Please call today! Make schools safe for ALL students

I got this from my friend Jenn who works for Senator Sheila Kuehl.

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We need your help to make our schools safe for ALL students !
Calling the Governor's office to leave your feedback will take less
than a
minute of your time.

The Christian Right is mobilizing phone calls to the Governor's office
(encouraging people to phone multiple times from their home, cell, and
office phones) in opposition to two important safe schools measures in
the
state legislature, SB 1437 (Kuehl) - the Bias Free Curriculum Act & AB
606
(Levine) - the Safe Place to Learn Act.

Research shows that violence and discrimination against students who
are
or are preceived to be lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT) is
still rampant in our schools, but an inclusive and bias-free curriculum
that talks about the contributions of LGBT people to our society (SB
1437)
and strong policies against discrimination (AB 606)can stem the tide of
that violence and harassment.

If there is to be any chance of reversing the Governor's announced
plans
to veto SB 1437 or preventing the same fate from befalling AB 606 we
need
people to phone the Governor's office in support of these important
bills
NOW. The vast majority of Californians want our schools to be safe for
all our children regardless of their actual or perceived sexual
orientation or gender identity. Don't let a small hateful minority
dominate the discussion .

The Governor's office has set up their phone system to take in calls in
support and opposition to both SB 1437(Kuehl) and AB 606 (Levine),
which
makes it easy for you to express your support for these important
bills.

Here's what to do:

CALL the governor's office: 916-445-2841
press 1 for English
press 2 for legislation
press 1 for SB1437- Bias Free Curriculum Act
press 1 to support it!

then

CALL the governor's office again: 916-445-2841
press 1 for English
press 2 for legislation
press 2 for AB 606 - The Safe Place to Learn Act
press 1 to support it!

More Information on the Bills:

SB 1437(Kuehl) - the Bias Free Curriculum Act updates existing
protections
against biased curriculum to include sexual orientation and gender
identiy
bias. The bill also expands the law that requires our history text
books
to include the contributions of under-represented minorities (women,
African Americans, Asian Americans, etc) to include LGBT people. For
further information go to:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=sb_1437&sess=CUR&house=B&author=kuehl

AB 606(Levin) - the Safe Place to Learn Act helps to strengthen the
enfocement of California's protections against discrimination in public
schools (Amended in 1999 by AB 537(Kuehl) to include actual or
perceived
sexual orientation and gender identity). For further information go
to:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/postquery?bill_number=ab_606&sess=CUR&house=A&author=levine


Keep up the good work! With your help we can make schools safer for
ALL
our children!

Jenn

Jennifer Richard, Legislative Director
Office of Senator Kuehl