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Invitation to EMERGENCY COMMUNITY BRIEFING – JULY 8 on UFCW Contract Negotiations
Note: the UFCW support turned out a number of their members to our recent press conference regarding the DAPA Supreme Court decision. They have been consistent in supporting our many efforts throughout the years. Now, they are asking for our support – and we urge you to attend this most important community Meeting.
BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
PLEASE ATTEND THIS VERY IMPORTANT BRIEFING AND HELP SPREAD THE WORD. FLYER IS ATTACHED. REMEMBER TO RSVP IF YOU HAVE NOT DONE SO, Sylvia1428@msn.com.
Thank You for your continued support and solidarity. Sylvia
Emergency Community Briefing
The contract covering nearly 50,000 grocery workers expired in March, and the union has been attempting to negotiate a new deal with Ralphs, Vons and Albertsons. Grocery workers across Southern California, including UFCW 1428 voted overwhelmingly to reject the employers insulting offer and authorized a strike if contract negotiations break down.
We cannot do this without you. Please join us for an Emergency Community Briefing to bring you up to date. RSVP to Sylvia1428@msn.com
FRIDAY JULY 8TH, 10:00 AM
St John The Baptist Catholic Church
(Nugent Room, next to Office)
3883 Baldwin Park Blvd, Baldwin Park, CA 91706
**Thank you Fr. Mike and St John’s for the use of the room**
Our members demand respect! Stand strong and united and together we will prevail!
Invitation Get on Bus to HIlda Solis Reception and County Supervisor meeting
This is your invitation to join us on a bus that will leave at 10 A. M. from 1540 W. 2nd Street in Pomona for LRT Members and all those who want to support future funding for our parks. The bus will take us to a reception by Hilda Solis (before the county supervisor meeting at 11:30 A. M. on the 8th floor balcony in the Hall of Administration. Afterward, we will attend the County Supervisor meeting to support a park parcel tax which would help fund over 1,800 projects to improve and to build new parks. Included in the proposal is funding for Cesar Chavez park and other parks in the city of Pomona and the region.
Hilda Solis Field Office Grand Opening Clelebration this Saturday
This is your reminder that the Latino and Latina Roundtable will have a table at the Hilda Solis opening this Saturday. We will distribute our brochure, voter registration information, membership applications, etc.. Melissa, Maura, I, and Claudia have agreed to be there to set-up the table at 8:30. The opening ceremony starts at 10 A. M. and we urge our Latino and Latina Roundtable members to participate. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
East San Gabriel Valley Field Office
Grand Opening Ceremony & Community Resource Fair
EXHIBITOR CONFIRMATION
Saturday, June 25th, 2016
2245 N. Garey Avenue
Pomona, CA 91767
Arrival and Set-up 8:30 am – 9:30am
Parking is open and on a first come first serve basis
Tables will be assigned – Please check in at 2245 N. Garey
One table and two chairs under a canopy will be provided
Opening Ceremony 10:00am
Booths will be closed during ceremony and exhibitors asked to sit in audience
Resource Fair 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Free lunch will be provided
Jose Zapata Calderon
Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies
Emergency Community Briefing Grocery Workers
The UFCW supported the Latino and Latina Roundtable in our press conference today regarding DAPA — and they have always supported us — now, let’s support them.
–-Jose
From: sylvia1428@msn.com
Subject: Emergency Community Briefing Grocery Workers
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2016 21:20:48 +0000
BROTHERS AND SISTERS,
The contract covering nearly 50,000 grocery workers expired in March, and the union has been attempting to negotiate a new deal with the Kroger Corporation (owner of Ralphs) and Cerberus Capital (owner of Safeway, Vons, Pavilions, and Albertsons). Grocery workers across Southern California, including UFCW 1428 voted overwhelmingly to reject the employers insulting offer and authorized a strike if contract negotiations break down.
We cannot do this without you. Please join us for an Emergency Community Briefing to bring you up to date. RSVP BY RESPONDING TO THIS EMAIL
FRIDAY JULY 8TH, 10:00 AM
St John The Baptist Catholic Church (Nugent Room, next to Office)
3883 Baldwin Park Blvd, Baldwin Park, CA 91706
**Thank you Fr. Mike and St John’s for the use of the room**
Our members demand respect! Stand strong and united and together we will prevail!
“We don’t want to strike, we understand the impact on consumers, our communities, and our members,” said Rick Icaza, president of the largest local union representing grocery workers, UFCW Local 770. “But the out-of-state corporations and hedge funds controlling the stores may leave us no choice. Despite profits of over a half billion dollars, they are still demanding our workers give up retirement and health care security and forgo raises for two years. That’s not fair, and it’s not right.”
“Grocery workers are the front line for working class families in Southern California,” said John Grant, Secretary Treasurer of Local 770. “These corporations know that if they can take away our hard fought and modest retirement and health care security in the bright light of day, they will have no trouble doing the same to every other working family in California. We have a responsibility not just to our members and other grocery workers, but to every family fighting to make ends meet.”
Supreme Court Decision Press Conference on Friday at 11 A. M.
We just received word that the vote on DAPA by the Supreme Court was a 4 – 4 deadlock. Join us for a press conference on Friday at 11 A. M. at Pomona City Hall.
Press Advisory
Contact: Jose Calderon (909) 952-1640
Madeline Rios (909) 263-4579
Angela Sanbrano (323) 371-7305
Who: Latino/a Roundtable and partners
What: The Latino and Latina Roundtable will be holding a press conference
When: Friday, June 24th 11:00 a.m.
Where: at Pomona City Hall 505 S. Garey Avenue Pomona, CA
Why: Latino/a Roundtable response to the Supreme Court makes a decision on the Executive Order on Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) and Expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Expanded DACA). The Supreme Court of the United States ruled 4 to 4 on US v. Texas. In other words, the ruling means that DAPA and DACA Expansion programs will not be moving forward until we go back to the beginning and start all over again to get back to the Supreme Court. With sadness but resolve we have learned that the Supreme Court rejected President Obama’s executive order for Deferred Action for Parents and Lawfully Permanent Residents (DAPA) and the Expansion of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Expanded DACA). Claudia Bedolla from the Latino and Latina Roundtable stated, “DAPA didn’t happen and with that the opportunity for our families to have a better life has again been DENIED”. As you know, DAPA/Expanded DACA could benefit up to five million undocumented immigrants who, if it passes, will be eligible for deportation protection and a three-year work permit. This includes immigrant parents who have lived in the U. S. for at least five years, since before January 1, 2010 and have children who either were born in the U. S. or are legal permanent residents. The program would of also allow immigrants who arrived as children before Jan. 1, 2010 to become eligible — expanding the program beyond the original June 15, 2007 cutoff date.
Press Conference On DAPA at Pomona City Hall
The Latino and Latina Roundtable will be holding a press conference at Pomona City Hall (505 S. Garey Ave.) just as soon as the Supreme Court makes a decision on the Executive Order on Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) and Expanded Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Expanded DACA). The decision might be released as early as this coming Monday. We will call people immediately after the decision is released and meet at Pomona City Hall (505 S. Garey) to speak with the press regarding the Supreme Court decision. We are calling on all Roundtable members and allies to get ready by contacting key people that you can bring to the press conference. Please do that now. As soon as we know when the decision has been released, we will send out an e-mail and also make phone calls. At the press conference, we will respond to the decision and need your support.
As you know, DAPA/Expanded DAPA could benefit up to five million undocumented immigrants who, if it passes, will be eligible for deportation protection and a three-year work permit. This includes immigrant parents who have lived in the U. S. for at least five years and have children who either were born in the U. S. or are legal permanent residents. The program will also allow immigrants who arrived as children before Jan. 1, 2010 to become eligible — expanding the program beyond the original June 15, 2007 cutoff date.
PUSD School Board Supports SB-1050 and Community Schools
Latino and Latina Roundtable, NAACP, and other supporters Get a Supportive Vote on 2 Resolutions from PUSD School Board
“SB-1050”
The Community Development Committee of the Latino and Latina Roundtable has been meeting for quite some time with involvement from parents and some staff from the school district, students from colleges in the region, local government representatives, and members from community-based organizations – in being part of – and supporting the efforts of the College for All Coalition, a statewide coalition of over 50 organizations and labor unions that are committed to reinvesting in public higher education and increasing equity and inclusion. As a condition of the UC receiving funding from the legislature to increase enrollment slots from the 2015-2016 baseline, UC must develop a plan for increasing the admission of California resident students and LCFF plus students (students who attend high schools that have a 75% – or greater – student enrollment of low-income, English learners and foster youth) of which the Pomona Unified has three high schools that are LCFF plus (Ganesha, Pomona, and Garey) with a total student enrollment of 4,371 students and with a diversity of students (90% Latino; 5% African American; 3% Asian American; 1% Filipino; and 1% White.
After presentations from members of the Latino and Latina Roundtable, the NAACP, and the College for All Coalition, the Pomona School Board voted in support of a bill SB 1050, Senator Kevin de Leon’s college readiness bill, to provide more funding for college readiness resources, expand college enrollment slots, and expand educational opportunity for LCFF plus students and students from first generation backgrounds.
“Community Schools”
After the Latino and Latina Roundtable, NAACP, and other supporters spoke in support of a resolution on the implementation of the concept of “community schools,” the Pomona Unified School Board voted its support unanimously.There are 51. Million children enrolled in approximately 5,000 community schools in the United States. They are developed t with the same objective of addressing inequities at both the school and community levels. Some of the aspects that community schools share in their strategic plans include: 1) culturally relevant and engaging curricula; 2) an emphasis on high-quality teaching, not high-stakes testing; 3) wraparound supports, such as health care and social and emotional services; 4) positive discipline practices, such as restorative justice; 5) parent and community engagement; and 6) inclusive school leadership committed to making the transformational community school strategy integral to the school’s mandate and functioning. Community schools develop strategic partnerships with businesses, nonprofits, universities, hospitals, and other community-based organizations.
Reminder: Meeting of the Latino and Latina Roundtable this Saturday, June 11th from 1 -3 PM at the Pitzer College Broad Center Room 208 (1050 N. Mills ave.) in Claremont. We will discuss the implementation of plans regarding LRT website and newsletter, immigrant rights, voter registration, candidate and initiative forums, support of community schools concept, pipeline legislation to higher education, park restoration and murals, our ongoing collaboration with coalition efforts, and other new business.
Jose Zapata Calderon
President of the Latino and Latina Roundtable
Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies
Membership Meeting of Latino and Latina Roundtable
You are invited to the next membership meeting of the Latino and Latina Roundtable this Saturday, June 11th from 1 -3 PM at the Pitzer College Broad Center Room 208 (1050 N. Mills ave.) in Claremont. We will discuss the implementation of plans regarding LRT website and newsletter, immigrant rights, voter registration, candidate and initiative forums, support of community schools concept, pipeline legislation to higher education, park restoration and murals, our ongoing collaboration with coalition efforts, and other new business.
Jose Zapata Calderon
President of the Latino and Latina Roundtable
Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies
1050 North Mills Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711-6101
(909) 952-1640
