1) I forgot to mention Wear Orange!

• On June 1, National Gun Violence Awareness Day, #WearOrange
• Text ORANGE to 644-33 or go to WearOrange.org to find a #WearOrange Weekend event near you.

In Portland, the event will be at Elizabeth Caruthers Park  in SW Portland on Saturday, June 2nd at 1pm and will include a march over the Tillikum Bridge. We’ll post a link in the show notes on our website.

2) Learn about Italian politics here, here, here and here.

Correction: Russian journalist NOT dead!

3) Ireland’s “Quiet Revolution”

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Bitchfest:

Santa Fe, TX School Shooting: 

•  in 2018 so far, more people have been killed at schools than have been killed while serving in the military.

• Texas Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick said that the problem is that schools have too many entrances and exits. 

• Oliver North, the totally reputable new NRA President, blamed the shooting on our ‘culture of violence’ and Ritalin. 

• Pledge to be a Gun Sense Voter

• Urge your Senators to block the current NRA-backed concealed carry reciprocity bill (S446)

In addition, Demand that lawmakers do the following:
• Universal background checks on all gun sales

• ban assault weapons, high capacity magazines & bump stocks 
• Require thorough training & permitting for al lgun purchases
• Create a system to track & limit the purchase of ammunition
• Lift the ban on funding gun violence research (Dickey Amendment)
• Require that all guns use smart-gun technology to reduce accidents
• Implement a national gun buyback program

• National Die-In: There are early signs that

This week: Rebecca discusses border bigotry (Israeli and American) on Bitchfest. Smitha gets swamp fever on This Doctor Makes House Calls, and Megan untangles campaign finance laws on Listen Up, Dummies!

Rebecca learns there are no heroes on Bitchfest. Smitha reinforces our values on This Doctor Makes House Calls. Megan drops some PSAs on Listen Up Dummies, and we all interview Ali King, President and Co-Founder of Nasty Women Get Shit Done.

Oregon Primary Election Day is May 15. Ballots must be in mail by May 10, otherwise drop them off in person.

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The Federal Elections Commission has granted Liuba Grechen Shirley’s request to use campaign funds to pay for childcare!
Last week, we talked about the NYT cover Story about Nike’s toxic sexist workplace culture.:

On Thursday, CEO Mark Parker held an all-employee meeting to address the issue.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneidermann resigned after having been accused of physical abuse by four women.

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Israeli Operatives Who Aided Harvey Weinstein Collected Information on Former Obama Administration Officials

WaPo: This is a bad time for Trump to appear before the NRA

Parkland Supporters Mock NRA Gun Ban

It’s not every day your former employer is called out on the front page of the Sunday New York times for being a toxic workplace for women! 

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Our safety net is under attack and the latest assault comes from HUD Secretary Ben Carson who wants to TRIPLE the rent on subsidized housing.  This is in addition to Medicaid work requirements, another ACA repeal, and the farm bill taking food away from families and ch

NYT article about maternal mortality rates among black women
ProPublica article on the same

NYT OpEd on Tammy Duckworth & Working Mothers

Economist Chart on average birth costs relative to Royal Birth

Black Women’s Health Initiative (HINT: YOU SHOULD DONATE)

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The GOP is touting the fact that they “do things” as reason to vote for them in the midterms. They have been doing things alright – horrible, inhumane, corrupt, morally bankrupt things.  This week we focus on 2 areas.  Healthcare and ICE – AKA our modern-day gestapo 

Healthcare –  a rundown of all the ways the ACA has been sabotaged since Trump took office the. (it is appalling how determined they are to take away our healthcare)

Script:

“My name is xx from xx zip code.  I’m very disturbed by the continual attacks on our healthc

• Progressive Change Campaign Committee
• Book: “New Power” by Jeremy Heimans & Henry Timms:
• Joel Silberman

EXHAUSTIVE CITATIONS AND NOTES COMING SOON—Smitha is busy doctoring people.

Until then:

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• THE SINGLE GREATEST TWITTER SUMMATION OF THE TRUMP FAMILY IN FEWER CHARACTERS

Women running for office.

Sen Duckworth

Indivisible Oregon Calling Scripts

http://www.indivisibleor.org/actions/ 

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Asks of the week

Chaos has marked the Trump admin and can make it hard to see the underlying racism and greed of the current GOP running our country. We must stand up for our values and our community partners.  We must keep asking our MoCs to act on these topics. 

On racism: “Hi my name is XX and I’m from XX zip code.  I am very disturbed by the continual racist attacks by this president and his GOP.  Please do all you can to help DACA and TPS recipients and please support HR 4906/S 2580 to keep a citizenship question off the census.”

https://wapo.st/2Hrb1WC 

On the spending bill: “Hi my name is XX and I’m from XX zip code.  I am calling because I’m worried about Trump and his GOP cutting vital social programs after creating a huge deficit with the tax plan.  Please do all you can to protect our social programs and don’t let their funding be gutted.”

https://politi.co/2GwjrPc

March For Our Lives was HUGE

Town Hall Project – whose founder, Nathan Williams, was our first guest – is working with the Parkland students to help organize Town Halls For Our Lives.

Court blocks Trump administration from forcing undocumented teens to remain pregnant.

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ACTIONS: STOP TRUMPS WARS

1. The nomination of Pompeo to State and the appointment of Bolton to the NSA director puts us closer to war with North Korea and Iran. 

SCRIPT: “My name is [xx] and I’m from [xx] zip code.  I’m very concerned that Trump is assembling a war cabinet.  I ask the senator vote no on Pompeo’s nomination and do all he/she can to stop Bolton’s appointment.”

1. The attacks on Muller and the census put our democracy at risk 

Script for MoCs: “My name is [xx] and I’m from [xx] zip code.  I feel like our democracy is being hurt with these attacks on Mueller and the manipulation of the census.  I ask that the Senator/Rep work to pass legislation to protect Mueller and prohibit a question of citizenship in the census.”