UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME & HEALTH
ACTION ONE: JOIN US FOR #INDIVISIBLE TUESDAY
Happy Election Day! We will be joined by Senator Merkley’s staff and a special guest this week. We will thank them for pushing for progressive plans in the COVID-19 packages and ask them to keep advocating for universal basic income that goes directly to the people. Register in advance for this meeting:
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJcudOygqTksEtJIfv2szpVHnC4l1pu6Kmli
ACTION TWO: CALL YOUR SENATORS
SAMPLE SCRIPT FOR WYDEN AND MERKLEY:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
Happy Election Day! Thank you for your tireless advocacy for progressive plans in the COVID-19 packages. I’m also calling to ask you to continue that work by advocating for universal basic income. I believe a monthly check that goes directly to people to guarantee they can stay in their homes, keep their lights on, put food on their tables, and stay home and consult a doctor when they’re is sick is essential to navigating our way compassionately and safely through this pandemic.
CALL SENATOR MERKLEY
CALL SENATOR WYDEN
ACTION THREE: CALL YOUR HOUSE REP
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SAMPLE SCRIPTS FOR REPRESENTATIVES:
My name is [–] and I’m a constituent from [city], Oregon [zip code].
For Blumenauer: Happy Election Day! Thank you for your tireless advocacy for progressive plans in the COVID-19 packages. I’m also calling to ask you to continue that work by advocating for universal basic income. I believe a monthly check that goes directly to people to guarantee they can stay in their homes, keep their lights on, put food on their tables, and stay home and consult a doctor when they’re is sick is essential to navigating our way compassionately and safely through this pandemic.
For Bonamici, DeFazio, and Schrader: Happy Election Day! Thank you for your support for money directly to people and states. I’m calling to day to ask you to do more, to advocate for universal basic income, a monthly check that goes directly to people to to guarantee they can stay in their homes, keep their lights on, put food on their tables, and stay home and consult a doctor when they’re sick.
For Walden: Happy Election Day! As a constituent, I expect you to support universal basic income, a monthly check that goes directly to people to guarantee they can stay in their homes, keep their lights on, put food on their tables, and stay home and consult a doctor when they’re sick.
CALL SUZANNE BONAMICI (OR-01)
CALL GREG WALDEN (OR-02)
CALL BLUMENAUER (OR-03)
CALL PETER DEFAZIO (OR-04)
CALL KURT SCHRADER (OR-05)
BACKGROUND:
Happy Election Day! We appreciate our MOCs advocating for progressive policies. Today, we also ask them to push for universal basic income.
Economists know the country’s financial health will only improve when the pandemic abates. Yet Trump‘s GOP consistently refuses to act on our behalf, resulting in needless suffering and death. Their greed and disregard for US compound their decades of financial give-aways to the wealthy while defunding our social safety net and vilifying government.
The pandemic underscores the ways in which racism, xenophobia, sexism, and ignoring poverty lead to hunger, homelessness, illness, and death. People without options accept low paying jobs with no paid sick leave or health insurance, are thus more vulnerable to getting sicker, more often lose jobs during economic crises, and now are being forced to work in unsafe conditions by Trump’s GOP’s refusal to help states medically or financially, and by their thugs’ threats.
Everyone must be able to protect their health while paying the rent, keeping the lights on, and buying groceries. Everyone must be able to consult a doctor and stay home when they’re sick. Basic universal income will eliminate the choice no one should be forced to make: their health or destitution.
