LWVAC is launching a "What You Can Do" (WYCD) campaign where we share a series of action plans. Being an activist has a broad range of engagement. These WYCD messages are intended to make being an activist easy. Ten minute activism. You can do it. Organizers do the research and work. We serve it to you in bite sized pieces. The important thing is that we don't just let the injustices and robbery of our democracy go unanswered. To be complacent is to be complicit. We will not be complicit. Read more about this campaign here. 

To receive the What You Can Do actions directly, please email info [at] lwv-alachua.org (subject: What%20You%20Can%20Do)  with "What You Can Do" in the subject line. Request to be added to the email list. Messages come out about once a week. 

CURRENT ACTION TOPICS: 1) No Kings Protests and 2) Irrational Federal Government

1. June 14 is a nation-wide No Kings protest. Hundreds of protests are planned. The protest is on the same day that the executive branch is spending some $45 million for a military parade on the same day as his birthday. If you have not protested before, now’s the time. We gotta make a fuss about this. There are two local events.

   a.       Cora Roberson Park, 600 SW 6th Street, from 9am – 11:30. Speakers, music, tabling, sign-waving community. Organized by a coalition of groups.

   b.       High Springs, 1pm lunch at Great Outdoors, around 2pm meet at Chamber of Commerce and join a parade with decorated umbrellas, signs and defenders of democracy. It will be hot, so prepare, or choose the other event.
   

NATIONAL:

1. Call your legislators and ask for answers. Some suggestions follow.  We want our messages to be laser focused, please feel free to use some or all these questions or any others of your own choosing.   Choose a couple questions for today, use others in the next couple days. Or, call them about a topic of your choosing and interest. Just call!

National Legislators:

Senator Rick Scott: (202) 224-5274

Senator Ashley Moody: (202) 224-3041

Representative Kat Cammack: (202) 225-5744

1)      The actions of our federal government do not make sense. Abrego Garcia, through a clerical error, was sent to a prison in San Salvador, with his wife and children left behind. Although the executive branch said they couldn’t bring him back, he was brought back on an indictment for a 2022 traffic stop for which he was neither ticketed or charged. How does this make sense? (Name of legislator), this is happening while you are in office. Where is your voice in seeking an investigation in what happened to a legally resident person, whose life, work and family were torn apart?

2)      For years, our national government has supported states’ rights on things as broad as health care and gun rights. This week in California, the national guard was called in to quell protests and demonstrations despite the governor’s objections. How does it make sense to go against the rights of California to handle the matter with their own law enforcement rather than the national guard? What are you doing (name of legislator) to begin an investigation of the use of federal troops against the wishes of a state?

3)      Hurricane season has arrived. Meanwhile, hundreds of expert staff with NOAA have been fired and money for states to respond to severe weather has been pulled.

4)      The executive branch has approved of thousands of federal employees to be fired in multiple areas of government. IRS staff were fired who were investigating and recovering significant money in unpaid taxes.  Firefighters were fired during fire season.  Now, departments are trying to hire back those same employees. How is this efficient? How much sense does it make to indiscriminately fire thousands of people who provide essential services and recover money from tax avoiders? (Name of legislator) what are you doing to rebuild the damage that has been done?