Progressive Alliance Voter Endorsements

These are our Tier 2 Endorsements. Fall 2014.

U.S. House District 4	Ami Bera
State Senate District 6	Roger Dickinson or Richard Pan
State  Assembly District 7	Kevin Mc Carty
Assembly District 8	Ken Cooley
Superintendent of Public Instruction	Tom Torlakson
Ballot Propositions
Proposition 1	No. It funds the tunnels.
Proposition 2	No position
Proposition 45  Health Insurance	Yes
Proposition 46	No position
Proposition 47 : Criminal Sentencing	Yes
Proposition 48  Indian Gaming	Yes
Local Races
Sacramento Measure L – Strong Mayor	No
Sacramento City Unified.  Area 7	Jonathan Tran or Linda Tuttle
Sacramento CUSD  District 6	Maria Haro-Sullivan
Los Rios College Board  District 2	Robert Jones
Los Rios College Board   District 6	Deborah Ortiz
Roseville City Council	Rene Aguilera
Galt High School Board	Joe Guerrero

Hedge Fund Robber Baron funding Marshall Tuck

Funder.  $300,000 from John D. Arnold, a former Enron trader and funder of efforts to persuade governments to cut public employee pensions. 

See how he operates.
http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/10/28/3585128/arnold-pensions-retirement-manufactured-crisis/

Democracy and Elections. Bill Moyers

Control of the Senate is at stake on Tues.
Remember when they shut down the government ?

Why we support Tom Torlakson for Superintendent of Public Education

Why I Support Tom Torlakson,

I, and the Sacramento Progressive Alliance supports the re-election of Tom Torlakson for  California Superintendent of Public Instruction.

If you believe in public education, if you think preparing students to live and work in a democracy is an important role for state government- then this election is important.  The election will set the direction of school improvement for the next four years.

You and I have a choice.  It is not a perfect choice, but the options are stark. We can continue with the current improvements in k-12 education (Torlakson), or we can move the state down the road of test driven, corporate neoliberal model of schooling (Tuck).  Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Kansas, Louisiana, Texas, are following this route- and their schools are failing.

Current scores on achievement tests for California students are too low.  This is primarily a result of California’s underinvestment in children, its lack of support for children in poverty, and California’s low investment in  k-12 schools for the last thirty years.

We can not improve the schools without improving funding for schools and support for children living in poverty.  That argument being made by Marshall Tuck is a fraud.

Torlakson Blueprint for Great Schools

Torlakson for Superintendent

Republicans Love Latinos, Except When Hating Them Gets More Votes

Choosing Democracy: Corporate so called "reformers" throw millions int...

Choosing Democracy: Corporate so called "reformers" throw millions int...: Your vote will make the difference.   Corporate school  “reformers” have raised over $4 million from the very rich during the last we...

Your Vote is Important !

Socialism Is...

Who do you want deciding on school policy for California ?

 Your vote is important !


Or,  do you prefer the people who fund the Tuck campaign ?

A handful of ultra-wealthy donors who support school privatization and cutting public pension systems are behind a flood of spending supporting former Wall Street Banker Marshall Tuck's campaign for state schools superintendent, campaign disclosure records show.

Far from "Parents and Teachers for Tuck," the $4.7 million collected so far comes instead from sources that support school vouchers, privatization of public pension systems and using disruptive business tactics to overhaul public schools.

Major funders include:

$500,000 from Carrie Walton Penner, whose family made its fortune running anti-union, low-wage paying Wal-Mart. The Walmart 1% website reports that Penner's biography includes serving on the board of the Alliance for School Choice - a school voucher advocacy group.

We have a choice between a teacher with a record of standing with teachers to fund the schools, and a corporate "reform" agent. Your vote will count. 

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What would happen under a Republican Senate?

312 votes.

That's how many votes a U.S. Senate election came down to. It's the number of votes that ultimately propelled progressive champion Senator Al Franken to the Senate six years ago. MoveOn played a key role in electing him to the Senate, from endorsing him to recruiting volunteers for his campaign. 

This fall, Sen. Franken's race is one of fewer than a dozen that will determine control of the Senate for the next two years—and any one of those could hinge on just a few votes. In fact, polling is showing that a number of key Senate races are tightening in favor of the Republican candidate.This is real. Republicans are about to pull off a huge victory on November 4.

 It's simple. If a few votes can be the margin of victory, and just a few close Senate races will determine control of the entire U.S. Senate, then every volunteer pitching in to get out the vote matters.

Torlakson Blueprint for Great Schools

Freedom Summer - film

Campus Progressive Alliance

The Friday Night Film Series Presents

FREEDOM SUMMER

“Powerful.” – Variety

“Potent.” – Chicago Reader

“A searing portrait of those violent, racist times.” – Hollywood Reporter

Free Admission! Everyone Welcome!

Friday, October 10, 2014

Shorts – 6:00pm     Feature - 6:30pm

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Sacramento State University

Yasunidos' resistance

Elections- Sacramento City Unified School District Board

The Sacramento Progressive Alliance endorses in District 7

Jonathan Tran   https://www.facebook.com/Tran4scusd

 Linda Tuttle      https://www.facebook.com/LindaTuttleforSchoolBoard

Both have worked tirelessly to improve educational opportunity in Sacramento City Schools. See post . What it takes to unite Teachers Unions and the Communities of Color.

Support Hong Kong Movement for Democracy

The Democratic Socialists of America supports the goals of the Hong Kong movement for democracy (the “Umbrella Movement”).

When the British handed Hong Kong over to China in 1997, the Chinese government promised both in the Sino-British Joint Declaration and the mini constitution of Hong Kong (the Basic Law) that a democratic system eventually would be implemented in Hong Kong.

However the current resolution passed by the Chinese National People’s Congress for implementing that promise by 2017 would sharply restrict candidates for political office to those preselected by an unrepresentative body representing mainly business interests.

The struggle to create a political system with more democratic self-determination is an essential step towards rectifying the growing economic inequality in Hong Kong.

As democrats and as socialists we support our sisters and brothers in Hong Kong who are fighting for the same goals we have in the USA.

Indigenous resistance in Ecuador program

This election is vital

Torlakson is endorsed by the Sacramento Progressive Alliance.
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