Officers).
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.
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