On November 8, 1994, 59 percent of California voters approve Proposition 187, banning undocumented immigrants from using the state’s major public services. Despite its wide margin of victory, the ballot measure never takes effect.

In 1994, California, the home of Presidents Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, was not yet the Democratic stronghold many now consider it to be. A popular destination for immigrants from both Latin America and Asia, its demographics changed dramatically in the second half of the century, but neither Republicans nor Democrats won a decisive share of these newcomers’ votes. That would change after a group of Republican activists and state-level legislators, responding to the state’s economic slump and the presence of over a million undocumented immigrants, decided to launch the campaign for what became Prop 187.

In the name of saving taxpayer money, the proposition prohibited the undocumented from accessing basic public services such as non-emergency health care and both primary and secondary education. It also required public servants like medical professionals and teachers to monitor and report on the immigration status of those under their charge.

Although public support was high from the start, the threat of barring over a million California residents from basic public services stirred up vocal opposition. As Republican Governor Pete Wilson’s campaign used the threat of immigration in an attempt to scare voters, 70,000 people marched against 187 in downtown Los Angeles, and 10,000 public school students walked out of class on November 2, just days before the vote. The measure’s passage on November 8 was an entirely symbolic and short-lived victory for conservatives.

Within a week, a legal challenge had prevented the new law from taking effect—it was held up in the appeals process until 1999, when a Democratic governor dropped the state’s appeal. Studies have since shown that Proposition 187 played a key role in galvanizing immigrants’ rights activists and pushing Latinx and Asian voters away from the California Republican Party. Over the next decade, 66 percent of newly-registered California voters were Latinx and another 23 percent were Asian. In the same period, Republicans went from holding roughly half of elected offices in the state to less than a quarter. California has since formally repealed Prop 187 and enacted some of the United States’ most sweeping protections for the undocumented.

Source: history.com

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Article TitleProposition 187 is approved in CaliforniaAuthorHistory.com EditorsWebsite NameHISTORYURLhttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/anti-immigrant-prop-187-approved-in-californiaDate AccessedNovember 8, 2023PublisherA&E Television NetworksLast UpdatedOctober 29, 2020Original Published DateSeptember 16, 2020

Nov 7, 2023, the Headlines are: Salmon returns to Alaska’s Bristol Bay are expected to drop to more normal levels next year ! Second Annual Bristol Bay Salmon Week to Take Place at Nearly 50 Restaurants Throughout Puget Sound !

Read what was about to happen and a 2023 update!

bing AI reports:

The Pebble Mine project in Bristol Bay, Alaska has been a controversial topic for over a decade. The proposed open-pit copper and gold mine would have destroyed nearly 3,500 acres of wetlands, lakes, and ponds and 81 miles of salmon streams¹. The mine would have put in jeopardy thousands of American jobs, a cultural tradition of subsistence dating back 10,000 years, and a robust sport-fishing and tourism economy¹. The world’s greatest sockeye salmon run would have been directly impacted¹.

However, in January 2023, following a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers decision to deny a key permit for the mine, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released a final determination that protects Bristol Bay waters from becoming a dumping ground for mine waste¹. The EPA cited its authority under Section 404 © of the Clean Water Act in banning mine disposal in the salmon-filled waters¹.

The Pebble Mine project would have had a significant impact on the local economy, both positively and negatively. The Pebble Partnership claims that the mine would have created jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities for the region². However, the mine would have also put at risk the livelihoods of those who depend on the salmon industry for their income¹. Source: bing AI

In 2017, The Trump administration is paving the way for the dangerous Pebble Mine—a proposed open-pit, gold and copper mega-mine that would spell disaster for Alaska’s spectacular Bristol Bay wilderness and its world-renowned salmon runs, abundant wildlife, and Native communities.

We need your immediate help to stop this catastrophe-in-the-making before it’s too late.

Take action now: Help stop the Trump administration’s toxic mega-mine and save Bristol Bay from destruction.

More than 65 percent of Alaskans, 80 percent of Bristol Bay residents and Native communities, and 85 percent of commercial fishermen oppose the mine. Why? Because the Bristol Bay watershed:

• Supplies nearly half the world’s sockeye salmon
• Generates $1.5 billion annually, making it the most valuable wild salmon fishery in the world
• Supports 14,000 jobs, including commercial fishers, world-class sports fishers, and Alaska Natives
• Is a beloved tourism spot for individuals and families every summer
• Sustains the culture and traditions of Alaska Natives, including the Yup’ik and Denai’na, two of the last intact, sustainable, salmon-based cultures in the world

After a hard-fought campaign by NRDC and our supporters, along with Alaska Native communities, Bristol Bay residents, commercial fishermen, sportsmen, scientists, and others, the Obama administration proposed common-sense restrictions on this destructive mining scheme because of the obvious environmental risks it would pose.

But Trump’s EPA recently reached a backroom deal with Northern Dynasty Minerals — the Canadian company behind the mine — to reverse those restrictions. It’s a handout to the mining industry at the expense of one of America’s last wild places and its people.

The EPA is accepting public comments until October 17 on its plan to resuscitate the disastrous Pebble Mine.

Tell President Trump and the EPA that the Pebble Mine has NO PLACE in Alaska!
The Pebble Mine — which would produce 10 billion tons of mining waste—jeopardizes all of that. It would turn this unspoiled wilderness into a toxic wasteland for decades to come.

Tell Trump and the EPA that you’re outraged — and you’ll fight this administration every step of the way to slam the door on the Pebble Mine for good.

We must Never forget what trump was about to do!

Colorado women won the right to vote in the general election of November 7, 1893.     Denver Post file photo. Colorado women at the polls in 1894 after winning the right to vote in the 1893 general election.

Two massive campaigns prior to this ended in failure at the polls, even though the second election in 1877 was backed by such notables as John Evans, N.C. Meeker and Benjamin Eaton.
Through continued efforts, a bill placing women’s suffrage on the ballot for 1893’s general election was presented by Representative John Heath. The bill passed both houses and was signed by Governor Davis Waite.

The suffragettes opened campaign headquarters in the Tabor Grand Opera House in rooms donated by Baby Doe Tabor. The state was flooded with literature and the press and political parties backed the movement.
On November 7, the Colorado male electorate voted yes on women’s suffrage. The election returns were 35,698 votes for and 29,461 against.

Mrs. John L. Routt, the wife of the first state governor, was the first woman to register to vote.

Resource: denverpost.com

On this day in 1962, the United Nations General Assembly adopts a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calling on all its members to end economic and military relations with the country. In effect from 1948 to 1993, apartheid, which comes from the Afrikaans word for… read more »

In Minnesota, more than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of raping and murdering Anglo settlers and are sentenced to hang.

A month later, President Abraham Lincoln commuted all but 39 of the death sentences. One of the Native Americans was granted a last-minute reprieve, but the other 38 were hanged simultaneously on December 26 in a mass execution witnessed by a large crowd of Minnesotans.

The Santee Sioux were found guilty of joining in the so-called “Minnesota Uprising,” which was actually part of the wider Indian wars that occurred throughout the West during the second half of the nineteenth century.

For nearly half a century, Anglo settlers invaded the Santee Sioux territory in the Minnesota Valley, and government pressure gradually forced the Native peoples to relocate to smaller reservations along the Minnesota River.

At the reservations, the Santee were badly mistreated by corrupt federal Indian agents and contractors; during July 1862, the agents pushed the Native Americans to the brink of starvation by refusing to distribute stores of food because they had not yet received their customary kickback payments. The contractors callously ignored the Santee’s pleas for help.

Outraged and at the limits of their endurance, the Santee struck back, killing Anglo settlers and taking women as hostages. The initial efforts of the U.S. Army to stop the Santee warriors failed, and in a battle at Birch Coulee, Santee Sioux killed 13 American soldiers and wounded another 47 soldiers. However, on September 23, a force under the leadership of General Henry H. Sibley finally defeated the main body of Santee warriors at Wood Lake, recovering many of the hostages and forcing most of the Native Americans to surrender. 

The subsequent trials of the prisoners gave little attention to the injustices the Native Americans had suffered on the reservations and largely catered to the popular desire for revenge. However, President Lincoln’s commutation of the majority of the death sentences clearly reflected his understanding that the Minnesota Uprising had been rooted in a long history of Anglo abuse of the Santee Sioux.

Ask yourself, what would be your response?

Don’t get it twisted… Abe’s momentary reflection of the abuse of Native Americans by “Anglo” people didn’t reduce the number of deaths on either side then or in the future, frankly. History, on this Heritage Month day.

The info is only as good as the facts and we have no idea if that video above is…

please correct the narrator if you can

-Nativegrl