{"id":881,"date":"2017-07-13T11:56:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=881"},"modified":"2017-07-13T11:56:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T18:56:00","slug":"bca-forum-is-this-sunday-july-16-at-3-5-pm-south-berkeley-senior-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"BCA Forum is this Sunday, July 16 at 3-5 pm, South Berkeley Senior Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/nigelguest.com\/bcatemp.org.nigelguest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/council-horizontal.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-883\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-883\" src=\"https:\/\/nigelguest.com\/bcatemp.org.nigelguest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/council-horizontal-300x58.jpg\" alt=\"council horizontal\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/council-horizontal-300x58.jpg 300w, https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/council-horizontal-624x122.jpg 624w, https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/council-horizontal.jpg 734w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Join BCA members at a Progressive Town Meeting<br \/>\nSunday July 16, 3-5pm<br \/>\nSouth Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis Street<\/strong><br \/>\nPlease forward to your email lists, invite friends. Flyer Here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nigelguest.com\/bcatemp.org.nigelguest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/BCA-Forum-Jul-17-flyertwo.pdf\" rel=\"\">BCA Forum Jul 17 flyertwo<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">Last November, for the 1st time in 3 decades, Berkeleyans elected a truly progressive majority to the City Council and a progressive mayor! Most of the folk pictured here were endorsed in November\u2019s election by BCA, and other progressive groups.<\/p>\n<p>Come celebrate their\/our victories with Berkeley Citizens Action and hear from them, ask questions, suggest ideas for specific actions, discuss plans. Berkeley can lead the nation!<\/p>\n<p>Here are some progressive priorities for Berkeley&#8230;<br \/>\n\u2022 Build permanently affordable housing, prevent displacement<br \/>\n\u2022 End homelessness<br \/>\n\u2022 Assure fair, impartial and demilitarized police department, eliminate racial profiling, create an independent police commission.<br \/>\n\u2022 Achieve racial &amp; social justice; end disparities in education, health &amp; jobs<br \/>\n\u2022 Develop a citizen budget commission with teeth<br \/>\n\u2022 Support small businesses<br \/>\n\u2022 Make Berkeley the greenest, most sustainable city<br \/>\n\u2022 Feed and House low income UC students, make education affordable<br \/>\n\u2022 Structure a progressive UC long range\u00a0development plan<br \/>\n\u2022 Build more resident voice in\u00a0how the city is run<\/p><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\nHow will progressive values\u00a0be implemented?<br \/>\nWhat are your priorities?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join BCA members at a Progressive Town Meeting Sunday July 16, 3-5pm South Berkeley Senior Center, 2939 Ellis Street Please forward to your email lists, invite friends. Flyer Here:\u00a0BCA Forum Jul 17 flyertwo Last November, for the 1st time in &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/?p=881\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BCA Forum is this Sunday, July 16 at 3-5 pm, South Berkeley Senior Center<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":885,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions\/885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/berkeleycitizensaction.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}