Please join us on Thursday May 13th @ 6pm at 938 Valencia St. for our fundraiser and reception in support of Pride at Work’s efforts with special guest and friend Assemblymember Tom Ammiano.

Refreshments, hors d’oeuvres, and entertainment provided.  Beat the Boss Carnival! Music! Fun! Auction for Famous Limited Edition Unicorn-Shooting-Rainbows Pride at Work T-Shirt

Checks should be made out to: Pride at Work/SF and should be sent to:
Pride at Work, San Francisco Chapter/  1800 Market St., / P.O. Box 31, / San Francisco, CA 94102.

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WHY SUPPORT PRIDE AT WORK/ HAVOQ?
Because your donations enable us to continue building a diverse community of San Franciscans who are working for justice. Together, we:

STAND UP FOR WORKERS RIGHTS

• Through joining with local LGBT organizations to host a briefing on the Employee Free Choice Act, or continuing our advocacy for the passage of a gender inclusive ENDA, we educate and organize our communities around these important pieces of legislation.

• We continue to support the struggles of our union brothers and sisters, joining marches, rallies, picket lines and direct actions to support the hotel workers’ struggle, attending delegations with workers fighting to form a union in their workplace, and standing with queer workers, such as Vincent Atos of Hornblower Cruises, who was fired for his union activism and for being “too gay.”

STAND UP FOR MIGRANT RIGHTS

• This year, as a member of the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Defense Committee, we fought to stop the deportation of our city’s youth and to uphold our Sanctuary city.  In October 2009 we passed, at the board of supervisors, a policy that would allow due process to all youth in San Francisco regardless of documentation status.

• Last summer was our first of many to come sending a delegation of volunteers to No More Deaths, a humanitarian aid organization that operates on the US/Mexico Border.  This work draws attention to the violence done as a result of increased militarization and unjust trade policies, and works to immediately stop deaths and suffering on the border.

STAND UP FOR TENANT RIGHTS & OUR RIGHTS TO THE CITY

• After four years of door knocking, city-wide tenant meetings, a huge hearing at city hall, and the passage of new pro-tenant legislation, the CitiSTOP campaign has seen a major victory!  This year, San Francisco’s giant and notorious landlord, CitiApartments, has filed for bankruptcy, in a large part due to the organized and strong tenants who refused to be evicted and intimidated out of their homes.

• Hosting events, protests, and doing sstreet outreach and education, we have joined in the campaign to stop the passage of a law targeting the homeless and day laborers that would ban anyone from sitting or lying on public sidewalks in San Francisco.

EDUCATE OUR COMMUNITY & BUILD LEADERSHIP SKILLS

• In February 2010 we hosted community discussion as part of CounterPULSE’s Shaping SF Series.  Over forty members of our communities came together along with Pride at Work/HAVOQ to share our struggles and vision around issues such as the queer worker struggle, housing and gentrification, and how to organize to help push our struggles to the national forefront.

• We continued our work with the Workers Rights Collaborative in doing culturally appropriate outreach and education around enforcing San Francisco labor laws such as minimum wage, paid sick leave and healthcare security ordinances.  From this we have joined the Chinese Progressive Association, La Raza Centro Legal and Young Workers United in organizing a campaign that would push for a Low Wage Worker Bill of Rights.

• In partnership with Communities United Against Violence, we co-hosted a Safety Lab, practicing the skills we need to respond to and prevent violence in our communities outside of traditional criminal justice systems, and examined together the links between structural and interpersonal conflict.

As a primarily volunteer-driven organization, we do all this work on a very small budget, but we need your support to maintain the work we do and continue to grow a thriving organization of diverse activists organizing and mobilizing around social and economic justice issues and strengthening our coalitions between the labor movement and the LGBT community in San Francisco.