MEDIA ADVISORY
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 4, 2008
Contact:
Caroline Lee (323) 937-3718
Nancy Berlin (323)-422-2830
Hala Masri (626) 236-0467 (API)
No More Budget Cuts!
As Our State is About to Run Out of Funds, Families, Seniors, and Advocates Call for Alternative Revenue Streams and a Timely Budget.
What:
Press conference to demand that lawmakers tap new revenue sources and stop budget cuts to programs that protect the most vulnerable populations.
When:
Thursday, August 7, 2008 at 11:00 a.m.
Where:
Girls Club of Los Angeles-Faith Children Center
2057 W. Century Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90047
Who:
Community members including families, seniors, children, and major healthcare, social services and anti-poverty groups:
-Korean Resource Center (민족학교) –
Mr. Jeong Yoo Lee (CAPI recipient) will be speaking because CAPI and SSI COLA payments will be withheld until a state budget is passed for 2008-2009.
-California Partnership (CAP)
-Community Clinic Association of Los Angeles County (CCALAC)
-United Teacher Los Angeles (UTLA)
-Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC)
-Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA)
-Community Health Councils Inc. (CHC)
-Service Employees International Union local 99 (SEIU 99)
-American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
-Maternal and Child Health Access (MCHC)
-California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC)
-Low-Income Families Empowerment Through Education (LIFETIME)
-Los Angeles Metro - Association for Education of Young Children (AEYC)
-South Central Training & Research Consortium
Why:
More than 30 days following the California’s Constitutional deadline for state budget approval, and the Golden state continues to be budget-less. In the wake of our state running out money and further proposed cuts that would debilitate health and human services, inaction has delayed payments to important health and childcare providers, risking the health and well-being of the most vulnerable among us. Adding insult to injury Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed an executive order to layoff and reduce the wages of state workers to the federal minimum wage. California needs a real budget funded by new and real revenue sources, not shotgun solutions that will deteriorate the well being of working families, seniors, children and the differently-abled.
Visuals:
Banners, posters, children’s playground, and community members impacted by budget cuts and delays.
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