Republicans are refusing to pass the HEROES Act even as coronavirus aid expires for millions of Americans with potentially catastrophic effects. Join us in an initiative to influence their donors to get them to pass the HEROES Act.

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.

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!

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.

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!

Mitch McConnell is trying to pass a platter of corporate bailouts under the American people’s noses, in the guise of bringing us the relief that millions of us need. Tell your Senators to loudly and publicly oppose this and push for real relief for individual people.

The waiting list for shelter beds has consistently hovered above 1,000 people and the number of applications for affordable housing outnumbers the available units by multiple thousands. Almost every Supervisor claims to support Navigation Centers, yet they are only present in three out of eleven districts. Tell your Supervisor to support the Ordinance requiring a Navigation Center in every district!

Submit a public comment on DHS proposal to bar current and future asylum applicants from receiving work permits.

Last week, the Trump administration finalized a USDA rule change that will kick nearly 700,000 people off of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. Two additional rules changes, that will increase that number to 3.7 million people, are pending and will be finalized soon. Congress can use the Congressional Review Act to stop this rule change - tell them to use this power!

It's time for Democrats to stand up for Main Street and stop selling their souls to Wall Street. No NAFTA 2.0!

Trump wants to take away the food assistance of millions of Americans. Now’s the time to speak up!

Submit a public comment to the Food and Nutrition Service opposing their new cuts to SNAP that would cut vital food aid to working American families.

Many young people leaving foster care after they reach adulthood become homeless soon after losing the child welfare system’s support, and, among those who do, more than half experience multiple episodes of homelessness. HR 4300 — the Fostering Stable Housing Opportunities Act — would help address this tragic policy failure by making Housing Choice Vouchers available to more at-risk foster youth, to help them rent housing at an affordable cost during these vulnerable transition years. Ask that Speaker Pelosi support and Congresswoman Speier co-sponsor this important bipartisan bill.

The Trump Department of Labor announced plans to make sweeping revisions to the H-2A agricultural guest worker program to the detriment of farm workers. The proposed H-2A changes would weaken key protections for farm workers, limiting their ability to obtain employment with H-2A employers and exposing H-2A workers to greater vulnerability and costs. You can give public comment in opposition to the changes!

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.

The Department of Labor is proposing a new rule for federal contractors granting them the right to discriminate on the basis of *their* religious beliefs if they declare that they adhere to religious principles in how they conduct their business. Submit a public comment opposing this.

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.

Trump wants to take away the food assistance of millions of Americans. Now’s the time to speak up!

Ask your Senators to support the Raise the Wage Act. Also, ask them to support the Restoring Justice for Workers Act, which prohibits unfair forced arbitration agreements, bars retaliation against workers for refusing to arbitrate work disputes, and allows employees to collectively organize regarding work disputes.

Ask your House Representative to support the Restoring Justice for Workers Act, which prohibits unfair forced arbitration agreements, bars retaliation against workers for refusing to arbitrate work disputes, and allows employees to collectively organize regarding work disputes.