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Dear Angelina,
It's been a busy month! ACCE members have been working relentlessly with supporters and allies to focus on rebuilding our communities, achieve fair and affordable housing, improve our public schools and expand access to health care and living wage jobs.
Here are key campaign updates and next steps:
TWO EVENTS TOMORROW – SATURDAY, March 23, 2013:
Saturday Event #1 Close the Achievement and Opportunity Gap in SF Schools: JOIN US FOR A Community and Labor Conversation
On March 23rd San Francisco ACCE will co-host a Community/Labor Town Hall on closing the achievement and opportunity gaps in our schools. Last year many of us joined together to help pass Proposition 30 which means our schools should see a significant increase in revenues in the coming years. This is an important opportunity for teachers, parents and communities who care about the future of our schools to come together and develop a plan to take advantage of these additional resources and chart a more effective path for our most vulnerable students.
When: Saturday March 23, 2013, 10am to 1pm
Where: Cesar Chavez Elementary School, 825 Shotwell Street, San Francisco
Translation and childcare available upon request. Free Parking, Entrance off of Folsom Street between 22nd and 23rd Streets. Accessible by public transit
For more info, to RSVP and request translation and/or childcare, contact sfacce(a)calorganize.org
Saturday Event #2: JOIN US for a Silent Auction and a Celebration of Everyday Heroes
ACCE Members are holding a Recognition Ceremony and Silent Auction this Saturday, March 23, 2013 from 7:00 until 10:00 p.m. at the I.T. Bookman Community Center at 446 Randolph Street, San Francisco, CA 94132. Come out and bid on items such as: kayak around Alcatraz, San Francisco Expedition, yoga classes, handmade Haitian shaker, interior house painting by a licensed painter, concert tickets, housecleaning services and much much more….
All proceeds will be donated to San Francisco ACCE as we search for a new office and continue to grow our work. If you can't make the event, click here to make a donation today!
STOP WELLS FARGO FROM DESTROYING OUR NEIGHBORHOODS
Wells Fargo CEO is highest-paid banker at $22.87 million: While Wells Fargo CEO and San Francisco resident John G. Stumpf's 2012 pay package was up 15% from 2011, communities of color have lost billions in wealth since the current foreclosure crisis began. Over 17% of Latino homeowners and 11% of African American homeowners have already lost their home to foreclosure or are at imminent risk, causing the greatest loss of wealth for middle class families. This has been especially destructive in the Southeastern neighborhoods from Oceanview east to Bayview.
Whose to blame? Wells Fargo and their highest paid banker for one!
Last week, ACCE, Center for Popular Democracy, and the Home Defenders League released a report, "California in Crisis: How Wells Fargo’s Foreclosure Pipeline Is Damaging Local Communities" , stating how far behind Wells Fargo is doing to rebuild our communities and economy. A BeyondChron article best captures a week of actions ACCE members held around California to target John Stumpf and the rest of the Wells Fargo leadership to:
• Make principal reduction a core front-end strategy when considering loan modifications, (when Wells has the legal authority to do so);
• Release data on race & income of the homeowners they foreclose on, evict or assist.
• Stop all foreclosures and evictions stop until these steps are put into place
Click here to sign a petition to tell John Stumpf to Stop lining his own pockets and Refund and Rebuild our Communities.
LINK OUR STUDENTS TO JOB TRAINING AND HEALTH CARE CAREERS
Last week, ACCE (as part of the the Jobs with Justice Coalition) and the San Franciscan’s for Healthcare, Housing, Jobs and Justice helped to ensure St. Lukes Hospital is rebuilt and that Sutter Health commits to a set of community driven community benefits prior to their building of a new hospital on Van Ness and Geary Blvd.
Thanks to the work of Supervisors Campos, Chiu and Farrell, the deal will mean tens of millions of dollars in community benefits for jobs, healthcare and housing, local hiring commitments for all jobs, saving St Lukes and a chance to build out a better health system for our long ignored neighborhoods.
Our work now is to maks sure that CPMC, as the city’s second largest private employer, delivers the maximum amount of employment opportunities for our neighborhoods and invests at least $4million in a new health jobs workforce system. We are also standing with the nurses to guarantee fair treatment and a union contract for the existing employees of Sutter.
Join ACCE to help create a great health care and workforce systems. If you are already a member, email sfacce(a(calorganize.org and let us know how you want to help get more of your neighbors involved in winning more living wage jobs for our community.
In Solidarity,
John Eller, San Francisco ACCE
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