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The Rescue America Act. the Biden/Harris Administration Goes Big and Bold to Lift up Struggling Americans While Attacking the Pandemic Web: www.pdxpersist.org Email: [email protected] Twitter, Facebook, Instagram: @pdxpersist The Progressive Promise of 2021 January 17, 2021 NATIONAL ACTION #1: Put people first: The Rescue America Act. The Biden/Harris administration goes big and bold to lift up struggling Americans while attacking the pandemic. Tell our delegation to go for broke. See highlights and addresses on page 4, then riff on this: Dear Representative/Senator _________, Please make Rescue America the first great act of our Democratic Congress under the Biden-Harris administration. There can be no compromise on measures that will help so many people, especially [mention 1-3 crucial provisions]. I hope you use all your influence to ensure it passes in full by a solid majority. ACTION #2: Clean House: H.Res.25. Earl Blumenauer has co-sponsored Rep. Cori Bush’s call for the House Ethics Committee to investigate and recommend action on all 138 House members who sought to overturn the 2020 Presidential election. Remind Representatives Bonamici, DeFazio and Schrader to sign on. We can encourage Earl to encourage them and press all four to stick with it: Dear Representative __________, People who seek to cancel our votes and cripple democracy should not be in government. As your constituent, I ask you to co-sponsor H.Res.25. Then do all you can to make sure that Judiciary Committee Chair Nadler and Rules Committee Chair McGovern move quickly to see that the Ethics Committee investigates fully and Congress acts decisively to expel seditionists. PLANETARY ACTION #3: Farmland not fossil fuels: Port Westward. Columbia County Commissioners are about to consider a plan to turn farming and wetlands into a fossil fuel, heavy industry hub. Oregon’s Land Use Board of Appeals has nixed that twice. Why? Failure to show compatibility with neighboring farms & productive salmon habitat. Still, they persist. Call strike three. Add your name to the Columbia Riverkeeper petition, demanding that Commissioners deny the rezoning request. Do it here. LOCAL ACTION #4: Nike and the Sedition Party. Big money has supported Republicans’ anti-democratic assaults for decades. It’s going to take a long time to get corruption-enabling money out of politics. But we can raise a local voice right now: Nike (Beaverton HQ), presents progressive with its Colin Kaepernick ad but funds Rs. 2020: 78% of about $450,000. Nearly half came from co-founder Phil Knight and wife Penny. (See the Open Secrets report.) They’ve promised to stop supporting the seditionists…but not the RNC that breeds them. Urge Nike to defund the party of hate. Tell Nike what you think about public progressive posturing while shoveling $$$$ to the party of racism, greed, and reactionary, antidemocratic violence. 800-344-6453 (sponsorship/donation, general feedback line) 503-671-6453 (main number) 800-640-8007 (investor relations) or [email protected] Write to President/CEO John Donahoe, One Bowerman Drive, Beaverton 97005 Comment on social media: https://www.facebook.com/nike https://twitter.com/Nike https://www.instagram.com/nike/ A little inspiration: The Kaepernick ad line: ‘Believe in something, even if it means sacrificing everything.’ Notice: #BlackLivesMatter on @nike Twitter. Since when? 1.6.21? How about: #defundrepublicanantidemocracy. Just do it, Nike. Find other miscreants to tag on Bold Progressives’ ‘Drain the Traitors’ page. Bonus Action Help exile Oregon’s House Sedition Caucus member, Cliff Bentz OR-2. Sign the Recall Cliff Bentz Action Committee’s change.org petition Not in his district? Forward it to friends who are! Sign or share the petition to recall Cliff Bentz. What’s in the $1.9 tr Rescue America Act? Some highlights: • Covid Control: solve testing, tracing, supply chain, free vaccine distribution o 100k new health care jobs o Beefed up OSHA standards to protect essential workers, paid sick leave o Safe school opening: more teachers/staff, PPE, help for students (esp BIPOC) • Emergency assistance for workers, families o One fair wage, $15/hr, including all present sub-minimum/disabled workers o $400/week unemployment supplements extended through 9.21 o $1400 to most Americans o Rent/ home energy assistance, extended eviction & foreclosure moratorium o Expanded child tax credit for poor/middle class o More $ for WIC nutrition, SNAP, child care provision • State, local, territorial government help o Funds to create housing for homeless people o $$ to retain state/local government & essential workers o Support for vaccine distribution, testing, reopening schools o $$ to tribal pandemic response/PPE, internet, clean water, electricity • Small business assistance o Grants o Subsidies for low-interest loans, venture capital investment Washington Post has a useful summary here. Amplify, of courseTHE! WEEK AHEAD: COMMITMENT, SERVICE, CELEBRATION Share this Action Guide with 3-5 friends/family/trusted activists PDX’s World Arts Foundation honors Dr. King's life and legacy for the 36th year running. A virtual retrospectiveKeep liking Jan 18,& sharing2 – 5 pm .PDXPersist Find out all theon wayssocial to media watch: -- https://www.facebook.com/worldartsfoundhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/PDXPersistation/ MLKhttps://twitter.com/pdxpersist Day of Service: Inaugural Committee/ Cooked Media (Vote Save America) events to honor Dr. Kinghttps://www.instagram.com/pdxpersist through service. See the list here. Don ’t Shoot Portland 7th Annual March for Human Rights and Dignity/to Reclaim MLK: Peninsula Park, 700 N. Rosa Parks Way: 1–3 p.m. https://www.pdx-blm-events.com/event/reclaim-rev-dr-martin-luther-king-jr-day/ Inauguration participation with our Defend Democracy Coalition: Inaugurate Justice with us on January 20! 4-7PM. Irving Park. https://www.facebook.com/we.defend.democracy Car Caravan too! Bring a sign if you can. Meet at PCC Cascade, 705 N. Killingsworth: 2 pm check-in & train; 2:30 pm, drive to Irving Park, arrive about 4 pm Remember to amplify! Share this Action Guide with 3-5 friends/family/trusted activists Share our Action Center: https://linktr.ee/PDXPersist Keep liking & sharing PDXPersist on social media -- https://www.facebook.com/groups/PDXPersist https://twitter.com/pdxpersist https://www.instagram.com/pdxpersist OREGON’S U.S. CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION Senator Ron Wyden Representative Peter DeFazio 221 Dirksen Senate Office Bldg. 2134 Rayburn House Office Building Washington, DC, 20510 Washington, DC 20515 p (202) 224-5244 f (202) 228-2717 p (202) 225-6416 f (202) 225-0032 https://www.wyden.senate.gov/contact/email https://defazio.house.gov/contact/email-me - ron FB twitter FB twitter *Representative Kurt Schrader Senator Jeff Merkley 2431 Rayburn House Office Building 313 Hart Senate Office Building Washington, DC 20515 Washington, DC 20510 p (202) 225-5711 f (202) 225-5699 p (202) 224-3753 f (202) 228-3997 https://schrader.house.gov/contact/ https://www.merkley.senate.gov/contact FB twitter FB twitter **Representative Cliff Bentz Representative Earl Blumenauer 1239 Longworth House Office Building 1111 Longworth House Office Building Washington, DCC 20515 Washington, DC 20515 P (202)225-6730 f (202) 225-5774 p (202) 225-4811 f (202) 225-8941 not on official website, which is: https://blumenauerforms.house.gov/forms/w https://bentz.house.gov riteyourrep/ FB twitter FB twitter *Rep. Schrader first said impeaching Donald Representative Suzanne Bonamici Trump was like a ‘lynching.’ He apologized 2231 Rayburn House Office Building and voted to impeach. Washington, DC 20515 ** Rep. Bentz was in the sedition group p (202) 225-0855 f (202) 225-9497 voting against certifying Biden’s win. https://bonamici.house.gov/contact FB twitter HEARING TALK ABOUT SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY? What is it? Two or more people conspiring to use force to overthrow the government or ‘prevent, hinder or delay’ execution of any US law. Why is it in play? Preventing Congress’s lawful certification of electoral votes appears to have been one key aim of the 1.6 mob. There’s mounting evidence that violence was planned ahead, among many, to achieve that goal. What’s the penalty, if proven? Up to 20 years in prison. You can read the exact law in 18 US Code Section 2384 here. .
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