Tell your Members of Congress: Oppose Trump's secret police snatching people off the streets!
Unidentified 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!
Tell your Supervisor: Support the Charter Amendment measure to repeal the SFPD arbitrary minimum!
The Board of Supervisors is considering proposing a ballot measure to repeal the Charter’s arbitrary requirement of 1,971 full-duty SFPD officers. Tell your Supervisor to support the measure so police staffing can be changed to reflect the City’s needs!
Tell your Members of Congress: Cut the military budget and increase domestic spending!
The 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!
Tell the Board of Supervisors by July 14: Support the Charter Amendment measure to repeal the SFPD arbitrary minimum!
At the Tuesday, July 14 Board of Supervisors meeting, the Board will discuss a proposed Charter amendment to repeal the Charter’s arbitrary requirement of 1,971 full-duty SFPD officers. Call in to give public comment and support the measure so police staffing can be changed to reflect the City’s needs!
Tell the SF Rules Committee by July 13: Support the Charter Amendment measure to repeal the SFPD arbitrary minimum!
Wednesday, July 3, at 10am, the Rules Committee will meet to discuss a proposed Charter amendment to repeal the Charter’s arbitrary requirement of 1,971 full-duty SFPD officers. Call in to give public comment and support the measure so police staffing can be changed to reflect the City’s needs!
Public Comment: Oppose EOIR rule blocking asylum - Deadline July 15th
Submit a public comment by July 15th on Trump administration’s new proposal to almost completely block asylum.
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.
Tell the SF Budget & Approps. Committee: Move money from SFPD to City services!
The 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!
Tell your Senators - Cut the Military Budget and Address Our Real Needs in the NDAA
On 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.
Tell State Senator Wiener - Support ACA-6 to "Free the Vote"!
ACA 6, the “Free the Vote Act,” is heading to the Senate floor this week, and needs a 2/3 vote to pass! ACA 6 would restore voting rights to every person who has completed their prison term in California. Tell State Senator Scott Wiener to vote YES on it.
Tell your Senators - Stand strong against the sham “police reform” bill (JUSTICE Act, S3985)
Republican 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!
Tell your Members of Congress: Cut the military budget and address the real needs of our communities.
Last 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.
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!
Tell Assemblyman Ting - Vote YES on compensation to victims of involuntary sterilization
The 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.
Tell your Assemblymembers: Vote YES on ACA 5, which will place affirmative action on the ballot.
The 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.
Tell your Members of Congress: Enact constitutionally required oversight of police and Trump's administration!
Thank 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!
Tell the Board of Supervisors: Lift the curfew!
The Board is considering lifting the curfew in San Francisco. It expires automatically on Saturday, but every day it continues is another day that police—including both SFPD officers and the officers from numerous other agencies that the City has brought in to enforce the curfew—will continue to use the curfew to repress both protesters and people going about everyday business. Call your Supervisor and tell them to lift the curfew
We support lifting the curfew, and several ISF members called in yesterday to register their support for ending it, but the measure failed to come to a vote. It was continued to Thursday.
Tell the Board of Supervisors: Vote NO on unqualified SF Police Commission nominees!
Nancy Tung and Geoffrey Gordon-Creed have been nominated by Mayor London Breed to serve on the SF Police Commission. Their nominations have already failed Rules Committee - tell the full board to vote NO on them. And ask the Board to lift curfew.
Tell Gov. Newsom: Reject Trump's threat to send in the U.S. military!
Tell Governor Newsom to reject Trump’s threat to send in the U.S. military to quell protests.
Tell your Members of Congress: Dismantle Police Impunity!
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!