Next
meeting: 4th Tuesday on every month 7:00PM at the Faith
Lutheran Church 20080 Redwood Rd.
Graydon Room.
(Map)
Castro Valley
Farmers' Market 9:00am to 1:00pm at BART
Station
Castro Valley's
Own
Democratic
Headquarters Join
the Eden Area United Democratic Campaign to elect
JERRY
BROWN FOR GOVERNOR & re-elect SENATOR BARBARA BOXER
Where: 15069 East 14th
Street, Suite B, San Leandro (Fairmont Shopping Center near Bayfair
between Fairmont and Hesperian Blvd. --- plenty of parking and accessible
by BART and bus)
Phone: 510-258-0000
Castro
Valley Democratic Club Annual BBQ
Castro
Valley Community Park Photos from July 18, 2010
The
event honored
Congresswoman Barbara Lee
and Fortney "Pete" Stark.
This event highlighted their significant contributions in our community,
and how they courageously stood up to challenges, injustice and social
barriers to pursue equality and freedom for all.
May
15, 2010, 11:00
A M - 1:00PM Where:
Castro Valley Library 3600 Norbridge, Castro Valley 94546
Introductory
remarks by Mr. John Bass, followed by comments from Alberto Torrico for
Attorney General, Rev. Byron Williams, Mrs. Carolyn Moskovitz and
Bobbie Seal.
Propositions Proposition
19: Neutral Changes California Law to
Legalize Marijuana and Allow It to Be Regulated and Taxed.
Proposition
20: No Redistricting of Congressional
Districts.
Proposition
21: Yes Establishes $18 Annual Vehicle
License Surcharge to Help Fund State Parks and Wildlife Programs and Grants
Free Admission to all State Parks to Surcharged Vehicles.
Proposition
22: No Prohibits the State from
Taking Funds Used for Transportation or Local Government Projects and Services.
Proposition
23: No Suspends Air Pollution Control
Laws Requiring Major Polluters to Report and Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions
That Cause Global Warming Until Unemployment Drops Below Specified Level
for Full Year.
Proposition
24: Yes Repeals Recent Legislation
That Would Allow Businesses to Carry Back Losses, Share Tax Credits, and
Use a Sales-Based Income Calculation.
Proposition
25: Yes Changes Legislative Vote
Requirement to Pass a Budget from Two-Thirds to a Simple Majority. Retains
Two-Thirds Vote Requirement for Taxes.
Proposition
26: No Increases Legislative Vote
Requirement to Two-Thirds for State Levies and Charges. Imposes Additional
Requirement for Voters to Approve Local Levies and Charges with Limited
Exceptions.
Proposition
27: Yes Eliminates State Commission
on Redistricting. Consolidates Authority for Redistricting with Elected
Representatives.
Civil Rights
Victory and Civil Rights Lost by Bob Swanson
Castro Valley Democratic Club Webmaster
November 9, 2008
I felt an extraordinary exhilaration in
the milestone victory of civil rights with the election of our first African
American President Barack Obama.
Then my exhilaration
was diminished with the knowledge that on the same ballot the civil rights
of a minority were trampled on by what I hoped to be an enlightened electorate.
Haven't we learned
that freedom, the liberty to live the way we wish is the ideal of this
nation under god?
Somewhere between
5 to 10% of our state have been stripped of their inalienable right to
life liberty and the pursuit of happiness by being denied their right to
marry whom they love. This is a terrible sin.
Who will be next
in the state to lose their civil rights?
It is time for
good people to speak up once again.
Dr. Martin Luther
King went to the mountain top and he saw the other side. What he saw was
a world not tainted by convoluted thoughts of discrimination but a world
of genuine equality.
Captured in stone
in the New England Holocaust Memorial are the words of Lutheran Pastor
and concentration camp survivor Martin Niemoeller:
“They came first for the Communists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up because I was a
Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time no one was left to speak
up.”
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pay your dues! $15/individuals $20/households $7.50 for members under
18 years of age low-income members at
the discretion of the Treasurer. Make payable to:
Castro Valley Democratic Club. Bring to next meeting
or send them to: P.O. Box 20866 Castro Valley, CA 94546 Your support is greatly
appreciated
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