Urge your Members of Congress to take decisive action now
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Here in California, we are in the middle of a record-breaking fire season with heat waves and a massive drought. And around the country, voting rights are being undermined so citizens can’t use the ballot to demand action. Last year, we worked to vote in a Democratic House and Senate to stand up for democracy, the people, and our environment. Today, we must demand that they act.
The first week he was in office, President Biden declared, “The United States and the world face a profound climate crisis. We have a narrow moment to pursue action at home and abroad in order to avoid the most catastrophic impacts of that crisis and to seize the opportunity that tackling climate change presents.”
We are experiencing that crisis every day -- killer heat waves, devastating storms, mega-droughts, and raging wildfires. Yet Biden agreed to support Manchin’s “Bipartisan Infrastructure Framework” (BIF), which stripped out almost all of the climate-related provisions, programs, and funding that Biden earlier called for as bottom-line essential. We demand that Biden and Congress take immediate, strong, and effective action to protect America and the planet from the ravages of global warming. We need to insist that robust climate measures be included in all infrastructure legislation. Our children’s future and survival must not be compromised.
Contact your Members of Congress ([link removed]) and tell them: infrastructure legislation MUST seriously address the climate emergency!
Last week, Indivisibles across the country – including us! – held Deadline for Democracy actions to bring awareness to the voting rights emergency and demand decisive action from our Members of Congress. We’re asking you to keep up the pressure.
When partisan election officials in Republican-controlled states allocated fewer polling places in Democratic districts, dedicated Democratic voters stood in line for hours to exercise their constitutional right to vote. Nonpartisan election officials in the 2020 election counted and recounted votes, often on video, with Republican and Democratic observers, and Donald Trump lost. By December 8, 2020, long before the January 6th attack on our Capitol, advocates for Trump had initiated 50 challenges to the results of the 2020 election in certain districts in swing states – and lost them all.
Nevertheless, the Big Liars persisted. Republican legislatures in 2021 have proposed hundreds of bills to make casting our votes even more difficult. But they’ve also gone even further than that, proposing 145 additional bills that would take election administration away from governors, secretaries of state, and nonpartisan local election officials and give it to themselves, including the right to overturn the will of the electorate.
Tell Your Senators: We are in a voting rights crisis. ([link removed]) Eliminate the filibuster and protect the right to vote by passing the For the People Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act right now.
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ISF Federal Working Group meeting: Thursday, July 22, 7:30–9 PM. Register here ([link removed]) for a Zoom meeting to help us develop strategies to influence our Members of Congress and the Biden administration to enact a progressive agenda.
About this week’s photo
If you’ve seen our newsletter posts on Twitter and Facebook, you might have noticed that we include a photo or graphic with each issue. This week’s graphic is a still from a Twitter video post ([link removed]) of a fire tornado, taken by the US Forest Service on June 29 in the now-contained Tennant forest fire in Northern California.
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