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Weekly Call To Action - April 10, 2022

4/10/2022

 

Quote of the Week:

"What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction."  — Howard Zinn

Take Three Actions Now:

Ask Rep. Strickland to Support Ending Citizens United!

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Ask Rep. Strickland to co-sponsor and support the amendment to overturn Citizens United! 
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On March 24, 2022 Congressman Adam Schiff introduced a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision, and once again allow for reasonable restrictions on corporate campaign contributions and other spending.

Background:
  • Congressman Schiff Introduces Constitutional Amendment To Overturn Citizens United
  • Citizens United Explained

Feel free to modify our sample script to make it personal to you.

Action 1: Contact Rep. Strickland

Option A: Contact your representative by telephone or email. 
  • Marilyn Strickland, Phone: 202-225-9740 or Contact Form 

Script: My name is _______, my zip code is ______. I am asking Representative Strickland to cosponsor the "Constitutional Amendment To Overturn Citizens United". 

Dark money should have no place in our democracy. It is time to return power to the people, and overturn Citizens United once and for all.
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Please speak out and advocate for this amendment!  

Sincerely,
[NAME], [CITY, ZIP]

Option B: Take this action with one click in Take Action Network (TAN) Ask Rep. Strickland to End Citizens United!

Pledge to Decline to Sign I-1929

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Some of Washington’s super rich want to give themselves a huge tax cut, and make the rest of us pay. 

To give themselves a tax cut, they want to take $500 million a year from Washington's Education Legacy Trust Account, which pays for:
  • education, including safety and other repairs for Washington’s aging schools
  • creating more preschools and childcare so parents can get back to work
  • helping hundreds of thousands of students who can’t take another set back

What you should know about I-1929:

  • rolls back a 7% state capital gains tax that only applies to huge (bigger than $250,000) stock profits made by super rich
  • hurts hundreds of thousands of Washington’s working parents who need childcare, and our students who need safe schools

Read the full text of I-1929

Action 2:  Sign now and pledge that you will decline to sign I-1929. Together, we won’t let a few super rich people rig the tax system for themselves, making the rest of us pay for it.

Olympia Residents - Vote on April 26 on the Arts Initiative: Inspire Olympia!

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Residents of Olympia have a chance to vote on April 26 on funding support for local arts organizations and projects. 
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Background:  Following Washington legislators passing a law allowing local governments to raise local sales and use taxes to support local arts organizations, the Olympia City Council passed Resolution No. M-2280 (Inspire Olympia!) concerning a sales and use tax increase to support cultural programs.  

If approved by a majority of voters in the April 26 special election, this proposition authorizes the City of Olympia to impose an additional sales and use tax of 0.1% beginning July 1, 2022, and expiring in seven years. 

The revenue generated shall be used to provide free and discounted access to arts, science, cultural, and heritage programs for Olympia’s residents, free transportation to programs for Olympia public school children, and capital improvements. It would also expand services to Olympia’s diverse, underserved and low-income populations. It could raise $2.3 million annually for the arts.  

This Special Election, for Olympia voters only, asks whether this proposition should be approved.

More information on the initiative and its supporters are in this article in a recent Olympian and on the website of the advocacy working group for this resolution, Inspire Olympia!.  Olympia Indivisible has not taken a position on this legislation, but always supports voting in local elections by making sure that OI members are aware of the issues.

Action 3: Olympia residents, become informed on Inspire Olympia!  Vote in the April 26 election.

​Have You Scheduled These Events?

Action Cafe 
Monday (April 11) at Noon

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Please come to tomorrow's Action Cafe! This weekly Zoom lunch hour gathering is a place to meet, eat, build fellowship and take actions together.

Action: Register HERE for the April 11 Action Cafe. We will send you a Zoom link and tomorrow morning, we'll send you our "menu" with live links for the actions we'll take together. 

Sponsor Our Hunger Walk Team
and/or 
Come Walk with the Team

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Olympia Indivisible is proud to support the 2022 Thurston County Hunger Walk, an annual fundraiser to help The Community Kitchen & The Thurston County Food Bank get food to those in need. 

This year’s walk will take place at the athletic track at St. Martin’s University, Sunday May 1st beginning sharply at 3:00 pm. Olympia Indivisible will have a walking "team" at the event and we're taking pledges right now!

Action A: Please visit our OI Hunger Walk Team Donation Site to make a donation on behalf of OI. We’ve already raised $1,105 on our way to our $4000 goal.
Action B: Consider being part of the walk part of OI's Thurston Hunger Walk Team. You can walk as much or as little as feels right. Sign up here to walk. We would love to see you in person. 

​You might also like to attend:

The State of the Race to Hold Congress
Monday, April 11 at 5pm on Zoom


Kevin Jones, founder and leader of Indivisible Vashon, will discuss the upcoming federal Congressional elections, focusing on which candidates are the most vulnerable and which states offer the most opportunities to protect Democrat-held seats or flip Republican-held seats. Learn about volunteer opportunities to support candidates in these important races. 
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Zoom meeting registration.

Challenges After Jail: Services in Thurston County
Thursday, April 26 at 7pm on Zoom

The National Alliance on Mental Illness Thurston/Mason County (NAMI) will hold a public online forum entitled, “Challenges After Jail: Services in Thurston County”.  

Zoom Meeting Registration

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