SF Tenants Testifyed against CitiApartments at Board of Supervisors’ Land Use Committee

Joe says he ‘misspoke’ at the trans conference.

If you want to see what ‘misspeaking’ looks like, go see what he said for yourself:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_GhTiBO8Cw

HRC president apologizes for ‘misspeaking’ at transgender conference
Solmonese talks with Atlanta activists in private meeting
By DYANA BAGBY, Southern Voice | May 6, 7:37 PM
Human Rights Campaign President Joe Solmonese met with a handful of transgender activists in Atlanta last week and apologized for “misspeaking” at last year’s Southern Comfort conference, where he promised HRC would only support an Employment Non-Discrimination Act that included gender identity, according to people attending the meeting.

Dear friends - Below is a note from a community/labor coalition that my union is part of. Please come protest the ICE raids on Monday at noon at 630 Sansome. See you there.

Here is what I received by email last night:

As many of you heard throughout the day and at our coalition meeting this afternoon, there was a series of raids at Balazo Taquerias throughout the bay area today, and some 50-60 workers were detained. They are currently being released over at the ICE office (Sarah is still there as we speak trying to help out). There are still alot of questions about how/why these raids went down, but what we do know is that they demand an immediate response. So..

Can you imagine San Francisco without rent control?
Proposition 98 would eliminate rent control in all California-
Our city could be changed forever - now is the time to fight back!

Join Pride at Work’s election outreach. New volunteers are welcome!
We are working on three issues in coalition with community groups and labor:
NO on 98 to Save Rent Control!
YES on A to support SF schools and teachers!
YES on B to support city workers and preserve city services!
Phone bank this Monday, April 28th
and every Monday until the election
join Pride at Work Phone Bank nights when we call LGBT voters.
When: 5:30 - 8:30 p.m. Dinner is provided.
Where: SEIU 1021; 350 Road Island (entrance on Kansas & 17th)
accessible by MUNI 10, 19, 22 or 33
You can also join the general community labor phone banks Tuesday-Thursday, same time same place.

If the economy were just a little different:

An opinion piece from this week’s SF Bay Guardian written by a Public Health Nurse and member of SEIU 1021.

Chop from the top
You might expect that when the mayor proposes an “across the board” budget cut from city departments, almost any position in city government would be on the table.

By Stefan Lynch

OPINION San Francisco officials released two very different documents last week. The first was a list of the 596 city employees making $150,000 a year or more in base salary. The second was a letter to the 334 patients of the Chronic Care Public Health Nursing program informing them that as of April 15 they will no longer have a public-health nurse helping them manage their illnesses.

Two letters appeared in the gay press advocating for HRC to get the pink brick. If you haven’t voted already, please do so. Ballots are due by Monday. Read below for more information on HRC and tell your friends! Go to this link to get a printable ballot to mail in.

http://www.sfpride.org/parade/images/Ballot08-GM-eng.pdf

peace,

Robert

HRC deserving of Pink Brick

Admittedly, the Human Rights Campaign doesn’t belong in the company of media moron Bill O’Reilly, or any murderous dictator, extremist characters who frankly don’t care what we think. HRC should, however, care what we think. And we think HRC deserves the Pink Brink.

Join Pride at Work on the picket line in support of nurses who are on strike for the next ten days. They are fighting to save our community hospital!
Tuesday, March 25th
7-9am
at St. Luke’s Hospital Valencia and Cesar Chavez

Thousands of RNs have struck Sutter facilities twice already, though this is the first 10-day strike. The key reason for the walkouts is the pattern of patient safety risks caused by Sutter’s refusal to schedule RNs to care for patients when nurses are on legally-mandated meal or rest breaks. Such scheduling gaps leave patients unattended and at risk for sentinel events. Nurses are also concerned over Sutter’s practice of medical redlining by closing hospitals in medically underserved areas like St. Luke’s Hospital in San Francisco, and their refusal to agree to fair settlements on issues of healthcare and retiree healthcare and pensions.

At last week’s meeting, about 20 folks showed up to testify during public comment on my behalf. It was like being at your own funeral and hearing what folks have to say about you…It is about 5 or 6 minutes into the video.
Click here to watch.
http://sanfrancisco.granicus.com/MediaPlayer.php?view_id=6&clip_id=5083