Music! Food! PROTEST Monster Cable’s Monsterous Treatment of Workers

MONSTERpalooza! Concert and Car Caravan

11:30 am – 2 pm, Sat. May 5th starting from downtown Burlingame

Featuring:

The Brass Liberation Orchestra
Raging Grannies
Car Caravan to CEO’s Mansion in Hillsborough
Picnic Catered by DeliciousLe (*RVSP required!)
…and more!

Meet at 11:30 am at the Chevron station at Burlingame Ave. and El Camino Real.

Bring your noisemakers and sunblock…

The Head Monster of Monster Cable still refuses to meet with workers to resolve their demands

for a fair severance, despite the 6 months-long appeals of workers, community and elected officials.

Today, I had to take the T-Third Street Rail to Dogpatch for an appointment. As I waited for the train at Civic Center, I heard a voice over the loud speaker say, “The T-Train is at the Church Station.”

On the way back, I just missed a T-train. When I got onto the platform, the sign noted “2 minutes.” Two minutes went by and the sign then said “three minutes and 15 minutes.” I chuckled-and then I heard someone called out “Hey lady.” I turned around and a bus driver was leaning out of his window with the bus sign stating “Shuttle.”

On May 1, march to Stop the raids and the deportations! March for the reunification of families!

Time: 12 noon at Dolores Park at 19th and Dolores. Then the march will go to Civic Center. Speeches will be in the Civic Center at 1 p.m.

Join Supervisors Ross Mirkarimi, Jake McGoldrick and Chris Daly along with School Board Commissioners Eric Mar and Mark Sanchez, and City College TrusteesJohn Rizzo and Milton Marks in the fourth annual SF Political Trivia Contest.

Leftinsf’s own Robert Haaland will also be a MC along with DBI Commissioner Debra Walker.

Entrance fee is $5 per person. There will be five categories of 10 questions each. The winning team will get a better than cash value prize.

The Harvey Milk LGBT Democratic Club will be having their PAC meeting on Tuesday, May at 7 p.m. at the LGBT Center, 1800 Market.

1. Announcements (7:10-7:20)

2. President’s Comments (7:20 to 7:30)

3. Update on June, July and November PAC meetings (7:30 to 7:40)

4. Guest Speaker (7:40 to 8:00) N’Tanya Lee, executive director of Coleman Advocates will be speaking on a affording housing measure that Coleman and a wide coalition of community groups are putting on the ballot this November. N’Tanya was chosen a Bay Guardian Hero this year. N’Tanya will be speaking for 8 minutes and the rest of time will be given to questions.

In the Curriculum Meeting, the Board of Education were told that SFUSD has more students speaking Spanish in their homes-than any other language.

So I was delighted to see that el Dia de los Libros (the Day of Books) was going to be celebrated today at Dolores Park.

At Dolores Park, the children received “passports.” If they completed three art activities, they got a free book. The activities included creating a candy necklace, a paper sock puppet and milagro (cut-out designs on paper). The SF Children’s Art Center had a booth where the students could make (and take) a book.

1. The Ray Solem Foundation - Grants to Help Immigrants Learn English in Innovative Ways, P.O. Box 3589, Washington, D.C. 20027-0089,
(202) 625-6448, Fax: (202) 625-0343, rraysol@aol.com

Application Deadline: July 31, 2007

Award Amount: $10,000

Eligible Applicants: Nonprofit organizations

Focus of Interest: The foundation aims to find creative ways to help poor immigrants advance within the United States and become productive citizens. Grants will support resources and programs that assist immigrants further their verbal English language and communication skills.

More info: http://www.raysolemfund.org/grants.html

2. Keep America Beautiful, Inc. , Attn: Graffiti Hurts, 1010 Washington Blvd.
Stamford, CT 06901, (203) 323-8987, graffitihurts@kab.org,

My friend Catania first said, “Do you want to go to a roller derby?”

I laughed and said no.

She said, “My daughter, Danielle has always wanted to be in the roller derby. And now she’s in the Bay City Bombers. She’s the mother of my grandchildren. She’s 39. Why would she do something like that? I can’t understand it”

I thought for a moment, “Because you taught her to go for any dream that she really wanted.”

“So what about the grandchildren?” Catania said.

“She’s teaching them the same lesson.” With that, I bought two tickets.

At the general meeting of the 2nd District PTA (citwyide San Francisco PTA), the membership voted these officers into office for 2007-09 by consensus:

President Barbara Lee, Grandmother of Balboa HS student
Treasurer Alan Guest, parent at McKinley ES and Balboa HS
Auditor Laureen Tom
Past President Carl Barnes, parent at Jose Ortega ES
2nd VP-Communications Shellie Wiener, parent at McKinley ES and Balboa ES
4th VP-Education Kathi Barg
5th VP-Parent Involvement Natti Fong, staff member at Parents for Public Schools
6th VP-Health Rhonda Chew
7th VP-Gail Baugh, President of PTA at John Muir
Chair-Reflections-Sherri Rosenberg, PTA at Washington
Chair-Reception and Dinner-Sandi Fewer, Parent at Washington (and staff member at Coleman Advocates)
Chair-National Legislation-Betty DeFea

The Board of Education reconvene its regular meeting at 6:30 p.m. today to discuss the item that they had tabled at their regular meeting.

The issue was whether to lay off 15.41 paraprofessionals for 07-08. Under the Education Code, the District must give permanent employees 45 days notice-and school will end on June 12 (45 working days from this Sunday).