The 100% Summit A Tale of Two Counties

1. The 100% Summit A Tale of Two Counties Maricela Morales M.A. Acting Executive Director Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) January 27, 2012

2. The 100% • Bridging the Widening Gaps • Shared Values • Positive & Lasting Community Transformation

3. East – 48% Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Camarillo White – 65% Countywide, 81% are over age 18 Countywide, 72% of Srs. are White Wealth Median Household Income Moorpark $96,007 Thousand Oaks $95,281 Countywide $71,246 Oxnard $61,316 Santa Paula $51,621 Education 3% - 7% Less than HS 31% - 48% BA+ Not yet a US Citizen 7% - 12% West – 52% El Rio, Oxnard, Port Hueneme, Santa Paula, Fillmore, Piru, Ojai, Ventura Latino, AA, API, NA – 68% Countywide, 68% over age 18 Countywide, 60% of Youth Poverty 19% Latinos, 16% AA, 9% Whites, 6% Asian 67% of those in poverty are Children & Youth 7.8% of Srs. vs. 14% of Children & Youth Women working FT earn about 20% less than Men Education 5% - 15% Less than HS (Ojai - El Rio) 4% - 40% BA+ (El-Ro - Ojai) Not yet a US Citizen 8% - 28% A Tale of Two Counties

4. Bridging the Widening Gaps: Shared Values • Human Dignity: Namaste I honor the place within you where the entire Universe resides; I honor the place within you of love, of light, of truth, of peace; I honor the place within you, where, when you are in that place in you, and I am in that place in me, there is only one of us - Mahatma Ghandi • “It’s Mutual” The fact is that no one flourishes without the aid of other people – either visible or, more often invisible – and to think otherwise is to be ‘deformed by fantasy.’ – Sam Thomas, Assistant Professor of Religion and Assoc. Dir. of the Center for Equality & Justice, California Lutheran University • Shared Power Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have found out the exact measure of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them, and these will continue til they are resisted with either words or blows, or both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. – Fredrick Douglass, 1857 • Shared Prosperity… Is NOT a zero sum game Is NOT a delusional trickle-down economic theory Is NOT a so-called-social justice of “don’t be pushy, don’t be demanding; be patient, work harder, be smarter, pay your dues, wait your turn, go to the back of the line ”

5. POSITIVE LASTING COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION It is FAIR, EQUITABLE & JUST only if it stops, narrows or eliminates the widening gap. POLICIES CBO’s Internal Policies A living wage & health benefits External Policies YOU CAN ADVOCATE! YOU CAN LOBBY! Resources Alliance for Justice www.afj.org CAUSE 805-658-0810; maricela@coastalalliance.com Government Federal immigration reform State tax & budget reform County, City, & School Project Labor Agreements Stop scape-goating public workers and their pensions (teachers, social and health care workers, bus drivers …) Stop the scape-goating of poor, Latino and Black children and youth through the “School –to-Prison Pipeline” (http://www.aclu.org/racial-justice/school-prison-pipeline) Business CAUSE Triple Bottom Line (TBL) Business Network Institute for Social Business at CSUCI California B Corp Shared Values in Action

6. The 100% Transformation Thank You