From organize at bcfed.com Fri Jun 9 10:32:03 2006 From: organize at bcfed.com (John Weir) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 10:32:03 -0700 Subject: [LabComm] FW: ACORN Hiring Online Organizer Message-ID: <1EFB83EC494285438D10B2CCC12063763C32C5@bcfednt.bcfed.local> Job Announcement ---------------------------------------- National Online Organizer ACORN, the nation's largest grassroots community organization of low and moderate income families, seeks a highly-motivated and creative individual to expand its use of web, email, video and other communications technology. Reporting to the national Communications Director, the Online Organizer will develop websites, e-mail and online campaigns, and interactive communications strategies that support local and national organizing, fundraising, and membership recruitment. The Online Organizer will also provide training, strategic direction, and support for the staff in ACORN's 100+ local (and four international) offices, its organizational affiliates, and its membership of community leaders from low income neighborhoods. Requirements include: . Experience in community or labor organizing, political campaigns, or social justice work; . A sophisticated understanding of the use of online communications technology; . Excellent writing skills; . High motivation; . Specific technical skills are a plus: Design/Web design; HTML, PHP and other programming languages. . Spanish language skills are a plus. The position will be based in ACORN's national headquarters in New Orleans. Salary: Commensurate with experience, based on an organization scale starting at $25,000. Benefits include health insurance, paid vacation, and pension plan. To Apply: Send resume and cover letter to Kevin Whelan, Communications Director: communications at acorn.org. For more information call: 985-960-1108 Equal Opportunity Employer; women and people of color encouraged to apply. About ACORN: ACORN (the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now) is the nation's largest community organization of low- and moderate-income families, with over 200,000 member families organized into 800 neighborhood chapters in 99 cities across the country, as well as chapters in Canada, Mexico, and Peru. Since 1970 ACORN has taken action and won victories on issues of concern to our members, including better housing for first time homebuyers and tenants, living wages for low-wage workers, more investment in our communities from banks and governments, and better public schools. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Job Announcement.NtlOnlineOrganizer.doc Type: application/msword Size: 45056 bytes Desc: Job Announcement.NtlOnlineOrganizer.doc URL: From newswire at news.bc.ndp.ca Tue Jun 20 20:49:05 2006 From: newswire at news.bc.ndp.ca (Carole James) Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 19:49:05 -0800 Subject: [LabComm] Campbell Putting Olympic Cart Before Horse Message-ID: Campbell Putting Olympic Cart Before Horse VICTORIA???Before Premier Gordon Campbell approves cost overrun spending on Olympic venue construction, he should present British Columbians with the promised business plan, BC NDP Leader Carole James said yesterday. "B.C. taxpayers are making a significant investment in the 2010 Olympic Games," said James. "And the B.C. Liberal government has a responsibility to spend those dollars wisely. But unfortunately for taxpayers, the government has failed to provide any transparency or public accounting of dollars spent to date." The B.C. Liberal government promised taxpayers that the Vancouver 2010 Games would cost $600 million, and not a penny more. Since that promise was made, the Opposition has uncovered over $130 million in additional spending and $110 million in cost overruns. Notably absent from the planning process is a business plan for the 2010 Games, which would provide taxpayers with a detailed financial plan including cost and cashflow projections. The business plan is required by the Multi-Party Agreement for the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games and has yet to be completed. "This business plan is a key guiding document in the rollout to the 2010 Games," said James. "We are hundreds of millions of dollars into cost overruns, and yet we still don???t have a plan in place for transparent and accountable spending. The B.C. Liberal government must explain why the have not held up their end of the bargain and released this plan to the public." "At the heart of this issue is the integrity of the process," said James. "Public accounting for the Olympic Games must be beyond reproach. The B.C. Liberal government continues to evade public scrutiny of dollars spent, and the public is losing faith that we will ever get a real answer about the true cost of the Games. They just can't trust the government to give them the real story." "The B.C. Liberal government's Olympic legacy has been unaccountable spending, a lack of transparency, and a denial of responsibility for dollars spent. I'd like to see them take a step in the right direction - commit to public transparency for Olympic spending, beginning with the release of a real business plan to the public," James concluded. To unsubscribe or change your settings go to: http://www.e-2ve6y.signup2.bcndp.ca/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From newswire at news.bc.ndp.ca Mon Jun 26 21:50:06 2006 From: newswire at news.bc.ndp.ca (BC NDP Newswire) Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 20:50:06 -0800 Subject: [LabComm] Deputy Minister's resignation further proof of health care crisis Message-ID: Deputy Minister's resignation further proof of health care crisis James calls on Campbell to release plan for health care reoganization The abrupt resignation of the Deputy Health Minister is further proof that health care is in crisis under Gordon Campbell and the B.C. Liberals, Opposition Leader Carole James says. And the surprise resignation raises more questions than it answers, said James. Dr. Penny Ballem -- Campbell's top health advisor -- suddenly quit her post Thursday without notice or a transition period. Ballem's letter of resignation to Premier Gordon Campbell provided strong hints that health policy is being written to serve the political needs of the BC Liberal party, rather than the needs of patients. In her letter, Ballem stated that the Premier's plans for health care were "unsound." "Given Ms. Ballem's very explicit commitment to public health care and the principle of universal access to care, her sudden departure raises serious questions about Gordon Campbell's plans for the public health system in B.C.," said James. "The sudden departure of one of the few people in the Campbell government with any credibility on public health care is a huge blow for the Premier who has made health care one of his top priorities," James said. Ballem was the architect of much of the restructuring of British Columbia's health care system. But in an interview in B.C. Business Magazine in 2003, she affirmed a commitment to public health care over the U.S.-style, for-profit system quietly favoured by many in the Campbell government. "The fact that Ms. Ballem felt she had to resign suggests the government is embarking on a serious shift away from the public health care system she desired," James added. "That worries me, and it should worry all British Columbians." James says the public has a right to know Campbell's plans for reorganization. "In the wake of Penny Ballem's sudden departure from the Campbell government, and in light of her opinion that the Premier's plan for health care is unsound, Mr. Campbell should immediately let the public know what those plans are," said James. To read the rest of the story, click here. To unsubscribe or change your settings go to: http://www.e-2ve6y.signup2.bcndp.ca/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: