Choosing Democracy: ICE Out Rally. Feb.27. Sacramento

Choosing Democracy: ICE Out Rally. Feb.27. Sacramento:  

ICE Out - Now

 

Last night, over 35,000 people joined an emergency organizing call to respond to the horrific killing of Renee Nicole Good by ICE and the escalating violence of Trump’s secret police force in Minneapolis and immigrant communities across the country. 

Everyone on the call was clear-eyed about the huge amount of work ahead of us to confront the public menace of an increasingly lawless agency that rampages through communities, targets schools and daycare centers, and commits violence with seeming impunity. 

We need more defiance at the state and local level. We need to target ICE’s funding at the federal level. And right now, we need to be in the streets shining a light on ICE’s pattern of unchecked violence, raising our voices to demand: ICE OUT FOR GOOD. 

That’s why Indivisible and a broad coalition of partners are banding together for the nationwide ICE Out For Good Weekend of Action this Saturday and Sunday. We hope you’ll join us. 

Find an Event*

Use our toolkit to host an event

What’s happening this weekend

We’re coming together for hundreds of daytime events this Saturday and Sunday to mourn the lives ICE has taken and destroyed. Renee Nicole Good’s tragic death this week was not an isolated incident; over the past year federal agents have shot numerous people -- two in Portland just yesterday. Thirty-two have died in ICE custody. Many, many more have had their lives shattered by detention, family separation, and deportation. 

Our Weekend of Action will honor all those impacted by ICE brutality, raise awareness of this ongoing pattern of violence, and demand justice and accountability. 

The events will take a variety of forms determined by each volunteer-host. They will include: 

• Public vigils and memorials
• Silent marches and processions
• Visual actions and installations
• Faith-based events 
• And more -- hosts are encouraged to dream up creative, attention-grabbing ideas.

What we’re demanding 

Our Weekend of Action will call for: 

• Accountability, transparency, and immediate independent investigations into the killing of Renee Nicole Good
• Increased action from elected officials to rein in ICE 
• In the words of Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, for ICE to "get the $&@% out" of our cities. 

What you can do 

We need the response to this week’s killing and ongoing ICE violence to be loud, peaceful, and inescapable. So if you’re physically able, we need you to be out in the streets.

• Visit the ICE Out For Good Mobilize Hub to find the event nearest you. Check back often, as events are being added by the hour. 
• No event near you? Host one. Use our event toolkit to plan your event, and then register it on Mobilize so others can find it.
• Make sure you know your rights before heading out this weekend. We encourage everyone hitting the streets this weekend (or attending any protest under this regime) to attend the ACLU’s virtual Know Your Rights training today (Jan 9) at 8p ET / 5pm PT.
• Help spread the word. Post the sign up for the Weekend of Action across your networks, send it to friends and family. 

A core principle behind all ICE Out For Good events is a commitment to nonviolent action and no civil disobedience. We expect all participants to seek to de-escalate any potential confrontation with those who disagree with our values, and to act lawfully at these events. Weapons of any kind, including those legally permitted, should not be brought to events. All events should be held in public spaces or on public property.

This weekend, we'll show the regime and their enablers just how widespread the opposition to their brutality is; we'll put steel in the spines of our Democratic local, state, and national leaders; and we'll send a message to anyone targeted and terrorized by ICE: You are not alone. 

Let’s get out there together. Let’s continue the fight until we get ICE Out For Good. 

In solidarity, 
Indivisible Team 

* Events are being added all the time, so if there’s nothing near you now and you’d prefer not to host one, check back in a few hours. 

Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday

Still No Kings: Millions to Protest Trump On Saturday: A coalition of civil rights groups expects the turnout on Oct. 18 will be even bigger than the first nationwide protest held in June, which by some counts was the largest in U.S. history.

Including Sacramento planning 

Save the American River from Contract 3b

Poor People's Campaign. Saturday Sacramento

 

Join Sacramento rally for National Day of Action Saturday Oct. 15, 10am (gather), 11am (march) Crocker Park: 211 O St., Sacramento CA 95814 Sacramento is the California site for the PPC National Day of Action, when we’ll bring our demands to Main Streets all across the nation. This is a key component of our midterm election campaign to mobilize poor and low-income people and low-wage workers to the polls. Voting rights are on the ballot. Living wages are on the ballot. Reproductive justice is on the ballot. Healthcare is on the ballot. Our climate is on the ballot. On October 15, we'll make them hear us coast to coast! (Photo above by David Solnit.) Let us know if you can be with us for this historic march. We also need volunteers to help organize. Contact us if you can come or lend a hand. Brother Carter: kcwethepeople@gmail.com Steven Payán 530payan@gmail.com

Third ACT Sacramento -Defending Democracy

 

Third Act – Sacramento 

I recently got into an argument with an older relative over whose generation – hers or mine – should shoulder the monumental task of mitigating climate change. Her activist days are over, she said; now it’s up to her nieces, nephews and grandkids to save the planet. I couldn’t disagree more. This relative is well into retirement and has time for advocacy work that I don’t, financial capital that I don’t, and, importantly, generational responsibility for polluting the planet and leaving young folks like me to deal with the mess. But one spirited and hopeful group of older people in Sacramento agrees with me – and they’re doing everything in their power to slow climate change. 

 

Launched last month, Sacramento’s Third Act working group already has 28 members showing up to monthly virtual meetings. OPINION Third Act is a national organization cofounded by the author and environmentalist Bill McKibben and activist Vanessa Arcara, with celebrity supporters including Jane Fonda and Bette Midler. The group’s philosophy is that baby boomers have the time, money, experience and know-how to fight climate change. Boomers control 70% of the nation’s wealth; are 50% more likely to vote than those aged 18 to 29; and spend an average of five hours a day watching TV.

 

 “This is a way to mobilize my generation, most of whom in Sacramento are sitting watching TV or listening to the radio, feeling powerless and wondering what they can do,” said Pat Ferris, a facilitator of the Sacramento working group. “This fabulous group has the power to get us engaged – to have some fun and feel like we have some agency.” 

 

. Many Third Act members are not new to activism. They may have protested the Vietnam War or participated in the civil rights or women’s rights movement. Third Act, a group specifically for folks over the age of 60, recognizes that just as the social movements of the ’60s and ’70s were led by younger generations, so is the current climate movement. The group believes its role is to support youth climate organizations such as the Sunrise Movement and Fridays for Future. “It’s not fair to ask the young to save the world themselves, nor is it possible,” McKibben and Third Act lead adviser Akaya Windwood wrote in a 2021 Los Angeles Times op-ed. “We emerge into our latter years with talents, wisdom and often with the money to put them to use. Our children and grandchildren should help focus us on the fact that if we don’t act now, we may leave the world a worse place than we found it.” 

 

THIRD ACT SACRAMENTO Sacramento facilitators Ferris and Laurie Litman have wholeheartedly committed the third acts of their own lives – post-retirement – to climate activism. Both worry about the futures their children and grandchildren will face. Litman says the fact that young people have inherited a planet polluted by older generations is “an intergenerational injustice.” “This is the most important thing people my age can be doing,” Litman said. “We overconsumed. We’ve taken a lot, and now we’re leaving a depauperate future for our kids.” $2 for 2 months Subscribe for unlimited access to our website, app, eEdition and more CLAIM OFFER Third Act member Anne Stausboll, who formerly chaired Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg’s Commission on Climate Change, said that instead of resorting to climate “doomerism,” Third Act members choose to hope that our climate future is not yet set in stone. “Everything is infused with optimism and hope, and we need hope to move forward,” Stausboll said. BANKING PLEDGE Don’t think, however, that Third Act members lack a plan. Their meetings are not therapy sessions; they are devoted to strategy. For example, Third Act’s national group launched a calculated, ingenious banking pledge that uses the enormous capital of its members to maximize their impact. Four of the nation’s biggest banks – Chase, Citibank, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America – have loaned the fossil fuel industry a trillion dollars since the 2015 Paris Climate Accords were signed. If the financial services industry were a nation, it would be the fifth-largest emitter of greenhouse gases. To pressure the big banks to divest from the industries killing our planet and population, Third Act is calling on everyone to sign one of two pledges: Current Chase, Citi, Wells Fargo, and Bank of America customers can sign one stating that if their bank does not stop lending money to the fossil fuel industry by Dec. 31, 2022, they will pull their money out. People who do not bank with any of the four can pledge that they will never become customers so long as they continue to loan money to polluters. If everyone who signs the first pledge pulls their money from the banks at the same time, the impact could be enormous.

 

 “Individual action is important, but it’s not enough,” Ferris said. “When we’re up against fossil-fuel-funded politicians and corporations, we need to take collective action.” Sacramento’s working group also wants to focus on advocacy at the local level, serving as a watchdog for the city’s budget committees and joining forces with other activists. 

 

DEFENDING DEMOCRACY In addition to climate change mitigation, Third Act has a second colossal goal: Protecting and defending America’s democracy. The group is focused on fighting voter suppression, strengthening voting rights, and increasing voter participation. The two goals, climate and voter advocacy, go hand in hand. “We need to stabilize our democracy and our climate,” Litman said. “We need both – we can’t do one without the other.” Sacramento’s Third Act working group is still in its early days, but as it grows, so does excitement about the future. The group meets virtually on the third Monday of each month at 6 p.m. and anyone who lives in or around the Sacramento region is encouraged to get involved by emailing thirdactsac@gmail.com. Fighting a planetary crisis on a personal scale can feel futile. But people of every generation must do everything in our power to ensure a livable future.

 

Read more at: https://www.sacbee.com/opinion/article259152778.html#storylink=cpy

Homeless Master Plan - Sacramento

 

CONTACT THE MAYOR & YOUR CITY COUNCILMEMBER AND TELL THEM YOU SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY HOMELESS MASTER PLAN They are scheduled to vote on July 20, 2021

Link to City of Sacramento: Mayor & Council

Financing the Anti Proposition 10 Campaign

California NAACP Leader Opposes Rent Control Measure While Taking Real Estate Money Sam Levin October 16, 2018 The Guardian The President of the NAACP’s California chapter has a history of leveraging the NAACP brand to line her own pockets. This year she is slated to reap at least $800,000 to oppose a statewide rent control measure on the November statewide ballot. Like the pharmaceutical and tobacco industries before it, the real estate industry is paying California NAACP President Alice Huffman lots of money to get the NAACP stamp of approval. , Jeff Chiu/AP [Moderators Note: In recent years in California, serious ethical issues have placed the local and statewide leaders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in the national spotlight. In 2014, the National Office of the NAACP forced the resignation of Leon Jenkins, then President of the Los Angeles Chapter, when it was revealed the branch, in exchange for a significant donation, was prepared to give a humanitarian award to Donald Sterling, real estate mogul and owner of the Los Angeles Clippers professional basketball franchise.  Sterling, who had been successfully sued on several occasions for housing discrimination and sexual harassment, had made racist comments so egregious the NBA levied fines of more than $2 million and forced him to sell his franchise.  At that time, Lorraine Miller, Interim President and CEO of the NAACP responded to NAACP members who demanded action, writing, “We will determine the shortcomings that enabled Donald Sterling to receive or be considered for any awards. We will prevent this from happening again.” She added, “We must not allow that need (for resources) to compromise our founding principles.”  But by 2014, the President of the statewide NAACP chapter, Alice Huffman, had already turned selling the NAACP brand to the highest bidder into an art. In 2005, the pharmaceutical industry paid Huffman $375,000 in consulting fees. That year the California NAACP sided with the drug companies against two statewide ballot measures designed to lower prices for prescription drugs.  In 2006, the state NAACP opposed a statewide tobacco tax increase and Huffman was paid $210,000 in campaign fees by the cigarette manufacturer Philip Morris.  And in 2016, the drug companies were back. The “No on 61” committee, funded by the pharmaceutical industry in opposition to that statewide drug pricing measure, paid Huffman $108,500 for consulting work. “Among the political class in Sacramento, it’s very well known that Alice essentially applies the NAACP good housekeeping seal to special interest causes in return for money,” said Garry South, the Democratic consultant leading the campaign to cap drug prices, told the Sacramento Bee’s Taryn Luna at the time. “I don’t know how she gets away with it.” Huffman gets away with it in part because the national leadership of the NAACP has not honored its pledge “to prevent this from happening again.”

Homeless Memorial Service