Black Lives Matter. Enacting legislation that protects BIPOC communities and impoverished communities from police violence is a local matter.
Read MoreTell your Supervisor to vote NO on the Mayor’s new POA contract which harms City workers.
Read MoreState Senate bill 665 would divert funds from the Mental Health Services Act (MHSA), which provides for community mental health programs, to jail-based mental health programs, overseen by the sheriff’s department. Urge your assembly members to vote no on it.
Read MoreThe entire country is reckoning with the role of policing in our societies and police in our lives and our neighbors' lives—and yet Mayor Breed wants to give the SFPD another $43 million over last year's budget, while cutting other services. Call-in to the SF Budget & Approp's. Committee hearing and tell them: amend the budget!
Read MoreACA 6, the “Free the Vote Act,” is heading to the Senate floor this week, and needs a 2/3 vote to pass! ACA 6 would restore voting rights to every person who has completed their prison term in California. Tell State Senator Scott Wiener to vote YES on it.
Read MoreRepublican senators have assembled the “Justice” Act (S. 3985) - sham police reform bill with no input from Democrats. This legislation has no mechanism to increase accountability for law enforcement misconduct, does not enhance transparency and data collection and does not substantively eliminate or prevent discriminatory policing practices. Tell your Senators to oppose it!
Read MoreAB-2054: The CRISES Act, recently sent to the California Senate, would fund community alternatives to police crisis response. The CRISES Act directs the California Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) to administer $16 million in grants to community organizations in at least ten counties over the next three years. Call State Senator Wiener to support this bill!
Read MoreThank your MOC’s for introducing the Justice in Policing Act, and ask them to do more by holding hearings on police violence and the Trump administration’s abuses!
Read MoreThe Board is considering lifting the curfew in San Francisco. It expires automatically on Saturday, but every day it continues is another day that police—including both SFPD officers and the officers from numerous other agencies that the City has brought in to enforce the curfew—will continue to use the curfew to repress both protesters and people going about everyday business. Call your Supervisor and tell them to lift the curfew
We support lifting the curfew, and several ISF members called in yesterday to register their support for ending it, but the measure failed to come to a vote. It was continued to Thursday.
Read MoreNancy Tung and Geoffrey Gordon-Creed have been nominated by Mayor London Breed to serve on the SF Police Commission. Their nominations have already failed Rules Committee - tell the full board to vote NO on them. And ask the Board to lift curfew.
Read MoreTell Governor Newsom to reject Trump’s threat to send in the U.S. military to quell protests.
For more than three decades, Republican and Democratic judges, lawmakers, and executives have increased immunity from prosecution for police and other government officials who have committed illegal acts and constitutional violations. “Qualified immunity”, a legal invention of the judiciary branch, is one of the ways police are shielded from accountability. Tell your MoC’s - it’s time to dismantle police impunity!
Read MoreNancy Tung and Geoffrey Gordon-Creed have been nominated by Mayor London Breed to serve on the SF Police Commission. Tell the Supervisors on the Rules Committee to vote NO on these unqualified candidates.
Read MoreSubmit a public comment on DHS proposal to further restrict asylum eligibility for immigrants from criminalized communities.
Read MoreIn our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Congress can use this to check immigration enforcement authorities by cutting off the flow of money to programs that mistreat people coming to the United States.
Read MoreIn our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Trump administration programs and schemes can be blocked by denying them funds, and some of their destructive regulation and rule changes can be countered by mandating how funds have to be used.
Read MoreIn our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Trump administration programs and schemes can be blocked by denying them funds, and some of their destructive regulation and rule changes can be countered by mandating how funds have to be used.
Read MoreAsk your Senators to vote NO on William Barr for AG.
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