Thursday, April 27, 4PM
Indivisible Tacoma To Meet With CD6 Rep. Derek Kilmer
Tuesday, April 11, 4PM, via Zoom
Pre-registration required: bit.ly/Kilmer_April2023
Join Indivisible Tacoma members as we meet with Rep. Kilmer to hear his perspectives and priorities in the US House. What progress can be made in this Congress?
We’ll express our alarm at the accelerating privatization of Medicare, corporate pressure against environmental protections, and our hope for gun safety, just policing, and reproductive rights policies at the national level.
Indivisible members around the US intend to fight MAGA extremism everywhere and want those Congresspeople who supported the insurrection held accountable.
The Legislative Action Team’s primary role is to meet with our Members of Congress or their staff, as well as our WA State Legislators and others who represent us locally.
We all have to stay informed and speak up. Please join us!
SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER
Monday, April 3, 2023, 5:30PM
The Evergreen State College Tacoma Campus
1210 6th Avenue, Tacoma
Join The Conversation 253 and the Institute for Black Justice as they present an important program on bias in the civil justice system.
Vonda Sargent, with a Washington State Supreme Court unanimous ruling, won an important milestone in case law regarding racism in the courtroom. She continues to be a force for justice in our criminal legal system in WA and beyond.
Monet Carter-Mixon is the sister of Tacoma’s Manny Ellis, who was killed by TPD officers on March 3, 2020. Monet and her family continue to fight a fierce fight for justice in her bother’s name, even as the three TPD officers named in his death remain on the TPD payroll.
The story is profiled in a podcast, The Walk Home, produced by KNKX News and The Seattle Times.
https://www.knkx.org/podcast/
Indivisible Tacoma To Meet With CD10 Rep. Marilyn Strickland
Tuesday, March 14, 4PM, via Zoom
Pre-registration required: bit.ly/Strickland_
Join Indivisible Tacoma members as we meet with Rep. Strickland to hear her perspectives and priorities in the US House.
What progress might be made?
We’ll express our very deep concern about the accelerating privatization of Medicare, transporting hazardous materials, corporate pressure against environmental protections, and hope for policing and reproductive rights policies at the national level.
Indivisible members around the US intend to fight MAGA policies everywhere and want those Congresspeople who supported the insurrection held accountable.
The Legislative Action Team’s primary role is to meet with our Members of Congress or their staff, as well as our WA State Legislators and others who represent us locally.
We all have to stay informed and speak up. Please join us!
WASHINGTON STATE LEGISLATURE
Our work as citizens is to speak to those who make the laws. Our representatives tally and note our contacts. We can have a real effect on state laws in February!
Join allied groups in Olympia or virtually to lobby for bills for the public good. Examples:
~League of Women Voters – February 6-10
https://www.lwvwa.org/event-
~Environmental Lobby Days – February 14-16
https://docs.google.com/forms/
~Planned Parenthood Alliance Advocates – February 20
https://www.
~NAMI Washington – February 20
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/
ISSUE DETAILS & TRACKING – LWV
https://lwvwa.org/current-
Sign up for updates on bills:
https://app.leg.wa.gov/
• On right-hand side of page, click on red envelope “Get Email Notifications”
Get committee updates
https://public.govdelivery.
Youtube Channels (To watch hearings, floor votes, etc.)
https://www.youtube.com/@
https://www.youtube.com/@
~About testifying / stating your position / submitting written testimony
https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi/
~Signing in to testify / state your position / submit written testimony
https://app.leg.wa.gov/csi
2023 Session Calendar
January 9 – First day of session
February 17 – Policy committee cutoff – house of origin
February 24 – Fiscal committee cutoff – house of origin
March 8 – Floor cutoff – house of origin
March 29 – Policy committee cutoff – opposite house
April 4 – Fiscal committee cutoff – opposite house
April 12 – Floor cutoff – opposite house
April 23 – Sine Die
MEDICARE PRIVATIZATION
Stop the REACH program from taking over Traditional Medicare
In 2020, the Trump Administration launched a new policy “experiment” designed to privatize Traditional Medicare.
Under this model, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has moved millions of Traditional Medicare beneficiaries into mostly commercial, for-profit plans called Direct Contracting Entities, without the enrollees’ full understanding or consent.
In ways similar to commercial Medicare Advantage plans, these entities have a financial incentive to interfere with care decisions and waste taxpayer dollars when compared with the efficiency of Traditional Medicare.
The Biden Administration has renamed this program “REACH” and made it even more generous to industry, but privatization by any name threatens the future of Medicare.
ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE
~Learn more: https://protectmedicare.net
~Contact your representatives: Rep Kilmer 253 272 3515. Rep Strickland 202 225 9740.
Sen. Murray. 253 572 3636 Sen. Cantwell 253 572 2281
~Call Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra directly at (202) 690-7000 and ask him to cancel the REACH program immediately.
~Sign the petition:
https://pnhp.salsalabs.org/
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