Black Lives Matter. Enacting legislation that protects BIPOC communities and impoverished communities from police violence is a local matter.
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 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreUrge 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.
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!
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!
Read MoreAsk Asm. Chiu to introduce state laws that protect Californian undocumented immigrants.
Read MoreUnlike in criminal proceedings, there's no right to legal representation in immigration court, even though it can (and does) lead to deportation.
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