Weekly Actions: Week 10

General Information

• Petition – tell the USGA and the LPGA to move the Women’s Open from Trump’s golf course:
  • https://act.credoaction.com/sign/LPGA_Trump
• Petition – from the “let’s not forget to put pressure on the sponsors” department, Tell KitchenAid to refuse to sponsor future USGA and LPGA tournaments until they move the 2017 Women’s Open from Donald Trump’s golf course:
  • https://act.weareultraviolet.org/sign/kitchenaid_usga/
• Petition – don’t cut Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding:
  • http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/585/365/510/

Vashon-Activism (get local – join a team)

• Vashon Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ):
  • https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=vashon%20surj%20-%20showing%20up%20for%20racial%20justice

• Call or Write Gov’s Jay Inslee, Kate Brown and Jerry Brown for their joint statement on the Clean Power Plan:
  • Last week, governors along the West Coast issued a joint statement supporting the Clean Power Plan – a policy put in place by President Obama to initiate a national transition away from coal powered-electricity – in anticipation of action by President Trump that would either withdraw or rewrite the plan.
  • The statement takes a stand against the president possibly weakening standards that protect air quality and reduce carbon emissions.
  • “Any attacks on the Clean Power Plan would move our nation in the wrong direction and put American prosperity at risk. Climate change is one of our greatest threats, from more wildfires threatening our homes and communities to ocean acidification rocking our shellfish industry to drought hurting our farmers,” part of the statement reads. “Too much is at stake – from our health and safety to our jobs and livelihoods – for us to move backwards.”
    • Jay Inslee: Office of the Governor, PO Box 40002, Olympia, WA 98504-0002 / Phone: 360-902-4111
    • Kate Brown: Governor Kate Brown, State Capitol Building, 900 Court Street NE, 160, Salem, OR 97301 / Phone: (503) 378-4582
    • Jerry Brown:  Governor Jerry Brown, c/o State Capitol, Suite 1173, Sacramento, CA 95814 / Phone: (916) 445-2841
• Mayor Ed Murray, and others, for suing the Trump administration to preserve Sanctuary City rights:
  • “Seattle will argue that an executive order by President Donald Trump violates the Constitution by trying to make local governments enforce federal immigration law.”
  • Source:  http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/politics/seattle-sues-trump-administration-over-sanctuary-cities/?utm_source=The+Seattle+Times&utm_campaign=c846202ede-Morning_Brief_03_30_2017&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5beb38b61e-c846202ede-122610697
  • Praise:
    • Write or call Mayor Ed Murray:  PO Box 94749, Seattle, Wa  98124-4749, Phone: 206-684-4000
    • Write or call Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes:  701 5^th Ave, Suite 2050, Seattle, Wa  98104-7097 / Phone: 206-684-8200
    • Encourage King County to join the lawsuit:  Write or call King Co Executive Dow Constantine:
      • King Co Chinook Bldg, 401 5th Ave, #800, Seattle, Wa  98104 / Phone:  206-263-9600

View this weeks events!

Electoral College Repeal

• No actions this week

Instant Runoff  Voting

• No actions this week

Preserving Democracy & Justice

• Petition – Demand a special prosecutor to investigate Jeff Sessions perjury and Russia:
  • https://action.aclu.org/secure/special-prosecutor
• Petition – ensure an independent investigation of Trump’s alleged ties to the Russian government:
  • https://act.credoaction.com/sign/Remove_Nunes
• Petition – Postpone Neil Gorsuch hearings until a complete independent investigation of the Trump campaign Russia collusion is concluded:
  • https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/letters/tell-your-senators-postpone-neil-gorsuchs-confirmation
• Petition – Demand Trump back up his voter fraud claims (or stop lying about them):
  • https://petitions.signforgood.com/stop-trump-voting-lies/
• Petition –  make Election Day a national holiday to increase voter participation:
  • http://go.fightforreform.org/page/s/Election-Day-Petition

The Environment

• Petition – Keep the Arctic off limits to Oil Drilling:
  • http://act.alaskawild.org/sign/noexxon2017/

Climate Change

• Call, using this website, to oppose Trump’s climate change protection rollback:
  • https://secure2.edf.org/site/SPageServer;jsessionid=00000000.app312b
• Petitions – Reject Trump’s budget / protect the climate instead:
  • https://act.climatetruth.org/sign/Trump-climate-chaos-budget/
  • https://support.nature.org/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=00000000.app246a
  • https://www.ofa.us/fight-for-our-climate-progress/
  • https://sierra.secure.force.com/actions/National
• Petitions – Support the Nebraska Public Service Commission to deny the Keystone XL Pipeline in Nebraska:
  • http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action4/common/public/
  • https://sierra.secure.force.com/actions/National
  • http://www.thepetitionsite.com/823/975/075/

Anti-Hate Actions

• No actions this week

Criminal Justice Reform

• No actions this week

Immigrations/Citizenship

• Petition – No Border Wall:
  • https://secure3.convio.net/lcv/site/Advocacy;jsessionid=00000000.app313b
• Petition – Allocate no funds for Trump’s anti-immigration budget:
  • https://action.aclu.org/secure/DefundImmigrationEOs

Racial Justice & Black Lives Matter

• Call your local school district, regardless of whether you have children in school, to ask that they:
  1. Include “Know Your Rights” information (in both English and Spanish) on their school website;
  2. develop and approve a policy, similar to the Los Angeles Unified School District policy, that protects families and provides clarity to school-site staff;
  3. include information regarding safety on school property on the district’s website.
• Petition – Save Demitrius, jailed without charges and dying from sickle beta thalassemia without treatment:
  • https://campaigns.organizefor.org/petitions/savedemitrius

Women’s Rights

• No actions this week

LGBTQ Rights

• No actions this week

Aging / Medicare / Social Security /Health Care

• Petition – tell Washington State elected officials to retain family planning funding in the state budget:
  • https://secure.ppaction.org/site/Advocacy

Economy/Income Inequality

• Petition – tell Washington State Members of Congress to stop debtor’s prisons:
  • https://ssl.capwiz.com/aclu/wa/issues/alert/
• Petition – Don’t cut funding for Meals on Wheels:
  • http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/250/630/204/

Get Big Money Out of Politics

• No actions this week

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• I won’t normally use this forum to distribute bad news, but if you have any doubt about the disturbing influence on our national politics represented by the views of Steve Bannon, please read this:
  • http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/23/1637009/-Bannon-Reveals-His-Intention-To-Deconstruct-The-Administrative-State-i-e-Destroy-The-Country