This you HAVE TO READ!!!!!

[Jeanfromfillmore]

This was posted on Craigslist, but look at who and what this nonprofit are. Look at where they're getting their money and what they're doing with it.

CAUSE Phone Bank (Ventura)

Date: 2010-03-16, 3:07PM PDT
Reply to: job-bmwvq-1647312858@craigslist.org [Errors when replying to ads?]


CAUSE Phone Bank

'We Are the Change' Project

The CAUSE voter engagement phone bank is part of a California-wide effort to increase participation among progressive voters. The purpose is to reform Proposition 13, which has, since it's passage in 1978, steadily destroyed California's social infrastructure.

Phone bankers will participate in a dynamic, supportive team effort, working five shifts per week during three four-week periods, timed to prepare for and coincide with statewide primaries and general elections.

We are looking for articulate, bi-lingual, politically active individuals who are excited by the prospect of speaking with voters on a nightly basis about the political forces that directly impact on their lives. Phone bankers should be comfortable speaking with strangers on the phone. Some experience either in either political campaigns or marketing and sales is helpful. Compensation is $12.50 per hour for up to 25 hours per week. Meals will be provided each shift. Specifically we are looking for:

1. Dedication to improve lives of community residents by engaging voters and increasing voter turnout.
2. Ability to motivate voters around CAUSE’s vision for change in California.
3. Ability to work five hours per day, five days per week.
4. Ability to work well in a team-setting.
5. Goal Oriented.
6. Be on Time.
• Location: Ventura
• Compensation: $12.50 per hour, up to 25 hrs per week
• This is a part-time job.
• This is a contract job.
• This is at a non-profit organization.
• Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
• Please, no phone calls about this job!
• Please do not contact job poster about other services, products or commercial interests.


PostingID: 1647312858


This is their website. They are a nonprofit.
http://www.coastalalliance.com/who-w...ho-we-are.html

board of directors
Dr. Greg Freeland
President
Professor, California Lutheran University
Danny Carrillo
CAUSE Treasurer
Member Representative
SEIU Local 721
Eileen Boris, Ph.D
Hull Professor of Women’s Studies, UCSB
Rodney Fernandez
Executive Director
Cabrillo Economic Development Corporation
Larry Janss
Larry Janss & Co.
Dr. Manuel Marquez M.D.
Associate Medical Director
Kaiser Permanente
Murray Rosenbluth
Port Hueneme City Councilman
Julie Tumamait-Stenslie
Chumash Elder Gloria Roman
Vice President
Community Leader
Centro Mujer
Edward J. Lacey, Esq.
CAUSE Secretary
Community Leader Livable Ventura
Renny Christopher, Ph.D
Associate Vice-President for Faculty Affairs
California State University at Channel Islands
Cristina Gonzalez
Co-Chair
Fund for Santa Barbara
David Sabedra
Senior Vice President
Los Padres Bank
Larry Yee
Retired Director
Office of UC Cooperative Extension & The Hanson Trust
Lorrie Brown
City Management Intern, City of Oxnard Community Develoment
Dr. Lenore Arab, MSc, Ph.D. Profesor, Department of Medicine, UCLA


Their campaigns:

vc clue organizes new regional sanctuary movement
Liliana Santuario, her breast-feeding infant, Pablito, and VC CLUE members continue their struggle for a just, humane immigration reform policy that upholds family unity from the prophetic sanctuary at the United Church of Christ in Simi Valley (UCCSV).

Despite some protests, Liliana, VC CLUE, the UCCSV and allied congregations grow in number, strength and resolve to show the human face of immigrant workers and their families, their contributions to the society and the need to stop the raids that separate families.

Over seventy-five interfaith leaders from around the country participated in the National New Sanctuary Movement Convening in Simi Valley this month. There Liliana’s inspirational words reminded everyone to “look at these hands, they are the hands of 12 million people who are here to help our families and the nation.

CAUSE Community Leaders Participate in December 4th Realizing the Promise Forum
On December 4th, 2008 fourteen grassroots CAUSE leaders from Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties participated in a public meeting in Washington DC with members of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team and members of congress, as part of Realizing the Promise – A Forum on Community, Faith and Democracy. Local leaders also joined 2,500 organizers and grassroots leaders from around the country in mass public actions in our nation's capital around universal healthcare and comprehensive immigration reform. The forum is a kickoff to a nationwide campagin beginning January 20th by social justice community based organizations from throughout the nation to have a strong and constant voice for working families in the capital for the first 100 days of the new administration.
The Realizing the Promise forum builds on the success of the 2007 Heartland Presidential Forum - in which 3,600 grassroots leaders, including CAUSE youth leader, Erica Fernandez, joined with five presidential candidates before the Iowa primaries to discuss the real issues that affect low-income people across the country.
Leaders of the CAUSE Central Coast Organizing Project (CCOP) have organized their own regional community meetings with local elected officials this year, including the October 12th community action which drew over eight hundreds community residents to work together to address issues such as the clean up of the Halaco toxic waste site in South Oxnard, immigrant rights, comprehensive immigration reform and youth justice.


Saturday, March 6, 2008, 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. at Oxnard College
Women in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties have their sight set on social, economic and environmental (SEE) justice. The 2010 Women SEE Justice Advocacy Day will bring together over 250 grassroots women leaders, including immigrant and low wage working women and teen girls for leadership development and to organize for action! This year's advocacy day will focus on grassroots women leaders directly sharing their policy concerns with invited local, state and national elected representatives. Policy issues to be addressed include transit equity, immigration reform, human trafficking, student violence prevention, environmental justice and access to higher education.
Keynote Speaker include Dr. Irene Pinkard, Oxnard City Councilwoman and Ana Rizo, Mayor of the City of Maywood. Also included in the day are:
• Workshops about your power to improve your life and the lives of women, workers, immigrants and families
• Childcare for 3 year olds and up
• Lunch and music for the family
To register for the CAUSE Women SEE Justice Advocacy Day contact CAUSE Associate Executive Director, Maricela Morales, at 805-658-0810 ext. 203 or maricela@coastalalliance.com.
To serve as a Women SEE Justice Advocacy Day Sponsor, contact Diana Marquez at diana@coastalalliance.com , or at (805) 658-0810 ext. 213.

CAUSE is working to grow the green economy by:
• creating quality green jobs that pay a living wage and provide benefits while improving the energy efficiency of our homes and businesses,
• Finding paths to ending our dependence on non-renewable energy sources that will ease the pollution burdens on low income communities and communities of color,
• Building a sustainable transportation system with safe, convenient, reliable and affordable public transit.
Million’s of federal “stimulus” or American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) dollars are flowing to the region of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. These dollars can either create quality jobs or poverty jobs. These dollars can either lift working communities out of poverty, or once again leave them behind. Beginning with Stimulus/ARRA dollars, CAUSE is advocating for quality green jobs and investing in low-wage working communities.
Federal Stimulus or ARRA dollars are meant to:
1. preserve and create jobs to promote economic recovery;
2. invest in economic efficiency through technological advances in science and health
3. stabilize state and local government budgets
4. help those most impacted by the recession
5. invest in transportation, environmental protection, and other infrastructure with long-term economic benefits
Read CAUSE's position on the use of stimulus dollars for an economic recovery torward a just and sustainable green national economy: "Community has say in spending stimulus dollars ," VC Star Editorial, June 14, 2009.
rebuild our nation's middle class through enactment of the employee free choice act (EFCA)
Our nation’s economic recovery and long-tem economic development must include a comprehensive program to rebuild our nation’s middle class. This is why CAUSE has joined President Obama, organized labor and such environmental organizations as the Sierra Club is supporting the enactment of the Employee Free Choice Act as part of an overall national agenda to rebuilding our nation’s middle class.
Take action today in support of the Employee Free Choice Act.

CAUSE • Central Coast Alliance United for A Sustainable Economy • 2021 Sperry Ave, Suite 18 • Ventura, CA 93003 • 805.658.0810

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http://rct.doj.ca.gov/MyLicenseVerif...nse_id=1046478&

I believe they are overstepping their charitable status. They got a big donation fairly recently, and are using it to influence legislation. Let's report them


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[Ayatollahgondola]

Here's an interesting part of their website

vc clue organizes new regional sanctuary movement


Liliana Santuario, her breast-feeding infant, Pablito, and VC CLUE members continue their struggle for a just, humane immigration reform policy that upholds family unity from the prophetic sanctuary at the United Church of Christ in Simi Valley (UCCSV).

Despite some protests, Liliana, VC CLUE, the UCCSV and allied congregations grow in number, strength and resolve to show the human face of immigrant workers and their families, their contributions to the society and the need to stop the raids that separate families.

Over seventy-five interfaith leaders from around the country participated in the National New Sanctuary Movement Convening in Simi Valley this month. There Liliana’s inspirational words reminded everyone to “look at these hands, they are the hands of 12 million people who are here to help our families and the nation.”

[Kathy63]

Liberals have been trying to get rid of Prop 13 since an enraged population voted it in as law.