Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager officially announced Assembly Constitutional Amendment (ACA) 3, the California Abolition Act, which would amend the state constitution to end involuntary servitude. (Photo by Antonio Harvey)
Assemblymember Sydney Kamlager and the California Abolition Act Coalition (CAAC) on March 4 officially announced Assembly Constitutional Amendment (ACA) 3, the California Abolition Act, which would amend the state constitution to end involuntary servitude.
Article 1, Section 6 of the California Constitution allows the practice of involuntary servitude as a means of punishing crime. The euphemistic language of “involuntary servitude” masks what this nefarious practice is in plain language: forced labor.
“By removing this language from our constitution, we are moving our state into the 21st century and taking steps to ensure that no Californian is ever put in a position of involuntary servitude again,” Ms. Kamlager, the bill’s author, said as she announce
OAK PARK – In the summer of 2019, the Sacramento City Council approved to provide new homeless shelters in the neighborhood of Meadowview and on the western edge of Oak Park under the W/X freeway near Broadway and Alhambra Boulevard.
The facility to shelter the unhoused in Oak Park is finally under construction. It will contain about 100 beds but that number is far below the high figures of homeless people in the area.(Photo by Antonio Harvey)
A tent occupied by an unhoused person sits right outside the fence where construction takes place near X Street and Alhambra Boulevard.(Photo by Antonio Harvey)
Gov. Newsom Nominates CLBC Chair Dr. Shirley Weber Secretary of State
By Antonio Ray Harvey, California Black Media
Published December 24, 2020
Assemblymember Shirley Weber (File Photo)
Hours after Gov. Gavin Newsom picked California Secretary of State Alex Padilla to be California’s next United States Senator, he announced that he will submit to the State Legislature the nomination of Assemblymember Dr. Shirley N. Weber (D-San Diego) to replace him.
If confirmed, Weber will become the first-ever African American to serve as Secretary of State of California.
“Dr. Weber is a tireless advocate and change agent with unimpeachable integrity. The daughter of sharecroppers from Arkansas, Dr. Weber’s father didn’t get to vote until his 30s and her grandfather never got to vote because he died before the Voting Rights Act passed in 1965. When her family moved to South Central Los Angeles, she saw as a child her parents rearrange furniture in their living room to serve as a lo