Kersten Communications

Published on California Progress Report (http://www.californiaprogressreport.com/site)

Created 08/18/2010 – 12:42pm

By David Kersten

California’s 32-year failed experiment with minority rule has proven the principal of majority rule is essential to the efficient and effective functioning of the California State Legislature.  

Majority rule is a fundamental principal embodied by the United States Constitution, but something that has been hijacked by the initiative process in California to… Read More...

Kersten Communications (KC) has completed a brief report, titled “Two Schools of Academic Thought Emerge on How to Break Budget Gridlock in Sacramento,” which examines the opinions of experts at the state’s premier universities on how to break out of the budget gridlock in Sacramento.  To view the report click here.   

Another KC report, titled “Statewide Protests Target Chase Bank and Wall Street Firms, Summary Report

With the state and local governments facing large budget deficits, a group of community activists and labor and education leaders staged a series of protests on August 10 to deliver a giant $17 billion bill itemizing the ways Wall Street banks are shortchanging California residents and state and local governments. 

The organizers released a report titled, “Wake Up Wall Street: While Californians Must Choose Between Education and Public

Protesters gather outside Chase bank in Watsonville in an SEIU-sponsored demonstration against the bank’s loan policies Tuesday. (Dan Coyro/Sentinel)

WATSONVILLE – Frustration with the banking industry became so… Read More...

Robert Selna, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Community and labor organizations demanded Tuesday that banks and private equity firms pay California counties millions in overdue real estate taxes related to corporate acquisitions stemming from the economic crisis.

During a protest Tuesday afternoon at JPMorgan Chase’s offices at 560 Mission St. in San Francisco, members of the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, the Service… Read More...

DEMONSTRATION: State is owed $19 billion for their actions, officials say.

With the state facing a $19 billion budget shortfall, community activists and labor and education leaders will gather today outside a major bank in downtown Los Angeles to deliver a… Read More...