Our hearts go out to Jose Diaz

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Our hearts go out to Jose Diaz who has been a consistent, spirited, and strong leader at the Pomona Day Labor Center (see message below). Please join us tomorrow (Friday) morning for a prayer service at the center at 9 A. M.
 

Dear PEOC friends and family, it is with a heavy heart that we inform you of a tragedy affecting the family of one of our strongest fighters, José Díaz. His grandson and various other individuals died in an automobile accident back in Mexico. Tomorrow a rosary will be prayed at the center at 9:AM by Father Pat Guillén for the souls of Héctor Alejandro Díaz, 18 years old, José’s grandson, and César Alejandro Hernández, 19 years old, José’s son’s stepson, both of whom lost their lives in the accident. We would like to invite you all to commemorate their lives and their memory. May they rest in peace.

 

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Volunteers Needed for DACA Clinic by Latino/a Roundtable and EIYC in Pomona

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By Eloisa Amador

Latino/a Roundtable and the Inland Empire-Immigrant Youth Coalition, will be having two Free DACA clinics in Pomona, on November 30, 2012 and the second one December 5, 2012 at Village Academy High School (1444 East Holt Avenue, Pomona Ca.) form 3:00-8:30pm in the Village Conference Center. We need volunteer for both day, so if you can make it please let me know. Also, if you have not done your DACA, this will be a great way to get started. You may volunteer and be a participant. We appreciate your support and hope to see you at the event.

Wal-Mart Exploitation of Workers

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If there is any doubt in anyone’s mind about the exploitation of workers abroad by Wal Mart — and how it uses poorly paid workers in factories with horrible working conditions — take a look at this factory in Bangladesh that made clothes

for retailers such as Wal-Mart Stores. Over 100 workers were killed. It is important to let our communities know that the reason they can buy cheaply at Wal Mart is because of the low wages and the poor working conditions that they subject workers to — abroad and here at home.

See Link:  Garment Workers Stage Angry Protest After Bangladesh Fire

In a garment factory in Bangladesh, 112 factory workers were burned alive – the emergency exits were locked from the outside. Inspectors for Walmart had designated the factory to be “high risk”, but did not enforce greater safety procedures.

Tell Walmart to join an independent fire safety inspection program to prevent tragedies like this.

Also see:

Fighting for people over profits

Maryknoll: Vatican Has Dismissed Father Roy Bourgeois from Order

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Letter From Carlos:

I just signed this petition in support of Father Roy Bourgeois, who was dismissed from the priesthood and from his order, the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers because of his support for gender equality in the Catholic Church.

On November 19th, we received the sad news that Father Roy Bourgeois, a longtime peace activist and Roman Catholic priest, was dismissed from his religious order the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers because of his support for women’s ordination. Fr. Bourgeois first came under scrutiny from the Vatican for his support of women’s ordination in 2008 after delivering the homily at a women’s ordination ceremony in Lexington, Kentucky.

Firm in his faith and conscience, Fr. Roy has since spoken tirelessly and bravely for the equality and dignity of women, risking everything to call out sexism in the Church. A Purple Heart veteran and Noble Peace Prize Nominee (2009), Fr. Roy is also known for his work with SOA Watch, a group he founded in 1990 to protest the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, a U.S. Army training school at Fort Benning, Ga., formerly known as the School of the Americas.

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Big Change in Pomona Coming

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A big change in Pomona coming: John Nolte received 1,537 votes and beat out incumbent Danielle Soto (793 votes); Debra Martin won with 1,419 votes; and Measure T (that was backed by the Pomona Police Officer’s Association to wipe out district for at-large elections) was defeated with 11,869 voting No and 10,028 yes. This latter vote was a big victory. Measure T sought to turn back the will of the people in Pomona who, back in 1990, after law suits were filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Southwest Voter Registration Project, voted to scrap citywide elections in favor of single-member districts to bolster minority representation, to facilitate more direct communication between the voters and their representatives, and to reduce the costs of running for city council seats. The voters voted in this way at that time, also to stop the reality that, although Pomona had changed demographically to over 50% in ethnic minorities in the city, only two members of racial or ethnic minorities, up until 1986, had ever been elected to the council in the city’s 99-year history. With Tuesday’s vote, the Pomona voters ensured the continuance of a progressive legacy that other cities are now seeking to replicate. They voted to not allow the exclusion of candidates who may have limited resources, to not allow a handful of interest groups to control, and to not waste the taxpayer’s hard-earned funds in defending an outdated Measure that would have l undoubtedly ended up in the courts had it been passed.

Elections in Pomona: Nolte and Martin win – Measure T is voted down

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A big change in Pomona coming: John Nolte received 1,537 votes and beat out incumbent Danielle Soto (793 votes); Debra Martin won with 1,419 votes; and Measure T (that was backed by the Pomona Police Officer’s Association to wipe out district for at-large elections) was defeated with 11,869 voting No and 10,028 yes. This latter vote was a big victory. Measure T sought to turn back the will of

the people in Pomona who, back in 1990, after law suits were filed by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund and the Southwest Voter Registration Project, voted to scrap citywide elections in favor of single-member districts to bolster minority representation, to facilitate more direct communication between the voters and their representatives, and to reduce the costs of running for city council seats. The voters voted in this way at that time, also to stop the reality that, although Pomona had changed demographically to over 50% in ethnic minorities in the city, only two members of racial or ethnic minorities, up until 1986, had ever been elected to the council in the city’s 99-year history. With Tuesday’s vote, the Pomona voters ensured the continuance of a progressive legacy that other cities are now seeking to replicate. They voted to not allow the exclusion of candidates who may have limited resources, to not allow a handful of interest groups to control, and to not waste the taxpayer’s hard-earned funds in defending an outdated Measure that would have undoubtedly ended up in the courts had it been passed.

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