On Tues, Nov 18 at BOS - Condemn excessive force. Defend health equity.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18

MESSAGE FROM INDIVISIBLE SANTA MARIA

Condemn Excessive Force
Defend Health Equity

Tuesday, November 18
9AM
Board of Supervisors Meeting

Read 805 Immigrant Coalition info and talking points here --
https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1al4GuJF0M1Iej9Mu6aVsPiV29ZzR4rqfphCf9hbkgt0/mobilebasic

1) Public comment condemning excessive use of force by ICE, DHS, Border Patrol. The excessive force being used is unacceptable in our County. We ask the Supervisors to take leadership in safety, transparency, and funding support. Community groups are responding alone with unsustainable demands.

2) County Health Department transfer of immigrant patients and potential layoff of medical staff. Item #2 on agenda – County Health Department Budget Rebalancing. This is the proposed transfer of vulnerable immigrant patients and potential layoffs at Federally Qualified Health Centers. Request a form Health Access Taskforce be established.

Please attend in person at the Betteravia Government Center (511 E. Lakeside Parkway); participate via Zoom (link in above document), or email your written comment by 5PM today to [email protected]).

Demand an Ad Hoc Immigration Committee

Tuesday, November 18
5:30PM
Santa Maria City Council
City Hall, 110 E. Cook St., Santa Maria

At its last meeting, the Santa Maria City Council refused to even consider the request by Councilmember Gloria Soto to form an Ad Hoc Immigration Committee. In fact, they agreed to not even consider this again until next February. This is unacceptable! Local media is finally paying attention and we need to keep the focus on the City Council’s refusal to look at the violence that is impacting our neighbors.

Show up in person wearing your IndSM T-shirt or wear blue. Use the talking points in the above document provided by 805 Immigration Coalition. Email your written comments to [email protected] and thank Councilmember Soto for her ongoing efforts to support our community.

CALENDAR

		SPECIAL EVENTS
Tues Nov 18	9am	Condemn excessive force Defend health equity	BOS meeting
Tues Nov 18	530pm	Demand a City of SM Ad Hoc Immigration Committee	SM
Sat Nov 22	2pm	Transgender Day of Remembrance	SB

		NEWS
		18-story housing development proposed for Carpinteria

		CALLS TO ACTION
		Support persons with disabilities	Online
Now	-	Indivisible (national): Cancel Spotify
Now	-	Help support Eastside SB	Petition

		WEEKLY EVENTS
Every Monday	4pm- 530pm	Support Palestinians	SM
Every Thursday	Noon- 1pm	Indivisible: What's the Plan?	Online
Every Thursday	4pm	Culture of Protest	Online
Every 1st Friday	330pm- 5pm	Climate Fridays	SB

		OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE
Open until filled		County Hiking and Riding Trails Advisory Committee

Items in red are new since our last action alert.
Items in blue are SBCAN items.

SPECIAL EVENTS

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22

MESSAGE FROM WOMEN'S MARCH SANTA BARBARA AND SBTAN

Transgender Day of Remembrance
De La Guerra Plaza, Santa Barbara

The Santa Barbara Transgender Advocacy Network (SBTAN) invites the community to come together in solidarity for Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) on Saturday, November 22 at 2:00 p.m. at De La Guerra Plaza in downtown Santa Barbara.

Participants will gather at the plaza and then march down State Street carrying signs bearing the names of transgender individuals lost to violence this year. This annual observance honors their memory and calls attention to the urgent need for equality, safety, and dignity for all transgender people.

“Transgender Awareness Week and TDOR are a time for trans people to share experiences, educate, and advocate for their rights,” said Michal, organizer with Women’s March Santa Barbara. “This is more important than ever as attacks on the trans community — and the organizations that support them — continue to rise across the country.”

Community members are encouraged to RSVP at https://sbtan.org/march to help organizers plan sign-making and ensure the greatest possible impact.

Please join in standing with the transgender community — in remembrance, resistance, and hope.

Follow: @womensmarchsb.bsky.social

Website: https://sbtan.org

Contact:
Michal Lynch Womens March [email protected] (805) 895-4885
Megan Overland Santa Barbara Transgender Advocacy Network [email protected]

CALLS TO ACTION

SUPPORT PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES

Urgent Request for CPUC to Reconsider Disallowance of the
Disability Disaster Access and Resources (DDAR) Program

MESSAGE FROM JACOB LESNER-BUXTON

My name is Jacob Lesner-Buxton, and I am the System's Change Coordinator at Access Central Coast. (ACC) ACCis a disability advocacy non-profit organization that serves the Tri-Counties. We offer services such as assistive technology, benefits assistance, housing navigation, peer support, and more. We also advocate for community-wide change to improve the lives of people with disabilities.

I want to share this sign-on letter about how Southern California Edison cut its funding to organizations like mine throughout Southern California to assist persons with disabilities in preparing for disasters.

Please consider signing the letter at the link below:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd0hewseMgX0hhuNJIAPs9-FftnnUi8rqChxon81sagz8IRrg/viewform

Thanks

Jacob--

[email protected]

INDIVISIBLE (NATIONAL)

MESSAGES FROM INDIVISIBLE (NATIONAL)

Our Demands for Spotify

Until our demands are met, we will withhold our subscriptions and our support. We are calling on Spotify founder and current CEO Daniel Ek, as well as Gustav Söderström and Alex Norström who will become the new co-CEOs starting in January 2026, to:

Immediately terminate all ICE and DHS advertising contracts with Spotify.
Spotify must update its Advertising Policy to prohibit government propaganda and hate-based recruitment campaigns.
Spotify must commit to defending civil rights and standing up for communities under threat from authoritarian actions.

What You Can do

We are asking every listener and artist to take three key actions:

Cancel your Spotify subscription, TODAY until the ICE ads are removed.
Engage in peaceful, public protest outside of Spotify offices, studios, or major events to demand they stop their ICE recruitment ads.*
- Bring your community together to make your voices heard, peacefully and powerfully.
- Use your signs, stories, and creativity to demand that Spotify drop ICE ads and stand on the right side of history.
- Share photos and videos from your protest on social media and tag Spotify on their social media accounts.
- Use hashtags: #CancelSpotify #DontStreamFascism #StopICEAds
Tag Spotify publicly and urge artists, podcasters, and labels to denounce these ads and oppose the platform complicity.
- Use our social media toolkit to post online.

How to cancel Spotify Premium

We've included instructions on how to cancel Spotify via website, iOS app, Android, or if the service is bundled with a mobile/internet provider.

Help Promote Eastside Santa Barbara's Businesses & Resources

Last year, Eastside residents approached SBCAN for help to promote Eastside businesses and resources. Residents consider Milpas Street Santa Barbara's "second State Street," but do not feel like there is enough investment in the Eastside to help boost its economy. Long-standing businesses are struggling due to various factors including lack of visitation from tourists staying on Cabrillo and from locals.

Thank you to our volunteer Abigail Lindros for helping create this petition to urge the City of Santa Barbara to help promote social and economic justice in Santa Barbara's Eastside. The Eastside is a community rich with diversity and resources and should be treated as such.

"To revitalize the Eastside, a community of Eastside residents alongside SBCAN and other organizations, propose creating a dedicated Eastside Resources/Businesses page on the official City of Santa Barbara website. This page would include hyperlinks to local business websites and contact information, enhancing visibility and accessibility for residents and visitors alike. Additionally, this page would promote Eastside resources such as libraries, community centers, and services for families to bolster community resilience and increase use of existing services.

To elevate Eastside’s online presence, we call for the hiring of City staff or the designation of funds towards a local nonprofit to manage social media accounts that uplift our Milpas restaurants to attract more visitors and invigorate our community’s economy."

Please sign this petition to urge the City of Santa Barbara to create an Eastside businesses and resources tab on the official City website and designate funds to promoting Milpas restaurants on social media.

WEEKLY EVENTS

MONDAYS

Support the Palestinians
Every Monday 4pm-530pm

MESSAGE FROM SANTA MARIA RESIDENT GALE MCNEELEY

Come join us every Monday 4–5:30 PM at Main & Broadway in Santa Mara to Support the Palestinians and to Protest the Genocide in Gaza. We invite you to join us for all or any part of that time. Bring a sign expressing your hopes for the Palestinian people. We have been there for this last year, and the beeps in support are growing every week.

Gale McNeeley 805 406 4997

THURSDAYS

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What's the Plan?
Every Thursday at noon
Online

The onslaught of news, the chaos coming out of the White House – it’s all meant to overwhelm us. It’s a deliberate strategy to sow confusion and make us believe we are powerless to fight back.

The antidote: Coming together in community to process what’s happening, to sift through what’s important and what’s just noise, and coalesce around strategies for fighting back.

Join Indivisible co-founders Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin each week, as we carve out an hour to discuss what’s happening and – more importantly – what’s the plan.

https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/773746/

MESSAGE FROM DICK FLACKS

Culture of Protest
Every Thursday at 4pm
KCSB Radio, 91.9 FM in SB
www.kcsb.org

SBCAN Co-president Dick Flacks has been doing a weekly radio show on KCSB (91.9 FM) for 43 years.

Contact Dick Flacks for a downloadable link to the prerecorded episode or to get on his email list: rflacks@gmall com

FRIDAYS

Climate Fridays Santa Barbara

Friday, November 7, 2025 (AND every first Friday in 2025)

3:30 - 5:00 p.m.

CEC's Environmental Hub

1219 State St., Santa Barbara

Join CEC, the Society of Fearless Grandmothers Santa Barbara, and the Santa Barbara Sierra Club on the first Friday of each month. At these events, climate activists, students, community partners, and friends gather to learn about regional climate change issues and how to take collective action to protect our planet. November's gathering will focus on regenerative agriculture and feature guest speakers from CEC, Harris Gaviota Farm, and SEEAG, along with sustainable food expert Gerri French.

Learn more and register.

OPPORTUNITIES TO SERVE

COUNTY RIDING AND HIKING TRAILS ADVISORY COMMITTEE

The County Riding and Hiking Trails Advisory Committee (CRAHTAC) has at one or more vacancy in each of its five supervisorial districts. It needs more community members to represent the needs of the public. SBCAN encourages you to apply to be on the committee.

CRAHTAC was established by the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors in an advisory capacity to review programs, policies, and procedures affecting county recreational riding and hiking trails and their use. Committee members are concerned with the location, development, and maintenance of the recreational trails system countywide, to provide public access and links to the Los Padres National Forest, parks, beaches, and other public recreation areas.

The committee is comprised of a maximum of four members from each of the five Supervisorial Districts and serves at the pleasure of the appointing Supervisor. CRAHTAC meets regularly on a bimonthly schedule.

CRAHTAC Members

District 1 Kim Fly, Kevin Snow (2 Vacancies)
District 2 Jack Bish, Otis Calef - Chair, Dan Gira (1 Vacancy)
District 3 Faith Deeter - Vice Chair, Linda Rubenstein, Desiree Woodlill - Secretary (1 Vacancy)
District 4 John Karamitsos (3 Vacancies)
District 5 (4 Vacancies)

For more information, contact Executive Assistant Teralyn Evans-Gutiérrez
Email Teralyn Evans-Gutiérrez; Phone: 805-568-2467

ELECTED OFFICIALS CONTACT INFORMATION

U.S. CONGRESS

Senator Adam Schiff
Washington, DC: (202) 224-3841
Los Angeles: (310) 914-7300
San Francisco: (415) 393-0707
Fresno: (559) 485-7430
Email

Senator Alex Padilla
Washington, DC: (202) 224-3553
Fresno (559) 497–5109
San Francisco (415) 981–9369
Sacramento (916) 448–2787
Los Angeles (310) 231–4494
San Diego (619) 239–3884
Email

Congressman Salud Carbajal
Santa Barbara: (805) 730-1710
San Luis Obispo: (805) 546-8348
Washington, DC: (202) 225-3601
Email

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE

Senator Monique Limón
Santa Barbara: (805) 965-0862
Oxnard: (805) 988-1940
Sacramento: (916) 651-4021
Email

Assemblyman Gregg Hart
Santa Barbara: (805) 564-1649
Sacramento: (916) 319-2037
Email

COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS

1st District Supervisor Roy Lee
(805) 568-2186
[email protected]

2nd District Supervisor Laura Capps
(805) 568-2191
[email protected]

3rd District Supervisor Joan Hartmann
(805) 568-2192
[email protected]

4th District Supervisor Bob Nelson
(805) 346-8407
[email protected]

5th District Supervisor Steve Lavagnino
(805) 346-8404
[email protected]

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Jeanne Sparks and Ken Hough, Co-Executive Directors