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Tell the Simi Valley City Council NO to library privatization efforts

Nov 21, 2011 No Comments ›› VCDCC Admin

There are few public institutions more cherished than our libraries, yet the Simi Valley City Council is contemplating withdrawal from the Ventura County Library system and entering into an agreement with a for-profit operator. Citizens packed council chambers on Nov. 7 to declare their opposition to the move. The final ...

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Democratic Club of Ventura “2010 Democratic Candidate Town Hall” Valuable for Voters and Candidates

Apr 7, 2010 No Comments ›› VCDCC Admin

Ventura, CA - Thursday night, 3/25/2010 The Democratic Club of Ventura and Ventura County Democratic Party presented “2010 Democratic Candidate Town Hall” at the Topping Room, E.P Foster Library, 651 Main Street, Downtown. Forty-five people attended the town hall meeting hosted by Helen Conly, Vice President and event coordinator. The program opened with political consultant and ...

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Ventura County Democratic Party Passes Fair Elections Act Campaign Resolution With Unanimous Vote 1/26/2010

Jan 27, 2010 No Comments ›› VCDCC Admin

The Ventura County Democratic Central Committee passed the following Resolution last night by unanimous vote. Members of the Committee feel strongly that in light of the recent activist Supreme Court rulings breaking the long-standing, anti-corporate personhood interpretation of the United States Constitution that the only way to have fair elections is to have publicly-financed ones. A ...

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DFA Campaign Training in Santa Barbara 2/20/2010

Jan 12, 2010 No Comments ›› VCDCC Admin

The DFA Campaign Academy mission is to focus, network, and train grassroots activists in the skills and strategies to take back our country, manage successful campaigns or run for office themselves. Our Campaign Academy weekends are 16 hours of interactive workshops that bring hundreds of local activists, campaign staff and candidates together for 2 days of ...

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Camp Courage Central Coast: Sign up to participate in the Santa Barbara training January 30-31, 2010

Jan 12, 2010 No Comments ›› VCDCC Admin

Inspired by the "Camp Obama" trainings that powered neighbor-to-neighbor organizing across America in 2008, Camp Courage is an intensive two-day training designed to teach the principles and skills of community organizing to activists working to restore marriage equality to California. Drawing on techniques honed for decades by progressive social movements, Camp Courage teaches empowerment, team building, ...

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California Central Coast Transportation Needs: Another Head of the Hydra

Feb 2, 2009 No Comments ›› admin

MOVING THE CENTRAL COAST FORWARD was a meeting about regional transportation needs held on Saturday, January 31 in the cafeteria at Ventura College. Hosted by ASERT, the Alliance for a Sustainable and Equitable Regional Transportation, and by CAUSE, the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy, the meeting featured keynote speaker Senator Alan Lowenthal who ...

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Tony Strickland Fights Efforts to Pass a State Budget

Jan 10, 2009 No Comments ›› VCDCC Admin

Our new State Senator Tony Strickland stood in lockstep along his extremist Republican friends and the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association this week in announcing they were suing to stop a California state budget plan by the Democrats. Perhaps coincidentally, he is positioned at the “far right” of the photo above. The plan, passed by both houses, ...

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Comparison Shop WalMart: No Significant Savings And Damage To Local Economy

Dec 23, 2008 No Comments ›› admin

I just got back from the Oxnard Wal-Mart.  I had to do a some justifying in order to go into a place I had solemnly sworn never to set foot in, but I finally convinced myself that going in and walking around just to see what I could see was not the same as shopping.  ...

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