SEC Quarterly Meeting
Friday
June 20
9:30 AM -12 PM
Climate Change: Engaging Low Income Communities & Communities of Color
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At the
E. Bay Community Foundation
De Domenico Bldg.
200 Frank H.
Ogawa Plaza
Oakland,
CA 94612
RSVP to
sec@urbanhabitat.org
Breakfast
& lunch served
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June 13
Brown Bag Lunch: Budgeting for Equity
Town Hall on Immigration and Workers' Rights with Congresswoman Barbara Lee
What Would It Mean to Win? Counter-globalization movement videos
June 14
Worst of SF:
Anti-Gentrification/ Tenant Rights meeting
June 16
Vigil for Anita Gay
June 17
Marriage Equality Day
June 18
RP&E Reception/Release Event: Who Owns Our Cities?
Unnatural Causes is Inequality Making us Sick? Community Dialogue and Film
June 20
Bay Area Social Equity Caucus Quarterly Meeting
Pastors for Peace Bay Area Send-Off Celebration
June 22
Green Sunday: What Indigenous Americans Need From Allies
June 23
Housing Crisis and Recession
June 23-27
Teen Eco Action Week
July 5
Bike Tour: Labor History
August 8-9
Addressing Health Disparities: Cultural Competence Faculty Development Program
August 16
Classes Begin: Merritt College
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Hello again:
We look forward to seeing you next Friday, June 20th, for our Climate Justice Quarterly Meeting. Urban
Habitat's goals for this meeting are to provide Bay Area SEC members
with a big picture overview of the major policy decisions relating to
climate change being considered at the national, state, and regional
levels, and to go deeper on two issues that have been in the spotlight
due to their potentially dramatic social justice implications: Cap & Trade, and Green Jobs. Finally
we'll get a sneak preview of an assessment tool being developed to
enable community groups to grapple with the impacts of climate change
at the local level.
Presenting at this meeting will be:
As usual, it's been a busy quarter for the Bay Area Social Equity Caucus. The
2008-09 Strategic Plan is
available online if you'd like to better familiarize yourself with our
ambitious new regional programs.
On
one of these programs, an annual State of the Region indicators project
& convening, we'll be partnering with Dr. Manuel Pastor - a
longtime coalition ally who recently relocated to the University of Southern California. We'd like you to please SAVE THE DATE: December 15, 2008, from 11:30-5 PM at the California Theater, with more details to follow. Our 10th Anniversary Celebration will follow that same evening.
Also please note the following date changes to the remaining Quarterly Meetings of 2008:
September 5, 2008 (previously September 12th)
December 19, 2008 (previously December 4th)
See you next week!
Juliet Ellis, Executive Director
Connie Galambos Malloy, SEC Coordinator
Marc Caswell, SEC Associate
Urban Habitat
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Help Build Green Jobs, Not Jails in California!
There are two important legislative issues Ella Baker Center is asking for your help with.
 SB 1672, Steinberg would invest $2.25 BILLION to create jobs in clean energy industries and provide pathways for low-income Californians into the growing green economy.
California Senate Republican Caucus Chair George Runner has introduced a ballot initiative 'The Runner Initiative' that will cost at least $1 billion the first year and $500 million every year after that in prison spending, taking funds away from education and healthcare. READ MORE....
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Richmond Planning Commission to Require Comprehensive Cap on Chevron's Crude Oil
Hundreds of community members with the Richmond Alliance for Environmental Justice, a coalition of community-based organizations, packed the Richmond Planning Commission hearing and urged the commissioners to stop Chevron from expanding the refinery's capacity to process heavier and dirtier crude oil.
The crude cap would limit the quality of the oil entering into the refinery and was a central demand of the Alliance. Three of the five commissioners voted to require the
comprehensive crude cap as a part of Chevron's proposed expansion of its Richmond oil refinery.
"This was a significant step
forward for environmental justice in the city of Richmond and beyond," said Dr. Henry
Clark, executive director of the West County Toxics Coalition. READ MORE... |
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More News
After mounting public pressure from the Transportation
Justice Working Group and others, AC Transit Board agrees to hold fares and
examine other funding options- until after November elections. MORE...
California
mortgage borrowers struggling to make their payments have reported difficulties
working with their loan servicer to attain a loan modification. Four borrowers,
who shared their stories with the California Reinvestment Coalition, are
featured in a short video. MORE...
The Unequal Landscape of Diabetes: Place based solutions to
end an epidemic, a new report by California Pan-Ethnic Health Network, provides
statistics on the growing diabetes epidemic among communities of color and
highlights policy recommendations and innovative solutions to improve our
communities' nutritional and physical landscapes. MORE...
Green For All is searching for the following immediate hires, to round out
their rapidly growing team: Communications Director, Internet Director, and Web
Manager. MORE...
The Greater Richmond Interfaith Project (GRIP) in West Contra
Costa County
has a wide-range of programs. Learn more about some of their
accomplishments and GRIP's varied work. MORE...
The Insight
Center for Community
Economic Development recently released the 2008 California Family Economic
Self-Sufficiency Standard, and the report "How Much is Enough in Your
County?" MORE...
Healthy Cities, Green Collar Jobs, Native Americans in the Bay Area,
Environmental Racism, and Outdoor Education are some of the courses being
offered by Merritt
College's Environmental
Program beginning mid August. Courses are free to low cost and open to
everyone. MORE...
Centro Legal de la Raza convened the first meeting of the Oakland City
Identification Card Coalition (OCICC). About twenty-five individuals
representing various organizations and constituencies met and discussed how to
build unity in Oakland
by creating a city identification card for everyone who lives in the 'Town in a
move to implement the human rights aspiration of its new sanctuary ordinance.
MORE...
On May 14th, the Oakland Network for Responsible Development (ONWRD), the
Oakland People's Housing Coalition, and the League of Women Voters sponsored a
"Building Oakland for Everyone Candidates Forum" for the At-Large
City Council seat. Over 100 community members and a majority of the candidates
for the At Large Seat attended. MORE...
Oakland Rising is seeking an Executive Director MORE...
People's Grocery is looking for individuals to participate in
their 'Grub Box' program which includes scholarships for West
Oakland families enrolled in the federal food stamp program to
receive affordable boxes of healthy fruits and vegetables. For every Grub Box
you buy at $24, you subsidize a $12 Grub Box for a West
Oakland family. MORE...
An interfaith coalition of 17 clergy members and religious lay people divided
into teams of two each joined by Teamsters organizers and EBASE staff and
fanned out across the Port walking from truck to truck visiting drivers as they
waited in line for cargo loads. They listened to the drivers' stories and
offered prayers from their different religions. MORE...
Show your support for the Transportation and Land Use
Coalition's (TALC) RTP platform that calls for funding
for providing transit for all, making biking and walking safer and easier, and
protecting our climate. MORE...
Urban Habitat seeks an
Education and Training Coordinator MORE...
Working Partnerships USA has launched a campaign to extend Living Wage to San
Jose International Airport after their report found that while over half of
employees earning a living wage had been at the Airport for over three years,
the percentage of those earning less who remained that long was 6% or lower.
The report also showed that this disparity has dramatic impacts on security and
safety at the airport. MORE...
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SEC Quarterly Meeting
Friday June 20 9:30-12:30
sec@urbanhabitat.org
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