09/04/2018
Remember when we heard that the congressional committee on children and families had no women on it? And that it failed to propose family leave for all workers? This is like that.
There is a saying among equity-minded folks advocating for their own groups...”Nothing about us without us is for us.” In other words we can just do the right thing by including stakeholders in decisions about what’s at stake for them.
California is putting forward a vision of equity that is positive, inclusive, and radically constitutionally sound.
Including aspiring citizens in civic office is such an obviously right thing to do, it prompts the question of why never did it before?
A bill passed in the state legislature on Friday would allow immigrants living in California, documented and undocumented, to be appointed to public boards and commissions. California allows non-citizens to practice law, dentistry, accounting, and other professions. Experts who work in these prof...
