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Upcoming Meetings
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Potluck dinner and general meeting in January! ¡Comida comunitaria y reunión general en enero!
Our next general meeting will be held on January 6, 2012, at the Westminster Hills Outreach Center in South Hayward beginning at 6:00 P.M. Members whose names go from A-L should bring a favorite main dish, and M-Z should bring a salad or dessert. Our featured speaker will be Supervisor Nadia Lockyer, who will address us at 7:00 P.M. We will also present a slate of candidates for positions for the 2012 year, for election by the members. We hope to post our newsletter soon, which, in addition to other topics, will focus on the Occupy Movement. We look forward … Continue reading →
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October meeting, and thank you for making the Fall Festival a success – la reunión de octubre, y gracias por hacer de nuestro festival de otoño un éxito
Thank you to all who made the Fall Festival an unqualified success! Our next Executive Board meeting will be held on Monday, October 3, 2011, at Westminster Hills/New Bridges, beginning at 6:30 P.M. At that meeting we will schedule a date for the October general membership meeting. Some of our members who attended the Fall Festival filled out a survey, but we will shortly be sending out a survey to the entire membership to discuss things such as future speakers and events, and the opportunity to choose to receive the newsletter via email, thus saving the club money and … Continue reading →
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There will be no meeting in August – no habrá reunión en agosto
Our next ‘general meeting’ is the Fall Festival. We will have Brigid O’Farrell as a speaker. She has written a wonderful book about Eleanor Roosevelt, and her relationship to the working class. Brigid O’Farrell is an independent scholar whose research and writing has focused on employment equity, especially for women in nontraditional jobs. She has traveled from factories in New England to fire and police stations in the Southwest, from child care programs in the Midwest and Alaska to union meetings across the country. A sociologist by training, she delves into labor history to better understand the issues and barriers confronting today’s … Continue reading →
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La reunión de mayo
Hemos suspendido la reunión de mayo, pero tendremos una reunión el 17 de junio, y presentaremos un panel laboral para discutir la visión laboral sobre varios temas, incluyendo la atención médica.
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May Meeting
The May meeting has been cancelled, but we will have a meeting on June 17th, and we will be hosting a labor panel to speak about the labor view on various issues, including health care.
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Potluck dinner and general meeting in January! ¡Comida comunitaria y reunión general en enero!
Category Archives: News
Jim Forsyth
As many of you know by now, Jim Forsyth fell heavily on the street on Thursday morning while walking our dog Jake, who lunged into traffic on Kelly Street. We were transported to the Kaiser Medical Center in Hayward by … Continue reading
Join the California Clean Money Campaign
Please join Senator Loni Hancock, Assemblymember Bob Wieckowski, California Clean Money Campaign President Trent Lange, and local activist leaders to kick off the East Bay Area legislative campaign for AB 1148, the California DISCLOSE Act. WHEN: Saturday, January … Continue reading
The newsletter is up! ¡El boletín informativo está en línea!
This is a compilation of news, doings, meetings and pictures, but many of these stories were posted here before, and the website contains better pictures. Oct. – Dec. 2011 newsletter pages
2012 Officer Nomination Slate
The Nominating Committee for the Hayward Demos announces its slate of proposed officers for 2012: El comité de nombramiento de candidatos del club Hayward Demos anuncia lista de candidatos para oficiales del club en el 2012: Recommendations/ Recomendaciones: President/ Presidente: … Continue reading
The CARA Convention in November
CARA, the California Alliance for Retired Americans, the AFL-CIO-affiliated retirees’ organization of which we are a member, adopted the Demos resolution on immigration reform at its recent convention in Long Beach. (The resolution is on our website) After a fierce … Continue reading
We are the 99%!
We are the 99%! Some thoughts on the Occupy Wall Street movement, by Jim Forsyth “In only a little over two months this incredibly dynamic movement has already effected a massive shift in US public consciousness and shifted the political … Continue reading
Hayward Demos Occupy the SOA and Fort Benning!
From Friday, November 18 through Sunday, November 20th, Demos members Jim Forsyth and Silvia Brandon Pérez attended the massive rally to Occupy the SOA and Fort Benning, Georgia, to close down the School of the Américas or School of Assassins. … Continue reading
Hayward Demos Occupy Labor in SF at December 2 labor rally
On December 2, 2011, Jim and Silvia traveled to a rally sponsored by CARA and by student and labor organizers, marching around SF, making strategic stops at places such as Wells Fargo and other banks, Verizon, and the Hyatt Regency, … Continue reading
California DISCLOSE Act and SAFE California ballot discussed at the November meeting
Judy Cox was our speaker on the California DISCLOSE Act, AB 1148, last November 11th. According to the campaign’s website (http://www.caclean.org/progress/ab1148.php), nearly $200 million was spent on November 2010 ballot measures alone. Because of the Citizens United decision allowing unlimited anonymous … Continue reading