Plan of aCtion - February 13, 2017

First Action:

Call your congressperson:

1. If your rep is Republican, ask that they support a continuation of Obamacare with expanded coverage, increased affordability, and continued ACA- mandated Medicaid expansion. Ask for a reply.
2. If your rep is Democratic, ask them what, specifically, they plan to do to take leadership to support a continuation of Obamacare … etc. as above.
3. Both GOPs and Dems - ask them if they are having a town hall meeting during the upcoming congressional recess, and if not can they please arrange to have one. Ask for a reply. Even if you don’t plan to attend a town hall, if you get details of one, please post it on social media.
   
   

Second Action:

Send a message to Tarrant County, TX to complain about the 8-year sentence (followed by deportation) meted out to Rosa Ortega, a legal resident and mother of five young American children, who voted in two elections. This is a draconian and unprecedented sentence following a jury trial insisted upon by the Criminal District Attorney Sharen Wilson as a muscle-flexing exercise. This despite the fact that the prosecutor’s office wanted to drop charges in exchange for Ortega testifying about voting procedures before the Texas legislature. More details here: “Illegal Voting Gets Texas Woman Eight Years in Jail and Certain Deportation.”
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OPTIONAL Extra Actions:

The whole point of this group is to make it SUSTAINABLE to be an activist for the LONG TERM. Little and often is the way to go. However, if some of you are just bustin’ to go out in person and stomp and shout, here are a couple of suggestions:

• Find out how to support immigrants by showing up when they need help: https://actionnetwork.org/forms/immigrants-are-heretostay.
• Attend a Valentine’s Day rally at the office of your senator or congressperson: https://act.moveon.org/event/feb14/search/.