Nicaraguan Medical Team Needs Help. Give Today

Friends,
   As you know, I work with an NGO down in Nicaragua on clean water projects, including building water systems, and working on healing the after-affects of years of bad water. The Medical team again needs your support to raise money to buy new equipment for the Anti-Parasite project I have written about in the past. (Watch Juanita's video in order to see the progress we're making).

Specifically, this time, we need a centrifuge, and items for a mobile clinic. You'll see their pictures below.

Can you help us raise $2000 to help contain the project? DONATE HERE.

(For more information on Amigos, and they work that do in their community, scroll to the end.)

The vortex:

Portable AC unit:

The tent: 

Results

Below is a snapshot of their work. For a complete set of results, see: https://amigosforchrist.org/amigosresults/

My ballot picks for Nov 6 2018

I have done a post on my ballot picks for the last couple of elections. Here are my picks for November 2018.

Since some of my choices are the same as the primary, I'll refer to that post for brevity.

Governor: Gavin Newsom. Not a tough call. See primary post for more details.

Lt. Governor: Eleni Kounalakis. See primary post.

Secretary of State: Alex Padilla. Primary post.

Controller: Betty Yee. Primary Post.

Treasurer: Fiona Ma. Still impressed. See primary post.

Attorney General: Xavier Becerra.See primary post.

Insurance Commissioner: Ricardo Lara. Primary post.

Member, Board of Eq., District 2: Malia Cohen. Primary post.

US Senator: OK, this is tough one, but I stand by my primary support for KDL, in spite of Senator Feinstein's performance during the Kavanaugh hearings. (Sorry Anna).

House: Zoe Lofgren, for as long as she runs.....

State Assembly: Evan Low, primary post.

Judicial offices: I have not heard of any of them, so Yes to all.

State School Superintendent:Tony Thurmond. While my hijada is doing well at her Charter school, I think we need to support people of the current system. (I might have goofed in the primary.

County Supe: Don Rocha. Has the experience we need. And a nice guy too.

Sheriff: John Hirokawa. See primary post....too many scandals under Smith.

The State Propositions

1: Housing Bond: Yes. We have a serious housing crisis.

2: Bond for homeless/mental illness housing: Yes.

3: Infrastructure Bond: Yes.

4: Hospital Construction for Children's healthcare: Yes

5: Changing requirements for tax treatment when people over 55 sell homes. OK, this is totally selfish, but I gotta retire some day, and I'll be up for this in 2 year. Shameful, yes...but I'll take my tax break for myself and my family.

6: Eliminating Road repair and transportation funding: No. Public safety issue.

7: Approval for State Legislature to change Daylight Savings Time. I hate this one, and I don't care. So No.

8: Regulating Dialysis Treatment Payments. Why are we deciding this? Vote no.

10: Rent Control (Costa-Hawkins): We need to have affordable housing. Yes.

11: Making private ambulance drivers on-call during breaks. Again, why? I suppose Yes.

12: Setting farm animal enclosure standards. Seriously?! Voting no out of a fit of pique.

Local Propositions

A: Continue 1/8 cent sales tax. Yes.

S: Streamlines procurement, adjusts some thresholds. Yes.

T: Disaster Preparedness Bond: Yes.

U: Charter Amendments: Sure. Why not.

V: Local housing bond. Yes. See previous comments on housing.

Speech at Confront Corruption:Demand Democracy SJ Vigil 7/18/18

My Name Is Bill Roth, and I am a board member at Sacred Heart Community Service.

The core message you have heard tonight is that it's important, now more than ever, that we all unite as a community, to protect each others' rights.

And for those of us with privilege it's important we stand up for vulnerable communities.

That’s why I want you to join with Sacred Heart Community Service and other organizations to support our Rapid Response Network.

The RapidResponse Network is a community defense project developed to protect immigrant families from ICE deportation threats and to provide accompaniment support during and after enforcement activities in our community.

Did you know that 99.1% of the time ICE does not have a valid judicial warrant when it raids an immigrant’s home?

Did you know that very often, ICE will mislead people into thinking it is the local police? This destroys the trust built by our local police force, and violates constitutional protections.

You can do something about this.

Join the Rapid Response Network, and get trained as an operator or legal observer. Or join to help comfort a family that has just lost a mother or father to deportation.

To learn more, go to http://bit.ly/rapidresponsesj or send me a message at 408 256 3271.

Interview during Vigil. Photo Credit (c) Andy Morris