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EQCA hiring central valley organizer

Salary: Based on Experience Type: Temporary Full-Time Reports to: Program Director/Deputy Executive Director Start: As soon as possible Closing date of this position: Open until filled Position Overview: Equality California is seeking an experienced and motivated full-time Field Organizer to lead our healthcare organizing and execute our 2017 voter registration and civic engagement program in […]

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Fresno faith leaders demand removal of Brooke Ashjian

A group of 13 pastors read a press release today, condemning Fresno Unified School District President Brooke Ashjian’s recent statement. The release states: THE COALITION STANDS IN OPPOSITION TO THE REMARKS AND VIEWPOINTS OF MR. ASHJIAN AND DEMAND THAT HE BE CENSURED OR REMOVED AS SCHOOOL BOARD PRESIDENT. For Immediate Release: We, as representatives of

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A Response to Brooke Ashjian Regarding the Armenian and LGBT Communities

In the most recent statements by Brooke Ashjian, the current president of the board for Fresno Unified School District, he equated the movement for the rights and well-being of the LGBT community to the actions of the Ottoman Empire in 1915, when they massacred over a million Armenian people. The Armenian community is an important

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Ten Things You Should Know About Ashjian

1. Brooke Ashjian is president of the Fresno Unified School District Board 2. He has a history of being anti-LGBT including accusing a local LGBT organization of pimping him out… Yeah, it makes no sense to anyone else either. 3. There is a CA law that went into effective in 2016 that requires that middle and high schools

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Busing in agitators

Fresno Unified School District trustee Christopher De La Cerda, just published his call for Brooke Ashjian to resign as board president. Brooke Ashjian immediately went onto conservative radio, said no AND the host accused the LGBT community is “busing in agitators”. “My biggest fear in teaching this – which we’re going to do it because it’s

Brooke Ashjian on Jim Franklin Live

Fresno Unified School District board president doubles down on statements that children can be swayed to being LGBT and says no to same sex marriage on Jim Franklin live, August 18th. “They (voters) knew exactly what they were getting, they were getting a conservative guy that was going to come in and bring my conservative

Fresno Bee releases video of Ashjian deposition

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Support the LGBT community – Make your voice heard

“My biggest fear in teaching this – which we’re going to do it because it’s the law – but you have kids who are extremely moldable at this stage, and if you start telling them that LGBT is OK and that it’s a way of life, well maybe you just swayed the kid to go