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Inspired by our Past, Fighting for a Better Future
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. It’s a time when we celebrate the culture, traditions and history of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States and recognize their many contributions to our communities and our nation.
For Joel Chan, Vice President and Chief Steward of DLC 744 and a leader of our Local 1000 Asian-Pacific Islander
API Members Choose Leadership
More than 100 union leaders attended SEIU’s first Asian Pacific Islander (API) Leadership Summit in Anaheim in August. The Summit’s theme was “Together We Rise” and sought to unite and empower member leaders and staff to build power and to organize against the threats facing the labor movement and our communities.
Environmental Committee Movie Outing Event
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Please join the SEIU Local 1000 Environmental Committee in watching the powerful and important sequel to “An Inconvenient Truth”.
Date:
August 8, 2017
Time:
7:00 p.m.
Please arrive no later than 6:45 p.m.
Location:
Century Arden 14 and XD
1590 Ethan Way Sacramento, CA 95825
Protect our planet through awareness and action
Are you interested in joining your union’s mission to protect our planet through awareness and action?
If you’re interested, please click here to fill out this brief survey if you have any kind of environmental issues that you would like to see championed by your union.
Environmental Committee’s Upcoming Events
The Environmental Committee has three events in April that we are sponsoring and participating in:
April 22, 2017 March for Science – Sacramento
April 23, 2017 ECOS Earth Day – Sacramento
April 29, 2017 Creek Week Clean-Up – Sacramento.
Honoring Our Families Immigration Story
In these days of great debate throughout the country on immigration, we would like to ask our members to reflect a little and think about their family’s own journey to this country. We want to provide you, as an SEIU Local 1000 member, an opportunity to celebrate your family’s immigration story.
Standing Together for LGBTQI Pride
Together we joined with community allies at the 33rd annual San Diego Pride Parade on July 15, celebrating diversity and fostering pride and respect for our LGBTQI community.
In partnership with SEIU 221 and SEIU International, our team hosted a sign-making party the night before, and created a truck-mounted float with a Resistance! Theme – supporting LGBTQI rights, worker’s rights and economic justice for all.
Join us at the San Diego LGBT Pride Parade!
Join your fellow Local 1000 members and many others as we walk in the San Diego LGBT Pride Parade on July 15. The theme is Allied in Action: United for Justice.
When: Saturday, July 15
Assemble at 9:30 a.m. – Space #239
Parade starts promptly at 11:00 a.m.
Where: University Avenue and Normal Street.
Parking: Shuttle is available from parking lot at Old Naval Hospital at Old Naval Hospital at Park Blvd. & President’s Way
Harvey Milk: Community Organizer, Labor Activist
Harvey Milk made history in 1977 as the first openly gay elected official in California, and one of the first in the nation, when he won a seat on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
It was just one of his many accomplishments as a revered community activist that came in an era when Gay Rights became synonymous with Civil Rights.
As the owner of a camera store in San Francisco’s Castro District, Milk experienced many forms of anti-gay discrimination in both his personal and professional life.