EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for June 29, 2020
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for June 29, 2020! Check Your Voter Registration (128 days until Election Day 2020) and take the Census 2020 if you haven’t already (Escondido has a 67.4% response rate so far). Stay safe and healthy!
Trump and His Admin Abuse of Power
- Read-up on Inside William Barr's Effort to Undermine N.Y. Prosecutors.
- Read-up on Lest We Forget the Horrors: A Catalog of Trump’s Worst Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes: The Complete Listing (So Far): Atrocities 1-759.
- Contact Senator Feinstein and Senator Harris and call for AG Barr and President Trump’s resignation.
- In-related news: read-up on Russia Secretly Offered Afghan Militants Bounties to Kill U.S. Troops, Intelligence Says and Russia offered Taliban-linked fighters bounties to attack British troops - as senior Tory MP seeks answers.
Federal COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on Coronavirus: How The CDC Lost Control Of The Pandemic and How the Virus Won.
- Read-up on Federal officials allowed distribution of COVID-19 antibody tests after they knew many were flawed, More than 1 million coronavirus stimulus checks went to dead people according to GAO and Trump administration asks Supreme Court to strike down Obamacare amid pandemic, recession.
- 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.
- In-related news: read-up on Coronavirus traces found in March 2019 sewage sample, Spanish study shows.
Local COVID-19 Response
- Read-up on COVID-19 Testing Plans Leave Out Assisted Living Facilities, COVID cases shoot past 400 as county shuts Escondido eatery for flouting health order, San Diego County COVID-19 cases continue to climb and As patience for public health restrictions wanes, businesses plead for relief.
- 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 524 total positive cases (up 112 from last week) compared to our neighbors: San Marcos with 218 (up 71), Vista with 286 (up 84), Carlsbad with 155 (up 39), Rancho Santa Fe with 23 (up 6) and Poway with 82 (up 17).
- Note that in 7 days from June 21st to June 27th, San Diego County had 2,540 new positive cases, 128 new hospitalization cases, 30 new intensive care cases and 23 new death cases. See LA Times’ San Diego County coronavirus cases and California coronavirus cases.
- In-related news: read-up on 'I Feel So Overwhelmed': COVID-19 And Police Violence Takes A Toll On Black Health Care Workers.
Police Violence
- Read-up on County Supervisors Approve Racial Justice, Law Enforcement Policy Package.
- Contact Supervisor Gaspar and Board of Supervisors and thank them for passing the Racial Justice and Law Enforcement Realignment package.
- Contact State Senator Jones and ask him to support AB 2054 which “will establish the Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems (C.R.I.S.E.S.) Act pilot grant program, to fundamentally improve emergency responses for vulnerable populations in California, by strengthening, expanding and promoting community-based responses to emergency situations”. AB 2054 passed the Assembly 78-0 on June 18, 2020. Assemblymember Waldron voted yes on AB 2054.
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