FYI !
from
a4a Leadership
Sunday, December 31, 2017
Friday, December 29, 2017
Thursday, December 28, 2017
Saturday, December 23, 2017
ACT Now! Happy Holidays
Happy Holidays
Eid Milad un-Nabi, Solstice,
Hannuka, Christmas, Kwanza
Whatever you celebrate we hope the coming year brings all Peace and Joy.
alliance4action
Thursday, December 21, 2017
ACT NOW! Green Valley Women's March Rally Jan. 20, 2018
ACT NOW!
Green Valley Women's March Rally .2
1/20/2018
I Believe I Can Make A Difference!
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
ACT NOW ! Immigration Meeting Cancelled for Rallies
ACT NOW!
from
The Immigration Team
We have two better options than a meeting this week for you.
The a4a Immigration meeting which had been planned for Wednesday, Dec. 20 has
been cancelled.
Instead please join us at one or both rallies this week at
McSally’s office (4400 E. Broadway, Tucson). The Tuesday rally is from 3pm to
6pm and sponsored by LUCHA and OFA. The Friday rally is from 8am to 12pm.
Arlynne is going Tuesday and Sara Busey (520-305-4263) is going Friday.
Make a sign and bring it. We need Congress to pass The Dream
Act to protect the 800,000 DACA young people. Already 122 per day are losing
their DACA designation and are vulnerable for deportation.
Can’t come? Call your Senators and Representative to vote
YES on the Dream Act…before December 22!
Instead please join us at one or both rallies this week at
McSally’s office (4400 E. Broadway, Tucson). The Tuesday rally is from 3pm to
6pm and sponsored by LUCHA and OFA. The Friday rally is from 8am to 12pm.
Arlynne is going Tuesday and Sara Busey (520-305-4263) is going Friday.
Make a sign and bring it. We need Congress to pass The Dream
Act to protect the 800,000 DACA young people. Already 122 per day are losing
their DACA designation and are vulnerable for deportation.
Can’t come? Call your Senators and Representative to vote
YES on the Dream Act…before December 22!
Monday, December 18, 2017
FYI! Meetings days and times
Happy Our--except this month which will be on the 18th, since the 25th is a holiday!
Friday, December 15, 2017
Thursday, December 14, 2017
Wednesday, December 13, 2017
a4a Supports the YWCA Operation Haboob
FYI !
from
a4a Leadership
http://www.ywcatucson.org
https://www.facebook.com/YWCATucson/
I Believe I Can Make a Difference!
Monday, December 11, 2017
Wednesday, December 6, 2017
FYI! Progressive Candidates Action Group Invites You to their next Meeting
FYI!
from
The Progressive Candidates Action Group
I BELIEVE I CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Tuesday, December 5, 2017
12/15 Meeting Reminder & Bylaws Review
FYI !
REMINDER GENERAL MEETING 12/15
www.alliance4action.org/p/a.html
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
!FYI!
from
The Leadership Team
alliance4action encourages all its members to reach out with Letters to Editors, Opinion Columns, etc. on topics of interest to you.
In order to use a4a’s name however, i.e., to in effect “speak for” a4a, your text needs to be approved in advance by a4a.
Please submit your draft to Maureen Brooks at foolmetwice2018@gmail.com or vcdarte85614@gmail.com, or opera12515@yahoo.comThank you.
Monday, November 27, 2017
Sunday, November 26, 2017
Friday, November 24, 2017
Pima County Superintendent of Schools coming to Education Group
FYI !
from
The Education Group
I Believe I Can Make A Difference!
Monday, November 20, 2017
Sunday, November 19, 2017
ACT NOW!
Protect
Dreamers!
Contact your Senators & Representatives—Again!
To pass a Clean Dream Act now!
(S.1615 & H.R.3440)
Time is running out for over
700,000 DACA. March 5thends DACA without action by Congress.
Many will be at risk for deportation.
Talking Points:
* 22,000 Dreamers have already
lost their DACA status, unable to get together the $500 filing fee and other
documents due to a critically short 30 day re-enrollment period allowed by the
Trump administration.
* 91% of Dreamers are employed,
in school or in the military defending us.
* Eligible DACA contribute $2
billion in state and local taxes.
* DACA workers add to Social
Security and Medicare, which could lose $24.6 billion over 10 years without
their contributions.
* DACA do not take
jobs away from Americans nor depress their wages, according to a National
Academy of Sciences, Engineering & Medicine report.
I Believe I Can Make A Difference!
Saturday, November 11, 2017
General Meeting Civics 101 11/17
FYI
a4a General Meeting
A not-to-be missed program. How Federal & State government works.
I Believe I Can Make a Difference!
Friday, November 10, 2017
Reminder Democratic Candidates for Governor's Forum 11/16
FYI
from
a4a Progressive Candidate Group
REMINDER
Saturday, November 4, 2017
Saturday, October 28, 2017
Act Now: ACA Open Enrollment
ACT NOW !
TO HELP WITH ACA OPEN ENROLLMENT
from
THE a4a HEALTH CARE ACTION GROUP
Open Enrollment for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) individual marketplaces starts November 1st. It lasts until December 15th. The message is:
• The ACA is open for business. It has not changed.
• There are still good deals on insurance to be found.
• You must re-enroll if you are already on in order to stay covered.
• The premium increases for Arizona are small.
For Arizona people, share this website:
www.coveraz.org
Call 1-800-377-3536
For out of state people, share this website:
www.getamericacovered.org
Go to RESOURCES
Call 1-800-318-2596
Consider printing out these materials from Healthcare.gov:
· Get Health Insurance for 2018 (poster) English | Spanish
· The Health Insurance Marketplace (brochure) English | Spanish
· A One-Page Guide to the Health Insurance Marketplace (fact sheet) English | Spanish
Please post this information on your Facebook page; send it around via Twitter; take it to wherever you volunteer, like at Food Banks or at the Farmers Market; post it at your church; share it with any younger working people that you encounter, starting now.
The White House strategy is to sabotage the marketplaces by making this process short and confusing and decreasing the numbers of people who can help people enroll. We can try to push back and spread the word. THE ACA IS ALIVE AND WELL AND OFFERING INSURANCE UNTIL DECEMBER 15TH.
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Act Now: Children's Health Insurance Program
ACT NOW
from
THE a4a HEALTH CARE GROUP
SPEAK OUT ON THESE CONGRESSIONAL TRAVESTIES
Use your modality of choice
to insist that:
·
Our Members of
Congress support Re-Authorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program
(CHIP)
·
Our Members of
Congress support Re-Authorization of the Community Health Center (CHC) Program
·
Our Members of
Congress support the Alexander-Murray Bi-Partisan Bill to stabilize the
Affordable Care Act marketplaces
·
They make public
statements regarding each of these issues.
Contact Numbers:
Senator Flake
Washington DC: (202) 224-4521
Washington DC: (202) 224-4521
Phoenix: 602-840-1891
Tucson: 520-575-8633
Senator McCain
Washington DC: 202-224-2235
Phoenix: 602-952-2410
Tucson: 520-670-6334
Senator McCain
Washington DC: 202-224-2235
Phoenix: 602-952-2410
Tucson: 520-670-6334
Representative McSally
Washington DC: 202-225-2542
Tucson: 520-881-3588
Sierra Vista: 520-459-3115
Note: Ask her specifically
what happened to the “Problem Solvers Caucus” work on stabilizing the ACA
marketplaces.
Get email addresses, snail mail addresses, fax numbers, Facebook
page links and Twitter feeds on their websites.
To do Resistbot: Put Resistbot,io in your browser and follow the directions for texting that turns into faxes. Or text "resist" to 50409.
To do Resistbot: Put Resistbot,io in your browser and follow the directions for texting that turns into faxes. Or text "resist" to 50409.
Friday, October 27, 2017
Thursday, October 26, 2017
Democratic Candidates for Governor Forum 11/16
FYI!
from
a4a Progressive Candidates Goup
I Believe I Can Make A Difference!
Wednesday, October 25, 2017
ACT NOW! DACA in Jeopardy
ACT NOW!
DACA in JEOPARDY
from
a4a Immigration Group
I Believe I Can Make a Difference!!
Monday, October 23, 2017
FYI!
from
a4a Racial Justice Group
changeishappening!
citizen activists
UPCOMING MEETING
Sunday, November 5, 2017
2:00-4:30
Casa Community Center
780 South Park Centre
LaPosada Campus
“13th” Documentary
This documentary explores the “intersection of race, justice and mass incarceration in the United States.” It is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which freed the slaves and prohibited slavery (unless as punishment for a crime). Director Ava DuVernay demonstrates that slavery has been perpetuated since the end of the Civil War, through arrests of poor freedmen, convict leasing, disenfranchisement, lynchings, and Jim Crow. She addresses the “war on drugs” that weighs heavily on minority communities, and the mass incarceration of people of color in the U.S., along with the prison-industrial complex.
A brief Question/Answer period will follow the film. This event is offered by Action4RacialJustice, a working group of alliance4action.
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Wednesday, October 18, 2017
Tuesday, October 17, 2017
A4A Mission Statement & Leadership Team
!FYI!
From Ann Striker
alliance4action is gearing up for a busy season as we welcome back our winter visitors. We’re keen to hear about the activities being taken in your home town.
We have taken some organizational steps we’d like to share with you.
First, the Leadership team adopted a mission statement on October 13:
alliance4action empowers and mobilizes our community to elect candidates and supports solutions that promote democracy and reflect our progressive values.
The Leadership team is the decision making body of a4a and consists of:
Maureen Brooks
Lenore Bell #
Myra Christeck
Polly Daly #
Pam Duchaine #
Carrell Ebert
Miriam Lindmeier #
Bill Maki
Sherry Moreau
Arlynne Ostlund #
Maggie Sievers
Ann Striker #
Jean Vickers
Those with a # next to their name comprise the Core Group and do advance planning for the Leadership team.
We have fixed meeting dates and times.
The Leadership team meets the second Friday morning of the month and the General Membership meets the third Friday.
The Core Group meets on an as needed basis.
Specific information on the dates and guest speakers for these meetings can be found on our Facebook page and our website: alliance4action.org.
Most of our action teams have been meeting on a regular basis over the summer and their accomplishments have been many. Those include Health Care, Education, Racial Justice and Electing Progressive Candidates. The Immigration and Climate Change action teams are now resuming. Our LGBTQ group needs a new leader. Information about meeting times is available at aliance4action.org.
Next steps are to write by-laws and fill some critical positions. We’ll be publicizing the organization at Farmers Markets starting November 1.
We hope you will join us as we REENERGIZE! Put our Happy Our on your calendars for Monday, October 23 at 4 pm at the 19th Hole and spend some social time with like minded people!!
I BELIEVE I CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
Monday, October 16, 2017
!FYI!
REMINDER
GENERAL A4A MEETING
10:00 am Friday october 20
BMO Harris Bank, Continental
The STAT team from the Stand Together Arizona Advocacy and Training Center with YWCA Southern Arizona will present Operation Haboob & you are invited to attend! Their goals are written below.You're invited to take Arizona by storm!
We know that you are as concerned about the current state of Arizona and its future as we are. That’s why we are asking you to help us launch Operation Haboob this month. It is time for us to take Arizona by storm – to reclaim democracy – to give power back to the people of Arizona to take it away from powerful, outside interests – and to make this state a place where everybody can thrive.
There are three key areas of Operation Haboob:
• Operation Haboob is intersectional. The issues that we all care about are related. Let’s start working together to develop and drive a unified agenda for Arizona.
• Operation Haboob is about movement building. This is a long-term project to put power back in the hands of people -- and we’ve launched the Stand Together Arizona Training & Advocacy Center (STAT) to give this project a backbone and the support it needs to succeed -- but it is not about starting a new organization. It is about all of our organizations and groups working together.
• Operation Haboob is non-partisan. This effort is “political.” We want to put leaders and laws in place that will make Arizona a place where everyone can thrive. But we are not supporting a particular Party. We want all of our leaders to be accountable to the people.
We believe that we have an opportunity to make real and meaningful change in this state. But we can’t do it without you.
The challenge is clear. The time is now. Let’s take Arizona by storm and make it a place where everybody can thrive. Let’s do this. Together.
Take the online survey: bit.ly/operationhaboob
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Dave Schapira-dem candidate for supe of state schools
FYI !
REMINDER--PROGRAM 10/21
AZ Needs a State Superintendent of Schools who believes in public K-12 schools
Meet David Schapira
Saturday, October 21 at 3:00pm
room #203 Continental Shopping Mall
and will be our guest speaker on Saturday, October 21st at 3:00 pm. The program will be held in our upstairs conference room, #203 in the Continental Shopping Mall. Mr. Schapira is an informed and passionate speaker and this is a "must see" presentation for all who are concerned about public education in Arizona.
Following the question and answer period of the program there will be a wine and cheese reception.
This program is a partnership between our DCSRA Programs Committee and the Alliance4Action Election of Progressive Candidates Committee. We look forward to seeing you there.
David Schapira web site
Sunday, October 15, 2017
!ACT NOW!
TO PRESERVE THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT’S
COST-SHARING REDUCTION PAYMENTS
From the a4a Health Care Action Group
The Cost-Sharing Reduction payments (CSRs) go directly to insurance companies working in the ACA individual marketplaces. They are key to keeping co-pays and deductibles affordable for some 7 million lower income Americans. They are key to stabilizing the ACA marketplaces, now and going forward.
The President announced the immediate cessation of these payments. His goal is sabotage, pure and simple. The First Action we can take is to call the White House Comment Line to register our disapproval. See below.
The Second Action we can take is to call, Resistbot, email, Facebook, Tweet or fax our Members of Congress to protect the CSRs legislatively. Senators Flake and McCain must actively support the Murray-Alexander bipartisan effort to stabilize the marketplaces, including CSR preservation. Rep. McSally must jumpstart her bipartisan “Problem Solvers” Caucus in the House to do the same thing. See below.
WHITE HOUSE COMMENT LINE: 202-456-1111 (Monday-Friday, 9-4, EST)
Senator Jeff Flake: 202-224-4521 (Washington) or 520-575-8633 (Tucson) or 602-840-1891 (Phoenix)
Senator John McCain: 202-224-2235 (Washington) or 520-670-6334 (Tucson) or 602-952-2410 (Phoenix)
Representative Martha McSally: 202-225-2542 (Washington) or 520-881-3588 (Tucson) or 520-459-3115 (Sierra Vista)
Get fax numbers, email addresses, Facebook and Twitter connections on-line at the websites for Flake, McCain and McSally. Calls and Resistbots are recommended.
New to Resistbot? Text “resist” to 50409 or put resistbot.io in your browser.
Talking Points (If Desired) - This decision will:
• Raise premiums for middle class families.
• Increase the federal deficit substantially over 10 years.
• Drive a million people out of the marketplaces.
• Drive insurance companies out of the marketplaces
For more information, email planetjurs@mac.com
Thursday, October 12, 2017
General Meeting Fri. 10/20 Operation Haboob
!FYI!
a4a General Meeting
10:00 am
Friday, October 20
The STAT team from the Stand Together Arizona Advocacy and Training Center with YWCA Southern Arizona will present Operation Haboob at the Alliance4Action general meeting on Friday, Oct. 20 at 10 a.m.
Operation Haboob is a recently launched statewide project that includes an online survey to help us create a people-powered platform to help voters and lawmakers understand what really matters to Arizonans this next election season.
Our goals the next few months are to rebuild community, revive democracy and create a storm of thousands of Arizonans across the state eager to vote and be engaged.
We are excited to present our project to you in Green Valley, the first town we will visit as part of our statewide listening tour taking us to other towns and cities across the state covering about 3,000 miles. For more info, visit us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/YWCASTAT/
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Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Monday, October 2, 2017
!ACT NOW!
from
a4a Immigration Team
We can help the Dreamers now!
Those in Arizona:Meet Wednesday, October 11 from 3 to 5 pm at Cayley Cakes, 555 N. La Cañada, Green Valley. Bring a friend or neighbor. We will be getting you up to speed on the latest immigration issues.
All of us can take these two actions:
1. Please contact your Republican senators and representatives.
Call, write, fax, or email…or better yet, go in person…to encourage your Republican senators and representatives to co-sponsor and/or support the clean Dream Act bills in the Senate or House. A clean Dream Act is one without adding on a border security piece, which was discussed by Schumer, Pelosi and Trump.
To contact legislators in your state, go to congress.gov, click on “Committees” at the top, choose the pertinent Committee in the Senate or House, choose Membership and it will take you to a link with contact information for your senator or representative.
S1615 Dream Act of 2017 is in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
AZ Sen. Flake is a co-sponsor and on the Judiciary Committee.
There are presently only 3 Republicans out of 9 co-sponsors. Let’s get more!
HR3440 Dream Act of 2017 is in House Judiciary Committee - and the Committee on Education and Workforce.
There are presently only 5 Republicans of 200 co-sponsors. Let’s get more!
2. Donate to the Dreamers. Dreamers have until October 5 to renew their applications. You can help by donating toward the $495 application fee for a Dreamer’s renewal. Here are two viable ways to do it.
United We Dream
https://secure.actblue.com/donate/renewalfund?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=3+Things+You+Can+Do+to+Support+Dreamers+Now&utm_campaign=LoveResists%3A+September+DACA
Scholarships A-Z
https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/azdacafund
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Sunday, October 1, 2017
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Call and Thank McCain Call and Ask Flake to vote NO
!ACT NOW!
Call and Thank McCain for his pledge to vote NO
Call and Ask Flake to vote NO
The Graham-Cassidy
bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is a
cruel and craven patchwork. We must defeat it prior to September 30th, the
last date the Republicans can pass something with 50 votes. Senator McCain has pledged to vote NO.
Please call, fax, email or Resistbot Senator Flake's offices every day until there is a resolution. Contact volume is far from what it was in July. We can change that starting now. THEN LET US ALL CALL ON MONDAY AND MELT THE PHONES. There will be sham hearings on Monday and Tuesday. Voting could be scheduled for Wednesday. Here are Talking Points for different messages every day. Or make your own. * Regular Order: This process is bad for democracy. It's derailed a bipartisan effort (Alexander-Murray) to stabilize the ACA marketplaces. The major health, medical and insurer groups are against Graham-Cassidy. * Pre-Existing Condition Coverage: The waivers that states can obtain allow insurers to charge higher prices based on health status, drop "essential health benefits" and reinstate lifetime and annual limits. (Check out the latest Jimmy Kimmel piece.) * CBO Scoring: Scoring to include how many will lose insurance coverage or estimate premium hikes cannot be done before voting happens. This should be a deal breaker. * Medicaid (AHCCCS) Expansion: Arizona will be punished for covering more people with a market-based effective program. Our gains will be lost. * Bait and Switch: Flexibility to the states is the purported Holy Grail here, but the decreases in federal funding make it a tin cup with a hole. Avalere's report (a respected health research firm) says Arizona will lose 11 billion by 2026. This will be flexibility regarding how and who to hurt the most. * Individual Marketplace Stability: Arizona's ranchers and and independent contractors will lose the tax credits that help them buy insurance. Insurers will lose the cost-sharing subsidies that help people with out-of-pocket costs and stabilize the marketplaces. * Fifty Ways to Lose Your Insurance: Is he OK with 50 underfunded variations of health care coverage? Is he OK with that confusion, chaos and uncertainty upending the lives of low-income and vulnerable Arizonans? Contact Numbers: Senator Flake Washington DC: (202) 224-4521
Phoenix:
602-840-1891
Tucson:
520-575-8633
Get his email address, snail mail address, fax numbers or Facebook page link
on his website.
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