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Save-the-CCC
Press Coverage of Governor's Proposal to Eliminate the CCC
Feb 9, 2009 San Francisco Chronicle - by Peter Fimrite
Conservation Corps in serious fiscal danger
Feb 8, 2009 New York Times - by Malia Wollan
California Work Program for Young Is Threatened
Feb 8, 2009 Miami Sun Sentinel - by Maria Wollan
'Green' jobs program facing closure
Feb 8,2009 International Herald Tribune - by Maria Wollan
California budget cuts hit popular youth conservation corps
Jan 20, 2009 Christian Science Monitor - by Ben Arnoldy
US economic crisis puts youth corps at risk
While Obama urges expanding conservation corps, cash-strapped states such as
California mull cutbacks.
Jan 17, 2009 Eureka Times Standard - Editorial
Save the California Conservation Corps
Jan 15 2009 Los Angeles Times - Opinion by Patt Morrison
California's budget breaking point
Jan 15 2009 Eureka Times-Standard - by John Driscoll and Thadeus Greenson
Locals rally behind Conservation Corps
Jan 15 2009 San Luis Obispo Tribune - by David Sneed
Conservation Corps could disappear
Governor’s proposal cuts agency that employs youths, fights fires and protects
environment
Jan 15 2009 Capitol Weekly - by John Berge
California Conservation Corps: the stuff dreams are made of
Jan 14 2009 Environmental News Network press release by John Griffith
Governor Targets the California Conservation Corps:
To get the budget out of the red, he wants to expel youth from green jobs
Jan 13, 2009 Redding Record Searchlight:
For 'green jobs,' Obama should look to the CCC
Jan 12, 2009 front page San Diego Tribune - by Mike Gardner
State's budget ax threatens corps
Jan 11 front page Redding Record Searchlight - by Kimberly Ross:
California Conservation Corps could disappear in budget cuts
Jan 8 Fresno Bee - by Marek Warszawski
Curtains for the CCC?

Friends of the
Save-the-CCC
Campaign
-- Partial List --
- Paul Carrillo, Chair, Friends of
CCC
- California Conservation Corps
Foundation
- John Van de Kamp, Former
Attorney General, State of CA
- Barbara O'Connor, Ph.D., Director,
Institute of Study of Politics &
Media, CSUS
- Bruce Saito, Director, Los Angeles
Conservation Corps & President,
California Association of Local Corps
- Van Jones, Director, Green-For-All
- Rick Bosetti, Mayor, City of Redding
- Jim Weitkamp, VP, Communication
Workers of America AFL-CIO, Dist.9
- Mark Batenberg, Director, Youth
Serve California
- Ian Kim, Director, Green Collar
Campaign, Ella Baker Center for
Human Rights
- Don Amador, Blue Ribbon Coalition
- Cal Trout
- Brian Stark, Director, Land
Conservancy of San Luis Obispo
- Robert Thrasher, Retired Adjunct
General/Director Military Department
State of California
- Herb Perry, Professor Emeritus
Economics,CSUS & member of
Civilian Conservation Corps
- Rick Hawley, Executive Director,
Green Space Cambria Land Trust
- Bud Sheble, Former Director of the
California Conservation Corps, Gov.
Dukemejian
- Tom Mertens, Board of Directors,
League to Save Lake Tahoe
- Susie Lange, Deputy Superintendent
Department of Education
- Lou Albrecht, CEO San Fransico
WMC Camp
- Bill Wilson, Former Chairman of the
Board, Tahoe-Baikal Institute
- Robert L. (Griff) Griffiths, Co-
Founder, National Association of
Civilian Conservation Corps Alumni
- Dwight Washabaugh, Director,
Sacramento Regional Conservation
Corps
- Robert Hennessy, Director, San
Jose Conservation Corps
- Paul Mclain-Lugowski, Director,
Fresno Local Conservation Corps
- Marilee Eckert, Director,
Conservation Corps North Bay
- Bill Martinez, President, Association
of Conservation Employees
- Robert Moore, former Washington
DC rep, Governor Dukemajianz