TONIGHT! December 14th at 7pm: Davis residents – register for a Community Conversation on Policing and Public Safety.
A public forum co-convened by Yolo People Power, Indivisible Yolo and the ACLU Yolo Chapter. This conversation is a chance for community members to explore the recent recommendations presented by the City’s Public Health and Safety Joint Subcommittee, and to explore the way forward together.
In national news: This week, negotiations on a pandemic relief bill continue and it’s down to the wire: 16 million unemployed workers will lose benefits by the end of the year and the federal moratorium on evictions is set to expire on December 31st. Republicans are taking advantage of the need for aid by trying to get a liability shield for corporations that put workers and customers at risk during the pandemic.
From Indivisible.org:
Mitch McConnell has had only one priority during negotiations over COVID relief – making sure corporations who knowingly expose their workers and customers to the pandemic get off scot-free. We have seen significant levels of community spread stemming from unsafe workplaces, particularly at large corporations who did not follow basic CDC safety guidelines, disproportionately impacted workers of color. All the while, many of these corporations worked with the Trump administration or local officials to weaken safety regulations and make it more difficult for the public to hold them accountable, or in some cases even know if their workers were contracting COVID.
The Republican solution to this problem was not to create stricter safety standards while providing small businesses the resources they need to keep workers and customers safe. Instead, led by McConnell, they have been fighting for a 5-year liability waiver that would prevent anyone from filing a lawsuit against a corporation for a COVID-19 safety violation, even if the corporation knowingly and egregiously put people in harm’s way.
This week, we’re contacting our members of Congress to tell them we must pass real relief, without including McConnell’s poison pill of corporate immunity.
Example call scripts and contact information for our members of Congress are below.
TONIGHT!
Community Conversations: Policing and Public Safety- Learn about and discuss the 9 recommendations about re-envisioning public safety being considered by the Davis City Council. Dec. 14, 7pm.
Register for the Zoom link: tiny.cc/publicsafetydavisdec14
Brought to you by: Yolo People Power, Indivisible Yolo, and ACLU Yolo County Chapter.
Tell Our Members of Congress: Don’t let corporations get away with murder!
- Sen. Feinstein: 415-393-0707 (SF) 202-224-3841 (D.C) (email)
- Sen. Harris: 916-448-2787 (Sacramento) 202-224-3553 (D.C.) (email)
- Rep. Garamendi (530) 753-5301 (Davis) (202)-225-1880 (D.C.) (email)
- (if Rep. Matsui is your representative, the same example script applies)
Sample Call Script:
Hello, my name is [YOUR NAME] and I am a constituent from [CITY, zip code]. As my representative in Congress, I ask [Senator Feinstein/Senator Harris/ Representative Garamendi] to ensure that any pandemic emergency-relief bill:
- Extends the current eviction and foreclosure moratoriums;
- Includes direct payments to individuals in addition to the much-too-meager extended unemployment benefits;
- and includes desperately needed aid to state and local governments.
- Do NOT pass a bill that gives corporations any kind of a liability shield. It is unacceptable to provide get-out-of-jail-free cards for corporations that willfully and negligently put their customers and employees at risk by violating health & safety rules and guidelines.
Please fight to pass a pandemic relief bill before the end of the year that helps people, not corporations. Thank you.
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