“Breonna Taylor wanted to become a nurse,” the California Nurses Association tweeted Sept. 24 after the Kentucky Attorney General announced no indictments of Louisville police accused of murdering the “dedicated …
Outraged? Do something! Volunteer to End Injustice
First comes the awakening. Then the slow boil to anger over injustices beyond your control: more Black deaths without accountability; immigrant children in cages; the cruel and deliberate roll back …
National Voter Registration Day: Engage in Democracy
Sept. 22 is National Voter Registration Day and the push is on across the country from Google Doodle to an e-blast from young activists at March For Our Lives, to …
Social Security Works’ Ernie Powell Says Baby Boomers Are At Risk of Homelessness
Prop 21 is turning into the penultimate clash of the Baby Boomer generation. Ernie Powell, Public Policy consultant for Social Security Works, and billionaire Stephen Schwarzman were born into middle-class …
The Los Angeles Times Endorses Prop 21
Influencing Los Angeles County’s 5.6 million diverse registered voters is imperative for any statewide California campaign and having the endorsement of the state’s largest newspaper is significant. On Sept. 10, …
Los Angeles Blade, the LGBTQ Paper of Record in Southern California, Endorses Prop 21
The Los Angeles Blade, considered the LGBTQ publication of record in Southern California, has endorsed Proposition 21. During such a crucial election, Troy Masters, publisher of the Los Angeles Blade, …
Yes on 21 – SEIU California: Housing is a Human Right, Not a Luxury Commodity
Long before the layoffs, the business, and venue closures and other economic devastation wrought by the COVID-19 health crisis, members of Service Employees International Union (SEIU) faced chronic housing insecurity …
Yes on 21 – California Democratic Party Panel Explains Why Proposition 21 Must Be Passed
Election Day can’t come soon enough. While Washington squabbles over desperately needed federal relief packages, Northern Californian is literally on fire, a pall of unhealthy air hangs over unhoused people, …
Yes on 21 – Black Unity’s RJ Dawson Message ‘On the Verge of Homelessness’
To be sure, advocates attending a political and economic justice rally expect to be inspired and moved to take action. But sometimes a speaker is so impassioned, jaws drop and …
Yes on 21 – ‘Celebrate Renters Rally’ Full of Passion, Fight, and Fear
The stakes are extraordinarily high. California is treading water as the twin crises of housing affordability and homelessness, along with massive unemployment and the coronavirus pandemic, threaten a tsunami of …
