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June 1st, 2004

Letter from my Congresscritter…

[Hmph… it appears that Sam Farr’s staff didn’t look at the letter that closely. I don’t see anything in here that has me endorsing an “open shop” or anti-union “right to work” laws. -Thomas]
Note: This letter supports a campaign of the AFL-CIO Working Families
e-Activist “Union Voice”. It goes to Congress.
From: Thomas […]

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April 6th, 2004

Social Justice

Average age of a homeless person…

Message: 2
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004 13:15:47 -0700
From: radtimes
Subject: In the world’s richest nation…
>>The average age of a homeless person today is 9 years old <<
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http://stlouis.missouri.org/5yearstrategy/background/homeless.html
The City of St. Louis has a declining population of approximately 356,000
residents and it is a community of families […]

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April 1st, 2004

Work, Social Justice

Wherein your author takes on a professional economist re: the manufacturing vs. service sector jobs debate.

Declan,
Far be it from me to take on a professional economist, but two questions for Donald:
a) does the hourly wage calculation he cites include “total compensation”? If he’s using the data cited at the URL below, that would not appear to be the case. The type of manufacturing jobs that Donald declares people have […]

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March 30th, 2004

Queer, Green Party, Social Justice

SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY AND GENDER EXPRESSION (SO/GI/GE) PLATFORM of CA Green Party

GREEN PARTY OF CALIFORNIA PROPOSAL (MARCH 27 2004)
SPONSOR: PLATFORM WORKING GROUP
PRESENTERS/CONTACTS:
Paul Quick, 285 Rose Street, San Francisco 94102 (415)626-9134. PabloQ@aol.com
Shane Que Hee, 923 Levering Avenue Unit 102, Los Angeles CA 90024 (310)208-1624. squehee@ucla.edu
SUBJECT: SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY AND GENDER EXPRESSION (SO/GI/GE) in the Social Justice & Liveable Communities […]

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March 30th, 2004

Progressive Issues, Social Justice

Letter from Jack O’Connell (CA State Supt. of Schools)

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March 17th, 2004

Progressive Issues, Social Justice

Boycott Union Busting Coca-Cola!

[Please write, folks. The only way we’ll be able to preserve our rights here at home, is to support the rights of workers in other countries to organize and defend themselves. -Thomas]
Coke Workers on Hunger Strike in Colombia
From: StopKillerCoke@aol.com
(Please share this action-alert with others; and stay
tuned for more communications.)
Dear Friends,
This morning, Monday March 15, Coca-Cola […]

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March 8th, 2004

Politics, Social Justice

Goerge Bush: “the poor are lazy”.

[Another great item from Dave Farber’s IP email list. This man is our President? Scary. Scary that he managed to finagle his way into Harvard Business School! -Thomas]
From: Adam Peake
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 22:33:59
To:dave@farber.net
Subject: George Bush and the Gilded Age — comments by his business school
professor
Dave,
This essay might be of interest “President […]

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February 29th, 2004

Social Justice, Geek stuff

Great quote!

“… it is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday
facilitate a police state.” — Bruce Schneier, Founder/CTO, Counterpane Internet Security, Inc., http://www.schneier.com/

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January 29th, 2004

Social Justice

Cost of housing in SF Bay Area continues to rise…

Ever fewer can afford a house in Bay Area
You’ll need to earn at least $124,000, study calculates
Kelly Zito, Chronicle Staff Writer
Wednesday, January 28, 2004
�2004 San Francisco Chronicle
URL: sfgate.com/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2004/01/28/MNG9N4JGO01.DTL
The yawning gap between incomes and Bay Area housing costs is pushing
home ownership out of reach for all but the older and most affluent,
according to a […]

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January 27th, 2004

Social Justice

Text of my comments to the City Council tonight

The Homeless Names Project, 1/28/2004
City Councilmembers and citizens of Santa Cruz… four years ago, the Homeless Persons Health Project began to keep a log of deaths among homeless people in Santa Cruz County. The resulting records are used in an annual community memorial service where each of the names of the dead are spoken (along […]

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January 26th, 2004

Progressive Issues, Social Justice

What makes Santa Cruz so special…

[A little bit of it passed away recently. This is one of those people I’d heard about here and there; I’m sorry I missed his memorial service. -Thomas]
Dear friends-
You may (or may not) have known Bob DeBolt- a unique, dedicated, quiet and true Santa Cruz radical who […]

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January 9th, 2004

Social Justice

Reading the names of the fallen at City Hall on Tuesday the 13th

I’ve been pondering a non-confrontational and non-accusational (or at least only indirectly so) means of re-introducing the plight of the unhoused into the political dialogue of this city, and of increasing public awareness of the human cost of current city policies. To this end, I have conceived of the following action, to take place during Oral Communications during the City Council meeting on January 13th (this coming Tuesday):

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January 8th, 2004

Social Justice

Excerpt from Dave Farber’s IP list re: debate and economic/social costs/benefits of outsourcing of American jobs overseas.

There is more to this argument about exporting jobs than the nominal value
of labor in various countries.

There is the cost of environmental compliance, and the ability of workers
elsewhere to organize for better working conditions, for starters.

American multinationals are escaping these responsibilities by going
overseas, because there are no environmental standards in many countries,
and there is no right to organize.

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January 8th, 2004

Social Justice

Protest Hits Schwarzenegger’s Proposed Cuts In Services to the Elderly and Disabled

Colleen Fernandez was amongst the 1,000 people who
came to the capitol on January 6th to protest Arnold
Schwartzinegger’s proposed cuts in services to the elderly, poor, and
disabled. “I am a mother of six kids, two have severe autism that
requires 24-hour care. To take away from IHSS [In Home Support
Services] I don’t think is the way to take care of the budget
deficit, especially for people who are in need of these services for
their very survival. There are a lot of moms out here.”

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An Activist’s Life, by Thomas Leavitt

Archive for the 'Social Justice' Category

Letter from my Congresscritter…

Average age of a homeless person…

Wherein your author takes on a professional economist re: the manufacturing vs. service sector jobs debate.

SEXUAL ORIENTATION, GENDER IDENTITY AND GENDER EXPRESSION (SO/GI/GE) PLATFORM of CA Green Party

Letter from Jack O’Connell (CA State Supt. of Schools)

Boycott Union Busting Coca-Cola!

Goerge Bush: “the poor are lazy”.

Great quote!

Cost of housing in SF Bay Area continues to rise…

Text of my comments to the City Council tonight

What makes Santa Cruz so special…

Reading the names of the fallen at City Hall on Tuesday the 13th

Excerpt from Dave Farber’s IP list re: debate and economic/social costs/benefits of outsourcing of American jobs overseas.

Protest Hits Schwarzenegger’s Proposed Cuts In Services to the Elderly and Disabled

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