SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A group of Sacramento State students are adding some extra substance to spring break through politics.
More than 100 students are spending the week knocking on more than 1,600 doors to get out the vote for the 2016 election.
From sidewalks and stairs, to navigating around gates and even a few barking dogs, Sacramento State students are targeting neighborhoods with traditionally low voter turnout to try and change that.
College students traditionally spend spring break on a beach, but this year, more than 100 Sacramento State students – joined by 40 local high school and community college students – volunteered to knock on 1,600 doors in south Sacramento neighborhoods to get out the vote for the presidential election this fall.
“We learned at the orientation that this area has one of the lowest percentages of people who vote,” says Arianna Stubblefield, 20, a communication studies major at Sac State. She got credit in her government class for participating. “The work we were doing was important, to let people be informed. Going door to door opens your eyes to the fact that a lot of people don’t know they can register to vote.”
SACRAMENTO Low-income undocumented residents in Sacramento County can now enroll in the county’s new Healthy Partners Program to obtain healthcare coverage.
Healthy Partners Program is Sacramento County’s new health coverage program for undocumented residents. The program was created through the advocacy of a coalition of community organizations in Building Healthy Communities collaborative, and championed by Supervisor Phil Serna to restore healthcare access to undocumented residents in the county.
"I am Prop 47 Sacramento" is on their second leg of their multi-neighborhood tour, educating people about the new law and what it can do for ex-cons.
The group was joined by several non-profit organizations at the Roberts Family Development Center in Rio Linda. They admit they're not perfect, and they've made their mistakes.
"My son was 7 years old when I told him I was going to the store. And when I came back, he was 16. And that's because I was living a life of crime," Jacqueline Lester said.
Danielle Williams, one of Sacramento’s leading civil rights activists, expects to be among the thousands of Sacramentans marching together on Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday Monday. But the 30-year-old warned against what Sacramento native Cornel West has called the “Santa Clausification” of King, a sanitizing and whitewashing of his message focused on the feel-good aspects of his “I Have a Dream” speech rather than King’s call to action against war, poverty, segregation and violence against people of color.
A UC Berkeley graduate and community organizer for Sacramento Area Congregations Together, Williams has protested mass incarceration and street violence, demonstrated for immigration reform and spoken against police shootings and abuse of African Americans nationwide.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The signs they carried said “Sacramento-United Against Hate-United For Peace,” as close to 800 people from many ethnic and religious backgrounds gathered at the steps of the California State Capitol building here Dec. 19 to both condemn the recent terror attacks in San Bernardino (and Paris), and to also unite against all kinds of intolerance, especially targeting the Muslim community.
The list of sponsors of the rally included the Interfaith Council of Greater Sacramento, Area Congregations Together, MLK365, the NAACP, the Coalition of Tolerance, the Florin Japanese American Citizens League, the Sikh community, Jewish Voice for Peace, OCA, APAPA, HIP, COSVIO, CAIR-Sacramento Valley, American Muslim Voice, Pakistani American Association and PASCO.
The news that a car filled with teenagers on its way to a high school football game was riddled with bullets last week, leaving one dead, both gutted and galvanized a Sacramento community already weary of violence.
Grant High School senior Jaulon Clavo, 17, was behind the wheel of a compact sedan last Friday afternoon, driving his teammates to a division playoff game they would not play. Gunfire flooded the console, critically wounding him and front passenger Malik Johnson. Both youths were transported to local hospitals, but only Johnson survived.
