Stop Discriminatory ACA-5! - Silicon Valley Chinese Association

Time to Call Legislators to Stop Discriminatory ACA-5

6/17: New Action Items from NoACA5.org!!!

ACA-5: Senate Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement hearing (Watch online: https://www.senate.ca.gov/media/senate-tv1/video?id=182518 )

Call-in information:
Time: Wednesday, June 17th 9:00am
Participant Phone Number: 844-291-6364

Participant Access Code: 7466103 (once connected, press 10 to get into queue of speakers)

☎️Sample:
I am xxx, from [city], I represent xxx [community/org] xxx people. We strongly oppose to ACA5 bill. Because:(pick one below)

1.ACA5 will divide Californians into unequal sub-groups and increase conflict among different races.

2.Preferential policy such as ACA5 patronizes people by presuming that they cannot succeed on their own.

3.ACA5 is the attempt to restore systemic discrimination in California, it is moving backwards.

4.Any policy based on preferential or quotas is wrong -wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

5.ACA5 is for racial discrimination against better-qualified people in jobs, employment, promotions and college admittance so it hurts independence of persons and will eventually hurt everyone.

What Can You do to Fight This Racist Bill ACA-5?

Step 1: Sign This Petition Please We are now over 125k !

Step 2: Follow Twitter Handle: @ECalifornians

Step 3: Like Our Facebook Page: No ACA5

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What is ACA-5?

The California Constitution, pursuant to provisions enacted by the initiative Proposition 209 in 1996, prohibits the state from discriminating against, or granting preferential treatment to, any individual or group on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in the operation of public employment, public education, or public contracting. The California Constitution defines the state for these purposes to include the state, any city, county, public university system, community college district, school district, special district, or any other political subdivision or governmental instrumentality of, or within, the state.

The present ACA5 is the 5th amendment to the Constitution initiated by the House of Representatives in California. It was initiated by Sherley Weber, a democratic representative in San Diego, who proposed that California Proposition 209 be repealed by a referendum in 2020. Its predecessor, SCA5, was the 5th amendment to the Constitution of California proposed in the California Senate (Senate Constitutional Amendment) in 2012, aiming to delete any references to “public education” in the Proposition 209. By doing so, it essentially asked public universities to consider such factors as race, gender and ethnicity in their admission operations. That is to say, schools and universities in California may adopt a race-based admission policy in the future. This amendment was rejected with the joint efforts of many organizations and individuals.