Tell the Governor to Oppose Medi-Cal Cuts for Undocumented California
Join Faith in Action Bay Area in calling / writing to Governor Newsom to Oppose Medi-Cal Cuts for Undocumented Californians.
Demand Healthcare Access in the American Jobs and Families Plan!
Tell our Members of Congress to pass an effective American Jobs and Families Plan that provides for all of us—not just the corporate elite.
Tell your Members of Congress and President Biden: Support Medicare Expansion!
Urge your Members of Congress and Biden to include both Medicare expansion and making permanent the temporary health subsidies for low-income Americans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the American Family Plan (AFP) legislation.
Tell your Representatives to hold a House vote on the Women's Health Protection Act
Call your Representative and say it's time to #ActForWomen and vote on the Women's Health Protection Act!
Tell Mayor Breed: No Mass Camps for Homeless San Franciscans!
Mayor Breed has resisted calls to house San Franciscans in hotels to keep them safe from Covid-19, instead proposing such dangerous ideas as mass camps for them. Demand that she acts to procure safe and secure housing for homeless people!
Demand that our MoCs convene remotely to provide immediate oversight against Trump's abuses
Our MoC’s cannot safely convene in Congress, but with Trump continuing his criminal activity, the business of oversight and legislation is more urgent than ever. Urge your MoC’s to enact remote voting to ensure the continuity of government.
Demand that Governor Newsom to order the release of immigrant detainees
COVID-19 is a threat to prison populations, including ICE detainees, due to the poor conditions at prisons and detention centers. Governor Newsom has the discretion to order the detainees to be released back to their communities where they can safely shelter in place. Urge Governor Newsom to make this order.
Demand that our MoCs enact rules allowing them to continue governing while dispersed and sheltering in place.
Our MoC’s cannot safely convene in Congress, but the business of legislation is more urgent than ever. Urge your MoC’s to enact remote voting to ensure the continuity of government.
Tell your MoC's to fully fund the emergency response to the Coronavirus outbreak
Our MoC’s are preparing to pass a supplemental bill for the Corona virus emergency. Call them and tell them that they need to ensure that the supplemental funding bill stays clean, guarantees a strong public health response that gets everyone the treatment they need, and doesn’t exacerbate harm to vulnerable communities or our democracy.
Tell Gov. Newsom to force insurance companies to fully cover Coronavirus response
Tell Governor Newsom to require ALL California health insurers to waive cost sharing associated with testing and treatment for the Corona Virus, including emergency room, urgent care and office visits.
Tell UC - No to healthcare discrimination! Protect UC healthcare access for ALL Californians!
Tell the UC Regents, in your own words, that UC should not partner with healthcare providers that discriminate against cisgender women and LGBTQ+ people!
Ask your MoCs to #DefundHate!
In 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.
Defense, Militarism, Foreign Policy & the "Power of the Purse"
In 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.
Ask your MoCs to wield the Power of the Purse!
In 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.
Tell Speaker Pelosi and Rep. Speier to REMOVE the Hyde Amendment
Please call Speaker Pelosi / Congresswoman Speier TODAY, and insist they NOT authorize inclusion of the Hyde Amendment in the current HHS appropriations bill, because it discriminates against low-income women, by denying them equal access to healthcare!
Oppose Speaker Pelosi’s Pharma-friendly Deal with the Trump Administration
We must ramp up the pressure on Speaker Pelosi to abandon her Big Pharma handout and support HR 1046 instead! Please call Pelosi’s office today and insist she rescind support for this back-door deal with the pharma industry and the Trump administration!
Support Health Care Reform and Expansion
For far too long, we the people have allowed corporate lobbyists to determine health care policy and pricing. It's time for us to step up and demand that our elected representatives take our interests into account over insurance companies, HMOs, and the American Medical Association.
Support Economic Justice Bills (Raise the Wage Act, FAMILY Act, etc.)
Ask your MoC’s to support and promote the economic justice bills currently in the House and Senate
Thank your MoC's for Defending our Healthcare
Trump and the Republican leadership are proposing to slash healthcare spending while launching a legal attack aimed at completely eliminating Obamacare. Our four MoC are united in fierce opposition to this two-prong attack on our healthcare. We need to let them know they have our support so that they hold firm without compromise.
Support the Medicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act
Call Representative Pelosi and ask her to support HR 1046 - the Medicare Negotiation and Competitive Licensing Act to lower drug prices for American patients!