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TODAY ON KKCR Today, Thursday, July 17, 2008, from 4 – 5:30, Katy will be discussing grassroots social change organizations in Hawai’i and the funding opportunities available to them with Richard Rodrigues of the Hawai’i People’s Fund. Also joining us will be Kat Brady of Community Alliance on Prisons and Life of the Land, and Darlene Rodrigues (no relation to Richard) of CHOICES, an O’ahu-based organization which provides public high school students with an alternative point of view on military recruitment and war. The organizations these women represent are grantees of Hawai’i People’s Fund. We will discuss the valuable work they are doing. Richard Rodrigues is a long-time community organizer and fundraiser for social change. About Hawai’i People’s Fund: “Hawai‘i People's Fund is a publicly supported community fund established in Start: 7:00 pm
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This morning, the County Clerk's office notified us that the County Clerk has verified that a sufficient number of valid signatures was submitted for the Coalition for Responsible Government's petition for a County Charter amendment. So the CRG proposal will be on the November ballot (provided that no unanticipated legal machinations occur to prevent this). Congratulations to all of you who worked so hard to collect the needed signatures! Now, because no good deed goes unpunished, our group must begin work on the next phase of the campaign. We need to begin organizing the campaign (outreach strategy, meetings with council and mayoral candidates, publicity plans, fundraising, treasurer, secretary, etc.). We also need to address a very serious emergency that has arisen as a result of Councilmember Iseri-Carvalho's resolution to put onto the November ballot a proposed charter amendment that could make it extremely difficult to achieve passage of the CRG amendment and other charter amendments. That proposal - which appears to already have the support of several Councilmembers - would count blank votes as No votes, and would also require that a measure be approved by 30% of the registered voters (rather than 50% of those who vote on the measure). It would have the effect of changing the voter approval requirements from the current 50% of those who vote, to something between 70-83% of those who vote (depending on voter turnout). | ||
