FRIDAY RECAP: April 22, 2022
It’s exhausting living through historic times…
Indivisible Oregon’s Daily Actions can help. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday you’ll find a new DA drilling into a topic crucial to Progressives. The DA will not only giv you the facts quick, but links to “make good trouble,: and further readings and even scripts to help with the call to your Members of Congress. This week, our DAs focused on:
The fast approaching milestone of one million Americans dead from Covid. Blacks and Latinos suffer at twice the rate of their white counterparts. People in red counties die three times faster than their blue counterparts. As new cases rise, we are sliding into an inadequate federal response. Mask requirements are falling away and Congress has failed to authorize adequate funds for tests, vaccines, and more. As our MoCs pivot towards the midterms, we must urge them to sharpen their message and regularly repeat it–outlining Democratic successes in understandable terms and clearly painting the massive differences between them and obstructionist Republicans. Read it here.
Inflation is taking a bite out of us all. Some in Congress still hope portions of Biden’s domestic agenda, like the Child Tax Credit, student debt cancellation, childcare and universal pre-K, can be passed through reconciliation, but time is running out. In this period of soaring inflation, struggling Americans need help. So, no matter how often you’ve called this week, commit to calling some more. And whatever the script, keep stressing the need to remind voters how Dems are working to improve our lives. Read it here.
And finally, we wrote that Putin, his officers, and many Russians soldiers have engaged in multiple illegal acts against Ukrainian civilians and armed forces—from rape to mass bombings of unarmed civilians and the forced deportation of thousands, all violating international law. The culprits must be brought before the International Criminal Court (ICC) established in 2002 to prosecute such war crimes, crimes against humanity. Read it here:
Here are the great topics from which to choose:
April 19: One Million COVID Deaths Later, Are We Numb? — Indivisible Oregon
April 20: AMERICANS NEED ECONOMIC RELIEF NOW — Indivisible Oregon
April 21: PROSECUTE PUTIN AND HIS HENCHMEN FOR WAR CRIMES — Indivisible Oregon
Now, pick up your phone, click on your chosen link(s), and push for a government that works for all Americans.
