News
Mary Elliott-Klemm
The EDP VoteSmart workgroup has been very busy! We joined forces with Sierra Forward, the United Democrat Club of Placerville, Indivisible groups, other members of El Dorado Progressives, and friends to Get Out the Vote for the Primary election. We had many successful Postcard Parties and members were involved in phone banking or canvassing activities prior to the June 5 election.
May 8th - Board of Supervisors Meeting
8AM - 3PM at El Dorado County Government Offices, 330 Fair Lane, Placerville
Come early and stay as long as you can.
Come speak in open session letting the BoS know that we support California as a Sanctuary State and we would oppose any attempt to opt out of SB54 to join the lawsuit brought by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. We believe that it is a matter of upholding state law; that it is a matter of maintaining a community that is free from fear, hatred and bigotry; and that it is a matter of maintaining a healthy business climate for our agriculture and tourist industries. This is not on the agenda for this meeting but our comments should be in the public record. We should speak for those who cannot.
May 14th - Health Care Workgroup
6:30 potluck snacks and social, 7 - 8:30 meeting
El Dorado County Office of Education, Building B, 6767 Green Valley Road, Placerville
Join with our health care group to plan our spring activities, including distribution of Spanish Birth Control Resource Cards, Single Payer House Parties, presentations and a collaborative booth at the El Dorado County Fair.
Sign Up for the Placerville Rapid Response Team if Mueller is fired
This doesn't have a definite date and if you sign up you will be notified if Mueller is fired.
Start time at 5pm on the day of firing if before 2pm or if firing is after 2pm then the following day at noon. Be sure to have some poster board on hand to make signs. Meet in the Ivy Parking Lot across from the Cosmic Cafe and walk down Main St. to the Courthouse and Rte 50. Follow this link to sign up: https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response-events/19437 .
1. Open Meeting - (20 minutes)
2. Special Event: Get Out The Vote - (45 minutes)
3. Upcoming Events - (10 Minutes)
4. Meeting Adjourned
The General Meeting of El Dorado Progressives is where you find out about all the events and meetings that are coming up in the next month and how to get involved.
Are you looking for a place to contribute? We are trying to grow our group and would welcome your participation. All that’s required is a love of our public lands and a desire to protect them. You can join us at a meeting or sign up on the EDP webpage.
On Monday, May 14th the Health Care Workgroup will meet to plan our spring activities, including distribution of Spanish Birth Control Resource Cards, Single Payer House Parties, presentations, and a collaborative booth at the El Dorado County Fair
There are stories after stories of elections that have been won by just a few votes. In the past months dedicated volunteers have been registering voters during Voter Registration events. We truly appreciate all the time that our volunteers have spent in this effort.
Getting Out The Vote is the focus from now until the Primary on June 5. Mail-in Ballots go out on May 8 so voting actually begins on that date.
Our efforts to Get Out the Vote include sending out postcards. These postcards go to targeted audiences and encourage the recipients to vote. To accomplish the large task of addressing and mailing all these postcards we have several Postcard Parties planned.
We had our first Postcard Party at the Sierra Forward Placerville Team meeting on May 1 and whipped out 800 postcards in no time. Thank you to all of the volunteers who showed up and helped make this event a success.
Upcoming Postcard Parties:
Sunday, May 6, at the EDP General Meeting
Thursday, May 10, 2 – 4 pm
Placerville Raley’s Community Room
166 Placerville Dr, Placerville, CA 95667
Friday, May 11, 6 – 7:30 pm
Placerville Raley’s
Please join us at any and all of the parties to Get Out The Vote.
April has been a very busy month for the Workers Solidarity Network. We have been working closely with the Red Hawk Casino workers and Unite Here to help organize a union at the Red Hawk Casino.
We held a Meet the Red Hawk Workers meet-the-community night that was an absolute success. We have been having in-home organizing meetings with the workers as well as going to their committee meetings to help brainstorm ideas to insure continued success. We are now working on a petition with other community members and are on our way to our goal with 11 petition runners working on more signatures.
We are also working on getting other community leaders in one room to plan our next steps.
Our group participated in the May Day March in Sacramento as part of the (LCLAA) Labor Council For Latin America Advancement - Sacramento AFL-CIO contingent with whom we also were able to participate in a Boycott Driscoll's action. We also had our own EDP Workers Solidarity Network booth at the capitol to gain signatures for the Red Hawk employees.
We will continue to assist the Red Hawk workers in their unionization efforts and hope that other El Dorado Progressives will join us.
Our next monthly meeting will be held on Sunday, May 20th at 3:30 pm at Totem Coffee, 312 Main St #104, Placerville, CA 95667.
Click here for the full Progressive Alliance Calendar May 2018
On April 23rd members from the community of El Dorado county and Red Hawk Casino workers came together to share some food , share stories, discuss union organizing and to build community support for the Red Hawk workers union organizing campaign.
The event was a huge success, every seat was filled! There were labor leaders from different unions, community leaders, labor activist, clergy leaders and rank n file workers from the Red Hawk casino as well as workers from other industries through out El Dorado county.
We heard horrific stories from Red Hawk workers on what the working conditions were like at the Red Hawk casino while other unionized workers we able to share their strengths of what it was like to work in a union shop.
Everyone who attended partisapated in break out workshops showing how bad negative jobs affect a community while good decent unionized jobs only benefit a community.
The energetic community support for the Red Hawk workers was amazing and overwhelming!
To all who attended and contributed to this event we send out a heart felt THANK YOU!
In March, people from EDP pulled together, on short notice, to raise funds and send eight EDC high school students to Washington DC to participate in the March for Our Lives. The students were chosen via an essay contest.
“The March for Our Lives in Washington, DC was a transformative event. From the moment we landed, to the moment we boarded the plane home, each and every person in our group was challenged to expand their spirit, confront their biases, and take the messages of that event back to their community to give meaning to the lives lost. I feel fortunate to have been on the trip and to have experienced it with these intelligent, sensitive, and wise students from our county. I can’t wait to share our journey in the coming weeks,”
Sean Frame, one of the adult chaperones on the trip.
On April 22nd, the students will talk about their experiences and what they learned in DC and in the March. The Meeting and Special Presentation will be at the Placerville Town Hall, 549 Main Street, from 4 to 6 p.m. eldoradoprogressives.org/events-page/2018/4/22/march-for-our-lives-presentation
