Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Wednesday 5/23 Call to Action

Wednesday
1. School Shooting
Another school shooting with more innocent lives lost. Total inaction by our elected representatives. At this point, I believe the best course of action is to vote them out. I wonder how many more people will die in the mean time. We may not be able to change the actions of our Republican members of Congress, but we can be a thorn in their sides. Call them; use these facts to explain why you will be voting for someone new in November. Use this as motivation to get out and help good public servants win.
An ever-growing body of research consistently reaches the same conclusion: The only variable that can explain the high rate of mass shootings in America is its astronomical number of guns. Americans make up about 4.4 percent of the global population but own 42 percent of the world’s guns. The only place that has a higher rate of gun violence than America is Yemen.
https://www.nytimes.com/…/mass-shootings-us-international.h…
America is bursting at the seams with guns, but when mass shootings occur, the NRA and the GOP will blame everything else but guns for these tragedies. Some examples are the following: the media, violent video games, abortion, the lack of religion in schools, Ritalin, a lack of school choice, and finally, too many doors. Good grief!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/…/things-blamed-for-the-de…/…
Kids in school have a lot on their plates: Tests, sports, relationships, and now being killed in a mass shooting.
Students raised with the persistence of mass shootings and versed in the protocol of active shooter drills think often of the possibility of a shooting in their schools. Whether they are in English or history class, they routinely consider the safety of their classrooms, even running scenarios in their heads about how likely they are to get shot.
Since the Sandy Hook Elementary School mass shooting nearly six years ago in Newtown, Conn. — when this generation’s high school students were of middle-school age or younger — there have been more than 200 school shootings nationwide, including the recent rampage in Parkland, Fla., which inspired a youth-led movement to reform gun laws.
Shootings are so common that students talk in frighteningly practical terms about the location of doors and windows in their classrooms as risk factors. They calculate escape routes. And they ponder hiding spots in wide-open rooms.
This is not normal and it is certainly not okay.
https://www.nytimes.com/…/school-shootings-drills-risks.htm…
Following the Parkland shooting in February, Trump established a Federal Commission on School Safety headed by Betsy Devos. The group has met once. Children continue to be killed at school. https://news.vice.com/…/what-exactly-is-besty-devos-school-… Let’s ask Betsy DeVos and our MoCs just how long we need to wait for answers to this national crisis. DeVos: https://www.usa.gov/federal-age…/u-s-department-of-education
2. Minnesota State Legislature
The Minnesota State Legislature finished their session in the wee hours on Sunday. Check out Watch Your Reps MN for the highlights (and lowlights). There are some bills that we need Governor Dayton to veto.https://mailchi.mp/…/watchyourrepsmn-session-is-done-but-ma…
3. EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency barred The Associated Press, CNN and the environmental-focused news organization E&E from a national summit on harmful water contaminants.
The EPA blocked the news organizations from attending Tuesday’s Washington meeting, convened by EPA chief Scott Pruitt.
EPA spokesman Jahan Wilcox told the barred organizations they were not invited and there was no space for them, but gave no indication of why they specifically were barred.
Pruitt has faced criticism in recent weeks over emails showing the EPA sought to intervene in a critical study on the contaminant.
Journalists are fighting to keep our democracy strong. This type of action from the EPA is alarming.
https://apnews.com/d799f4e096cc42cf99ae01b02d1e0688
4. Blue Wave
Want to know the best way to get out the vote? It’s canvassing. Nothing beats face to face interaction with voters. Put on your walking shoes and join a local campaign in some lively door knocking. If we all do a little we can make a big difference. What we do in the next 5 months will affect our lives for years to come.
https://politicalcharge.org/…/what-is-the-1-most-effective…/
Here are the candidates in congressional district 2
Angie Craig: https://cd2action.com/congress/
State Congress for CD2: https://cd2action.com/minnesota-house/
Sites to Check:
If Trump fires Mueller or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, please be ready to take to the streets in protest.
https://act.moveon.org/…/mueller-firing-rapid-respo…/search/
CD2Action https://cd2action.com/, @CD2action
League of Women Voters MN https://lwvmn.org/
Klobuchar-202-224-3244
Smith (202) 224-5641
House of Representative switchboard: (202) 224-3121
MN Legislators: https://www.leg.state.mn.us/leg/legislators
Resistbot: https://resistbot.io/
Governor Dayton- https://mn.gov/governor/contact-us/
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