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.
Read MoreUnidentified federal authorities under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security have been snatching alleged protesters off the streets of Portland into unmarked rented vehicles. This is a terrifying new precedent that bodes ill for any prospect of free and fair elections or indeed a civil society. Tell your Members of Congress to do everything in their power to stop it!
Read MoreThe Senate is returning next week and Congress will once again take up the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act). Call your Members of Congress and tell them: use the money to help Americans through the pandemic and economic crisis!
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Submit a public comment by July 15th on Trump administration’s new proposal to almost completely block asylum.
Read MoreUnless 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.
Read MoreThe entire country is reckoning with the role of policing in our societies and police in our lives and our neighbors' lives—and yet Mayor Breed wants to give the SFPD another $43 million over last year's budget, while cutting other services. Call-in to the SF Budget & Approp's. Committee hearing and tell them: amend the budget!
Read MoreOn Thursday, the Senate is scheduled to vote on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) which controls more than half of all federal spending. The current bill is an expression of Trump/Republican values, and ignores our ongoing crises. Urge your Senators to oppose the current NDAA.
Read MoreRepublican senators have assembled the “Justice” Act (S. 3985) - sham police reform bill with no input from Democrats. This legislation has no mechanism to increase accountability for law enforcement misconduct, does not enhance transparency and data collection and does not substantively eliminate or prevent discriminatory policing practices. Tell your Senators to oppose it!
Read MoreLast week the Senate began work on the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), with record-breaking allocations for the military, and a floor vote is expected to take place this week or next. The House will soon begin work on its version of the NDAA. Tell your MoC’s - cut the military and police militarization budget and use the money to address our real crises.
Read MoreAB-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!
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 MoreThank your MOC’s for introducing the Justice in Policing Act, and ask them to do more by holding hearings on police violence and the Trump administration’s abuses!
Read MoreTell Governor Newsom to reject Trump’s threat to send in the U.S. military to quell protests.
For more than three decades, Republican and Democratic judges, lawmakers, and executives have increased immunity from prosecution for police and other government officials who have committed illegal acts and constitutional violations. “Qualified immunity”, a legal invention of the judiciary branch, is one of the ways police are shielded from accountability. Tell your MoC’s - it’s time to dismantle police impunity!
Read MoreNancy Tung and Geoffrey Gordon-Creed have been nominated by Mayor London Breed to serve on the SF Police Commission. Tell the Supervisors on the Rules Committee to vote NO on these unqualified candidates.
Read MoreThe USA Freedom Reauthorization Act, an extension of the PATRIOT Act, has been winding its way through Congress. After passing the House and being amended in the Senate, the next House vote is imminent. An amendment has been added to the bill requiring a warrant for surveillance of online activity. Call your representatives to support this amendment.
Read MoreThe HEROES Act for more COVID-19 aid has passed the House, including significant progressive provisions. Now it heads to the Senate, where it faces Republican attempts to weaken or defeat it and Trump’s willingness to veto it. Join us in urging our Senators to defend and improve the HEROES Act.
Read MoreWe’re pleased with the content of the HEROES bill, which satisfies many of our demands for the next COVID-19 stimulus package. However, we have some concerns about how the aid will be applied, and the early timing of the vote. Call your Representative about these concerns.
Read MoreIn the midst of a pandemic, Republican Senate Majority Leader is forcing Senate to convene in person to push through a series of unqualified, hyperpartisan nominees to American courts, and to enable Trump’s choice of loyalists to such critical positions as the Director of National Intelligence. Urge your Senators to oppose these nominees.
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