Equality Alliance San Diego

Welcome

Thank you for participating in the All People's Breakast
The Equality Alliance is honored to have hosted this event celebrating the legacy of Dr. King. We are grateful to our keynote speaker, performers, funding partners, community partners, and volunteers for making it possible. We thank the 1,200 who attended and the many more who watched from home.

If you missed the event or want to see it again, we invite you to visit the Equality Alliance You Tube Channel where you can watch our keynote speaker, view the digital stories of local heros, and see some of the amazing performances by acclaimed local artists. You can also check out the souvenir program and media coverage.

Dr. King's legacy lives on in all of us. Working together we shall overcome intolerance and injustice. You can learn more about what the Equality Alliance is doing to achieve that goal by exploring our websites. As always we welcome your support and invite you to stay in touch.

The Equality Alliance is ...

A community empowerment organization focused on voter engagement, issue advocacy, and leadership development.

Our goal is to mobilize marginalized and disenfranchised communities in San Diego to engage in the electoral process, drive a social justice agenda, and bring about transformative change that fulfills a vision of equality.

We are currently fighting for ...
educational equity in our schools
humane treatment of immigrants
fair tax and fiscal policies
Did You Know ...
San Diego County has the second largest number of eligible voters in California.
While the electorate has grown more diverse, voter participation rates are less in low-income communities and communities of color.
Although there are 1.4 million registered voters in the county, about 850,000 of them (61%) don't vote regularly.
The Equality Alliance is changing voter participation rates through a peer-to-peer model, reaching out to thousands of infrequent voters during and between elections.
In the last election (Nov 2010), we reached out to 13,000 infrequent voters who turned out at higher rates (71%) than all county voters (64%).
Read our reports to learn more.

What's New

Pulitzer Prize Winner to Keynote All Peoples Breakfast The Equality Alliance and All Peoples Breakfast Dream Team are thrilled to announce that Jose Antonio Vargas will deliver the keynote speech at the 24th annual event celebrating the living legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.Mr. Vargas is an award-winning multimedia journalist and is the founder of Define American, a new campaign that seeks to elevate the conversation around immigration. He's been a journalist for over a decade, writing for some of the most prestigious news organizations in the country. Most recently, he was a senior contributing editor at the Huffington Post, where he launched the Technology and College sections. Prior to that, he covered tech and video game culture, HIV/AIDS, and the 2008 presidential ...
Posted Jan 10, 2012 10:26 AM by Andrea Guerrero
Education Victory in Sweetwater District This week, the Equality Alliance and our education allies celebrated a major victory! Over the last several years, the Equality Alliance has led a coalition effort to get school districts in the county to provide all students with the career and college prep curriculum known as the "A-G" course sequence. The A-G courses are rigorous courses that prepare students to pursue a degree at a community college or a university, which 7 out of 10 jobs now require. Currently, only 4 out 10 high school graduates in the county complete the 15 courses that make up the A-G sequence, and access to the courses varies significantly among high schools. But that is changing. On Monday, the Sweetwater ...
Posted Oct 21, 2011 10:08 AM by Andrea Guerrero
Save the Date - All Peoples Breakfast Jan 16th Mark your calendar for the 24th annual All People Breakfast celebrating the living legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. This year, the event will be held at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront hotel on Monday, January 16th, beginning at 7:30 a.m., and will feature Pulitzer Prize winner Jose Antonio Vargas as the keynote speaker. Click here for more information about the event. Registration is now open. Click here to purchase tickets. Individual tickets are $40. A table of ten tickets is $400.
Posted Nov 3, 2011 12:26 PM by Andrea Guerrero

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Volunteer Opportunity

Are you worried about the budget crisis and what it means for our families and our future?

Here's how you can help. The Equality Alliance is requesting volunteers to match our team of 20 to walk door-to-door in the mid-city area to gauge voter support for a top-tier tax. We are doing this in conjunction with our partners across the state in the California Calls network to talk to hundreds of thousands of voters over the next several weeks.

Can you volunteer on one of these days?

Saturday, Oct 29th, 9 am - 2 pm
Saturday, Nov 5th, 9 am - 2 pm

Volunteers will be put in teams of 2, will receive a brief training, and will gain valuable experience engaging other voters on possible solutions to our current budget crisis.

Please RSVP to chris@equalitysandiego.org.
In appreciation, we will give all volunteers a T-shirt and provide snacks and lunch.
Meet at the Equality Alliance: 3750 30th Street, San Diego, 92104.
Please be on time. Thanks!

If you can't volunteer, here's how else you can help:

If you're not able to join us this weekend but still want to help, we invite you to make a donation to support this work. You can make a secure online donation today by clicking here.
Posted Oct 19, 2011 4:59 PM by Andrea Guerrero

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