ADDITIONAL FEB 25th DISABILITY RIGHTS/ISSUES TOWNHALL TELEMEETING SITES IN SAN JOSE AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA

SACRAMENTO  - Two additional sites will participate in the 7th Disability Rights/Issues Townhall Telemeeting, scheduled for February 25, Wednesday afternoon  from 1:00 PM to 2:45 PM, that will feature a budget briefing by California Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill, and more detailed analysis from Legislative Analyst Office staff analyst Shawn Martin.

The two additional sites are:

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
Lanterman Regional Center
3303 Wilshire Blvd #700  Los Angeles 90010
Contact: Frank Lara
Phone: 213/383-1300 ext 665

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA/BAY AREA
Silicon Valley Independent Living Center
Note: using meeting room at SEIU Local 715
2302 Zanker Road, San Jose  95131
Contact: Terry Applegate (Silicon Valley Independent Living Center)
Phone:  408/894-9041 (Silicon Valley Independent Living Center)
Phone: 408/954-8715 (meeting location number)

For a list of the other sites, please see California Disability Community Action Network Capitol News Report #38-2004, issued earlier today.

OTHER DISABILITY RIGHTS EVENTS BEING PLANNED IN THE COMING WEEK
* IHSS Rallies - Scheduled for February 26th, Thursday from 10:30 AM to 12 noon at the State Capitol, West Steps, to mark the 100th day in office of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, and to protest his proposed cuts to people with developmental and other disabilities, people with traumatic brain injuries, and seniors who need in-home services and supports to remain in their own homes. The Governor proposed elimination of the IHSS
residual program and other reductions and cuts to other parts of the IHSS program. Protests on the same day and time will also occur in five other cities (the starting and beginning times vary): Stockton and San Francisco (Northern California) and Los Angeles, San Bernardino and San Diego (Southern California), organized by California Homecare Council and California Cares.  See CDCAN Capitol Report #37-2004  for more details and more information]
* Disability Rights Voter Mobilization/Education Meeting - set for March 1, Monday evening, 6:30 PM to about 8 PM  at Alta California Regional Center (Brenda Smith Conference Room), 2135 Butano Dr, Sacramento to lay the groundwork for organizing people with developmental and other disabilities, and their families, community organizations who provide services and supports, workers, and other advocates to register to vote, to actually vote in the coming elections, and how to mobilize and unify disability communities across California to hold policy makers accountable on disability issues. Titled "Informed Voting and Strategic Actions: How Grass Roots Politics Can Make A Difference", the program will feature representatives from Project Vote Smart will be there as well as the California Disability Community Advocacy Network. The training is sponsored  by Alta California Regional Center. For more information, contact Rob Biggar at 916/978-6276.  [see CDCAN Capitol Report #38-2004 later today for more details]

CONTRIBUTIONS NEEDED TO CONTINUE ADVOCACY EFFORT
VERY VERY URGENT!!!! Many thanks again,  to the friends, people with disabilities and their families, community organizations and others who have sent in generous and needed contributions and donations (individual thank you letters will be coming soon!). However, until grant funding is finalized, contributions from people and organizations is still very urgently needed to keep the advocacy efforts going for the next several months. Please make check or money order  to:  California Disability Community Action Network/Marty Omoto (or abbreviate CDCAN). CDCAN is not yet a non-profit organization (work on this will have this happen in within the next few months) Send contributions to: California Disability Community Action Network,  1225 8th Street Suite #480, Sacramento, CA  95814.  A method to contribute by credit card (through Paypal) is being set up on our website, at www.cdcan.org.

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THIS ACTION ALERT
* This is a NON-PARTISAN online news report  of the non-partisan California Disability Community Action Network, a link to thousands of Californians with developmental and other disabilities, their families, community organizations and providers, direct care and other workers, and other advocates. These reports (formerly the CA UCP Capitol Reports) are for all of them.  This report goes to thousands of people with developmental and other disabilities, their families, community providers and organizations, direct care and other workers and advocates across California. In addition it also goes to news organizations, state and local government officials and staff.
* If you would like to get on this distribution (and conversely, get off of it) please send an email with that  request to:  martyomoto@rcip.com. Sharing information is part of our organizing effort. Please feel free to forward or copy  this (attribution is nice). We're all in this together!
Marty Omoto, director/organizer
California Disability Community Action Network
1225 8th Street Suite 480 Sacramento, CA 95814   VOICE PHONE: 916/446-0013
FAX number: 916/446-0026        email: martyomoto@rcip.com
INFORMATION HOTLINE TOLL FREE NUMBER: 1-877-260-0267 (you cannot leave messages)
SAME INFO HOTLINE FOR SACRAMENTO AREA:  486-4652
WEBSITE (under reconstruction - available soon!): www.cdcan.org