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MyspaceAs a former Catholic nun, I believe in service and protecting Mother Earth and all its creatures. I’m 83 years old and I’ve been speaking out for the community for a long time. Some of my proudest moments include leading the Grape Boycott of 1965 in Michigan with Cesar Chavez; helping hundreds of women get off welfare and secure real jobs; being a founding member of the National Women’s Political Caucus; fighting to prevent the building of a proposed floating gas terminal off of our coastline that threatened to kill marine life and dump 480 tons of pollution into the ocean in 2007; and most recently, leading the charge to make Oxnard a “Clean Air City” and urging the federal government to reduce carbon pollution through the federal Clean Air Act.
As a lifetime environmentalist, it is with great enthusiasm that I give my wholehearted support to Jason Hodgem candidate for California Senate 2012. Electing Jason is a long awaited dream - to elect a person who has a proven record in working to protect public health and create jobs. Since he was elected as an Oxnard Harbor Commissioner, he has put in place a Clean Air policy that will serve as an initiative to further our work for a new economy in California.
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John_Adams (anonymous profile)
April 6, 2012 at 2:47 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Oy ? What is that ? Lupe Anguiano was a 2007 National Women's History Project Honoree. UCLA is hosting her writings, the first addition to the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center's new Mujeres Initiative. The initiative identifies, preserves and makes accessible the history and culture of Chicanas and Latinas in the United States.
She is a community activist and a real educator. Lupe is worthy of respect and should be treated with the dignity she deserves. That she is supporting Jason Hodge speaks volumes. Below is only a small indication of her accomplishments.
Defying any single category of cause or action, Lupe Anguiano, an educator, has always worked for the equality of all people. She is a passionate environment volunteer, helping to protect "Mother Earth" from global warming and other destructive environmental hazards. In 1949, she joined Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters. As a nun, she worked for fifteen years to improve the social, educational, and economic conditions of poor people throughout the United States. Anguiano was also a United Farm Workers’ Volunteer, working directly under the direction of Cesar Chavez in Delano, California. She led the successfully grape boycott in the entire State of Michigan in 1965.
While working to change Welfare Policy for women single parents, Anguiano became involved with the Women’s Liberation Movement of the ‘60s and ‘70s. She worked with outstanding women leaders such as Gloria Steinem, Bella Abzug, and other feminists in the formation and founding of the National Women's Political Caucus and helped to bring Catholic support to the Equal Rights Amendment. In 1977, Lupe was elected a delegate to the first State of Texas federally funded Women’s Conference and also elected delegate to First National Women’s Conference held in Houston in November of the same year – where along with Jean Stapleton and Coretta Scott King, she read the “Declaration of American Women." The National Women’s Conference funded by the US Congress is a landmark for women in the United States.
pedronava (anonymous profile)
April 6, 2012 at 6:37 p.m. (Suggest removal)
It is a fact that Lupe has done great work for the people of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties through her environmental work. If Lupe is supporting Jason Hodge for Senate, so will I!
Fact_Not_Fiction (anonymous profile)
April 6, 2012 at 7:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)
We certainly aren't lacking in good candidates this year.
Ken_Volok (anonymous profile)
April 27, 2012 at 2:40 p.m. (Suggest removal)