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Community Living Campaign
News from the Networks                                           October 12, 2009
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RALLY TO SAVE THE IHSS PROGRAM
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IHSS Earthquake

DANGER - The Governor has unleashed an economic earthquake that is set to destroy the well-being of more than 8,000 seniors, persons with disabilities as well as 1000's of care providers in San Francisco. The Governor's budget has not only cut income and health care services, but is set to destroy the very foundation of Community Living, the In-Home Supportive Services Program.
 
HOMECARE SAVES LIVES AND CREATES JOBS
In-Home Supportive Services help seniors and persons with disabilities remain living safely and with dignity in their own homes and communities.  It also provides meaningful work and jobs with benefits to thousands of IHSS workers, helping them support themselves and their families.  Cutting IHSS amounts to a man made disaster that will destroy the very foundations of community living. This earthquake we can prevent!
 
 
RALLY AND PRESS CONFERENCE

Thursday, October 22
Noon to 1:00
SF City Hall Steps
(Polk Street side)

Be Prepared to Help Yourself and Your Neighbors Who are IHSS Recipients and IHSS Workers.  In addition to coming to the Rally, see article below for other ways you can help. 
 
Sponsored by San Francisco's IHSS and Health Task Force and its member groups includes senior and disability services providers, housing providers, labor organizations, advocacy and legal organizations, seniors, persons with disabilities and their supporters.
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HELP GET THE WORD OUT ABOUT IMPENDING IHSS CUTS AND CONSUMER RIGHTS
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Despite a flurry of lawsuits, the letters to IHSS Providres and Consumers are already in the mail from the State.  Join the Consumer Rights for Community Living (CRCL) program at Planning for Elders to fight back against these cuts.  They have a new Blog Site - check it out. 
 

from which you can download Consumer Information in various languages.  Or you can download from the links below.  Please help us reach the everyone who needs our help.  
 
Russian - http://crclsf.org/ihss/ihss-flyer-Russian.pdf
 
 
For more information, call Consumer Rights for Community Living at 703-0286 or email [email protected].
 
REMINDER  - COMMUNITY TRAININGS tO FIGHT THE CUTS 
 
Tuesday October 13 2:00 to 4:00 at the Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, 3rd Floor 
 
Monday, October 26, 5:00 to 7:30 at the S.F. Bar Association for San Francisco, 301 Battery Street, 3rd Floor. 
COMING OF AGE IS LOOKING FOR TRAINERS 
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 Bay Area is thrilled to be hiring Learning Lab trainers for its upcoming launch.  To see what is required, click HERE for Job Description and forward on to any experienced trainers you know.  Deadline for applications is October 16, with training for trainers beginning in late October. 
P.S. To attend their pre-launch Learning Lab, "Capturing the Energy and Expertise of Volunteers Age 50+" facilitated by national trainers, visit http://learninglab.comingofage.org/bayarea.  Register by October 13, as this is the last time it will be offered free-of-charge!  
MORE INTERESTING BOOK EVENTS  -
Beryl Satter talks about "Family Properties", Mike Miller's has new local events
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Beryl Satter's photo
Beryl Satter is Chair of the History Department of Rugters University.  Come here her speak 

Saturday, October 17, 2009
6:00pm - 9:00pm
Crossroads Bookstore and Cafe (near Delancey Street Restaurant), 699 Delancey Street (off Brannan at the Embarcadero) - Food & drink available.
 
Family Properties is about institutional racism in Chicago's West Side. Beryl Satter shows how the policies of financial institutions and the Federal government were set to destroy the neighborhood.  It is also the story of her father, a lawyer who fought back against the injustice while also a landlord trying desperately not to be a slumlord in this very neighborhood where her family lived, and she grew up. He died of heart failure at age 49, exhausted by the struggle.  Finally, it is the story of the Contract Buyers League, an indigenous organization of African-American homeowners who waged a heroic struggle against the forces arrayed against them, winning some important battles along the way, a legendary priest by the name of Msgr. Jack Egan and others who supported them.

Fellow author Mike Miller writes "I learned more from Beryl Satter's book than from anything I've read in the last 10 years...and I read a lot.  For more detailed reviews, see the 
New York Review of Books 
 
Still opporunities to hear Mike Miller tell a Community Organizer's Tale, People and Power in San Francisco at up-coming events:
 
Wednesday, October 28, 6:00 pm
Mission Housing Development Corporation Annual Banquet
Admission to Event Required: $100.00 nonprofits; $150.00 other
Green Room, Veterans Auditorium, 401 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco
 
Monday November 23rd, 7:00 pm
A Conversation on Democracy
Susan Griffin, author of Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen, and Mike Miller, author of A Community Organizer's Tale, discuss the meaning of democracy in our time.
Noe Valley Ministry; 1021 Sanchez Street, San Francisco
(accessible by "J Church" Muni Metro, #24 & #48 bus)
Preceded by dinner at Haystack Pizza on 24th near Sanchez at 5:30 p.m. 
More information about Organizer Training Center and the book at
http://organizetrainingcenter.org./book.html
 
Help the Community Living Campaign Grow 
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Make a secure donation to the Community Living Campaign at:   
 
http://www.firstgiving.com/communitylivingcampaign
 

or send a tax deductible check to the Community Living Campaign, P.O. Box 460400, San Francisco, CA 94109 
 
No money, but want to give your time and talent?  Contact us at (415) 821-1003 or email: [email protected].   More information about us is available at www.sfcommunityliving.org.