[PEN-L:1804] Help Save Affirmative Action (fwd)

[Nathan Newman <newman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Date: Thu, 7 Dec 1995 22:42:34 -0800
From: Lesbian Contradiction <lescon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Help Save Affirmative Action

Help Support a Grassroots Movement to Save Affirmative
Action or . . . We Get What We Pay For!

Since last June, Californians for Justice has been
building a base of activists and community
organizations who are gearing up to defeat the anti-
affirmative action initiative expected to be on the
California ballot in November 1996. Using the Million
Voices for Justice petition, CFJ has signed up 195,000
supporters of equal opportunity and identified over
10,000 people who want to work on the campaign. With
offices in Los Angeles and Oakland, CFJ has done this
with only five (underpaid) staff and hundreds of
committed volunteers.

Contrast this record with CCRI (the anti-affirmative
action initiative) -- they report they've blown
$450,000 on their campaign to outlaw affirmative action
and collected only 250,000 signatures the vast majority
from paid signature gatherers. Now they think they are
going to get help by appointing Ward Connerly head of
their operation and using Newt Gingrich's mailing list
of donors.

WE CAN DEFEAT CCRI, but only if we have the $$ to do
the job. To win, we think we will need to win the
support of and turn out to vote at least 450,000 people
who have not usually voted before, most of them from the
communities of color and among youth. This work can
only be done by one-to-one contact and that requires
organizers to enable volunteers to do the work.

Send donations to Californians for Justice, 1611
Telegraph Ave., Ste. 206, Oakland, CA 94612. (If you
send $25 or more, the California Fair Political Practices
Commission requires us to record your occupation and
employer.)


Californians for Justice Statewide Organizing Committee
(organizations listed for identification only)

Ignatius Bau, Asian and Pacific Island
American Health Forum

Hatem Bazian, California Student Civil Rights Network

Francis Calpotura, Center for Third World Organizing

York Chang, UCLA Student Body President

Cynthia Carey-Grant, Kaiser Permanente Medical West Bay CSA

Rev. Lorenzo Carlisle, Prophetic Movement to Save
Affirmative Action

Gary Delgado, Applied Research Center

Frank Martin del Campo, Labor Council for Latin
American Advancement, San Francisco Chapter

Angie Fa, San Francisco Board of Education

J Craig Fong, Los Angeles Lesbian and Gay Community
Services Center

Emily Goldfarb, Coalition for Immigrant and
Refugee Rights and Services

Juan Jose Gutierrez, One-Stop Immigration Services

Gabriel Hernandez, Xicano Moratorium Coalition; H.E.R.E Local 2850

Roy Hong, Korean Immigrant Workers Association

Kenneth Jacobs, Share Foundation

Kim Klein, Grassroots Fundraising Journal

Rev. James Lawson, Pastor, Holman United Methodist Church

Roberto Lovato, Central American Refugee Center

Joel Ochoa, California Immigrant Workers Association

Wilson Riles Jr., American Friends Service Committee

Peggy Saika, Asian Pacific Environmental Network

Tracy Salkowitz, American Jewish Congress

Tim Sampson, California Faculty Association

Rinku Sen, Center for Third World Organizing

Anthony Thigpenn, AGENDA, Los Angeles

Mark Toney, Strategic Tools, Inc

Vallerie Wagner, Black Gay & Lesbian Leadership Forum






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