Call to Action, 10th-14th September

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATION

1. Important Bills Waiting for Gov. Brown’s Signature

Please call Governor Brown at (866) 377-6921 between 9am-5pm and urge him to sign these bills endorsed by ISB!

SB 10 ends money bail as we know it in California
SB 100 sets a 100 percent clean energy target by 2045
SB 822 saves net neutrality and equal access to the internet for all Californians
SB 834 and AB 1775 protect California’s coasts against any new offshore drilling
AB3131 limits purchases of military equipment by the police
SB 1041 and AB 2122 and ensure that low-income children on Medi-Cal receive lead-poisoning screening and that their parents are informed and educated about the dangers of lead
AB 2370 protects children in daycare facilities from exposure to lead-poisoned drinking water

STOP KAVANAUGH

2. Phone Bank Swing State Voters

Indivisible has shifts available for us to call constituents in Alaska, Maine, Indiana, West Virginia, and North Dakota, and ask that they urge their senators to oppose Kavanaugh’s nomination. Sign up to phone bank here. The Indivisible training webinar on how to phone bank is on Wednesday, September 12 at 4 pm PST. Sign up here.

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CLIMATE CHANGE

3. Stop Trump’s Proposed Rollback of CA Clean Car Standards

Oppose the rollback of key federal clean car standards and the elimination of California’s ability to set more stringent standards.

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Comment here to the EPA before Oct. 2

Sample Written Script:

I live in California and strongly oppose the proposed withdrawal of California’s ability to set pollution standards that are more stringent than federal standards. This ability has been in effect for 48 years, has never been withdrawn before. The state’s unique pollution problems are the result of geography and the movement of goods from California’s ports through the state by truck and rail to consumers across the country. It is not unreasonable for the rest of the country to support the previously issued standards which take California’s needs into account, since the country benefits from receiving the goods transported through the state.

The US transportation sector is the largest contributor of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the country, and vehicles are the largest source of air pollution. EPA’s duty to protect public health and welfare means taking urgent steps to reduce vehicle emissions, including GHGs, to the greatest extent possible. Failing to take the strongest possible action now will ensure escalated global warming and major loss of life and health. Global warming has already set in motion changes that will further accelerate warming. Increasing emissions cannot be justified based on science, cost, or available technology.

IMMIGRATION

4. Stop the Indefinite Detention of Immigrant Children

On Thursday, the Trump administration announced it is seeking to jail migrant children with their families indefinitely. Detaining children for more than 20 days is illegal, but the administration says it will terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement that has governed the detention of migrant children since 1997, claiming it would issue new regulations that “satisfy the basic purpose” of the Flores settlement.

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We have 60 days to register our comments here.

Sample Written Script: I strongly protest the Trump Administration’s plans to terminate the Flores Settlement Agreement. It typically takes several weeks for asylum seekers to pass a credible fear screening, and they can be detained even after passing such a screening — meaning that the new regulation being proposed by the Administration would ultimately result in families being held for months or possibly even years. The proposed regulations would also allow for the detention of families in facilities that have not been formally approved for licenses, thus reducing standards for care of children and families in immigration detention. This proposed change imposes unconscionable hardships on all immigrant children and families seeking asylum; people who have committed no crimes and who only seek protection in the United States. It is a grotesque abuse of human rights.