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Putting Local Hire to Work
A Brightline Fundraiser
 
Honoring Local Hiring Heroes: Supervisor John Avalos, Laborers Union Local 261, CityBuild, Chinese for Affirmative Action, ABU, the Southeast Jobs Coalition, the Progressive Workers Alliance, and the Osiris Coalition.

Details:
Thursday, September 29, 2011
6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Sloane Lounge
1525 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94103

Putting Local Hire to Work Host Committee:

You're Invited!
Globalization Comes Home
RP&E Release Party

By Communities for a Better Environment

SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA – On April 22, 2011, environmental justice groups that succeeded in its lawsuit against the California Air Resources Board for its failure to consider alternatives to protect the public health and the environment during the implementation of the California Global Warming Solutions Act— popularly known as AB 32—submitted its final documentation to the Court that will determine the impact of the Court’s March 17, 2011 on the program’s implementation.

From Ella Baker Center

On Wednesday, January 12, 2011, Urban Habitat and the Bay Area Social Equity Caucus (SEC) hosted its third annual State of the Region event at the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California. The purpose of the event was to convene a wide range of decision-makers, policy experts, academics, and leaders from foundations, labor groups and community-based organizations throughout the Bay Area to identify effective solutions to some of the most pressing regional issues affecting Bay Area low-income communities and communities of color, and to foster the strategic partnerships needed to advance equity in the region.

Over 100 people participated in this year’s event, which focused on the following four topics: mitigating climate change and retaining community wealth through community choice aggregation networks; leveraging regional transportation investments to create local quality jobs; preventing displacement in transit-oriented communities; and utilizing land-use policy and coalition-building to increase the amount of affordable housing. Some presenters who spoke at the event included Paul Fenn, President of Local Power Inc. and author of California’s Community Choice Aggregation legislation; Claudia Hudson, President of The Amalgamated Transit Union 192; Richard Marcantonio, Managing Attorney at Public Advocates; Carlos Romero, mayor of East Palo Alto; and Leslie Moody, Executive Director of The Partnership for Working Families. Keynote speaker Dr. Anthony Iton, Senior Vice President for Healthy Communities at The California Endowment, discussed the intersection of race, poverty, and health in the Bay Area. 

From East Bay Housing Organizations

On Tuesday, February 15th, EBHO mobilized 80 affordable housing residents and over 70 members and advocates to go to Sacramento with hundreds more from around the Bay Area and the state to say: “Protect Funds for Affordable Housing! Reform, 

Housing California will be hosting its annual confrence from Tuesday, April 26 through Thursday, April 28, at the Sacramento Convention Center. This is a great opportunity to learn from your peers and colleagues, network with old friends and make some new ones, and help Housing California continue our work to prevent homelessness and increase the variety and supply of safe, stable, accessible, and permanently affordable places to live.