Tell your Members of Congress: Enact constitutionally required oversight of police and Trump's administration!
Senator Dianne Feinstein
SF Office: (415) 393-0707
DC Office: (202) 224-3841
LA Office: (310) 914-7300
Fresno Office: (559) 485-7430
San Diego Office: (619) 231-9712
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Senator Kamala Harris
SF Office: (415) 981-9369
DC Office: (202) 224-3553
Sacramento Office: (916) 448-2787
LA Office: (213) 894-5000
San Diego Office: (619) 239-3884
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi
SF Office: (415) 556-4862
DC Office: (202) 225-4965
Email Contact: https://pelosi.house.gov/contact-me/email-me
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Rep. Jackie Speier
San Mateo Office: (650) 342-0300
DC Office: (202) 225-3531
Email Contact: https://speier.house.gov/email-jackie
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Note: Due to shelter-in-place orders during the Covid-19 emergency, it may be more effective to use email or Resistbot to contact the MoC’s office. It is important to use your own words in emails to elected officials, but feel free to use our sample script below as a guide.
Call Script
My name is __________. I am a constituent, and my zip code is _______. I am a member of Indivisible SF.
I am calling to thank [Representative or Senator] for introducing and co-sponsoring the Justice in Policing Act of 2020.
I ask the [Representative or Senator] to do everything in her power to pass it in both houses of Congress.
I also ask that she exercise more oversight to investigate
Acts of police brutality,
Abuses within DoD and DoJ in meeting peaceful protesters with militarized force and unacceptable violence
and Distribution of funds allocated through the CARES act and continue to address COVID-19 pandemic related medical and economic needs for the American people.
Background
On Monday, June 8, the House introduced the Justice in Policing Act which will be debated later this week and voted upon by June 30. The bill contains many important provisions, including reforming Qualified Immunity, independent investigations, improving police training,and otherwise holding police accountable. We’re still working to figure out what else is in this giant bill, and how helpful its provisions really are. But in the meantime, the Justice in Policing Act highlights a serious problem with the Democrats’ leadership in this and other crises. The Justice in Policing Act is almost certainly a show bill.
Like many bills before it, this bill faces an uphill climb in the Senate and we’re not optimistic that it will pass. While we support the sentiment and values this bill reflects, we’re frustrated with our representatives passing show bills that fail in the Senate, and we demand that they do more.
We need our representatives to start playing the same kind of hardball that Republicans do as a matter of course.
Our representatives need to refuse to pass “must pass” legislation that does not reflect Democratic values and programs. When White House officials refuse to show up to hearings, they should file suit in federal court, and also hold the hearing anyway with empty chairs and nameplates for the recalcitrant witnesses and non-White House witnesses who can make public accusations and testimony.
Right now, we are asking the House to demand hearings on police violence, on abuses that led to the tear gassing of peaceful protesters at the White House, and on the distribution of aid for the COVID-19 pandemic.
House hearings don't have to be held in DC; they can be held anywhere, and this has been done in the past. Hearings that won't get national media attention in DC will pull local and regional media outside of DC. House hearings can be held by as few as two or three committee members. So, for example:
A hearing in Atlanta on CDC sabotage, mismanagement, political interference, and incompetence. Call fed-up employees, former employees, academic observers.
A hearing to expose who stole the PPE masks (FEMA), for what purpose and why there weren't enough ventilators with 6 weeks advance notice on the pandemic?
Hearings in NYC, Minneapolis, Louisville on the roots and causes of police racist violence and denial of First Amendment civil rights to protesters and how federal grants, programs, and militarization make problems worse.
Join us in demanding that our Representatives do more than pass show bills, and begin to show real oversight of the Trump administaration.