Tell your Assemblymembers: Support Police Accountability Bills SB271 and AB118!
Black Lives Matter. Enacting legislation that protects BIPOC communities and impoverished communities from police violence is a local matter.
Tell your Assemblymembers: Oppose Diverting Community Mental Health Funds to Jail Programs
State 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.
Tell Assemblyman Ting - Vote YES on compensation to victims of involuntary sterilization
The state budget contains an item to compensate survivors of involuntary sterilization under California's eugenics law from 1909-1979. Phil Ting is a KEY vote on this budget item. If you're in his district, please call him and tell him you support compensating the victims of forced sterilization.
Tell your Assemblymembers: Vote YES on ACA 5, which will place affirmative action on the ballot.
The Assembly is voting TODAY, Wednesday, June 10 on ACA 5. If passed, this bill would place a repeal of the 1996 anti-affirmative action prop 209 on the November ballot. We are asking our members to call their Assemblymembers to pass this bill.
Tell your State MoC's to support the California Farmworker COVID-19 Relief Package
Urge your State MoC to support the California Farmworker COVID-19 Relief Package, which will ensure the safety, health, and economic security of California’s farmworkers, who are some of the most essential workers in this crisis.
Tell your State MoC's - Don't let ICE circumvent AB32!
ICE is trying to get around AB32 by establishing private prison contracts before the law kicks in. Tell state officials not to let them get away with it!
Stop the Second PG&E Bailout!
Currently, PG&E and SCE have to do the hard work to *prove* that they were not at fault *before* they can ask the public to cover wildfire costs. AB 1054 turns this on its head and allows public bailouts to be approved automatically!
Introduce state laws to protect undocumented immigrants
Ask Asm. Chiu to introduce state laws that protect Californian undocumented immigrants.
Fund legal representation for people in immigration court
Unlike in criminal proceedings, there's no right to legal representation in immigration court, even though it can (and does) lead to deportation.