Weekly Call To Action - July 4, 2021

7/4/2021

Take Two Actions Now:

This Week These Six Judges Ruled to Make Voting Harder for Minorities. This Cannot Stand!

What can you do?

Join our crucial “Deadline For Democracy” rally next Friday, July 9 at 11am at the Capitol’s Legislative Building. This is our LAST CHANCE to pass Voting Rights protections before it's too late!
Click here to show up and protect voting rights!

Action 1: Register for the July 9th at 11:00 AM rally on the Capitol Campus. Here are more details from our Deadline for Democracy website page.

Ask Our Senators for a “Filibuster Carve-out” for Voting Rights and Elections

Protecting Voting Rights and Fair Elections is EVERYTHING! If we can convince our Senators to make a “carve-out exception” to the filibuster on this issue, the “For The People Act” could pass! You can read more background information here:
How to Pass HR-1: Filibuster Carve-Out for Voting Rights and Elections via a Senate Rule Change.

Here’s how it would work:

In 2017 Mitch McConnell extended the confirmation carve-out exception to Supreme Court justices allowing Republicans to appoint three Supreme Court justices without a super majority. We must use the same rule change to protect democracy.
Our Senators must commit to getting another floor vote on S1, For The People Act, before the August recess or cancel the recess.
We must meet the deadline to protect against gerrymandering. Redistricting happening now will last 10 years.

Action 2: Contact our Senators

Senator Patty Murray, Phone: 253-572-3636 or Contact Form
Senator Maria Cantwell, Phone: 253-572-2281 or Contact Form
- Email both your MOCs at once using Democracy.io.

Your message will have more impact if all messages are not the same. If you can, please modify the script to add your own words and talking points above.

Script: My name is _________ and I am from Olympia Indivisible. I am asking you to support a “filibuster carve-out” for legislation affecting voting and fairness in elections. The rules change would provide that any legislation that concerns elections or voting rights is not subject to the filibuster (60 vote) rule but can be brought to the floor by a simple majority.

Mitch McConnell extended the confirmation carve-out to appoint three Supreme Court justices. We must use the same rule change to protect democracy.

Have you scheduled this event?

Third Annual Olympia Indivisible Picnic
August 8, 2:30 to 5:00 PM

On Sunday, August 8th, 2:30 to 5:00 PM plan to bring yourself, your family, and your friends to the Third Annual Olympia Indivisible Picnic! There will be food and music and games, and did someone say gelato? Most of all there will be good company.

Please schedule this event on your calendar. Detailed information will follow in the upcoming weeks.

News, Thoughts, and Opinions

Some news and thoughts on Climate Change, or not?

Some of us will just not get it.

Some of us will get it, but too soon normalize it and get on with our day.

But although we lived through it, I didn’t know we were breaking not just local but world weather records. I’m getting it!

Scientists Call Northwest Heatwave the 'Most Extreme in World Weather Records'

"Never in the century-plus history of world weather observation have so many all-time heat records fallen by such a large margin than in the past week's historic heatwave in western North America," meteorologist Bob Henson and former National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) hurricane scientist Jeff Masters wrote for Yale Climate Connections.

"It's not hype or exaggeration to call the past week's heatwave the most extreme in world weather records," they argued. "The only heatwave that compares is the great Dust Bowl heatwave of July 1936 in the U.S. Midwest and south-central Canada. But even that cannot compare to what happened in the Northwest U.S. and western Canada over the past week."

—By Jake Johnson