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Sunday, May 19, 2019

YOUR RESISTANCE NEWSLETTER
WEEK OF MAY 19, 2019

From Need to Impeach - The Mueller report takes a long time to read — and even longer to digest. To save you the heavy lifting, we’ve put together some flash cards of key terms for you to read through, then share with your friends:
Sign up for the Muller Book Club

Donald Trump and Attorney General William Barr don’t want you to know what’s in the Mueller report. That’s why it is so important for concerned citizens to read it. Join the Mueller Book Club and commit to reading the entire report starting May 13th: 
JOIN THE SECOND ONLINE GATHERING OF THE MUELLER BOOK CLUB ON MONDAY, MAY 20th AT 8:30 PM EASTERN TIME


FEATURING SPECIAL GUEST, CONGRESSMAN JERRY NADLER, NY-10, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee
Register for the webinar

NEXT INDIVISIBLE GENERAL MEETING is June 6 from 7-9pm Michelle Dillon and Josh Kaspar will focus on changes made to schools during this legislative sessions.  SEE YOU THERE!



ENVIRONMENTAL CAUCUS HOSTS CITY COMMISSIONER

NANCY SIKES-KLINE

MAY 14, 2019


Commissioner Sikes-Kline relates her experiences advocating for our city during the legislative session in Tallahassee. Cities across the state descend on legislators during session: going to hearings, meeting with committee chairs and representatives and paying close attention to appropriations. The city of St Augustine may get $350,000 for septic to sewer upgrades in West Augustine, a drop in the bucket.


Over 20 people crammed the office HQ on Old South Dixie to hear progress on sea level rise actions, water quality issues, plastic bans and development woes. People were from multiple environmental groups throughout the county. Commissioner Sikes-Kline was well versed in both state and city legislation. We learned a lot and are grateful she took the time to speak to us.



Homestead, Fl children's prison Call to Action

What is Homestead Detention Center?  Homestead, Florida is the site of the largest child detention center in the country, the ONLY for-profit center, and the only shelter deemed “temporary”.  It was opened in June 2016 to house what HHS calls unaccompanied alien children (UAC).  From June 2016 to April 2017 it sheltered 8,500 children, then closed.  It was reactivated in March 2018 and currently houses more than 2,000 children.  HHS now plans to expand to house up to 3,200 children beginning in mid-April.  Children at Homestead are 13-17 yrs of age. About 75% are male and 25% female.  According to HHS children remain an average of 52 days (although there are reports of children staying much longer).  
What can we do?  While media coverage of the Homestead detention facility is growing, there is a need for greater awareness and action.  
Lobby Contact your representatives at state and local levels.  Write letters to local newspapers.  Share on Facebook. Follow the Witness Homestead Facebook page.  Write petitions to close Homestead. Support Senator Merkley’s Bill 397 “Shut Down Child Prison Camps Act”.
Donate The Witness Homestead group is requesting donations to help keep monitors on the ground.  There is a Go Fund Me account called “Witness Homestead Support”.  Donate here

Arming Florida school teachers
Governor DeSantiAns has now signed this bill into law. We now need to show up at the school board meetings. Stay up to date
                                                        
Medicaid Expansion drive continues - We need to collect 1 million petitions across the State by the end of the year to get this issue on the ballot.  Anyone who has ideas about venues for collecting petitions and wants to help out can email andrea.degeorge@gmail.com. If you want to understand the benefits of expanding Medicaid, follow this link https://www.ncpssm.org/documents/medicaid-legislation/medicaid-expansion-benefits-states-and-beneficiaries/

Need to Monitor Coverage

A trio of Florida radio stations have announced they will each be broadcasting two minute snippets of Trump speeches every hour of every day until the end of the 2020 presidential race, with the first broadcasts to begin Friday.
Gulf Coast Media Inc., which owns 105.1, WASJ, HANK FM, 103.5 WKNK and Classic Rock 95.9 WRBA in Bay County Florida, announced the news in a press release Friday morning.


To avoid running afoul of Federal Communications Commission equal time guidelines, Gulf Coast Media will be required to offer similar airtime to other presidential candidates if they request it.  Company representative Rogatinsky said the company would be happy to do.
Contact the FCC (see Indivisible's Mary Lawrence's letter below as a model);  then monitor that radio stations are delivered required coverage.  Here's a sample letter
Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary
FCC
Office of the Secretary
445 12 th Street SW
Room TW-B204
Washington DC 20554
Re: Hourly Trump ads on local radio in Florida
Dear Secretary,
It has come to our attention that three local radio stations in the panhandle of Florida will be airing two
minute speeches by candidate Trump every hour starting 5/17/19. I understand the owner of the
stations, Gulf Coast Media, Inc., has stated “that broadcasting the President’s speeches may not be
consistent with conventional commercial FM radio, but we have taken this approach to show the
community’s sincere appreciation for President Donald Trump’s work in Panama City and Bay County.”
I also understand that, to cover this outrageous misuse of the public airwaves, (that is, “to avoid running
afoul of FCC equal time guidelines), the company will be required to offer similar airtime to other
presidential candidates if they request it.
My questions to you:
1. I know we no longer have the Fairness Doctrine, to the detriment of our civil society at large, but
how will you determine if this is, in fact, being done?
2. Will you have the means to ascertain equity in cost for this candidate and the others?
3. Will you have the means to determine if the broadcasts are at approximately the same time of
day, when listeners are actually tuning in?
I feel this is an egregious abuse of the public airwaves by a partisan company, in a highly partisan
market, to favor a candidate over another. I would respectfully request a response, in writing, to my
questions above. Gulf Coast Media, Inc. has a licensed responsibility to serve its customers, not political
candidates and certainly not in such a propagandized method of running clips from previous speeches over and over all day. This smacks of propaganda and something far worse.


Neighbors, A big corporation trying to bully a small town? Never happens, right?

Well, maybe never....

If you are concerned about Embassy Suites relentless pursuit of the "splash park" at St Augustine Beach, please see Jane West Law's Facebook post below. In it Ms. West provides an address for the owners of Embassy Suites so that you can share your feelings about their tactics with them.

To write to them directly, here is their contact info: Key International, 848 Brickell Avenue, Suite 1100, Miami FL 33131. (305)377-1001

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309 Kingsley Lake Drive
St Augustine, FL 32092-3048
Phone (904) 823-2300
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 Florida House of Representatives Paul Renner 24th District  Republican
                                     

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