CA Voting Info

INFO California Elections and Voter Information

DATA BASE Cal-Access

Curious about... Who are California's lobbyists?Who hires these lobbyists?And how much money is changing hands?

Recovery & The Story of Stuff

DATABASE Recovery.gov

Recovery.gov is the U.S. government's official website providing easy access to data related to Recovery Act spending and allows for the reporting of potential fraud, waste, and abuse. (Note: reports made by Inspectors General, overseen by the Government Accountability Office.)

CALIFORNIA STATS

Unemployment = 12.23%

Stimulus Awards = $18.5 billion

Reported Job Creation = 110,219 jobs

ANIMATION The Story of Cap and Trade

Annie Leonard presents The Story of Cap & Trade, a cute and simple look at the leading climate solution being discussed at Copenhagen and on Capitol Hill.

Teaching Opportunities

JOB Teach For America

Teach For America aims to end educational inequity—the reality that in our country, where a child is born determines his or her educational outcomes and life prospects. We are working with a great sense of urgency to build the movement to eliminate educational inequity by enlisting our nation's most promising future leaders in the effort.

Next application deadline: January 8, 2010

PAID INTERNSHIP Breakthrough Collaborative

Breakthrough Collaborative is a national non-profit that increases educational opportunity for high-potential, low-income middle school students and inspires outstanding college and high school students to pursue careers in education. Consistently featured as a Top Ten Internship by the Princeton Review, Breakthrough’s innovative Students Teaching Students model partners middle-school students with college and high school students who serve as teachers, role models and mentors.

Next application deadline: March 1, 2010

Politics and Policy

"Any society, any nation, is judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members ; the last, the least, the littlest."

STATISTICS San Quentin State Prison Education

- 75% of SQ teaching staff are being laid off this January
- The annual salary of an SQ teacher is about $80,000
- SQ teachers teach inmates skills for re-entry into society
- 70% of inmates who are released will re-enter prison
- It costs over $40,000 to keep an inmate in prison

How can we save money in California? Do the math.

FELLOWSHIP Capital Fellows Program



The 18 Assembly Fellows, 18 Senate Fellows, 18 Executive Fellows and 10 Judicial Administration Fellows receive an outstanding opportunity to engage in public service and prepare for future careers, while actively contributing to the development and implementation of public policy in California.

Strike

STRIKE University of California, Nov. 18-20

The UC Regents will meet to vote on a proposed student fee increase: 32% over two semesters, last summer 9%. If this increase is approved, the cost of a UC education will have tripled since 2000.

First Annual Harvest Gala

EVENT Harvest Gala

I've been working on this since July.

We have over $7,000 worth of silent auction items, including:
- SF Opera tickets
- Tickets to Slim's and Great American Music Hall
- Private SF Bay boat tours
- Chez Panisse for two
- Passes to the Academy of Sciences
- Winery tours
- Most items will go for half retail value

Tickets start at $25.

"War to End All Wars"

HOLIDAY Veterans Day


Veterans Day originates from a treaty made in World War between the Allied nations and Germany on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, which is generally regarded as the end of “the war to end all wars.”

Whereas the 11th of November 1918, marked the cessation of the most destructive, sanguinary, and far reaching war in human annals and the resumption by the people of the United States of peaceful relations with other nations, which we hope may never again be severed, and

Whereas it is fitting that the recurring anniversary of this date should be commemorated with thanksgiving and prayer and exercises designed to perpetuate peace through good will and mutual understanding between nations; and

Whereas the legislatures of twenty-seven of our States have already declared November 11 to be a legal holiday: Therefore be it Resolved by the Senate (the House of Representatives concurring), that the President of the United States is requested to issue a proclamation calling upon the officials to display the flag of the United States on all Government buildings on November 11 and inviting the people of the United States to observe the day in schools and churches, or other suitable places, with appropriate ceremonies of friendly relations with all other peoples.