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MEDIA ADVISORY
January 8, 2015
MEDIA CONTACT: Jeff Brewer, California Partnership (213) 700-6276
CALIFORNIANS TO RALLY AGAINST POVERTY AND CALL ON GOVERNOR BROWN TO INTRODUCE AN EQUITABLE CALIFORNIA BUDGET ON JANUARY 9TH
· Rally calls for the Governor to address the wall of poverty that blocks the path to prosperity for nearly 9 million Californians.
· Part of a five-city rally across California with events taking place in Los Angeles, Fresno, San Bernardino, San Jose, and San Francisco.
· Rally will highlight the human cost of more than $15 billion in cuts to Health and Human Service Programs since 2008.
WHAT: Rally to support an equitable 2015-2016 California budget that proactively fights poverty through investments in health and human services by a coalition of anti-poverty advocates. At the rally, advocates will call on Governor Brown to lift 1.3 million seniors and people with disabilities out of poverty by restoring the Cost of Living Adjustment to the State Supplemental Payment Program (SSP), stop punishing children for being born into poverty by ending the CalWORKs Maximum Family Grant rule, and increase funding for subsidized childcare to allow nearly 300,000 children to receive safe care while their parents work.
WHERE: LOS ANGELES
State Building, 300 S. Spring St., Los Angeles, CA
WHEN: Friday, January 9, 2015 at 12:00 NOON
WHERE: SAN JOSE
1381 South First St. San Jose, CA 95110
WHEN: Friday, January 9, 2015 at 10:00 AM
WHERE: SAN FRANCISCO
350 McAllister St. San Francisco, CA
WHEN: Friday, January 9, 2015 at 12:30 PM
WHERE: SAN BERNARDINO
300 N. D Street, San Bernardino CA 92418
WHEN: Friday, January 9, 2015 at 11:00 AM
WHERE: FRESNO
2550 Mariposa Mall, Fresno, CA 93721
WHEN: Friday, January 9, 2015 at 10:00 AM
WHO: Low income families, service recipients, and service providers will speak to the struggles they and their communities face because the state has not yet to come close to restoring the billions in cuts since 2008.
Event Contacts:
LOS ANGELES Aurora Garcia, [email protected] (562) 519-3106
SAN FRANCISCO Pete Woiwode, [email protected] (510) 504-9552
SAN JOSE Pete Woiwode, [email protected] (510) 504-9552
FRESNO Rose Aguste, [email protected]
SAN BERNARDINO Maribel Nunez, [email protected] (562) 569-4051
WHY: Since 2008 California has cut more than $15 billion from Safety Net Programs. Now the state has the highest poverty rate in the nation – nearly a quarter of all Californians including more than 2 million children live in poverty. The Governor has torn down the “Wall of Debt,” and now it is time to tear down the Wall of Poverty. Like the Governor’s newly announced initiatives to address climate change it will take a sustained multi-year effort and strong leadership to end poverty in California.
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California Partnership is a statewide coalition of community-based groups, organizing and advocating for the policies and programs that work to reduce and end poverty. Our mission is to organize to build power and leadership among low-income communities by strengthening our voice and collective power to advocate for the policies that affect our lives the most.
For more information, please visit www.california-partnership.org