EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for June 25, 2018
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for June 25, 2018! It’s okay if you can’t do everything on the plan. Pick 1 action every day or 3-5 actions for the week and commit yourself to doing them. Whatever your commitment, as President Obama said in his farewell speech: Believe in your ability to bring change. Show up, dive in, stay at it.
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- Saturday, June 30, 2018, 11:00 AM: Families Belong Together Rally Encinitas at Swami’s State Park, 1298 S Coast Hwy 101, Encinitas, CA 92024.
- Saturday, June 30, 2018, 11:00 AM: Families Belong Together Rally San Diego at Waterfront Park, 1600 Pacific Hwy, San Diego, CA 92101.
Monday
- Read-up on The Weekly List: Week 84.
- Read-up on At Least 5,000 Protesting Migrant Family Separation Downtown and Thousands march downtown against separating families caught at border.
Tuesday
- Read-up on Family Separations at the Border, an FAQ and Family separation at the border: a visual explainer.
- Contact Rep. Hunter and ask him to vote no on legislations such as Rep. Paul Ryan’s immigration bill which restricts legal immigration and/or allows immigrant children to be detained indefinitely. Noted that Rep. Hunter voted yes on H.R.4760, and he released a statement failing to address how a “zero-tolerance” policy has caused family separations: California lawmakers react to administration's 'zero-tolerance' policy. See Compromise immigration bill: House GOP delays their much-anticipated DACA bill vote, Paul Ryan’s Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Family Immigration Bills and Family Separation: Trump’s Cruel Immigration Policy.
Wednesday
- Read-up on 500 migrant kids have been reunited with their parents. More than a thousand are still caught in the system, Immigrant children forcibly injected with drugs, lawsuit claims and Migrant children sent to shelters with histories of abuse allegations.
- Contact Rep. Hunter and ask him to support legislations such H.R.5950 (HELP Separated Children Act), S.2468 (Fair Day in Court for Kids Act of 2018) and S.3036 (Keep Families Together Act) to “strengthen protections for immigrant families while they are in ICE custody”.
Thursday
- Read-up on Report says Camp Pendleton slated to house up to 47,000 migrants in temporary detention.
- Contact Senator Harris and thank her for touring the Otay Mesa Immigration and Detention Facility. Tell her that you continue to support legislations which reunifies separated families (S.3036) and “strengthens protections for immigrant families while they are in ICE custody” (S.2468). See Senator Harris 'Heartbroken' After Immigration Detention Center Visit.
Friday
- Contact Assemblymember Waldron and ask her to support SB-974, which “extends Medi-Cal to all those eligible regardless of immigration status”, when it goes to the general floor for a vote. Assemblymember Waldron voted no when the bill came up at hearing at the Assembly Health Committee on June 19, 2018.
- Contact State Senator Anderson and ask him to support AB-3, which “raises age to 21 for buying a gun and prohibits anyone from buying more than one gun per month”, when it goes to the general floor for a vote. Senator Anderson voted no when the bill came up for a hearing in the Senate Public Safety Committee on June 19, 2018.
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