EscInd: Weekly Action Plan for March 6, 2023
Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s weekly action plan for March 6, 2023! 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
- Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 5:00 PM: Escondido City Council Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #16 on Council Ad-Hoc Subcommittee On Homelessness. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form.
- Thursday, March 9, 2023, 2:00 PM: Escondido Library Board of Trustees Meeting at City Hall Council Chambers, 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025. Agenda includes Item #6 on Developing A Plan For A New Library and Item #7 on Having A Social Worker Located In the Library. Live broadcast of the meeting will be at escondido.org here. Public comments may be made via Public Comment Form. Audio recordings of previous LBoT meetings are available at escondido.org here.
Homelessness
- Read-up on Escondido considers ad hoc committee on homelessness and from last week, The Majority of Homeless Dollars from Escondido’s General Fund Went to Cops.
- Contact the Escondido City Council and ask them to do more to address the immediate needs of our community, such as, creating a Safe Parking Program similar to Encinitas and Vista and a Homeless Outreach and Mobile Engagement similar to La Mesa. Escondido’s cooperation with Interfaith means we will have ~85 shelter beds total this year. Escondido has 182 unsheltered people and 429 total people experiencing homelessness counted last year in 2022 Point-in-Time, and North County as a whole had “only 150 shelter beds entirely” last year vs. “about 2,000 individuals experiencing homelessness just in North County”.
- In-Related News: read-up on Pandemic food assistance that helped reduce hunger has ended and CalFresh emergency allotments are ending.
Labor Rights
- Read-up on San Diego wage theft reports rebound and CA Domestic workers renew campaign for safety bill.
- Contact Assemblymember Maienschein and State Senator Jones and ask them to pass SB-686 to extend workplace safety law to domestic workers.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass H.R. 20 and S.567 to strengthen worker rights to organize. See Support Workers Right to Organize: Support the PRO Act.
Reproductive Rights
- Read-up on California is a haven for reproductive rights, but anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers still thrive and Walgreens won't distribute abortion pills in states where Republican officials have threatened legal action — including some places where abortion is still legal and available.
- Contact Representative Issa, Representative Peters, Senator Feinstein and Senator Padilla and ask them to pass legislation to “codify access to contraception into federal law” and abortion rights. Note that Representative Issa had previously praised the overturn of Roe vs. Wade and voted against codifying abortion rights. See Oppose a National Ban on Abortion.
- In-Related News: read-up on Medicaid clawbacks collect $700M a year from poor and middle-class Americans.
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