The prior summer’s A&C star speaker, Saru Jayaraman (A&C 7/22/18), stars in another upcoming, must-see documentary. Waging Change, by award winning filmmaker Abby Ginzberg, is about the Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC), and the national fight Saru is spearheading for One Fair Wage. Get your tickets for the Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 1PM showing at San Francisco’s Castro Theater.
And as we go to press, another new important documentary reveals just what got us Prop 13 back in 1978.
One focus of Elder Action - an interest group of Ashby Village - is Prop 13. An upcoming ballot measure could at long last amend Prop 13 to pull in over $11 billion new corporate property tax dollars every year for our state’s public schools—and roads, hospitals, libraries, etc.
How did we get here, starving our state budget to serve big corporate property owners? That’s the focus of First Angry Man. The film is being screened by Janis Plotkin, Program Director of The Berkeley Film Foundation, at the New Parkway Cinema in Oakland on Tuesday February 4, 2020 (where there’s food along with this food for thought). If an AV group attends, and we let it be known, Janis promises to mention Ashby Village in her remarks!