Trump’s executive orders do nothing to provide real COVID aid, but Congress has gone on vacation instead of continuing to fight for legislation. Tell your MoC’s to get back to work to pass a real aid bill!
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 MoreAB 1436 is heading to the Senate Judiciary Committee. The bell, Authored by Asm. Chui, will prevent evictions and provide security to the 18 million + tenants in California. Tell your State Senator Wiener to vote YES.
Read MoreTrump and his administration are endangering our elections. Our Members of Congress need to hear a constant, daily drumbeat of constituent input at this crucial point in history every day! Use our script to contact your Members of Congress every day and tell them to defend our elections.
Read MoreTwo and a half months ago, the Democratic House passed the HEROES Act to deal with the pandemic-caused health and economic crises. Though it didn't include everything we wanted, it's a good bill that provided the essentials. Republicans did nothing and didn’t pass the HEROES Act. Now all the benefits of the previous CARES Act have expired, throwing millions of Americans off a financial cliff.
Republicans recently responded with their HEALS Act which provides yet more tax-breaks and benefits for the wealthy, but does nothing of substance for the vast majority of Americans. Yet Republicans are in disarray and can’t pass their own bill. This gives the Senate Democrats strong negotiating leverage – if they stand firm and fight.
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. Tell your Members of Congress to pass legislation to stop it!
Read MoreWhile 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.
Read MoreRepublicans 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!
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