At a Women's Rights Day campaign event on August 27, this demand met with applause, especially from young people of color, who feel the heat of officials' anti-gang fever. An ex-gang member in the audience offered to organize a meeting between Sunde and women in gangs to discuss working together to defend the civil liberties of young people. Sunde is outspoken in protesting the mass injunctions that are being served against all those even suspected of associating with a gang. Threatened with arrest on sight, they are forced to spend their days inside, in cramped slum apartments, in the middle of a sweltering heat wave. Police can't reduce gangs and assaults.
Poverty is the cause.
Sunde also advocates restoring overtime pay and the eight-hour day, tightening and enforcing job safety rules, and ending unionbusting. She calls for repeal of the citizenship requirement for voting, of the recent state ban on bilingual education, and of propositions that have gutted affirmative action and curtailed the rights of undocumented workers and other immigrants. Nearly halfway through the filing period, election officials told him he would have to submit quadruple the number of signatures originally stipulated - without a deadline extension. Volunteers gathered nearly 1,000 names. The position is non-partisan, so Montoya, a gay Chicano architectural assistant, won't be identified as a Freedom Socialist candidate on the ballot.