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Election Watch 2010
The November ballot proposition list is shaping up, with a list of measures that would make major changes in the state budget and tax policy, suspend California’s climate change law, earmark funding for state parks, legalize marijuana for recreational use, and change the ways legislative and congressional districts are drawn. There is growing sentiment that the $11 billion general obligation water bond on the ballot should be postponed or withdrawn. Plan election forums and voter education activities now! More information is available from the Secretary of State’s Office, ballotpedia, and campaign organizations.
Ballot Proposition support and opposition list (updated Aug. 27, 2010)
Pastor Scot Sorensen of St. John’s
Lutheran Church welcomes people
to a Jan. 7, 2010 Health and Human
Services Network of California press
conference in St. John’s Hall, during
food distribution by Central
Downtown Food Basket.
Foodlink truck departs St. John’s on
day of press conference lamenting
cuts in public safety net programs.
Photos: Mark Carlson
Important State Budget Education and Advocacy Information
Remember the Poor (and children, the elderly, disabled, addicted, and others who sometimes need a public safety net to survive with a measure of dignity):
Health and Human Services Network
California Budget Project
Health Access
Western Center on Law and Poverty
Legislative Analyst Office
CA Dept of Finance
Budget/Governance Reform Efforts
The Governor’s invitation to offer ideas for reduction of waste and improved efficiency in government:
Help our California neighbors in need! Join California First Lady Maria Shriver as We Connect to access state and federal programs and services for financial, nutrition, and employment aid, support for education, and other resources.
Faith Communities Budget
Lobby Day,
June 16, 2009. Sign reads, "All Kids
Deserve Health Care."
Health Care 2010
New! Fact Sheet from the California Endowment, on how the new federal healthcare law benefits Californians.
From the ELCA social statement on Health and Healthcare:"Health is central to our well-being, vital to relationships, and helps us live out our vocations in family, work, and community. Caring for one’s own health is a matter of human necessity and good stewardship. Caring for the health of others expresses both love for our neighbors and responsibility for a just society. As a personal and social responsibility, health care is a shared endeavor."
Background information on Health Care Reform.
Help and Hope for Haiti through ELCA Disaster Response
Photo: Paul Jeffrey/
ACT-International
With gifts to ELCA Disaster Response, members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America have enabled ELCA's community partners to provide two water purification systems to bring clean water to 25,000 people , emergency food and medical supplies to thousands, and blankets and tents to 10,000 who are homeless. Additional aid is going to assist refugees and Haitian Americans entering or returning to the U.S.
ELCA World Hunger
Responding to Christ's call to "Go and do likewise"
You can make a life-saving difference! Give to ELCA World Hunger.
ELCA World Hunger is a comprehensive and sustainable program that uses multiple strategies—relief and development, education, and advocacy—to address the root causes of hunger and poverty. ELCA World Hunger responds to neighbors around the corner and around the world.