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People's Budget for San Francisco - 2007 - Immigrant Chapter
San Franciscans working on the Immigrant portion of the People's Budget meet at City Hall to finalize their "ASKS" and then transmit them to aides from several friendly supervisors.
The video shows the beginning and ending of the meeting with the aides.
The slideshow in mid-video shows the preliminary planning meeting and more of the meeting with the aides.
Ana Perez of CARECEN chaired the meeting. Four-minute QT movie. 57MB.
The video shows the beginning and ending of the meeting with the aides.
The slideshow in mid-video shows the preliminary planning meeting and more of the meeting with the aides.
Ana Perez of CARECEN chaired the meeting. Four-minute QT movie. 57MB.
FIGHT THE CITY BUDGET CUTS!
by Michael Lyon
Please Call the Gray Panther Office To Help.
The April 2007 Street Sheet shows how virtually all programs for low-income, minority, and working-class residents are threatened by City funding cuts on top of State and Federal cuts. Newsom proposes a 5% cut to all departments. Major areas of concern are the aging/disabled; children, youth, and families; violence prevention; HIV/AIDS services; economic justice/living wages; community services; housing and homelessness; harm reduction; substance abuse; immigrant rights; and housing subsidies for 491 HIV/AIDS patients. (SF has some 2,400 homeless HIV/AIDS patients.)
The Health Dept. has announced massive cuts or closure of programs in mental health and substance abuse, including those serving disabled homeless and homeless women in the Mission. Also cut are drug overdose prevention, needle exchange, Women's Community Clinic, stimulant treatment, public health nurses for home care, methadone treatment, SF General psychiatric services, prescription co-pay aid, and elimination of the SF General Workers Comp clinic. SF General nurse understaffing already compromises patient care and nurse safety, and makes more nurses quit.
Each year, People's Budget helps the fight to save programs by assembling, exposing, and explaining the City's often-hidden plans to eliminate services. They also show how services could be financed if downtown corporations and the rich were taxed. In past years, Gray Panthers have attended People's Budget meetings, invited them to our meetings, and devoted Newsletter space to their work. Now the fight to save services shifts to street rallies and Supervisors' budget hearings.
The City's planned cuts threaten our communities and threaten us directly. From Bayview to Chinatown, the City plans a new campaign to gentrify and marginalize working-class people and families. PLEASE call the Gray Panthers office, 415-552-8800, and leave your number, so we can call you about upcoming rallies and Supervisors' budget hearings in June and July.
by Michael Lyon
Please Call the Gray Panther Office To Help.
The April 2007 Street Sheet shows how virtually all programs for low-income, minority, and working-class residents are threatened by City funding cuts on top of State and Federal cuts. Newsom proposes a 5% cut to all departments. Major areas of concern are the aging/disabled; children, youth, and families; violence prevention; HIV/AIDS services; economic justice/living wages; community services; housing and homelessness; harm reduction; substance abuse; immigrant rights; and housing subsidies for 491 HIV/AIDS patients. (SF has some 2,400 homeless HIV/AIDS patients.)
The Health Dept. has announced massive cuts or closure of programs in mental health and substance abuse, including those serving disabled homeless and homeless women in the Mission. Also cut are drug overdose prevention, needle exchange, Women's Community Clinic, stimulant treatment, public health nurses for home care, methadone treatment, SF General psychiatric services, prescription co-pay aid, and elimination of the SF General Workers Comp clinic. SF General nurse understaffing already compromises patient care and nurse safety, and makes more nurses quit.
Each year, People's Budget helps the fight to save programs by assembling, exposing, and explaining the City's often-hidden plans to eliminate services. They also show how services could be financed if downtown corporations and the rich were taxed. In past years, Gray Panthers have attended People's Budget meetings, invited them to our meetings, and devoted Newsletter space to their work. Now the fight to save services shifts to street rallies and Supervisors' budget hearings.
The City's planned cuts threaten our communities and threaten us directly. From Bayview to Chinatown, the City plans a new campaign to gentrify and marginalize working-class people and families. PLEASE call the Gray Panthers office, 415-552-8800, and leave your number, so we can call you about upcoming rallies and Supervisors' budget hearings in June and July.
For more information:
http://www.immigrantrights.org/
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I just want to thak all the community involved in this goal. I am also a worker for the community and I feel motivated to know that latinos and latinas are willing to stand up for our rights.
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