Episode 4 - Power to the People with Sam Favela
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Someone has opened a campaign committee for California State Senate 2024; after a social media lobbying campaign, President-elect Joe Biden has nominated Rep. Deb Haaland to be our next Secretary of the Department of Interior; the left is aflame with #ForcetheVote on Medicare for All; California environmental justice organizers successfully lobbied Biden to nominate someone *else* to head the EPA; FEMA has promised to fund San Francisco's Shelter-in-Place (SIP) hotel program for the unhoused; San Francisco will finally start housing the poor on the tab of mega corporations; you're worth $600 in the eyes of Congress; and 2020 was a good year for women rappers. Jackie Fielder covers all the victories and frustration with her friend and LBC-in-SF fellow, Sam Favela (@samuelfavela_).
Special shoutout to The Coalition on Homelessness (@thecoalitionsf) and all Our City Our Home (Prop C) organizers and volunteers, as well as Mission Meals Coalition (@mission.meals). Thank you for all you do for our unhoused and food insecure neighbors.
Notes
"The Case for Forcing a Floor Vote on Medicare for All" - Briahna Joy Gray
"California environmentalists quietly seethe at activists over Nichols losing EPA job"
"Supervisors authorize first use of Prop. C homelessness funds"