Welcome to Escondido Indivisible’s SPECIAL HOLIDAY EDITION of our Weekly Action Plan for the week of Feb. 13th, 2017!  We are at EscondidoIndivisible50@gmail.com, @EscInd50 on Twitter and Escondido Indivisible on Action Network.  The Indivisible Guide is available as an audiobook on SoundCloud, an introductory video on YouTube and as a document on its website (in English and Spanish).

From Damsels in Defiance: Send some love on Valentine’s Day

• Send a Valentine to Rep. Hunter on Valentine’s Day. A sample text, if you don't want to open the link:

To the Congressman/Senator in my life,

Roses are Red,

Violets are Blue,

Please stand up to your corporate interests

And investigate our President’s ties to Russian too

With Love,

Your constituent

(Your Name, and Address)

Now, back to our regular features!

Events

Events Calendars: Indivisible Show Up | San Diego County Progressive Events

• Constituents Rally at Duncan Hunter's Office in El Cajon

#ResistTrumpTuesdays: Join NC Indivisible on Tuesday, February 14, 2017 10:00 AM @ 1611 N. Magnolia Ave., Ste 310, El Cajon, CA 92020

• March in Solidarity with Immigrants on February 18, 2017, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM @ 1600 Pacific Hwy, San Diego, CA 92101-241

• Mayor Sam Abed’s State of the City on February 22, 2017, 8:00 AM @ California Center for the Arts, Escondido  

Also, if you’re free on February 19, 2017, 12:55 PM, Edwards San Marcos is showing George Takei’s Allegiance about the internment of Japanese Americans in WWII, relevant given the executive order that led to the internment camps and recent executive orders on Muslim ban and immigration enforcement: the Supreme Court’s controversial ruling on an executive order & Amicus Brief from Korematsu Center re: Muslim ban.

Future Events

• Feb 28, 2017 (TBC): Escondido Democratic Club’ Mixer for New and Interested Members-, Time & Location TBD

• March 9th, 2017, 6:00 PM: State Senator Joel Anderson's 's Escondido Community Coffee @ Veterans of Foreign Wars, John R. Simpson Post 1513, 230 E. Park Ave, Escondido, CA 92025 (Let us know if you’re attending!)

• March 10, 2017: Rise with Standing Rock and Native Nations March

• April 15, 2017, 10:00 AM: Trump’s Tax Day @ 1200 Third Ave, San Diego, California 92101

• Earth Day, April 22, 2017 March of Scientists on Washington

• April 29, 2017: People's Climate March

Past Events

• A few of our member attended #ResistTrumpTuesdays rally at Representative Hunter’s Temecula office and a quick briefing of the rally is at our Twitter.

• From Indivisible: Emergency Planning Call to Stand Against the Muslim and Refugee Ban 1/30/2017 & Ready to Resist: Training Call with MoveOn.org, Indivisible, and Working Families Party 1/22/17

Issues of the Week

Action Resources: Indivisible Action Calendar | the 50th | Daily Action | 5 Calls | The 65 | It’s Time To Fight | re:act | Weekly action checklist for Democrats, Independents, and Republicans of conscience

• Several appointments are up for confirmation in the Senate. Contact our senators to oppose:

  • Steve Mnuchin for Treasury Secretary: full senate vote scheduled on Monday, February 13, 2017 evening (Script)

  • Scott Pruitt for EPA Administrator (Script)

  • Rick Perry for Secretary of Energy (Case Against Perry)

  • Neil Gorsuch for Supreme Court Justice (Script)

• Two terrible roll-backs of Obama protections for the climate and environment need to be stopped.  We need to ask our MoCs to OPPOSE Senate  S. J. Res. 11 and House H.J. 69 in the House.

• ICE are conducting raids in at least 6 states, including California, and 160 in Southern CA were confirmed as being detained.  

  • Ask our MoCs to condemn these raids by using stories from individual families impacted by deportations for why you oppose the ICE raids: Guadalupe García de Rayos & Rosa Maria Ortega.

  • Circulate flyers and toolkits about ICE raids:

• From American Federation of Teachers: Prepare immigrant youth and families for an ICE raid & Deportation Defense Guide
• ICE Raids Toolkit
• Know Your Rights, What To Do If Immigration Agents (ICE) Are At Your Door & Sus Derechos Básicos Durante Visitas de ICE

Actions
Notes about action: our priority continues to be phone calls first.  But if you can’t do them or want to do more, then email or write. One issue per phone call, email or letter is the best!

Script: “I'm [______], a constituent from [zip code]. I'm [calling/writing]  to [Assemblymember/Mayor/Rep/Senator/Supervisor ______] to ....”

⏩ Dianne Feinstien (U.S. Senator)

CA | WA, D.C: (202) 224-3841

SD: (619) 231-9712 | 880 Front Street, Suite 4236, San Diego, CA 92101

senator@feinstein.senate.gov | Email Form | @SenFeinstein | FB SenatorFeinstein

⏩ Kamala Harris (U.S. Senator)

CA | WA, D.C.: (202) 224-3553

SD: (619) 239 - 3884 | 600 B Street, Ste 2240, San Diego, CA  92101

senator@harris.senate.gov | Email Form | @KamalaHarris | FB KamalaHarris

• Thank both of our senators for voting AGAINST Betty DeVos, Jeff Session & Tom Price

• Ask both of our senators to oppose the upcoming nominees Mnuchin, Pruitt, Perry, Gorsuch.  Senator Feinstien is in the Judiciary committee so ask her to thoroughly “vet” Gorsuch.

• Ask both of our senators to oppose S.J. Res 11, which would reverse a law that required oil and gas companies to repair or replace equipment that leaks methane into the atmosphere. The House has already passed this resolution and the Senate may vote on it Tuesday or Wednesday.

• Ask both of our senators to investigate Michael Flynn's Communications with Russia

• Ask both of our senators to oppose Steve Bannon’s Role on the National Security Council

• Ask both of our senators to continue to oppose the Health Care repeal

⏩ Duncan Hunter (U.S. Representative)

50th District | WA, D.C.: (202) 225-5672

El Cajon: (619) 448-5201 | 1611 N. Magnolia Ave., Ste 310, El Cajon, CA 92020

Temecula: (951) 695-5108 | 41000 Main St., Temecula, CA 92590

ca50ima-113@mail.house.gov | Email Form | @Rep_Hunter | FB DuncanHunter

• Ask him to hold a Town Hall when he is here on break next week.  You won’t want to miss his Chief of staff’s responses here http://eastcountymagazine.org/comment/37151

• Read these letter to the editors about him: Support the people or Trump? on the Muslim ban and Readers respond to report on Duncan Hunter's campaign spending.

• Immigration & Economy:

  • Ask him to condemn the ICE raids that have been tearing families apart.

  • Express your concerns that he’s not planning to request federal funds for states, cities and universities that have a policy to not comply with enforcement of federal immigration laws.

  • Ask him him to oppose the building of a U.S-Mexico border wall.  The border wall would cost taxpayers $21.6 billion.  Tell him that we taxpayers are not willing to have our tax money paid for the wall, and a border wall would negatively affect San Diego economy.

• Ask him to oppose H.J. 69, which would undo a law that banned non-subsistence hunting, including aerial hunting of wolves, in the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge. The House Rules Committee will be voting on this resolution Tuesday morning, and it could reach the House floor quickly.

• Ask him to to investigate Michael Flynn's Communications with Russia.

• Ask him to HR 634: The House Administration voted  6-3 to eliminate the independent, bipartisan Election Assistance Commission (EAC) tasked to improving the accessibility, accuracy and security of our election system (USA Today, The Nation). (Script)

• As postscript in your call/email/letter: express concerns that the President and White House are using their office to advertise for commercial brands.  We taxpayers did not pay with our tax money for the President and White House Office, e.g. Kellyanne Conway, to advertise Trump merchandises and businesses.

⏩ Joel Anderson (CA Senator)

38th District | Sacramento: (916) 651-4038

SM: (760) 510-2017 | 1 Civic Center Dr., Suite 320, San Marcos, CA  92069

El Cajon: (619) 596-3136 | 500 Fesler Street #201, El Cajon, CA 92020

senator.anderson@sen.ca.gov | Email Form | JoelAndersonCA | FB SenatorJoelAnderson

• Tell him we SUPPORT SB-54, THE CALIFORNIA VALUES ACT.  Senator Anderson is still circulating a petition on the news to oppose SB-54 (California Values Act) and profiling immigrants while doing (a method used to discriminate and led to the Chinese Exclusion Act), so call him to tell him that we support California becoming a Sanctuary State and protecting immigrants from racial profiling. Use recent news stories about ICE raids as reasons for your support of SB-54.

• Senator Anderson is highlighting the right of “free speech” in response to the cancellation and protesting of white nationalist Milo Yiannopoulos’s public speech at UC Berkeley (a method to suppress the right to protest).  Call him to tell him that we are concerned about the rise in hate speeches and crimes, especially against black and Muslim people in light of the shooting at Charleston and Québec. Use this report (pg. 5) as a reference of hate crime stats in California. Hate crime events involving a religious bias increased 49.6 percent from 127 in 2014 to 190 in 2015.

⏩ Marie Waldron (CA Assemblymember)

75th District | Sacramento: (916) 319-2075 | Escondido: (760) 480-7570 | 50 W. 5th Avenue, Suite 110, Escondido, CA 92025

assemblymember.waldron@assembly.ca.gov | Email Form | @stateassembly75 | FB MarieWaldronforStateAssembly

• Assemblymember Waldron is also highlighting the right of “free speech” in response to the cancellation and protesting of Milo Yiannopoulos’s public speech at UC Berkeley (a method to suppress the right to protest). Call her to tell her that we are concerned about the rise in hate speeches and crimes, especially against black and Muslim people in light of the shooting at Charleston and Québec. Use this report (pg. 5) as a reference of hate crime stats in California: Hate crime events involving a religious bias increased 49.6 percent from 127 in 2014 to 190 in 2015.

• She also stated the the people resisting are ‘paid protesters’. Call her and tell her you are not paid.  You are active because you care! Or mail her an invoice for hours that you’ve spent protesting.

⏩ Kristin Gaspar (SD Supervisor)

3rd District | (619) 531-5533 | 1600 Pacific Hwy, Room 335, San Diego, CA 92101 | kristen.gaspar@sdcounty.ca.gov | @kristingaspar

• We are very hopeful that Supervisor Gaspar will be sensitive to the issues we care about.  Before February 15th, urge Supervisor to show her support for sensible climate protection policies and ‘support the community energy feasibility study’.  Then the county will have info they need to decide how to move forward on energy policy in the best way.

⏩ Sam Abed (Mayor)

Escondido | (760) 839-4610 | 201 North Broadway, Escondido, CA 9202 | sabed@escondido.org | @mayorsamabed | FB EscondidoMayo

• Attend State of the City address to learn more about the Mayor.

• Tell him about your concerns about recent ICE raids and how you believe no one should fear deportation for visiting their family in the hospital or going to school

Other Organizations

• Escondido Democratic Club (@EscondidoDems | FB Escondido Democrats): Meet every 2nd Saturday each month & open to anyone interested in progressive ideas.  Join if you’re a Democrat or a progressive.

• Indivisible: Consider donating to the group, and follow other local’s group efforts to resist Trump:

  • Indivisible49

  • @IndivisibleSD

  • Indivisible North San Diego County

  • @SDIndivisible

  • Together We Will North County San Diego

• Let America Vote, to fight for voting rights.

• Your Guide to the Sprawling New Anti-Trump Resistance Movement

Other Links

• #StandIndivisible:

  • KPBS interviewed @SDIndivisible and @IndivisibleSD: Progressive Groups Aim To Resist Trump Policies With Tea Party Tactics

  • A Utah Congressman Faces the 'Resistance' in His Home State

• #NoDAPL: Army veterans return to Standing Rock to form a human shield against police.

• #DeleteShopify: Shopify’s Breitbart Fight Proves It: These Days, Tech Has to Take a Side

• #ResistTrump:

  • The big lesson of Trump's first 2 weeks: resistance works

  • Pod Save America Takes Brooklyn: Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, and Tommy Vietor (former Obama staffers) interviewed Mayor Bill de Blasio and Alex Wagner of CBS News.  Talks include Mayor de Blasio on recent executive orders on immigration and resisting Trump agenda.

  • The complete list of all 57 false things Donald Trump has said as president

  • Donald Trump’s Conflicts of Interest: A Crib Sheet

  • The Madness of King Donald

• Here is a great offering from 350.org:

Meeting these difficult times head on will take creativity and courage by the gigaton — which is why I want to share some lessons with you to strengthen ourselves for the work ahead. You can read the full article (compiled by our dear 350 colleague Daniel Hunter) and sign up to receive occasional tips at findingsteadyground.com. These are some simple things you can do right away:

1. Make a conscious decision about when and where you’ll get news — and what you’ll do afterwards.

2. Get together with people face-to-face to support each other and make sure we stay in motion.

3. Pray, meditate, or reflect on those you know who are being impacted by oppressive policies, and extend that love to all who may be suffering.

4. Read, listen to, or share a story about how others have resisted injustice.

5. Be aware of yourself as one who creates — to counteract passivity and a belief that we do not help shape the world.

6. Take a conscious break from social media.

7. Commit to sharing with others what’s helping you.