Carlsbad Democrats

Let’s help reelect Carlsbad City Council Member Teresa Acosta.

Please join us, Carlsbad City Councilmember Teresa Acosta, Carlsbad City Councilmember Priya Bhat-Patel, and Carlsbad City Council Candidate Kevin Shin, for an evening with Congressman Mike Levin. on Friday, August 16, at 5:30 PM.

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With San Marcos Democrats – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

With Teresa Acosta, Carlsbad Councilmember – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

Mark your calendar now for our next La Costa house party on Saturday, 6/22, from 2 to 4 pm — just RSVP on the website for the address! 😀 Join us to connect with neighbors and share thoughts about the future of our community!

With Assemblymember Tasha Boerner – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

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Budget deal slashes U.S. funding for Palestinians’ U.N. lifeline. The federal spending package approved by Congress strips hundreds of millions of dollars from UNRWA, the U.N. agency that distributes most aid to Palestinians. (source: The Washington Post.) The following is how each congress member voted.

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JEDI and ONE WOMEN’S STORY

Women’s History Month highlights the successes of women who have championed many changes in their lives. I, too, have lived through an age that has seen many ups and downs regarding Women’s Rights and ability to succeed in the workplace and at home. Born in 1944 I lived through the end of WWII when women were asked to work in the factories and other workplaces to take the place of the men who were fighting the war. When the men came home many women left their jobs either willingly or were replaced by the men returning. I think for many women this was a set back since they had proven to themselves and to the world that they were capable to work outside the home.

The fifties brought other challenges. Men dominated the work place and the home. Women were the helpmates for their husbands and were expected to participate in community charities and raise their children. Schools had Home Economic classes for girls and boys had shop to learn mechanics and repair. We had two tracks of education, the academic track for those wanting to go to college and business track for women who were destined to come secretaries. One of the schools I attended had a shop track to teach and prepare boys to become mechanics and other manual labor.

Although women went to college or worked in business they were expected to leave their jobs when they got married and started to have children. Teachers, like myself, were not allowed to be pregnant and teach school. I hid my first pregnancy so I could get to the end of the teaching year. College for women was mostly for teaching, nursing or business. Many women would laughingly say they were there to get their MRS degree and usually met someone to marry and settle down as a homemaker, like my sister.

Many things limited women. They were not allowed to buy a car, home, or have a bank account unless a man signed for them. Married women had that, because of their husbands but single and divorced women had to ask a male friend to vouch and sign for them.

There were exceptions to all of this. Some women found a way to get around the restrictions. My mother was one of those women. She worked at home and was raising 3 children. But in my 3rd grade year she started to want to work teaching school. She had been a school teacher before she married my dad but her two year degree was not sufficient for a full time pay position. Her colleagues encouraged to go back to school and finish a 4 year degree. I watched her as she worked during the day and attended evening classes at the University of Pittsburgh studying at night. I often waited for her to get off the bus and watched her walk home through all kinds of weather. I had a working Mom. She was successful at teaching and on my days that I had no school she would take me with her to sit and watch her teach. I rode the bus, helped her with little tasks and ate lunch with the other teachers. My father, who was also a teacher, supported her and was the one who made sure we were taken care of while she went to school. This was my model for a healthy family and a mother who was strong and independent. So as I went off to college I felt my world was opening up to me. I did graduate with a teaching degree and started to teach. I began to explore other possibilities. I entered the University of Pittsburgh to get my Masters Degree in

Education and went to night school and taught during the day. A pastor at the church I attended warned me that if I got too much education no man would want to marry me. I entered a Christian Education program connected to the Seminary. I met David and we married. I invited the same pastor that warned me earlier to participate in our wedding ceremony. David was not afraid to have a woman bent on having her own career. I finished my degree while teaching so David could finish his degree.

There were times in our life that I had to give up my progress since David always had the better salary and more opportunities to move forward. But I always found how to make my way with every move. Like one pastor’s wife once said, “I had to reinvent myself.” In each community. There were barriers because some communities still had their limits for women. One employer asked me who was going to take care of my children if I worked for him. He warned he would not let me stay home with a sick child or leave early to take care of them. Others said I was too educated for the job I was applying for. I always found a sympathetic employer who would hire me. I had many jobs that really enriched my understanding of many different people. Substitute teacher, Teacher, Assistant Director of a Senior center, store clerk, nurse assistant in a hospital which led to being trained as a volunteer EMT in volunteer fire department, then hired to be an nursing assistant in a doctor’s office; a Church Based Community Organizer working with farmers for fair milk pricing and keeping quarries from ruining farmland. By the way we won the quarry issue and convinced the state to pass a non- metallic mining law. I also ran a social clubhouse for people with mental health issues trying to reenter society which included homeless people, Christian Education and Youth Director and finally pastor. With the help of David I went back to seminary and became an Ordained Minister.
I ran into some more walls as I tried to interview for churches. Some churches did not want a woman pastor. Others said: one“What about your husband’s church? Do they approve of you having your own ministry in another church? (As if I needed their approval.) How are going to handle being here away from your family? Why don’t you and your husband work in the same church? I told them I loved my husband too much to work with him. Some Clergy couples did that and it often ended up bad. One woman was fired from the church and her husband supported it. But I always have found somewhere to minister.

Women have come a long way since those days and many doors are opening up. But there are still barriers, still people who want to keep women “in their place.” Especially now when some of the wins that we all fought for and won are being taken away from us. There is an anti woman attitude rising in this country and we all must band together to fight it. Because, WE WIILL NOT GO BACK!!

I fear for us and the future if we are pushed back into those ancient rules. I fear for abuse, for women and children dying in childbirth, for men who support women, for the very essence of what this country stands for. Liberty, Freedom, Justice, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion. We must not let those values be destroyed. Never!

Author: Maxine Hall

Missouri law bars divorce during pregnancy – even in cases of violence. The statute, which can lead to reproductive coercion in a state that has banned abortion, has recently gained nationwide attention. Source: The Guardian

Missouri law bars divorce during pregnancy – even in cases of violence The statute, which can lead to reproductive coercion in a state that has banned abortion, has recently gained nationwide attention

The China Initiative was a federal program created during the Trump administration. On paper, it was created to combat economic espionage. But in practice, it authorized the racial profiling and investigation of Chinese American scholars just because of their nationality. In just a few years, the China Initiative ended the careers and shattered the livelihoods of hundreds of innocent scientists, researchers, and academics who endured a string of false accusations and wrongful prosecution. And last week, after months of organizing, congressional leaders removed language that would have reinstated this racist and unconstitutional program from a 2024 Appropriations Bill. Source: Stop AAPI Hate

How each House member voted on the bill that could ban TikTok.

How each House member voted on the bill that could ban TikTok Here’s each House member’s vote for or against the legislation that could ban TikTok from U.S. app stores or force its sale to a non-Chinese company. See how your lawmaker voted.

It is a beautiful day to canvass for SDCDP and up and down the ballot.

A kindness list. Source: City of Carlsbad

Today we recognize Day of Remembrance, where on this day 82 years ago, February 19th, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066. Executive Order 9066 led to the mass incarceration of 125,000 Japanese and Japanese Americans from the West Coast and Hawai’i and eventually Japanese Canadians and Japanese Latin Americans in an act of “continental solidarity” in waging the war against Imperial Japan.

As we reflect on this dark time in our nation’s history, we must remember that history can repeat itself if we fail to remember and teach it. We remember the bravery of the members of the 442nd, 100th, and MIS who served in the name of freedoms that many of them and their families were being denied at the homefront. The principled stands taken by those who resisted and all who protested the incarceration. But we especially remember the loss, the pain, and the trauma felt by our community.

We take the opportunity to reflect on this dark chapter in our nation’s history. And yet we recognize that this is a story repeated throughout our history, both preceding the war and again and again in the years since. Today we see the resurgence of Alien Land Law legislation and increasing animus towards those of Chinese ancestry due to rising tensions with China. JACL will continue to engage on these issues with the knowledge and background of what happened to our community, to seek to prevent making the same mistakes again. Source: JACL

This one’s going to sting
Donald Trump took a huge hit today in the two places where it tends to hurt him most: his wallet and his business-wizard image.

The blows were delivered by a state judge in New York who ordered Trump to pay penalties of nearly $355 million for engaging in years of fraud by lying about the value of his real-estate portfolio. As part of his decision, the judge, Arthur Engoron, also barred Trump from running any New York corporation — including his own, the Trump Organization — for three years.

The company has been at the center of Trump’s public persona as a wealthy businessman for decades. And in the slimmest of silver linings, Justice Engoron did not permanently take control of it away from him. Still, the ruling — if it holds up on appeal — will have significant ramifications for the former president’s holdings.

Whatever financial pain Trump now faces was rivaled by the damage the decision dealt to his ego and to his image as a jet-setting billionaire and take-charge chief executive, a carefully crafted public face that helped to vault him first into reality-television stardom and then into the White House.

“Their complete lack of contrition and remorse border on the pathological,” Justice Engoron wrote of Trump and his co-defendants in the case, including his two adult sons, Eric and Don Jr.

The judge went on to say that the accusation of “inflating asset values to make money” was “not a mortal sin” and that Trump, his sons and two of his top aides at the company “did not rob a bank at gunpoint.” And yet, Justice Engoron concluded, “defendants are incapable of admitting the error of their ways. Instead, they adopt a ‘See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’ posture that the evidence belies.” source: The New York Times.

After the insurrection on January 6th, 2021, local Republican leaders like my opponent Kevin Faulconer doubled down on their support of Donald Trump.

Trump's toxicity is officially the foundation of the Republican Party, and Trump’s major supporters are the foundation of Kevin Faulconer’s campaign. Source: Terra Lawson-Remer’s reelection campaign

Lunar New Year is the beginning of the new year based on the lunar calendar or lunisolar calendar. Lunar calendars follow the lunar phase while lunisolar calendars follow both the lunar phase and the time of the solar year. The event is celebrated by numerous cultures in various ways at diverse dates.

We would like to express our appreciation and gratitude to (Diana Aguirre) for her continued contribution to make our Club more successful. She is one of the Club founders.

In recognition of David Hall’s unwavering integrity, outstanding leadership in JEDI, consistently delivering excellent programs, and willingness to sacrifice personal interests to ensure the Club success, Carlsbad Democrats presented the Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. David Q. Hall.

World Cancer Day is the one singular initiative under which the entire world can unite together in the fight against the global cancer epidemic. It takes place every year on 4 February. Source: Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)

Understanding Black history is integral to understanding the history, issues, and the future of our country. One of the founding documents of this country, the United States Declaration of Independence, held that "all men are created equal." However, the long history and the impacts of enslavement, segregation, and redlining are still felt today. Each February, San Diego Public Library honors Black history, celebrates culture and community, and recognizes the achievements as well as the ongoing struggles of Black Americans. Source: San Diego Public Library.