Here’s a few things to focus on and fight for locally: 1) There’s a broad coalition of progressive organizations preparing to fight to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2019.  It’s impossible to live on $9.25 an hour - the current minimum wage translates to $1480 a month for a full-time 40 hour week. 2) The Sierra Club on O‘ahu is pushing the city on many immediate goals to boost our resilience.  Here’s some of them: switching the county vehicle fleet to locally-produced renewable fuels, starting with a commitment to swap diesel buses for electric buses as they reach the end of their useful life; installing money-saving PV systems on all city buildings; building more bike paths; stopping the spread of “gentlemen” farms; creating a county food czar to help meet the goal of doubling local food production by 2030; closing the Red Hill fuel storage facility which threatens the water supply of a quarter million people; restricting pesticide spraying near schools and residences…