Nov. 2 Newsletter from the Fresno County Dems

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Newsletter: November 2, 2021
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Redistricting (#RedistrictingMap)

Welcome Our New Organizer (#Bianca)

UN Climate Conference is Vital (#Climate)

Attend Fresno City Council Meetings (#Fresno)

Help Design New Fresno Parks (#Parks)

Help a Local Food Bank (#Food-Bank)

Fresno Still Has a Serious Covid Problem (#Covid)

Clean Shared Mobility Network Community Meetings (#Mobility-Net)

California Dems Celebrate Diwali (#Diwali)

Fresno Photographer Featured in the Atlantic (#Ryan-Christopher)

Democratic Party Website and HQ (#Dem-HQ)
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Attend the Board of Supervisors hearing on redistricting and support community-driven maps. For more information, contact 559-994-9390 or .

The Fresno County Democratic Party has added a new organizer to its team: Bianca Orejel:

“I was raised in the Central Valley by my second-generation immigrant family. After seeing my grandparents go through the immigration process, I realized how broken and fragile our system was.

“Having a family separated by a border was nothing new, and once I began to realize how common it was I wanted to do something. I got involved in my local Congress member’s race after realizing that it all starts with electing the correct person.

“During my time volunteering, I fell in love with public service and helping people who don’t have a voice.”

Contact Bianca at 209-232-0587 or [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) .

This week, President Biden will join other world leaders in Glasgow, U.K., to take part in a global summit that comes at a clearly precarious time. In decades to come, the cooperative actions committed to at this conference could swing the scales of the forthcoming devastation to spare or doom millions of people across the world.

We in California should be well aware of the apocalyptic danger the world faces from global warming. Our water supply is shrinking, our forests are burning, carbon power pollutes our air and oppressive summers are growing hotter each decade.

The spectrum of responses to the Covid crisis have underlined how important strong and intelligent top-down organization is when it comes to tackling global problems. If left to our own devices, too many of our fellow people will not choose of their own free will to make the sacrifices needed to protect the greater population.

When everyone will not make sacrifices in the face of the literal life-or-death threat of a killer disease, we cannot expect much when it comes to global warming, where we currently are paying the price for the sins of 100 years ago and get to post-date the check of our own damage a further 100 years down the road.

The only way out is for the governments of the world to take the wheel, and they must do so together.

As a developed economy, the United States needs to make sacrifices. We, along with the European Union, the United Kingdom, Japan, China and other rich countries, will need to not just add new green options to our lives but also rip out the old carbon-powered system that has shaped our society for the past 150 years. We must destroy the old way and build back into a new shape.

We must replace our power generation. We must replace our transportation. We must replace our systems of long-distance travel and transport. We must replace our communities and our economies before disaster after disaster takes the decision out of our hands.

The time is now. Each day we continue on as before is another lash across the back of future generations.

The next Fresno City Council meeting will be on Nov. 4. To view items on the agenda, click on the following link: tinyurl.com/AgendaGranicus. ([link removed].)

Visit fresno.legistar.com/calendar.aspx to view all agendas, supporting documents and to make public comments.

Fresno City Council
City Hall (downtown Fresno) and Zoom
Thursday, Nov. 4 at 9 a.m.

Two new parks are coming to District 3, and resident involvement is needed to help design them.

What is currently an empty lot on N. Broadway St. and E. Elizabeth St. in the Tower District will become a neighborhood park. Renovations will take place at San Pablo Park and Ted C. Wills Community Center. In addition, the 10-acre land on MLK Blvd. and E. Church Ave. was recently acquired and will become a historic regional park in Southwest Fresno. Renovations will also take place at community centers in Southwest Fresno.
Reach out to the office of City Council Member Miguel Arias to join a District 3 Parks Design Committee. Opportunities for the broader community to provide input is currently being planned. Contact 559) 621-7835 or [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) .

Text “food” to 202-858-0303 (tel:202-858-0303) for a list of food banks in your area In Fresno County or call 559-237-3663 (tel:559-237-3663) .

Fresno County is second out of California’s 58 counties for Covid-19 related hospitalizations. Fresno has a little more than 300 Covid-19 hospitalizations with nearly 60 of those patients in the ICU. Los Angeles County, which has 10 times the population of Fresno, ranks first with a little more than 600 patients.

After more than a year and a half of plague, we know how to limit it. However, the techniques require consistent and total buy-in from the public that has been hard to come by.

Every third Tuesday, the network meets to discuss improving electric vehicle charging access and other transportation improvements and solutions needed to help cut our region’s contribution to damaging the atmosphere while making people’s lives easier.

All meetings are 5:30 p.m.–7 p.m. Agendas will be provided prior to the meetings. Upcoming meeting dates: Nov. 16 and Dec. 21.

Meetings will be held virtually until CDC-compliant in-person meetings can be held.

For any question, e-mail [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]) .

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The Clean Shared Mobility Network is supported by the California Strategic Growth Council’s Transformative Climate Communities program with funds from California Climate Investments—cap-and-trade dollars at work.
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On Nov. 3, join the California Democratic Party in celebration of Diwali. API Caucus State Chair Deepa Sharma will host a panel discussion with Rep. Ro Khanna; Assembly Member Ash Kalra; Harini Krishnan, national organizing chair of South Asians for America; CADEM Delegate Avinder Chawla; and more to discuss the history of Diwali and the importance of organizing in South Asian communities. Register Here ([link removed]) .

Fresno’s potential and its precarious foundation were both featured in November’s Atlantic magazine as the photography of Ryan Christopher Jones followed a period in the life of Vinson Fernandez and his family. Fernandez is one of the Fresnans who has benefited from Bitwise Industries, the tech incubator helping spur downtown revitalization.

Jones, born in Fresno, captures in his photographs the hard-won success of our city that is managing to improve itself, while representing that one in five Fresnans still lives in poverty.

You can see more of Ryan Christopher Jones’ work here ([link removed]) .

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News and events will alway arise faster than this newsletter can come out. That is why the Fresno County Democratic Party website is the best place to get regular updates on upcoming events in the area, as well as information on ways to get involved. There is also information on scheduled meetings from the many Democratic clubs in Fresno County, so you can find one that most suits you and your interests.

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The Democratic Party HQ (1033 U St ([link removed]) .) is open 10 a.m. – 2 p.m. Monday–Friday. Call 559-495-0606 (tel:559-495-0606) or e-mail [email protected] (mailto:[email protected]?subject=Re%3A%20Newsletter-11-2-21%20) for information or to volunteer.

Support your local Democratic Party by donation viaActBlue ([link removed]) or by mailing a check to Fresno County Democratic Party, P.O. Box 5795, Fresno, CA 93755.


Our newsletter is prepared by Francis Horan.

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