By Sylvia Chi Action deadline: May 15, 2019, 9 PM Pacific time - GET CASH NOW! The payday lending industry is getting its money’s worth from the Trump Administration: after they invested heavily in Trump’s inauguration and re-election committees, as well as Republican lawmakers and organizations, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has announced its … Continue reading Protect the payday lending rule
Secrets and Lies: Comment NOW against proposed FOIA Regs
Do you want to know a secret? FOIA, the Freedom of Information Act, gives private citizens the right to get information from federal agencies. It exists to promote transparency, accountability, and prompt access to a wide range of information. But under proposed revised regulations, the Department of the Interior (DOI) would be able to decide … Continue reading Secrets and Lies: Comment NOW against proposed FOIA Regs
Don’t Let DeVos Gut Title IX
Deadline for public comments: January 28, 2019 - Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos has proposed regulations that would modify the implementation of Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in federally funded education programs. Well, let's call it what it is - Betsy DeVos has proposed a scheme to destroy an important … Continue reading Don’t Let DeVos Gut Title IX
Out of the mouths of babes
Deadline for public comments: December 10, 2018 What could be meaner than taking food out of the mouths of children? The latest assault from the Grinch Administration is a proposed regulation that would change how the government evaluates legal immigrants for green cards and visas. If this regulation takes effect, it could literally result in … Continue reading Out of the mouths of babes
Don’t Let the Government Destroy Important Environmental Documents
Deadline: November 26, 2018 The Current Occupant's tradition of lying is by now well-known, but sometimes it's easier if something just ... happens to the truth, especially to documentation of the truth. And so Ryan Zinke, Secretary of the Department of the Interior (at least as of this writing), has sent National Archives & Records … Continue reading Don’t Let the Government Destroy Important Environmental Documents
Scary times at IEB’s October All Members Meeting
Halloween arrived early at the Indivisible East Bay All Members Meeting on October 28, with many of us showing up in costume. Even the infamous Trump Chicken joined the festivities. Unfortunately, the real scares are coming from recent news. From the deadly violence at the Synagogue in Pittsburgh to Trump’s avalanche of incendiary rhetoric — … Continue reading Scary times at IEB’s October All Members Meeting
It’s red or blue, not pink or blue
Deadline: Right Now! - His comments about grabbing women by the "private parts" inspired an airplane passenger to grope his unknown seatmate on October 21, 2018. Now, according to a Dept. of Health and Human Services memo obtained by the New York Times,* the Current Occupant is considering creating a rule to determine “a person’s status as male or female … Continue reading It’s red or blue, not pink or blue
ISO Happy Ending: Comment by 10/31 on Emissions Standards for Power Plants
Once upon a time, there was an administration that protected its people from dangerous modern fire-breathing dragons. Then in August 2018, the big bad wolf-ogre-gremlin-current administration announced plans to undo Obama rules limiting harmful emissions from fossil fuel power plants. The plot: to repeal the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, and put in its place a wicked changeling, a … Continue reading ISO Happy Ending: Comment by 10/31 on Emissions Standards for Power Plants
Speak up for immigrant children
Deadline – submit your comments at this link by November 6, 2018, or write a letter to the Dept. of Homeland Security (must be postmarked by November 6, 2018). In September we alerted you to new horrific steps the administration is taking to unfairly treat immigrant families. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Health and … Continue reading Speak up for immigrant children
Help stop the jailing of immigrant children
Deadline – submit your comments at this link by November 6, 2018. Or copy the link into your browser: https://www.regulations.gov/document?D=ICEB-2018-0002-0001 As Hurricane Florence bears down on the Carolinas and Georgia, we learn that the administration has been stealing FEMA money to spend on jailing and deporting immigrants. Here's another part of the unnatural disaster that is the … Continue reading Help stop the jailing of immigrant children