EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for June 24, 2019
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for June 24, 2019! 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.
Events | SDC Events Calendar
- Monday, June 24, 2019, 5:30 - 7:30 PM: SANDAG Presentation/Workshop on 5 Big Moves for Transportation at City Hall, Mitchell Room, 201 North Broadway, Escondido CA 92025. See Important Transportation and Climate Escondido meeting.
Transportation
- Read-up on 5 Big Moves from SANDAG, A Bold New Transportation Vision for San Diego Region and If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home?
- Attend SANDAG Presentation/Workshop on 5 Big Moves for Transportation at City Hall, Mitchell Room, 201 North Broadway, Escondido CA 92025. See Important Transportation and Climate Escondido meeting. The Five Big Moves is a chance for us to shift gears to transportation that is intelligent, informed, and forward-thinking. And amending TransNet allows us to prioritize those projects over projects that are decades-old, make our regional plan not compliant with state law, based on false information, and backwards-thinking.
- Contact SANDAG and Escondido City Council about thoughts on 5 Big Moves.
Impeachment & Government Accountability
- Read-up on Massive leak of Trump transition vetting documents shows "red flags" deliberations, Kellyanne Conway violated Hatch Act, says US Office of Special Counsel, Ivanka Trump Violated Hatch Act With MAGA Tweets, Watchdog Group Says,
- Contact Rep. Hunter, Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and ask them to support H.Res.257 to begin investigating whether Trump should be impeached. See Demand the House Open an Impeachment Inquiry, Investigating Trump and Holding Him Accountable and The Mueller Report Is an Impeachment Referral.
- In related news: read-up on E. Jean Carroll (journalist and advice columnist) accuses Donald Trump of sexual assault.
Immigration
- Read-up on Attorneys: Texas border facility is neglecting migrant kids, ‘There Is a Stench’: No Soap and Overcrowding in Detention Centers for Migrant Children, 4 Severely Ill Migrant Toddlers Hospitalized After Lawyers Visit Border Patrol Facility, Doctor compares conditions at immigrant holding centers to 'torture facilities', Asylum seekers spent 18 days in holding cells, video shows port of entry conditions and Trump administration still separating hundreds of migrant children at the border through often questionable claims of danger.
- Contact Rep. Hunter, Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and express concerns about continuing reports of inhumane treatment and separation of asylum-seeking families. Express your support for H.R.1069 (which prohibits unlicensed temporary emergency shelters for unaccompanied migrant children), S.388 (which improves resettlement process for unaccompanied migrant children), and the end of mass detention of immigrants. See Defund Hate and Demand Congress Act to End Abuses of Detained Immigrants.
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