For Immediate Release
6/20/2023

Banning books, rejecting social sciences curriculum, firing Superintendent
serve extremist agenda, not students.

Riverside, CA – 06/15/23 – Today, the Riverside County Democratic Party (RCDP) , led by Chair Joy Silver, voiced strong support of the actions taken by California Governor Gavin Newsom, Attorney General Rob Bonta, and Superintendent of Education Tony Thurmond against the right-wing extremist majority currently in control of the Temecula Valley Unified School District Board of Education (Board).  This, in response to the Board’s rejection of a social sciences curriculum that not only was recommended by staff and the State Board of Education but also satisfies legislated content for diversity, equity, and inclusion.  Read more.

For Immediate Release
02/14/2023

Riverside, CA— 02/14/2023 — Today, on the 5^th anniversary of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School mass shooting in Parkland, FL, where 17 children were massacred and 17 others injured in the attempt to murder them, we are once again reeling from yet another school shooting.  Read more…

For Immediate Release

01/28/2023

Riverside, CA— 01/28/2023 — Yesterday, on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, two horrific videos, that of the October 2022 attack on Paul Pelosi by a right-wing extremist, and the other the murder of Tyre Nichols at the hands of the Memphis Police, were released to the public. This shows us again what happens when Othering takes place and people are violently hurt or murdered by those who invoke cruelty and call it justice. These latest traumatizing videos of yet another Black man brutalized by the hands of the police, or that of an innocent senior attacked by a hammer-wielding intruder because his wife is an elected leader, serve as a painful reminder of how far we have yet to progress in this country to stem systemic racism, misinformation, and hatred, the same trifecta of terror that leads to unthinkable atrocities like the Holocaust.  Read more…