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DESCRIPTION:ARE YOU AN EAST BAY RESIDENT AND/OR CA TAXPAYER?\n\n \n\nDon Perata, our 
 Senate Rep and President pro Tem of the Senate, just negotiated away 
 53,000+ Californians' lives and $15 billion of our tax dollars in the 
 largest prison construction deal in U.S. history.\n\n \n\nThis 53,000-bed 
 prison deal was negotiated in secret meetings, behind closed doors, and 
 forced through the Legislature without public hearings. And the majority of 
 the prison construction will be financed through lease revenue bonds to 
 bypass voter approval -- polls say only 3% of Californians prioritize 
 prison construction.\n\n \n\nAfter the deal was made, Perata told the press 
 that policymakers had no choice but to build more prisons: "This is a 
 compromise among bad alternatives...Now we vote and light candles. That's a 
 reference to St. Jude, the patron saint of lost causes." \n\n \n\nCOME OUT 
 WEDNESDAY TO DEMAND REAL SOLUTIONS!\n\n \n\nCalifornians and experts have 
 put forward real solutions for reducing the number of people in prison for 
 years: We could have enacted a moratorium on sending people to prison for 
 technical violations which would have freed up thousands of beds. We could 
 have followed the leads of other states in not placing so many people on 
 parole, paroling geriatric prisoners, or adjusting credits. \n\n 
 \n\nInstead, without our approval, Perata caved in to spending our valuable 
 tax dollars on a costly system that's already devastated communities across 
 the state. Once he has termed out, it is we who will be left the 
 consequences of his actions: the prison crisis of 2017, when we will see 
 over 200,000 people in our state's prisons and increased human suffering 
 across the state.\n\n \n\nDo you want to see our tax dollars going into 
 education, health care, and housing, or more and more school closures and 
 more and more friends and family being sent to prison? \n\n \n\nJoin other 
 east bay residents and California taxpayers in protesting Perata's role in 
 this disastrous prison deal and demanding accountability so that he does 
 not become a lost cause. Tell him we want:\n\n \n\n*Real solutions!* \n\n50 
 ways to reduce the number of people in 
 prison\n\nwww.curbprisonspending.org/50WaysCURB.pdf\n\n \n\n*No more 
 prisons!* \n\nThe Governor is seeking authority to build an additional 
 4,500 women's prison beds dressed as "community-based alternatives," even 
 though policymakers recently were compelled to strip these women's prisons 
 from its legislative vehicle due to persistent pressure from people in 
 California's women's prisons and their 
 allies.\n\nwww.curbprisonspending.org/media/CURB-%20%20Gender%20Responsive%20Prisons%20Report.pdf\n\n 
 \n\nEVENT SPONSORED BY CURB \n\n \n\nCURB (Californians United for a 
 Responsible Budget) is a broad based coalition of over 40 organizations 
 seeking to curb prison spending by reducing the number of people in prison 
 and the number of prisons in the state.\n\nwww.curbprisonspending.org \n\n 
 \n\nAction Committee for Women in Prison \nA.D.E.L.A.N.T.E\nAll of Us or 
 None \nAmerican Friends Service Committee, Pacific Mountain Region \nBay 
 Area Black Radical Congress \nBeyond Bars \nBlacks United for Quality 
 Education \nBuddhist Peace Fellowship \nCalifornia Coalition for Women 
 Prisoners \nCalifornia Interfaith Alliance for Prison Reform \nCalifornia 
 Prison Focus \nCalifornia Prison Moratorium Project \nCenter on Race, 
 Poverty and the Environment \nCentral California Environmental Justice 
 Network \nCoalition on Homelessness \nCommunity Wellness Partnership 
 \nCritical Resistance Oakland \nCritical Resistance Los Angeles\nDrug 
 Policy Alliance \nEducation Not Incarceration Coalition \nFamilies to Amend 
 California 's Three Strikes \nFree Battered Women \nFriends Committee on 
 Legislation \nGrayson Neighborhood Council \nJust Cause Oakland \nJustice 
 Now \nJustice Policy Institute \nLegal Services for Prisoners With Children 
 \nNational Lawyers Guild - SF Bay Area \nOut of Control: Lesbian Committee 
 to Support Political Prisoners \nPenal Reform International \nPrison 
 Activist Resource Center \nPrisoners Rights Union \nProyecto Common Touch 
 \nUC Berkeley Graduate Assembly \nUniversity of California Student 
 Association \nWomen's International League for Peace & Freedom (California 
 branch)\nYouth Force Coalition \nYouth Law Center\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/16/18417148.php
SUMMARY:Protest Perata's Prison Deal!
LOCATION:1515 Clay Street\n(15th and Clay Streets Downtown Oakland)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/05/16/18417148.php
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