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Floreria Mario

Flowers for weddings, quinceneras, birthdays, and gifts

444 Manhattan Way

Los Angeles, CA

90020

(2130389-4811

Petition to Legalize Marijuana

Petition to Legalize Marijuana as well as other initiatives.

You can make some bank. Just let people know it's a hustle and you don't believe in reforming the system :)

Call Kyra at 562-449-6715

Friday the 13th Show: Boom Boom Kid at the KIWA Cultural Center

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SAJE Hiring Tenant Organizers

October 8, 2009,

Dear Joaquin,

SAJE is looking for two tenant organizers to work on our UNIDAD and anti-slum campaigns. Please circulate our job posting to your networks for this exciting opportunity to be a part of the vibrant grass roots organizating movements in Los Angeles.

SAJE is an economic justice and popular education center dedicated to building economic power for working class people in Los Angeles since 1996. SAJE’s combination of grassroots community organizing, coalition building, and policy initiatives have gained significant benefits for the mostly working class Latino immigrant and African American community of South Los Angeles .

Summary:

SAJE is looking to hire two (2) tenant rights organizers to work on our goals to reform redevelopment, improve tenant rights, criminalize slumlord business practices and expand people’s claim to land. Organizers will work on one of our two campaigns: UNIDAD, which aims to create and organize around a people’s plan as an alternative to the city and USC’s development plan; and our anti-slum campaign, which is targeting the largest and most egregious slumlords in South LA. Positions are full time.

Responsibilities:

• Identify tenant issues with community members and develop their leadership capacity
• Develop and implement organizing and political strategies for:
• Community outreach efforts (Doorknocking, house visits and flyering)
• Political delegations, campaign actions and community meetings
• Activating community members into SAJE campaigns and projects
• Growth in SAJE membership
• Use and produce popular education methods and materials
• Prepare, plan and lead tenant meetings
• Monitor public agency and official actions, major current events, and private development activities that may impact low-income tenants in the Figueroa Corridor
• Help maintain database and building information
• Available to work on nights and weekends

Qualifications:

• Tenant or worker organizer experience preferred
• Bilingual in English and Spanish
• Ability to work both in a team and independently
• Ability to work with multiple audiences such as tenants, churches, unions, community-based organizations and political offices
• Belief in social justice work that empowers communities
• Ability to gain trust, motivate and activate community members
• Capacity to explain complex information and issues in a manner that is easy to understand, and create popular education materials
• Proficiency in word processing, spreadsheets, and databases
• Desktop publishing a plus
• Organized and detail oriented

Salary and Benefits:

Salary starts at $32,000. SAJE has an excellent benefits package and generous vacation policy.

How to Apply:

Send resume and cover letter to Albert Lowe at 152 W 32^nd Street , Los Angeles, CA 90007 or opportunities@saje.net

Positions open until filled.

Sheet Metal Apprentice

Please have any referrals contact Alicia Wenker @ 626-960-3964 ext. 2291. They must go through Alicia!

LA Works Youth Programs

We are now ready (I hope) to start taking applicants who would like a career as a Sheet Metal Worker. The work is hard, dirty, requires traveling to different sites (carpooling may be possible), working with different people of all trades, working in high altitudes when needed and other trade skills. The best candidates will need to have a passion to make this a long term commitment as a trade occupation.

Upside to this line of work:

1. You can learn other trades along with Sheet Metal training that makes you more marketable and provide you with work outside of sheet metal industry (HVAC repair, design, electrical----all part and included in the training)

2. You start at $19.83 ( but average out to $26.79 when you consider benefit package). At the end of your five years apprenticeship you can make $45.16 including benefits and up to $60 as journeyman.

3. Five year training can earn you your AA degree upon completion.

4. Criminal Background (not an issue with a few exceptions) and not having a High School or GED certificate is not a problem.

5. You can work indoors, not just outdoors.

6. You can earn several certifications during your apprenticeship

7. Union Representation (Union dues are about $45 month)

8. Over 140 contractors waiting for eager apprentices

9. Excellent Benefits

10. Will work 9 days, and attend school (mandatory) on the 10^th day.

Lance, our contact has asked that everyone go through me as he only wants one point of contact and that is the agreement that Sal, our CEO, signed off on.

I need to refer candidates that have been screened, tested and have filled out their application. I will be providing a referral to those candidates to ensure that LA Works get’s proper credit and we can document our placements. Your referrals (ETS’s) are YOUR placements so lets work together on getting those placements. I have attached some sample tests (not the actual ones) for you to prepare your clients. For those that are registered, our current assessments may be able to determine if they will pass their testing successfully—only those that do pass should be referred.

LA Works will hold recruitments for them by doing outreach to the following counties: Los Angeles, Riverside, San Bernardino and Orange.

I am planning on setting aside Fridays for this process, and will start promptly at 10:30 am so we can get everything done by 1pm. A WIA registration will be completed by those not already registered—I have a few coming in tomorrow, but plan to be up and running by next Friday.

Please screen your referrals based on the above criteria, as they don’t want us to refer just anyone.. They want candidates that plan on making this a career choice—not a survival job.

Some Jobs Hiring Since September

If you're looking for work and have what it takes, here are 10 companies hiring in September:

1. HYPERLINK "http://msn.careerbuilder.com/Jobs/Company/C8B82L6CR2GZRXN5M6Q/Aarons-Inc-Jobs/" Aaron's Inc
Industry: Retail (sales and lease)
Number of openings: 270
Sample job titles: Manager trainees, retail salespeople, customer service representatives, general managers, delivery drivers
Location: Nationwide

2. HYPERLINK "http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobs/company/caci/" CACI International Inc
Industry: Information technology
Number of openings: 2,770
Sample job titles: Software developers, systems analysts, intelligence analysts, network engineers, software engineers, logistics analysts*
Location: Nationwide (including Virginia, Maryland and Washington DC)

3. HYPERLINK "http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobs/company/Farmers+Insurance/" Farmers Insurance
Industry: Insurance (agency development)
Number of openings: 250
Sample job titles: Agency producers, customer service representatives, agents and reserve field managers
Location: Nationwide

4. HYPERLINK "http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobs/company/H+R+block/" H&R Block
Industry: Finance, tax services
Number of openings: 500
Sample job titles: Tax professionals
Tax professional Location:Nationwide (including Texas)

5. HYPERLINK "http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobs/keyword/iasis/" IASIS
Industry: Health care (hospitals and physician practices)
Number of openings:120
Sample job titles: Registered nurses, LPN, LVN, department directors
Location: Arizona, Florida, Louisiana, Las Vegas, Texas,Utah

6. HYPERLINK "http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobs/company/John+Thomas+Financial/" John Thomas Financial
Industry: Financial Services Industry
Number of openings: 500
Sample job titles: Financial advisers
Location: New York

7. HYPERLINK "http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobs/company/Liberty+Tax+Service/" Liberty Tax Service
Industry: Tax preparation
Number of openings: 1,500
Sample job titles: Tax preparers, customer service, bi-lingual tax preparers, marketing managers, franchise owners
Location: Nationwide

8. Randstad US companies: HYPERLINK "http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobs/company/accountants+international/" Accountants International, HYPERLINK "http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobs/company/think+energy/" Think Resources, HYPERLINK "http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobs/company/sapphire/" Sapphire Technologies
Industry: Accounting, finance, engineering, information technology**
Number of openings: 2,300
Sample job titles: Finance managers, senior accountants, directors of wind turbine services, VP of engineering, IT project managers, database developers
Location: Nationwide (including California, Texas, Florida)

9. HYPERLINK "http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobs/company/Sodexo/" Sodexo
Industry: Food and integrated facilities management
Number of openings: 800
Sample job titles: Facility engineers, housekeeping managers, executive chefs, food service managers, general managers, clinical dietitians, clinical nutrition managers
Location: Nationwide

10. HYPERLINK "http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobs/company/Spherion/" Spherion
Industry: Various**
Number of openings: 650
Sample job titles: Customer service, administrative, accounting and finance, technology
Location: Nationwide

*Candidates should have active government security clearances.
**Recruiting and staffing firms are looking to fill positions on behalf of other employers across the country and in a variety of fields.

Idealist Grad-School Fair in L.A. on October 19

From Idealist.org with a quick reminder about our
Graduate School Fair on Monday, October 19, from 5:00 to 8:00 PM, at
the Kyoto Grand Hotel, 120 South Los Angeles Street, in Los Angeles.

If you, or anyone you know, are thinking of going to grad-school next
year, this fair is a great place to meet with representatives from 120
graduate programs in fields such as Nonprofit Management, Education,
Social Work, Global Health, International Affairs, Law, Business,
Public Policy, Urban Planning, and more.

For more information and to register (it's free but we need to know
how many people will be there), please go to this link and click on
Registration on the top right-hand side of the page:

http://bit.ly/K4fWd

Please share this message with friends and colleagues at work, on
Facebook and Twitter, and on any relevant mailing lists and networks.

Thank you, and we look forward to seeing you there!

Jeremy MacKechnie
http://www.idealist.org/gradfairs