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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->From: Steve Farmer <saf@...>
Date: Thu Mar 9, 2006  4:16 pm
Subject: California Political Support for our California Campaign  yukifarmer
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Dear List,

List members and journalists in India and elsewhere may be interested
in the political support we gathered in the last few months to help
defeat the sectarian groups involved in the California history textbook
case.

The following letter opposing sectarian edits was sent by 17 leading
members of the California Legislature to the California Board of
Education, the Superintendent of the California Department of
Education, and the Executive Director of the California Curriculum
Committee:

http://www.safarmer.com/legislators.pdf   (500K)

The letter was publicly released before the final Board of Education
Meeting on the textbooks yesterday (8 March 2006). The Board meeting
resulted in the final rejection of the December 2, 2006 edits of the
California textbooks (noted in the letter), which included a long
series of ideological edits inspired by the groups.

The signatures were gathered by the Friends of South Asia (FOSA) and
the Coalition against Communalism (CAC), two of our main allies in the
California case. Both groups are filled with extraordinarily talented
and dedicated people, mainly first and second generation S. Asian
Americans, working in both the corporate and academic worlds:

http://www.friendsofsouthasia.org/
http://cac.ektaonline.org/

Prominent signers of the letter include the Senate Majority Leader and
leading members of the State Senate and State Assembly Education
Committees:

Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero, Senate Education Committee
Senator Elaine Alquist, Senate Education Committee
Senator Jackie Speier, Education Committee
Senator Sheila Kuehl

Assemblywoman Judy Chu, Co-Chair, Asian Pacific Islander (API) Caucus
Assemblyman Leland Lee, Co-Chair, API Caucus
Assemblywoman Patty Berg, Vice-Chair of the Women’s Caucus

Asemblywoman Loni Hancock, Assembly Education Committee
Assemblywoman Carol Liu, Assembly Education Committee
Assemblywoman Barbara Matthews
Assemblywoman Cindy Montenez
Assemblywoman Sally Lieber
Assemblywoman Lori Saldana
Assemblywoman Wilma Chan
Assemblywoman Karen Bass
Assemblywoman Noreen Evans
Assemblyman Alberto Torrico


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