Groups calling for transparency, oversight– On May 11, a coalition of community organizations, immigrant advocates, and concerned individuals from Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, and Ventura Counties met to discuss their concerns regarding the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed plan to house 5,000 unaccompanied minors at Camp Roberts.
Central Coast advocates express their concerns of potentially housing thousands of unaccompanied migrant children at Camp Roberts, as they say it is not a place suitable for children.
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Local non-profits are rallying together to advocate for better wages and working conditions for Santa Maria immigrant workers.
Community members organized a car caravan Saturday afternoon to uplift essential workers who have been serving the city since before the pandemic.
The route began at CAUSE office on E Jones St. and drivers stopped at the fields on Suey Road to cheer on farmworkers.
Advocates decorated cars with flags, signs and artwork to bring awareness. We are here for their cause that we see our essential workers aren t treated essential that they are not as paid as essential and its something that matters to us, that above everything our workers are seen as people and not just profit, caravan organizer Rebeca Garcia said.
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Since then, she has guided education initiatives across the Central Coast, serving as a board member for The Fund for Santa Barbara, an ambassador for Allan Hancock Community College, a graduate of Leadership Santa Maria Valley, and a founding board member for Central Coast Future Leaders.
Leading the remarks of the Commission for Women, Judy Weisbart said, “We have an amazing group of women in this community to do the work that is needed to heal us, to make us strong, and to make us financially and emotionally independent, and hopefully at some point in the history of our country, to have total equality.”
March 3, 2021 at 9:00 am by Sean Crommelin
On Wednesday, Feb. 24, the Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality and Democracy at UC Santa Barbara hosted a public forum, âThe Green New Deal in Action,â to discuss the relevance of the mammoth policy initiative to residents of the Santa Barbara area and other communities in the Central Coast.
A booth hosted by Sunrise Movement during the pre-pandemic Dec. 6, 2019 climate strike.
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Over 130 people attended the public forum, including UCSB students, I.V. residents and others in the broader Goleta area.
Championed by the Sunrise Movement and other figures in the progressive movement, including politicians like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ed Markey, the Green New Deal refers to various public policy proposals intended to simultaneously address climate change, create jobs and reduce economic inequality.