Action Alerts

Release of New Report on Community Benefits and Development: Sept 24, 2008

Save the Date!  
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008
****Please Note the CHANGE IN DATE****
Community Benefits and Development Report Release
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Donate School Supplies to Homeless Children

Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency (BOSS) is asking for donations for the Children's Learning Center where homeless children receive daily academic support throughout the school year. Our children of all grade levels live on site at the Ursula Sherman Village, emergency and transitional housing.

We are currently in need of new or gently used backpacks, notebooks, pencils and pens, markers, crayons, binders and more approximately 30 school age children.

Please help if you can by bring donations to our administration office in downtown Berkeley 2065 Kittredge Street, Suite E, Berkeley Ca.

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Grassroots Leadership Network of Marin TV – Comcast Ch. 26

Every Monday from 6:00-6:30 Grassroots Leadership Network of Marin will broadcast on Comcast Channel 26.  The topics include Community Building, Education and Immigration, Housing rights, and more.  Broadcasts will be available in Spanish and Vietnamese.  

For a schedule of shows, please see the MGLN calendar.

Read more on Grassroots Leadership Network of Marin.

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Rail~Volution Returns to Bay Area: October 27-29

Save the date for Rail~Volution on October 27-29 in downtown San Francisco. Rail~Volution will bring together over 1,000 attendees and speakers from across the country to share their experience and lessons learned in building livable communities with transit. Rail~Volution is a conference for passionate practitioners -- people from all perspectives who believe strongly in the role of land use and transit as equal partners in the quest for greater livability and greater communities. Rail~Volution will include over 80 different sessions, workshops, mobile tours, and networking receptions.

Read more and register at: railvolution.com  

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Green Jobs Now Day of Action: September 27

On September 27, the Ella Baker Center, Green for All, 1Sky and the We Campaign will join with tens of thousands of Americans for Green Jobs Now, a national day of action for green jobs.
 
The Ella Baker Center's Green-Collar Jobs Campaign is organizing a special event with our allies in Oakland (details to come), with scores of other events happening throughout the country.

Take part in a Green Jobs Now event near you!

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UFW: Boycott Trader Joe's Wine!

A farmworker, Maria Isabel Jimenez, recently died in of dehydration and heatstroke while picking grapes for a company co-owned by the same person who owns Charles Shaw Winery, which produces what is popularly known as "Two Buck Chuck", exclusively sold at Trader Joe's. Neither Charles Shaw nor Trader Joe's is willing to accept any responsibility for what happened.
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