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.

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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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.

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“Before, during, and after these elections — what has to be exposed is the large amount of money that is being spent by multi-millionaires to emotionally affect the votes of our hard-working communities – who often are just trying to survive. What if all those funds that they are spending to advance their power were used to increase the quality of our schools, our health care system, and our economy? It is such an injustice to our communities that the likes of Koch, Munger — and now Bloomberg — are able to invade our homes with their self-serving ads — when the working people, whose labor has helped to make these corporate owners wealthy, have to take to the streets to have their voices heard.”~ Jose Z. Calderon

Bloomberg should focus on NY not IE, Baca saysblog.pe.comGloria Negrete McLeod, left, and Joe Baca, right, are both Democrats vying for the newly drawn 35th Congressional district. New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s political PAC has donated more than $3 million to NEgrete McLeod’s campaign including last minute television advertising for $2.3 million.