This Week's Calls To Action
This is streamlined list of calls and emails for this week. Visit the Call Your Reps page to meet your elected officials!
US Senate
Tell President Biden and our Members of Congress: continue to stand firm against MAGA government shutdown blackmail
Tell President Biden and our Members of Congress: Stand fast, don’t surrender to MAGA Republican shutdown blackmail!
Republicans are playing brazen, dangerous hardball in order to force Trump-era immigration policies in exchange for support for Ukraine, and Democrats are considering caving to their demands. Tell your Senators to reject these draconian policies.
Tell your Members of Congress: Support the Biden Administration’s supplemental funding package!
We repeat: Call President Biden and your Members of Congress and tell them: "Hold fast! Do not surrender to political blackmail—even if it means a government shutdown!"
We’ve enjoyed decades of online life with strong protections for freedom of speech. It’s a complicated subject of rights and responsibilities, just as life—online and off—is complicated. But while the current state of things is not perfect and there may still be room for improvement, it’s a pretty good balance on the whole.
A bill introduced in the previous Congress and reintroduced in this year threatens to upset that balance. As is so often the case, the proposal is ostensibly “for the children;” the new bill is called the Kids Online Safety Act. It would force messaging services like iMessage, Signal, and WhatsApp, along with social media services like Twitter, Facebook, and Mastodon, to gatekeep who can participate in online life and to monitor what we say.
This is a dangerous, poorly-thought-out bill with a dangerously high number of bipartisan cosponsors in the Senate. We must stop this bill from becoming law.
As the House and Senate begin debating the ransom deal legislation today, it is possible that Republicans will raise new extortion demands. Our response has to be: “Not one penny more! Not one policy retreat further!”
Tell the President and our senators that President Biden should withdraw the nomination of Elliott Abrams because it is antithetical to the Biden administration’s diplomatic support for democracies worldwide.
Contact your Members of Congress and tell them: pass the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act of 2023 and show that they are serious about binding the Supreme Court to a code of ethics.
Tell Senator Padilla to use his position on the Judiciary Committee to stop blue slip abuse!
US House of Representatives
Tell President Biden and our Members of Congress: continue to stand firm against MAGA government shutdown blackmail
Tell President Biden and our Members of Congress: Stand fast, don’t surrender to MAGA Republican shutdown blackmail!
Republicans are playing brazen, dangerous hardball in order to force Trump-era immigration policies in exchange for support for Ukraine, and Democrats are considering caving to their demands. Tell your Senators to reject these draconian policies.
Thank you for standing strong against MAGA Republican extremism in favor of protecting a functioning government by providing enough votes to pass a Continuing Resolution without the draconian cuts MAGA extremists were seeking. Please remain strong in protecting our values in the second batch of bills in February.
Tell your Members of Congress: Support the Biden Administration’s supplemental funding package!
We repeat: Call President Biden and your Members of Congress and tell them: "Hold fast! Do not surrender to political blackmail—even if it means a government shutdown!"
We’ve enjoyed decades of online life with strong protections for freedom of speech. It’s a complicated subject of rights and responsibilities, just as life—online and off—is complicated. But while the current state of things is not perfect and there may still be room for improvement, it’s a pretty good balance on the whole.
A bill introduced in the previous Congress and reintroduced in this year threatens to upset that balance. As is so often the case, the proposal is ostensibly “for the children;” the new bill is called the Kids Online Safety Act. It would force messaging services like iMessage, Signal, and WhatsApp, along with social media services like Twitter, Facebook, and Mastodon, to gatekeep who can participate in online life and to monitor what we say.
This is a dangerous, poorly-thought-out bill with a dangerously high number of bipartisan cosponsors in the Senate. We must stop this bill from becoming law.
As the House and Senate begin debating the ransom deal legislation today, it is possible that Republicans will raise new extortion demands. Our response has to be: “Not one penny more! Not one policy retreat further!”
Contact your Members of Congress and tell them: pass the Supreme Court Ethics, Recusal, and Transparency Act of 2023 and show that they are serious about binding the Supreme Court to a code of ethics.
Tell President Biden and our Members of Congress to focus on progressive priorities in upcoming budget negotiations
Bonus Federal Actions
Make a public comment in support of a rule change that ends penalties on SSI recipients recieving food aid.
Submit a public comment in support of protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination.
After a year when unprecedented mail delays outraged the country, Louis DeJoy’s 10 year plan is now trying to permanently slow down the delivery of our mail. Submit a public comment to protest this rule change!
California Governor
Our Governor Gavin Newsom is not doing enough to protect tenants affected by COVID from eviction. Tell Newson not to fund evictions of renters who have lost their income, and support protections for renters now.
California State Senate and Assembly
A slate of rooftop solar-related bills are in front of committees in both the Assembly and the Senate, and they urgently need your support.
Our big utility companies and the Governor rammed through a state bill that will force everyone, especially lower middle class folks, to pay an exorbitant baseline fee for energy. Tell your Assemblymember to repeal the provision allowing this.
AB 538 threatens big changes with uncertain consequences to our energy grid. In the absence of a specific plan to judge on its merits, the Assembly should not move this bill forward.
AB 642 is a surveillance bill that puts our communities in danger. Tell Asm. Haney to oppose it, and Asm. Ting, the author, to pull it.
Black Lives Matter. Enacting legislation that protects BIPOC communities and impoverished communities from police violence is a local matter.
Our Governor Gavin Newsom is not doing enough to protect tenants affected by COVID from eviction. Tell Newson not to fund evictions of renters who have lost their income, and support protections for renters now.
Bonus State Actions
Mayor of San Francisco
SF Board of Supervisors
The City College of San Francisco is facing massive layoffs. In solidarity with AFT 2121, we are calling on our Supervisors and Mayor to support expanding the Workforce Education & Recovery Fund to help fund CCSF.
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has a long tradition of adopting resolutions on national issues. Ask your Supervisors to use a resolution to support ending the flibuster.