Stealing from Our Future:
Communities of color announce opposition to Props 1A & 1D

Contact: Cary Sanders, Director, Having Our Say Coalition
Cell: (510) 508-3653, Office: (510) 832-1160 ext. 306, email: csanders@cpehn.org

WHAT:      Leaders from grassroots community organizations, health professionals, and advocacy groups will announce their opposition to ballot propositions 1A & 1D on a multilingual telephonic press conference. You will also hear from an expert on the state budget. As part of February’s budget deal, the Governor and legislature agreed to place a series of measures on the May 19th ballot.  

• Proposition 1A will harm communities of color by placing an arbitrary cap on state spending that will limit California’s ability to invest in health care, higher education, public safety, and other critical services.
• Proposition 1D will divert funds from important local health and education funds for children to the state’s general fund, endangering thousands of low-income children’s access to health insurance and early childhood education.

WHEN:      Thursday, April 30, 2009
                        9:00 – 9:40 am: Press teleconference
                        9:40 – 10:00 am: Q&A in Chinese
                       10:00 – 10:20 am: Q&A in Spanish
                       10:20 – 10:40 am: Q&A in Korean

WHERE:      Multilingual Telephonic Press Conference
                  Call-in number: (888) 617-3400, Password: 271855#

WHO:      
Jean Ross, Executive Director, California Budget Project
Alice Chen, MD, MPH, Board of Directors, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
Jan Robinson-Flint, Executive Director, Black Women for Wellness (Los Angeles)
Chinese:
Hui Song, MPH, M.S., Having Our Say Coalition
Spanish:
Father Patrick Guillen, Libreria del Pueblo (San Bernardino)
Nayamin Martinez, Coordinator of Programs, Centro Binacional Para El Desarrollo Indigena Oaxaqueno (Fresno)
Lupe Rodriguez, Program and Policy Director, ACCESS Women’s Health Rights Coalition (Oakland)
Korean:
Dong Suh, MPP, Board of Directors, California Pan-Ethnic Health Network

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