NCJW Weekly Advocacy Wrap-Up:

Friday, December 2, 2022

In this issue...

Participate in the LB Commission on Women & Girls’ Survey

NCJW Action Alert: Gun Safety, Abortion Access,

Pregnant Workers

Long Beach Homeless Memorial

Volunteer for 2023 Homeless Point in Time Count: Sign Up Now

Raise Your Voice: Participate in

the Community Survey

The Long Beach City Council has unanimously voted to embark on a process to establish a Commission for Women and Girls. This represents nearly 50 years of advocacy and recently the City Council has allocated funding to take the next steps on creating a Commission.

This is an invitation to shape the mission of the Long Beach Commission for Women and Girls (LBCWG). The Long Beach Office of Equity wants to understand what women and girls need, want, and deserve. Their work is to collate and organize responses and present them to the Long Beach City Council to ensure that the Commission’s priorities align with the community’s vision.

They have committed to working intersectionally and inclusively to promote equality and justice for all women and girls focusing on economic and educational equity, access to health care, including reproductive choice, violence against women, safety and other key issues affecting women and girls.

Please give it as much thought and time as your busy life allows. They know they can’t do this important work without community input.

Find the survey by scanning the QR code above or click here.

NCJW ACTION ALERT

The issue: Assault weapons and high-capacity magazines are commonplace in mass shootings and make shootings more deadly.

The good news: During the ten years we had an assault weapons ban in the US, the number of gun massacres fell by 37 percent. The Assault Weapons Ban of 2021, passed by the House of Representatives on July 29, would regulate these dangerous weapons, prevent mass shooting injuries, and save lives.

Our task: Tell the Senate to pass the Assault Weapons Ban of 2021 to reduce the devastation of daily gun violence in America.

TAKE ACTION NOW

The issue: There is a major barrier to abortion care in the annual appropriations (budgeting) bills. The Hyde Amendment is the language that denies abortion coverage to anyone enrolled in federal health programs such as Medicaid, Medicare, and Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP).

The good news: The Equal Access to Abortion Coverage in Health Insurance (EACH) Act would end these dangerous and discriminatory coverage bans.

Our task: Urge your lawmakers to support the EACH Act.

TAKE ACTION NOW

The issue: Despite the 1978 Pregnancy Discrimination Act making it illegal to discriminate on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, too many pregnant workers are fired, forced to quit, or take unpaid leave, simply for requesting a reasonable accommodation so they can keep working.

The good news: The bipartisan Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (S 1486) would help end this form of discrimination by requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations for a limitation arising out of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions unless doing so would pose an undue hardship on the employer.

Our task: In May 2021, the bill passed the House of Representatives with overwhelming bipartisan support. We need to convince the Senate to do the same!

TAKE ACTION NOW

Long Beach Homeless Memorial

December 21, 6 pm

Forest Lawn, Long Beach

Please join the Long Beach Homeless Coalition as those lost this year are remembered and recommit to the fight to end homelessness.

This multi-faith service will include prayer, reflection, and remembrance. The event will culminate in the reading of the names and lighting of candles in honor of each person who passed away while experiencing homelessness in Long Beach this year.

The Service will take place at Forest Lawn Cemetery, 1500 E. San Antonio Drive, Long Beach. For more information, email communityservice@ncjwlongbeach.org.

Volunteer for 2023

Homeless Point in Time Count

January 26, 2023: Sign Up Now!

The Long Beach Department of Health and Human Services is looking to recruit 250 community volunteers to help carry out the 2023 Homeless Point in Time (PIT) Count, taking place on Jan. 26, 2023.

The PIT Count is an annual community effort by residents to provide a street count of people experiencing homelessness in Long Beach. The Count serves to define available resources to address homelessness and identify gaps within the City’s plans to help better serve unhoused individuals.

Qualifications to volunteer for the PIT Count include:

Be 18 years or older.
Attend a two-hour orientation and training prior to the day of the Count.

Orientations will be hosted on the following days and times:

Tuesday, Jan. 10 from 6 to 8 pm via Zoom
Thursday, Jan. 12 from 6 to 8 pm at the Long Beach Multi-Service Center (1301 W. 12th St.)
Wednesday, Jan. 18 from 6 to 8 pm at the Long Beach Multi-Service Center
Thursday, Jan. 19 from 6 to 8 pm via Zoom

Commit to a four-hour canvassing shift on Thursday, January 26, 2023. Volunteers will be expected to report at 4:30 am and be dispatched to the field by 5 am.

For more information and/or to register for the PIT Count,

CLICK HERE

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