Actions

Actions

2016 – 2018 Actions

 

ORGANIZATIONAL MINYAN/CHAPTER FORMATION

  • Attended the 2016 national conference of Bend the Arc in Washington, D.C. (June 2016)
  • Bend the Arc SLO Organizational meetings (Janurary and June 2017)

POLITICAL ACTION

  • March against Trump, in favor of civil rights and equality during the fall of 2016
  • Held anti-Trump demonstrations prior to and during the 2016 Republican National Convention (June and July 2016))

Phone banking:

  • phone banked Colorado voters to help impact the election in 2016
  • Phone banking in opposition to the Neil Gorsuch Supreme Court nomination

 

COMMUNITY COLLABORATION

  • Hosted 3 collaboration meetings with like minded organizations county wide resulting in over 30 collaboration partners—(March, April and July 2017)
  • March for Immigrant Workers/International Workers Day (May 2017)
  • Participated individually and as a group during 2017 in various other community activities including: Being an Ally; Vigil for Syrian Refugees (organized by WMSLO); March for Science; RISE “Walk a Mile in her Shoes” event, Undocu/Dreamers rally (February 2018)
  • Participated in 2017 Women’s March rally.
  • Participated in the Summer of Love Pop Festival (August 2017),
  • Participated in the SLO Pride March on (July 2017)
  • Had a booth and spoke at the NAACP Take a Knee Rally 2/3/ and the SLO Pride March (July 2017)
  • Submitted a letter that was read at the San Luis Obispo Unified School District Board meeting regarding a recent hate crime involving a special needs student who was perceived as gay at SLOHS (in coordination with the Tranz Alliance) (March 2018)
  • Endorsed and marched in the SLO Women’s March for Our Lives anti-gun rally on (March 2018)
  • Letter to the Editor, Mustang News about racism on campus (April 2018)
  • Three Bend the Arc SLO members trained by the ACLU and Undoc Student Success (Cal Poly/Cuesta) to become legal observer trainers for ICE raids/actions (July 2018)

 

SUPPORT FOR A CLEAN DREAM ACT AND IMMIGRATION REFORM

  1. Phone banking,
  2. March in coordination with SLO Progressives and Women’s March for immigration reform
  3. Two legislative visits with Assemblyman Jordan Cunningham’s staff and one with Congressman Salud Carbajal

 

FAMILY SEPARATION

  1. Letter to the Editor,New Times, June 21, 2018

 

REFORM CALIFORNIA’S BAIL SYSTEM

  1. Met with Chief Deanna Cantrell about the need for bail reform., Oct. 2017.
  2. Had two screenings of “The Bail Trap” – one on July 23, 2017 as part of our community collaboration forum and one at Ohr Tzafon on January 10, 2018.
  3. Held a community forum on bail reform at Congregation Beth David on January 23, 2018.
  4. Letter to the Editor about Jordan Cunningham and bail issue, New Times, April 5, 2018

 

ELECTION PARTICIPATION

  1. Held a County Candidate’s Forum on March 8, 2018,
  2. Endorsed Measure M as an organization and participated in gathering other endorsements. (August 2, 2018)