Get Vaccinated and VOTE

Get Vaccinated and VOTE

As Californians and Americans, it is time to respond to two urgent calls to action: to get vaccinated and to vote. Our choices today on these crucial matters will profoundly impact our future as individuals and as a community. If you choose not to vote or not get...
The California Recall Is Not Democratic

The California Recall Is Not Democratic

Since its inception in 1911, the California Recall system has been flawed. The system allows a small group of voters to initiate the recall of a sitting governor. In addition, the system enables an opposing candidate to be installed as governor even if the current...
Why We Must Unite As a Community and Get Vaccinated Against Covid-19

Why We Must Unite As a Community and Get Vaccinated Against Covid-19

COVID-19 continues to expose the inequities in our health care system. Statistics continue to show that people of color and low-income residents of all ethnicities have a higher risk of death from COVID-19.  The primary factors that give rise to these disparities...
Why You Must Vote in The California Recall Election

Why You Must Vote in The California Recall Election

Next month’s California recall election on September 14 is a result of direct democracy at work. Since 1911, our state has allowed for recall elections against current officeholders. Every Governor of California has faced a recall since 1960, but a recall effort...
We Must Strengthen The Voting Rights Act

We Must Strengthen The Voting Rights Act

August 6 marked 56 years since the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, ratified 95 years earlier. The purpose of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 was to eliminate the tremendous obstacles that...