That’s right! Since the June primary, we have increased our outreach more than 10-fold!!
Stay informed with your official young voter guide from East Bay Young Democrats! Download the pdf slate card!
Don’t forget to vote on Tuesday, November 2, 2010!!
Help us capitalize on our increasing success and donate today to help us send out these important voter guide.
Join EBYD, Cal Berkeley Democrats, East Bay Stonewall Democrats and Mix it Up: East Bay for THE candidate forum of the year!
This will be THE candidate forum to go to in the East Bay for to meet the candidates for the most competitive races in Oakland, Berkeley, and beyond.
More details about invitees will follow soon, but save the date. You can bet that candidates for Oakland Mayor and City Council, and Berkeley City Council will be there, just for starters.
Read the candidate’s questionnaires here!!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
7pm-10pm
UC Berkeley Campus
Genetics & Plants Biology Building, Room 100
(Near Oxford St. & Berkeley Way)
Take transit!
Take BART and get off at the Downtown Berkeley station. Walk Up Center St. towards the campus. Enter the campus via the “Main Entrance”. The GPB Building is adjacent to the new building currently under construction.
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East Bay Young Dems is elated to honor Assemblymember Nancy Skinner as the recipient of EBYD’s “Elected Official of the Year” Award and Nwamaka “Amaka” Agbo with our Kick-Ass Youth Advocate Award at our annual gala. Join us for celebration, food, and drinks at Soja Studio, a beautiful, remodeled yoga studio in the Jack London Square neighborhood.
The EBYD Gala will be held on Wednesday, July 28th at 7:00pm at Soja Studio, 550 2nd Street in Oakland. Please join us in honoring Assemblywoman Skinner and Nwamaka “Amaka” Agbo by purchasing a ticket or sponsorship. Proceeds will help us continue to engage young people into the political scene. We need your help to do this! If you are not a current dues paying member of EBYD or need to renew your membership, please take advantage of our discount for purchase of a ticket and membership; a savings of $10!
Individual Tickets
Member – $30.00
Non-Member – $35.00
Ticket & Membership – $50.00
Sponsorships
Advocate (includes 2 tickets) – $100.00
Mover ‘n Shaker (includes 3 tickets) – $250.00
Leader (includes 4 tickets) – $500.00
Champion (includes 7 tickets) – $1,000.00
Show your support today by purchasing a ticket online!
To purchase a ticket, click here
Special thanks to our event co-hosts!
Leaders:
Hon. Don Perata, Hon. Jesse Arreguin, UFCW Local 5
Mover n’ Shakers:
APA Democratic Caucus of Alameda County, Hon. Joan Buchanan, Hon. Abel J. Guillen, Cal Dems, Hon. Rebecca Kaplan, Andy Kelley, National Women’s Political Caucus-Alameda North, Oaksterdam University, Jennifer Ong, Hon. Courtney Ruby, Libby Schaaf, Melanie Shelby, Hon. Betty Yee
Advocates:
Hon. Sandre Swanson, George Beier, Rob Bonta, Hon. Keith Carson, ClearChannel Outdoor, Josh Daniels, Amy DeReyes, Sean Dugar, Hon. Elizabeth Echols, Frieda K. Edgette, Richard Fuentes, Ipsheeta Furtado, Hon. Loni Hancock, Hon. Ann-Marie Hogan, Hon. Edie Irons, Kiran Jain, Hon. Andy Katz, Hon. Royce Kelley, Vicky Kolakowski, Hon. Marlon McWilson, Elsa Ortiz, Shilen Patel, Rena Rickles, Hon. Joaquin Rivera, Hon. Ces Rosales, Rebecca Saltzman, Hon. Tim Sbranti, Esperanza Tervalon-Daumont, Hon. Tony Thurmond, Hon. Igor Tregub, Hon. Kriss Worthington, Hon. Joel Young
East Bay Young Dems’ trajectory has been as explosive on East Bay politics as that of our generation on the national scene. As the premier organization dedicated to engaging young working people in Alameda County into Democratic politics, we meet young people where they are and speak to them in a language that’s authentic. In the coming year, we seek to further refine and professionalize our club, focus our political capacity toward real budget reform, and diversify our membership base. We are strengthening our foundation and relationships for a more sustainable and inclusive tomorrow.
For more up to date information, please visit or Annual Gala page!
Join East Bay Young Dems in supporting Close The Loophole on Tuesday, July 27 at Laney College! This should be a great event for anyone interested in trying to reverse the problems of Prop 13!
I have exciting news to share with you.
In the past, the East Bay Young Democrats have put in substantial work for our endorsed candidates. We’ve spent countless hours phoning and walking, educating voters, and getting out the vote.
This year, for the first time in our club’s history, EBYD will be educating voters in another way – we are mailing our voter guide to more than 3,000 young Democrats in the East Bay.
Please donate today to help us send out this important voter guide.
The EBYD voter guide is particularly important for the June 8th election, as many voters know little about the candidates and issues that are on the ballot. With instant runoff voting being implemented in November, some people don’t even know there is an election in June!
Local races could be decided by just a few hundred or a few thousand votes so this mailer could push our endorsed candidates to victory.
We plan to expand our mailing universe for the November election, but we need your financial support to do so. Please donate to help us educate young Democrats!
Please share our voter guide with your East Bay friends, and remember to vote on June 8th!
This year, Oakland will host its First Annual Pride Festival since 2004. Oakland has the third-highest concentration of LGBT people in the nation, only behind San Francisco and Seattle. So why shouldn’t we have our own Pride? There is a lot to be proud of in the East Bay, such as great weather with REAL seasons (i.e. Summer?).
Oakland Pride, Inc. (the business behind the festival) recieved a donation from the Port of Oakland in the form of 4,000 square foot office space in Jack London Square. With only a few months to go, fundraising and last minute organizing has been in full swing to make this first festival one to remember and bring hope to continued festivals in the future.
Oakland Pride is also serving as the vanguard of a full-fledged fundraising effort to create the first All-Inclusive LGBT Community Center in Oakland in collaboration with City Councilmember, Rebecca Kaplan, the council’s only openly gay member.
The festival will be held on Sunday, September 5, 2010 at 21st Street & Franklin in Uptown Oakland. Everyone is encouraged to attend to celebrate the diversity of our city and promote equality. There will be a sliding scale donation to enter the festival, facilitated by the Sister’s of Perpetual Indulgence (The same sassy sisters who bring us “Pink Party” at SF Pride!) I strongly encourage our members and supporters to attend and enjoy all that the festival promises to offer!
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Visit the festival’s official website at www.oaklandpride.org.
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Woot! We are excited because President Obama is in town on a two-day trip to the Bay Area. Yesterday, Obama lent a boost to Sen. Barbara Boxer, who is in a tight re-election campaign., speaking at a fundraiser at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco. You can watch KTVU’s report from that event here.
At one point during his speech, Obama was interrupted by a heckler who demanded Obama move faster on repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. Obama replied by saying that the man probably didn’t read the morning paper.
On Wednesday, Obama will promote green jobs at the solar panel manufacturing plant, Solyndra, Inc., in Fremont. His visit also comes after the announcement that Tesla Motors, Inc. and Toyota teamed up and will re-open the NUMMI plant to build Tesla’s electric cars. All very good news to the East Bay and we are happy to have POTUS highlighting the accomplishments. We need to keep up our momentum as a hub for green technology and green jobs in cities like Oakland. Watch his speech below:
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Live in Fremont or other city in South Alameda County? Interested in getting more involved with Young Democrats? Please visit our sister organization, South County Young Democrats!