It’s like a story out of the first Mayor Daley’s Chicago: local venue hosts a party for an organization critical of the Mayor. Two days before the party’s supposed to happen, venue gets shut down.
Support the right of workers to organize!
Come to a Community Briefing
August 28, 5pm @ Local 2
209 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco
Learn more about the current campaigns at Le Meridien Hotel
and Hyatt Fisherman’s Wharf Hotel. Hear the stories of
workers who are seeking a fair process to form a union.
CONTACT:
Rev. Israel I. Alvaran
209 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: 415.863.1142 Fax: 415.864.4158
Email: ialvaran@clueca.org
Harvey Milk Club PAC takes no position on Runner Initiative
Dear friends,
I am writing to you to ask you to vote no on Prop 6, the Runner Initiative on Tuesday at the Harvey Milk Club. The PAC took no position, and I feel it is vitally important that we fight this hateful, racist initiative with vigor. Please attend the membership vote Tuesday night between 7-9PM and vote no. The meeting is at the LGBT center. I suspect that it got lost in the shuffle as there are so many initiatives on the ballot, but this is a one of the most important issues for progressives and for the club on the ballot. If it passes, it is an unfunded mandate that would pour billions of state dollars into more prisons and more police and away from schools, hospitals, and other programs we care about. Prop 6 would:
Harvey Milk Club Pac Recommendations
Here are the PAC’s recommendations for the state and local propositions as well as Community College Board. The General Membership meeting to vote on the endorsements will be Tuesday, August 12th, from 7-9pm at the LGBT Center.
D9 Coalition on Homelessness Forum
On Sunday, there was a District 9 Supervisoral Candidate forum at the Secret Garden, sponsored by the Coalition on Homelessness.
The event, attended by a couple dozen people, featured three of the leading candidates for District 9, and I managed to take an unflattering picture of each of them.
Eric Quezada
David Campos
Mark Sanchez
Jennifer Friedenbach wrapped up the speaking portion of the event with a description of the Coalition’s activities.
I got an unflattering picture of her, too.
McGoldrick and the Mayor break up
Today’s Chron suggests that the recent alliance between McGoldrick and the Mayor is on the rocks. At least for now.
Steve Kawa is new Chief of Staff for the Mayor
As of last night, rumors were circulating that the Mayor’s third Chief of Staff, Trent Rhorer, was resigning because he needs to spend more time with his family. (I will resist making a snarky comment about so many have resigned for precisely this reason.)
Steve’s appointment is great news for the city AND perhaps bad news for Eric Jaye, the political consultant for the Mayor. . . When Steve resigned before, it was said that there was a turf war between them.
Queer Youth Organizing Project is picked for Local Hero Award by SF Bay Guardian
Local hero
Queer Youth Organizing Project
photos by Terrrie Frye at the Left Out Party
The queer-labor alliance Pride at Work, a constituent group of the AFL-CIO, added a youth brigade last year, and it’s been doing some of the most inspired organizing and advocacy in San Francisco. The Queer Youth Organizing Project can marshal dozens of teen and twentysomething activists with a strong sense of both style and social justice for its events and causes.
