Posts in Economic Justice
Call your Members of Congress About the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill

Contact your Members of Congress (MoC) to insist that they extend the eviction moratorium, restore IRS funding to ensure that everyone pays their fair share of taxes, and adamantly reject Republican efforts to eliminate the “prevailing wage” standard.

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Tell your Members of Congress: We demand Investment in Children, Families, and Students

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. We demand a plan that is paid for by reversing the tax cuts that the Trump regime gave to the obscenely wealthy and giant corporations.

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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.

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Tell your Members of Congress: Pass a bold plan to invest in American families with good paying jobs and fairer taxes

Urge your Members of Congress to stop trying to compromise with Republicans, and to pass a big, bold, green and equitable infrastructure plan that invests in America’s future and working class families.

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Tell your Senators - Block FERC appointments until public hearings on the Climate Crisis are held!

Super-storms in the South and historic fires in the West are all caused by climate change, which the Trump regime has done nothing to stop. Call your Senator and tell them to block any new FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission) appointments until public hearings are held on the climate crisis.

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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.

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Tell your Senators - Do everything in your power to pass the HEROES Act!

While the House passed the HEROES act more than 2 months ago, the US Senate is just beginning to consider a watered down version of the bill, which is so bad even the Republicans can’t agree on it! This is our chance to pressure our Senators to peel off the few Republican votes needed to pass the HEROES Act.

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Tell your Senators - Pass a Moratorium on Evictions for those who lost their jobs during the pandemic

Unless Congress steps in, the federal unemployment benefits will also run out at the end of July. Twenty percent of the 110 million Americans are at risk of eviction by the end of September. Ask your Senators to pass the HEROES Act and enact a moratorium on evictions of those who have lost their jobs.

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Tell State Senator Wiener - Support AB-2054, the CRISES Act to Defund the police!

AB-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!

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