Southland’s Congressional reps talk jobs
Congressional Black Caucus will continue the conversation
Nearly 2,000 people showed up to talk with Congress members Maxine Waters, Karen Bass, and Laura Richardson last Saturday during a Good Jobs LA Kitchen Table summit held at Inglewood High School.
On Aug. 30 and 31, people will have the opportunity to talk to more Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) members, when the CBC arrives in Los Angeles on the final stop of its “For the People” Jobs Initiative tour. The event will be held 6-8 p.m. on Tuesday at Crenshaw Christian Center, 7901 S. Vermont Ave., followed Wednesday by a jobs fair from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
At the Inglewood summit, the Congress members talked personally with attendees about what they wanted in terms of employment. At Tuesday’s forum, CBC members will discuss the caucus’ jobs legislation as well as thoughts on how to stimulate the economy in urban communities.
There are clearly more important immediate things for the California Black community to worry about—the level of involvement of the L.A. Sheriff’s Department in the kidnap, murder and possible rape of Mitrice Richardson; electing Danny Tabor and finally ending the seemingly endless mayoral election process in Inglewood; and getting the votes finally counted between Harris and Cooley, for example.
Nevertheless, as evolving political analysts, it is important for us to keep up with the whole process, from federal to water district level.
Nearly 1,000 people turned out Tuesday night and an estimated 10,000 showed up Wednesday at Crenshaw Christian Center in pursuit of jobs.
On Tuesday, an appreciative audience of elected officials, workers, and community people attended the final stop of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) “For the People” Jobs Initiative tour.
The California Redistricting Commission, the first civilian redistricting effort in the state’s history, has released the first map after of the 2010 census reapportionment.
The commission’s effort to address federal and state representation, while keeping out major party partisan politics of the usual manipulation and gerrymandering, immediately came under fire from without and within.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.—Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is among the scheduled speakers at a downtown rally today to protest proposed federal budget cuts, which organizers claim would hurt the city and county governments and attempts by small businesses to avoid layoffs.
Reps. Maxine Waters, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Karen Bass, Laura Richardson and Judy Chu, Councilman Richard Alarcon, actors Tim Robbins and James Cromwell and actress Mimi Kennedy are among the other scheduled speakers for the rally at the Edward Roybal Federal Building, set to begin at 2:30 p.m.
Although some of us may still be smarting that our Age of Aquarius proposal did not get approved (Prop. 19) this time, there were two really important political issues decided on last Tuesday’s ballot that will have major impacts on the future of Black political participation in California.
So the small number of California Black farmers (300 out of 94, 000) will not see any significant increase because of a newly legalized and profitable crop in 2010.
