Actions for the Week of 8/3/25

Written By Darbie Maccubbin

How to contact your elected officials

Use this link to find contact information for ALL of your elected officials – Federal, State, City, and County – just by entering your address: https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials

Other useful links:

Urge the Miami-Dade mayor to shut down the “Alligator Alcatraz” detention camp

Source: Florida Immigrant Coalition

Contact: Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava via phone: 305-375-5071, email: mayor@miamidade.gov, or mail: Office of the Mayor, 111 NW 1st Street, Miami, FL 33128.

Write your own or use the following script:

Hello, my name is ____, contacting you from [ZIP], to express my deep concern about the people in unsafe, inhumane conditions in your county detention camp. Detained people—most with no criminal history—are confined in cramped, cage-like units with mosquito infestations, inadequate food, temperature extremes, and no reliable medical care. While actively violating national and international detention standards, Florida state party leaders mock this “Alligator Alcatraz” built on land managed by Miami-Dade County. I urge Mayor Levine Cava to take immediate legal action to shut it down and prevent further suffering.

A New Bayer Protection Act?

From the Organic Consumers Association

Bayer wants Congress to relieve it of liability for the illnesses and deaths of people who got non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma from Monsanto’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer. It’s spending $8.5 million a year lobbying Congress in hopes of saving billions.

Bayer is a foreign corporation and shouldn’t be able to make political contributions, but buying Monsanto in 2018 changed that. With a U.S. subsidiary, it too can buy politicians just like American companies do.

The House Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee recently passed a spending bill with a provision, Sec. 453, that prevents the Environmental Protection Agency from allowing states to require warnings on pesticide labels. This would protect Bayer from California’s efforts to label Roundup carcinogenic.

Sec. 453 says the EPA can’t spend any of the money Congress gives it next year on pesticide labels unless it makes a formal determination of carcinogenicity or other human health harms under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.

This provision is aimed at limiting lawsuits against pesticide manufacturers based on state-mandated warnings and prioritizes industry interests over public health and safety and undermines states’ ability to protect their residents from harmful pesticides.

Follow this link to send a pre-scripted letter to your Members of Congress: Tell Congress to Ban Roundup, Not Bail Out Bayer!

Phonebanking

Choose your own outrage with 5 Calls

5 Calls has been around since the first Trump term and offers a quick and easy way to make calls to your elected representatives. Enter your zip code or address and pick a topic. Then choose the representative you want to call, make the call, and read the script provided. Calling your congressperson is one of the most effective ways to influence policy. Please check it out here: https://5calls.org/  

Darbie Maccubbin
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