Antonio Medrano Candidate Statement

Active in Contra Costa County with Immigrant Task Force, Chair of the Citizen Bond Oversight Committee for the West County School District, Co-Chair of the Concilio Latino, Educator's Network of Amnesty International (served on the national board for 5 years).

In Jan of 2007 was part of the "Comision Civil Internacional por Los Derechos Humanos en Oaxaca, Mexico". This international commissiion looked into the abuses that occured in Oaxaca during the final months of 2006. One of only two U.S. reps (the other was Renee Saucedo of the Centro Legal de La Raza. S.F.).

Did workshops in Mexico ( for five years)on Human Rights and Education at three sites (Queretaro, Mexico City and Puebla). At Puebla was the only U.S. presenter at the "Coloquio Internacional de Educacion en Derechos Humanos". .

I also do workshops on Human Rights and Education for teachers and students in the S.F. Bay Area and often out of the state. I am presently doing tenant organizing for Faith Works, Social Justice center in Richmond, Ca,

I'm running as part of a slate dedicated to strengthening and expanding KPFA, and bring civility to its board meetings. Read more about us at concernedlisteners.org

Endorsed by: Mike Casey, President of HERE, Local 2; Tim Paulsen, Executive Sect. Treas. SF CLC; Sharon Comu, Executive Sect. Treas. Alameda CLC; Tho Thi Do, Organizing Director, No. Cal.,UNITE-HERE; Peter Olney, Organizing Director, ILWU International; Cecilia Jarequi, CCISCO organizer; Scott Brown, Public Employees Union, Local 1; Ramon Cardona, Centro Latino Cuzcatlan; Juan Reardon, Richmond Greens; Orlando Ramos, Educator; Sandra Gutierrez, community Activist; Maria Alegria, Mayor, Pinole, Pres. League of Calif. Cities, Latino Caucus; Genoveva Garcia Calloway, Concilio Latino, member San Pablo City Council; Leonard Mc Neil: Director, West County Heal Project, member San Pablo City Council; Betty Brown, East Bay Peace Action; Carolina Garcia, Youth organizar, CCISCO; Wendy Gonzales, Teacher (UTR), community activist; Maria Rivera, Immigrant Task Force, Attorney; Renee Saucedo, Attorney, Centro Legal de La Raza, S.F.; John Marquez: Member Richmond City Council, Concilio Latino; Andres Soto, Alameda County, Violence Prevention Coordinator