PLEASE NOTE THAT I AM NOT HOSTING THIS MEETUP! All event details can be found at the original event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/150691435436534/ Congressmember Darrell Issa has been invited to join us for this important event and hasn’t yet responded. Please click on the link at http://fight4ourhealth.org/Issa to sign the online petition to urge him to attend. The event will be on February 21st at 6PM at the Jim Porter Recreation Center to learn and speak out against the reckless plan to repeal healthcare coverage and protections with no serious replacement. Will you or someone you love lose your healthcare? How will the plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act affect your current healthcare coverage? How will seniors, small businesspeople, and people with pre-existing conditions be affected? What can you do to STOP the plan to take away healthcare from millions of Americans? Event Partners: Courageous Resistance Encinitas, Indivisible North San Diego County, Indivisible Ocean Hills, Indivisible San Diego North District 49, Our Revolution North County San Diego, Preserve Progress, Together We Will North San Diego County, The Wagon Circle, Service Employees International Union California (SEIU CA), Service Employees International Union 221 (SEIU 221), United Domestic Workers of America (UDW), Organizing for Action (OFA), American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME), San Diego Organizing Project (SDOP), Planned Parenthood Action Fund of the Pacific Southwest, San Diego Labor Council (SDLC), San Diegans for Health Care Coverage/CCHI, Health Access. Indivisible has a really comprehensive guide with great ideas for how to engage politically. Let’s use an excerpt from the guide (below) to kickoff our work. https://static1.squar... "Most of you have three Members of Congress (MoCs) — two Senators and one Representative. Whether you like it or not, they are your voices in Washington. Your job is to make sure they are, in fact, speaking for you. Begin with these five steps to gather intel. Before anything else, take the following five steps to arm yourself with information necessary for all future advocacy activities. 1. Find your three MoCs, their official websites, and their office contact info at www.callmycongress.com. 2. Sign up on your MoCs’ websites to receive regular email updates, invites to local events, and propaganda to understand what they’re saying. Every MoC has an e-newsletter. 3. Find out where your MoCs stand on the issues of the day — appointment of white supremacists, tax cuts for the rich, etc. Review their voting history at VoteSmart. org. Research their biggest campaign contributors at OpenSecrets.org. 4. Set up a Google News Alert (http://www.google.com...) — for example for “Rep. Bob Smith” — to receive an email whenever your MoCs are in the news. 5. Research on Google News (https://news.google.c...) what local reporters have written about your MoCs. Find and follow those reporters on Twitter, and build relationships. Before you attend or plan an event, reach out and explain why your group is protesting, and provide them with background materials and a quote. Journalists on deadline — even those who might not agree with you — appreciate when you provide easy material for a story."