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The EFF has a list of bills involving restrictions to or curtailment of various aspects of privacy on the internet. This page is a "one-stop shop" to find out more about all of the bills and to email your senators and congresscritters about them; the links will take you to an editable-email page, so you can get as "in the weeds" about the specifics of each of the bills as you like.

gingicat

Here's a petition:
https://defundboscops.org/petition

This is from an email I received from Youth Justice and Power Union, but it looks like they have a lot of sponsors:
https://www.defundboscops.org/organizations

Message for 2021:
We are in the midst of a national uprising that is calling on us to be steadfast in our defense of Black lives.
Last year, we launched the Defund Boscops campaign, giving the Boston City Council and Mayor the opportunity to join us in taking action. Their response was to placate our demands with cuts to overtime and shuffling money around within the police department.
This year, we demand accountability. The call to action remains the same: defund the police, invest in our communities.

There's a rally on Saturday June 26 at City Hall, and phone banking on June 23-24 at noon.
https://www.defundboscops.org/signup

sea_changed

Indigenous and environmental activists in Minnesota have been fighting the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline for years now, but recently there has been a huge surge in national pushback against the pipeline as well. Here are some ways to help the effort:

1. Contact the White House directly to ask Biden to stop Line 3. The email I sent read:

Dear President Biden,

I am writing to you to ask you to stop construction of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline in Minnesota. I am extraordinarily glad and grateful that one of your first acts in office was to stop the Keystone XL pipeline, and so I am asking you to once again product our climate and our future by halting the Line 3 pipeline as well.

Line 3 would cross more than 200 bodies of water in northern Minnesota, crossing reservation boarders and land that the Ojibwe and Dakota people hold treaty rights to and use for food production, including most especially wild rice. The likelihood of a leak or spill, and the devastation that that would cause to people and the climate, is enormous. Even if the pipeline works as it should, its climate effects will be horrific and directly counter to this administration's stated goal of tackling the climate emergency--Line 3 would create more pollution than the equivalent of 50 coal plants.

As a Minnesota resident I am devastated that my state leaders have abdicated their responsibilities to the environment, to the Ojibwe and Dakota people whose lands we occupy, and to our children's futures by not stopping the constriction of Line 3 before now. President Biden, please step in where they have failed, and call an immediate halt to the construction of Line 3, as well as a stop to the use of the pipeline it was slated to replace. We need you and are counting on you.

Sincerely,
[my name]

Feel free to use that as a guide, though as always remember to personalize based on who you are and what’s most important to you. (And if you'd like help constructing your own letter, please reach out! I'd be happy to help.) See here and here for information on the pipeline to help script your call or write your email/letter.

2. Tell banks to stop funding Line 3. There's an important loan renewal deadline for Enbridge on March 31st, 2021--please use this form to email executives at the banks that are funding Line 3 to tell them to not renew their loans to Enbridge. The text of the letter can be edited, so please take advantage of that to rephrase and personalize the text (while still keeping the main info). Here is my edited version of the text:

Dear bank executives,

I am writing to you today to demand that your company does not continue its participation in $2.16 billion credit facility renewal with Enbridge on March 31st, 2021.

Enbridge is the company responsible for the building of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline, which is going on right now in defiance of treaty rights and grave environmental concerns over its construction. If built, Line 3 would cross more than 200 bodies of water in northern Minnesota, crossing reservation boarders and land that the Ojibwe and Dakota people hold treaty rights to and use for food production, including most especially wild rice. The likelihood of a leak or spill, and the devastation that that would cause to people and the climate, is enormous. Even if the pipeline works as it should, its climate effects will be horrific and directly counter to this administration's stated goal of tackling the climate emergency--Line 3 would create more pollution than the equivalent of 50 coal plants.

Renewing your loan to Enbridge is a significant social risk to your company's reputation. A wide variety of groups, including the Red Lake Nation, the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, and Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, MN’s Department of Commerce, and multiple environmental organizations, are currently challenging the legality of Line 3 in court. Meanwhile, over 200,000 people have signed a petition demanding that President Biden take Executive Action to stop Line 3, and Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar has written to President Biden demanding the same. Recently, more than 600 people took to the streets of St. Paul demanding a stop to the pipeline. The best-selling novelist and member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Louise Erdrich wrote in the New York Times: “[Line 3] is is a tar sands climate bomb (...) The state’s environmental impact assessment of the project found the pipeline’s carbon output could be 193 million tons per year. That’s the equivalent of 50 coal-fired power plants or 38 million vehicles on our roads.”

The climate movement has grown dramatically in recent years, gaining more people and more power. Now that the Keystone XL pipeline has been canceled, stopping Line 3 is the number one priority for huge numbers of climate activists across the United States. Your company's funding of Line 3 will not go unnoticed.

Therefore, I strongly urge your company to do the right thing for the environment, for Native rights, and for your own company's reputation, and walk away from Line 3 and the $2.16 billion credit facility renewal with Enbridge on March 31st.

I kept the general flow of the original letter, but used text from my above letter to Biden and significantly rephrased and edited much of the letter to make it my own.

3. If you have money in a bank that funds Line 3 and other pipelines, strongly consider closing your account and moving your money to a credit union or smaller bank that doesn’t fund climate change. (Click here for a zoom-in-able version of the graphic if you’re having trouble reading it.)

The list includes all the major US banks, including JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and Citibank, along with many international institutions, including Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse, Royal Bank of Canada, and many more. Tips for moving your money out of these banks can be found here. (The list/graphic look to be a few years old, but I believe it to still be largely accurate. If you'd like help researching your bank, let me know.)

4. Sign a petition. There are lots of these going around, and they take less than a minute each to sign. Here are some I know of, from StopLine3.org, 350.org, the Rainforest Action Network, and the Sierra Club (this last one will require you to put in your address).

5. Donate. You can donate to Honor the Earth, an Indigenous activist group that founded StopLine3.org, here. You can donate to the frontlines trying to keep the pipeline from being built through StopLine3.org here or through the RAN's microgrants program here.

6. Stay informed on current developments! StopLine3.org has a frequently-updated news page.

chestnut_pod

ICE recently released new regulations requiring international students who take fully online courseloads come fall to leave the country or face deportation. This is transparently a two-birds/one-stone situation in which the Trump administration pressures schools into reopening unsafely and pursues its xenophobia. This all came out yesterday, but there are already things you can do. Safety and students and teachers and staff not dying is obviously the top priority, but there are workarounds that are possible.

1. Sign these various online petitions. Also sign on to this open letter from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

2. Send letters to your representatives. This can be done to your senators through ActionNetwork . As for your House members, it's particularly important that you contacted them if they sit on this subcommittee. Call them all too. You can find email and call scripts written by Cal and Wesleyan students here.

3. Pressure universities. Saying this as a perpetual student, here: you can't trust them and they don't care. Go bug them: UC system, Cal Poly (SLO), Cal Poly (Pomona), University of Washington, Baruch College.

4. Share this class-swap spreadsheet (created by Sumana Kaluvai) with undergraduate students in your lives. If you are an undergrad student, please consider adding yourself to the directory. If you're a teacher, a grad student, or in any other way affiliated with a university, make sure that your school is on this list (if it needs to be) and spread the sheet around your lists, classes, etc.

chestnut_pod

The first one has a filled-in form for contacting your representatives; it was easily adapted to contact them about the other two as well. Thanks to

fresne for bringing these to my attention.

AB 2054, the Community Response Initiative to Strengthen Emergency Systems (CRISES) Act, arranges funds for grants awarded to community-based organizations that replace duties, such as mental health crisis response, that are usually taken on by police. Act here: https://allianceforbmoc.org/crises-act.

ACA5, which basically re-legalizes affirmative action in CA. The language of the bill itself sounds kind of scary --you want me to do WHAT to discrimination protection??-- but it's essentially a repeal of Prop 209, which made affirmative action illegal in publicly funded institutions. The CA NAACP is asking Californians to contact their reps in support. Act here: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/endorse-aca-5?fbclid=IwAR3oVGV6nrdjSDPuMcZYbMg3XVjl2-aH2TNdFzmVbVb_gtKqv9FN-oDA6Mo

ACA6, which would restore voting rights to individuals on parole, essentially means that someone just out of prison could immediately vote again. Yay voting rights. Email your reps for this one!

Note: "ACA" means it's a CA state constitution amendment, so you should definitely contact both your state senators and your assemblymembers, while support for AB 2054 should go only to your assemblymember.

tanaqui

chestnut_pod posted in the check-in post about this compilation of

the most comprehensive listing of fundraisers, petitions, scripts, and action opportunities I've come across so far.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-0KC83vYfVQ-2freQveH43PWxuab2uWDEGolzrNoIks/mobilebasic#h.1n8cbq1bfcom

I thought it was worth pulling out as a post on its own to make sure everyone would see it.

chestnut_pod

Keep up your work in the States, and take a look also at the States' largest colony: Puerto Rico's government is using the protest to pass legislation without due process. This legislation, among other things, would legalize conversion therapy, strip the right to a home of the children of LGBTQ couples and divorced couples, and privatize vast areas of Puerto Rico's public and protected lands.

Please learn more and sign the petition here.

The translation of the text at the petition is:
"On May 11, the Puerto Rican Senate passed a series of amendments which attack the rights of Puerto Ricans. The passed them without public review, without citizen participation, behind closed doors. Senators took advantage of the COVID-19 pandemic and of the vulnerability of Puerto Ricans to push forward their agendas. As a people, we must unite in reclaiming our rights and we must repudiate the very existence of this violent Civil Code."

rydra_wong

Petition: USPS Must Ensure Rights and Safety for Employees and Customers During COVID-19 Pandemic

tanaqui

It's been a while since our last check in. I've been traveling, with limited internet access, so I'm not sure I've caught up on everything that happened while I was offline. But enough to know that Trump, Pence and their minions continue to be despicable.

Thanks to everyone who's been posting action items and links! Here's a reminder of what's been happening in the comm since our last check in:

Support The No Ban Act
National Nurses United Medicare For All Tools
Signal Boost: Captain Awkward On Activism In These Stressful Times
Two Worthwhile Newsletters For Local Action
Trump Baby Will Fly Again -- For A Price
Submit A Public Comment On The New Rule Discriminating Against Trans People

So, what have you all been up to in the last week or are planning to get involved in next week?

Poll #22086 The Week

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 6

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This week, I...

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called my one senator
2 (33.3%)

called my other senator
2 (33.3%)

called my representative
1 (16.7%)

called my governor
1 (16.7%)

called my state reps
0 (0.0%)

sent a postcard/email/letter/fax
3 (50.0%)

attended a town hall
0 (0.0%)

donated money to a cause
2 (33.3%)

attended an in-person activist group
1 (16.7%)

participated in phone/online training
0 (0.0%)

went to a protest
1 (16.7%)

signed up for alerts
0 (0.0%)

worked for a campaign
0 (0.0%)

did textbanking/phonebanking
0 (0.0%)

took care of myself
3 (50.0%)

not a US citizen but worked in solidarity in my own community
1 (16.7%)

did something else
2 (33.3%)

committed to action in the coming week
1 (16.7%)

rydra_wong

The ACLU, NILC and HIAS have all e-mailed to tell me to contact my representatives about this; since I'm a citizen of the wrong country for that, I pass it over to you lot. *g*

Summary from HIAS:

The No Ban Act will repeal all versions of the Muslim Ban authorized through executive order over the past two years, and will amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibit discrimination based on religion. Additionally, it will limit the broad executive authority that allowed the refugee and asylum bans by implementing stricter implementation requirements and greater congressional oversight.

NILC e-mail form with template: https://p2a.co/r7F0uhh
ACLU: https://action.aclu.org/petition/repeal-trumps-anti-immigrant-bans

As we all know, paper letters are more effective than e-communication and phone calls count for a lot, so do whatever you've got the spoons for.

minoanmiss

That's the subject of this petition at the Ben & Jerry's website:

https://secure.benjerry.com/values/issues-we-care-about/democracy/vra

I debated posting about it here, not least because I'm not sure what good it alone can do, but it's a useful starting point for writing and calling our elected officials about the VRA. I hope, anyway.

rydra_wong

ACLU Petition: Stop Trump from pardoning Joe Arpaio

Points out that a pardon would represent an official endorsement and back-pat for systematic violations of the rights of people of colour.

tanaqui

(both seen at

fail_fandomanon)

Here's a twitter thread with a good summary of the current situation, as well as some great ideas and resources for taking action. These include a link to a list of Health Legislative Assistants for various senators, and the suggestion to reach out via social media to friends in states with key senators who need to be influenced:

https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/872911051628707841

It also points out that, worryingly, staffers report calls to senators' offices have fallen back to near to "normal", pre-Trump levels.

This Trumpcare Toolkit also provides a list of the key senators who need to be influenced and gives some easy ways to reach them. There's also a link to a letter asking the Senate to take expert and public testimony on the bill:

https://www.trumpcaretoolkit.org

Edit: Another list of staffers dealing with healthcare for Republican senators:

https://mobile.twitter.com/jonfavs/status/873223442518073346

From the responses to that thread: if your senators are Democrats, you can call and ask them to hold off on all non-essential business until a public hearing is scheduled for the new bill.

lynnenne

Via Faithful America:

Several Latino men had just left the hypothermia shelter at Rising Hope Mission Church in Alexandria, Virginia when a dozen federal agents suddenly surrounded them, pushed them up against a wall, and began checking their immigration status.

Under a policy set by the Obama administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are supposed to avoid churches and other "sensitive locations."

But now that Donald Trump is president, ICE has apparently decided that it's okay to lie in wait outside a church and indiscriminately detain those leaving it.

This raid appears to be the first of its kind, so we need a huge national outcry immediately - before ICE attacks the sanctity of any more churches.

Sign the petition

untonuggan

[TW: settler colonial violence against Native people, genocide]

On this day in 1890, US troops massacred 150 Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee. Afterwards, twenty of those soldiers were given the Congressional Medal of Honor. (In contrast, only seven soldiers were given the medal of honor during the decades-long Afghanistan war.) (Citation)

There is a petition to rescind those medals of honor.

No one should get a medal for genocide.

tanaqui

DeFundDAPL aims to put pressure on the banks financing the Dakota Access Pipeline by asking people to:

boycott the banks/transfer their money to an organisation, such as a local credit union, that doesn't support DAPL (and share that they've done so on social media)

contact banks to voice their objections to their involvement in the project

join (or organise) a local protest against the banks.

sign the petition

The full list of banks is:

Td Securities, CitiBank, Chase, PNC, US Bank, Bank of America, SunTrust, Wells Fargo, Citizens Bank, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Community Trust, HSBC Bank, Deutsche Bank, Compass Bank, Credit Suisse, Sumitomo Mitsui Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, UBS, Comerica, BNP Paribas, Bank of Nova Scotia, Royal Bank of Scotland, Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi UFJ, Mizuho Bank, ABN Amro Capital, Credit Agricole, Intesa Sanpaolo, ING Bank, Natixis, BayernLB, BBVA Securities, ICBC London, SMBC Nikko Securities, Societe Generale.

#DeFundDAPL has provided contact details for the banks (and, in many cases, the name of the CEO).

tanaqui

Army Corps: Don't shut down Standing Rock

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is threatening to shut down Oceti Sakowin, the largest encampment of water protectors and allied protestors opposing the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Late last week the Corps issued notice to Dave Archambault II, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe chairman, that on December 5th they’ll close public access to the land where the encampment is set up, and threatened “prosecution under federal, state, or local laws” of those who remain.

You can use this form from the ACLU to send a message to the Corps demanding that they back off from their plan to shut down Oceti Sakowin.

You can also donate to groups supporting the #NoDAPL struggle in various ways at this page: http://sacredstonecamp.org/donate/

ETA: The Army Corps of Engineers has postponed granting permission to build a particular section of the pipeline along a particular route until an Environmental Impact Statement has been carried out. That means construction has been delayed but not necessarily halted altogether -- although as the whole enterprise seems to be on shaky financial ground, delaying it sufficiently may be enough to kill it.

This is a significant victory. However, my understanding is that the action to close down the Oceti Sakowin encampment and actions to prevent people joining other camps and so on are still scheduled to go ahead, so still need to be protested.

sathari

Link: Change.org petition
Location (if relevant): N/A
Deadline: probably ASAP
Time estimate: ~1min
Requirements: N/a
Anything else: You can also call and email ~~the Department of Justice: 202-353-1555 and voting.section@usdoj.gov respectively~~ (ETA: per comments, this may be the wrong place), as well as your own Congressbeings and those of the states mentioned here: Florida, Wisconsin (which is apparently already conducting an internal audit, whether as part of their election SOP or otherwise), Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

(X-posted to

spoonlessactivists .)

lynnenne

Demand An Audit Of The 2016 Presidential Election

From VerifiedVoting.org:

The FBI determined some months ago that hacking, originating from Russia, was having an influence on our electoral process. These hackers interfered with our presidential election through attempted and successful penetration of email and voter registration databases, among other systems. This created fear, uncertainty, and doubt about the safety of our electoral processes.

Computers tabulated the vast majority of the 129 million votes cast in the presidential election, and polls were wildly off. Did hackers manipulate the results by compromising voting equipment? Did other problems, glitches, or errors affect the outcome?

There's a simple, relatively inexpensive way to find out: audit the electronic results against the paper ballots used by about 75% of U.S. voters.

Sign the Petition

Related: #AuditTheVote is trending on Twitter

EDIT: There is also a phone number you can call here: https://twitter.com/GarnerMeg/status/799716502232514560

spikedluv

I have made a bunch of link posts at my journal which I will bring over here, but let's begin with yesterday's post, which is something simple you can do right now that might make a difference: sign petitions!

1. Electoral College: Electoral College: Make Hillary Clinton President on December 19 (change.org)

2. Pledge to Fight for Justice: Take the pledge: Fight On for Justice (sponsored by Kamala Harris)

3. Stephen Bannon: STEPHEN BANNON HAS NO BUSINESS IN THE WHITE HOUSE (Southern Poverty Law Center)

4. Myron Ebell: Do Not Allow Myron Ebell to Lead the EPA Transition (petitions.whitehouse.gov)

Also, Boston Peeps who can make a phone call/write a letter, here is something you can do right now: a Boston city councilor who yesterday expressed his desire to make Boston a “sanctuary city” for immigrants, i.e. defy Trump & co. by barring local law enforcement from initiating or participating in deportation actions. (His name is in the post and you should read that post for more information.)

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sathari - Action: Electrion Frontiers Foundation's list of "bad bills"
gingicat - defunding the police in Boston
sea_changed - Stop Line 3
chestnut_pod - Actions: Defend M-1 and F-1 intl. students
chestnut_pod - 3 CA State Legislature Bills to Support
tanaqui - Black Lives Matter: compilation of fundraisers, petitions, scripts, and action opportunities
chestnut_pod - 'No' al Código Civil
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tanaqui - Check In 26 May
rydra_wong - Support the No Ban Act
minoanmiss - "Tell Congress to Reauthorize the Voting Rights Act!"
rydra_wong - Petition: stop Trump from pardoning Joe Arpaio
tanaqui - Action: Trumpcare (again...) - Trumpcare Toolkit
lynnenne - Love thy neighbor. No exceptions.
untonuggan - Rescind Medals of Honor for Massacre at Wounded Knee
tanaqui - Support #NoDAPL through #DeFundDAPL
tanaqui - Action: support the #NoDAPL protestors - UPDATED!
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Entries tagged with petition

Action: Electrion Frontiers Foundation's list of "bad bills"

defunding the police in Boston

Stop Line 3

Actions: Defend M-1 and F-1 intl. students

3 CA State Legislature Bills to Support

Black Lives Matter: compilation of fundraisers, petitions, scripts, and action opportunities

'No' al Código Civil

Petition: protect postal service employees

Check In 26 May

Support the No Ban Act

"Tell Congress to Reauthorize the Voting Rights Act!"

Petition: stop Trump from pardoning Joe Arpaio

Action: Trumpcare (again...) - Trumpcare Toolkit

Love thy neighbor. No exceptions.

Rescind Medals of Honor for Massacre at Wounded Knee

Support #NoDAPL through #DeFundDAPL

Action: support the #NoDAPL protestors - UPDATED!

Petition: Audit the election results

Petition for Americans

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