TAKE ACTION TO CLOSE THE CAMPS
ACTION ONE: CALL YOUR SENATORS
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
I am devastated at the illegal treatment of our neighbors at the concentration camps at the border. I ask the Senator to:
- Demand that the Trump administration #CloseTheCamps
- Call for an impeachment inquiry to hold Trump accountable for his crimes including these human rights violations at the concentration camps.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR HOUSE REPS
Not sure who your U.S. Representative is? Find out here.
SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code]. I am calling because…
I am devastated at the illegal treatment of our neighbors at the concentration camps at the border. I ask the Rep to:
- Demand that the Trump administration #CloseTheCamps
- Call for an impeachment inquiry to hold Trump accountable for his crimes including these human rights violations at the concentration camps.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
ACTION THREE: WORK TO #CLOSETHECAMPS FOR EVERY BY ELECTING A NEW CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT
- INDIVISIBLE OREGON IS ORGANIZING LETTER-WRITING PARTIES USING SWING LEFT TOOLS TO CONTACT VOTERS WHOSE VOTER REGISTRATION DATA MAY NEED UPDATING
- FIND A LETTER WRITING PARTY NEAR YOU OR ORGANIZE ONE YOURSELF: HTTPS://SWINGLEFT.ORG/EVENTS.
- PORTLANDERS, JOIN A PARTY ON THE FOURTH TUESDAY OF EVERY MONTH. SIGN UP HERE
BACKGROUND:
Yesterday thousands demanded the Trump administration #CloseTheCamps – we must all bear witness and act.
“The day after we arrived here, my baby began vomiting and having diarrhea. I asked to see a doctor and they did not take us. I asked again the next day and the guard said “She doesn’t have the face of a sick baby. She doesn’t need to see a doctor.” My baby daughter has not had medicine since we first arrived. She has a very bad cough, fever and continues to vomit and have diarrhea.”
“They told us that we could only have one layer of clothing, and they threw away the rest of our clothes in the garbage.”
“The conditions are very crowded in the cage where I am at. There are about 75 people each night that I have been here. We sleep literally stacked on top of each other should to shoulder. So many are sick. On any given day there are at least 20 that are sick. They try to separate the ones that are sick, so that means people come and go. But not everyone goes if they are sick.”
Do not look away. Call every day until they #CloseTheCamps
