6-19-23 Newsletter

 

COIN MEETING Tuesday, June 20 at 7 pm, via Zoom   Now that Oregon's GOP senators have returned to work and made a quorum, the senate can vote on numerous bills that had been ignored for weeks during the walk-out.  It appears that a number of bills are being modified so as to bring the Republicans back to work. Regardless of the outcome, join COIN at its Tuesday, June 20 meeting to discuss the future of reproductive freedom and also gun safety legislation which may also be compromised by this "deal".  Register here for the June 20 Zoom meeting and other COIN meetings this year.     •  Who won the walkout? The Oregonian provides helpful perspective in this editorial. JUNETEENTH, 2023 KITCHEN TABLE ACTIVISM FOR OUR RIGHTS Other states besides Oregon are being attacked by their Republican leaders. For instance, Ohio has a special election on August 8, 2023, in which Republicans will try to make it harder for citizens of Ohio to enshrine the right to reproductive liberty in the Ohio constitution. Thanks to Robert Hubbell's Today's Edition newsletter for this information. You can help defeat this measure: Send postcards through PostcardsToVoters.org! Just text “join" to 484-275-2229, or write an email to Join@TonytheDemocrat.org. Or write letters through Vote Forward for its Ohio Campaign. Or phonebank to tell Ohio voters to Vote NO on the August 8th ballot measure. Vote NO Campaign Virtual Phonebank and Training · Ohio Democratic Party (mobilize.us  Dems = growth, Rs = recession  Joe Biden is the third consecutive Democratic President who has brought strong growth, lower deficits and American progress. The last three Republican Presidents all brought recession, higher deficits, American decline. Sources - Bureau of Labor Statistics and With Democrats Things Get Better THE SEARCH IS ON  State Senator Suzanne Weber finally returned to work on Friday, June 16, after the Republican 6-week walkout. If you don't want Weber and other anti-democracy elected leaders in office, please start looking for candidates to run in our next local and state elections, consider running for office yourself, or plan to help good candidates win. The next state senate election is in 2026.  INSIGHTS    "Better to trust the man who is frequently in error than the one who is never in doubt." --Eric Sevareid Indivisible defends democracy by opposing authoritarianism, bigotry, and corruption. Comments, news, and photos to INCO at incoregon@gmail.com.  Resources and other information at www.incoregon.org and www.indivisible.org. Encourage others to sign up for the INCO newsletter at our website or here. Look for the INCO column in Hipfish Monthly. We're on Facebook, too. INCO Weekly Newsletter      June 19, 2023 Website Email Twitter Copyright © 2023 INDIVISIBLE North Coast Oregon, All rights reserved. You are receiving this email because you opted in at our website or signed up at a community group meeting. Our mailing address is: *|766 Lexington Avenue, Astoria, OR 97103:HTML|* Want to change how you receive these emails? You can update your preferences or unsubscribe from this list.