"Strengthening Communities One Family at a Time" November is National Adoption Month. Counties and communities across California will promote adoption and permanency awareness through activities and events that bring attention to the needs of the children and youth in foster care throughout the state waiting for families to love and adopt them.  Of the 60,000 children and youth that are in California's foster care system, 25,000 of them are ready to be adopted, and yet the continue to linger in care.  Locally, there are about 1,200 children and youth in the Sacramento region who are waiting to be adopted. National Adoption Day on November 20, 2010 will cap the month-long effort to raise

Sacramento, CA – Equality Action Now, in partnership with the Sacramento Gay and Lesbian Center, Sacramento State Pride Center, Gender Health Center and other local organizations and mental health specialists have organized a candlelight vigil in the parking lot of McMartin Realty, 20th and K Street, Midtown Sacramento between 6:00pm and 7:00pm, Friday, October 8, 2010. The vigil will be held in conjunction with a nation-wide effort to, “Stand Up to Youth Suicide”. Representatives of Equality Action Now and other LGBT organizations and mental health experts will be on hand to help with questions and concerns and to provide the community with resources to fight bullying in Sacramento area

The California Peace Officers Memorial Foundation held a candlelight vigil at the California Peace Officers Memorial Monument across from the Capitol building this evening. Thousands of law-enforcement officers from around the state converged on Sacramento for the 34th annual event. Officers honored were four Oakland Police Department officers killed after a routine traffic stop of parolee Lovelle Mixon on March 21, 2009, erupted into a shootout; Sgt. Mark Dunakin, Sgt. Ervin Romans II, Sgt. Daniel T. Sakai and Officer John R. Hege. Also honored were Sgt. Greg Hernandez of the Tulare County Sheriff's Department, who was killed in a collision with a big rig Feb. 6, 2009, while responding

Sacramento Press already published a story on the tragedy of Laura Ling and Euna Lee, who were arrested by North Korean officials. A candlelight vigil in their honor was held Tuesday night from 7 to 8 p.m. According to the program passed out during the rally "U.S. officials are in contact with Swedish diplomats in North Korea. However, Swedish negotiations for the Americans' release have not yet been confirmed." The following is a photojournal of the vigil: Around 7 p.m. the ceremony commenced with the signing of a poster for good wishes to the Lee and Ling families. Del Campo High School Principal Ms. Vera Vaccaro welcomed the nearly 300 gatherers mostly consisting of students, reti

Imagine having family a member detained against her will in a foreign country for six weeks. That is what is happening to the families of Laura Ling, Sacramento native and Current TV reporter, and Current TV editor Euna Lee, who were both arrested by North Korean officials on March 21. Sacramento's residents and the journalists' supporters are being asked to attend a candlelight vigil at Del Campo High School from 7 to 8 p.m. The vigil is being organized in part by Brendon McShane Creamer, creator of a Facebook group dedicated to Ling and Lee, and in part by Del Campo staff, including English teacher Jim Jordan, who was Ling's honors English teacher during her junior year in Del Campo. T

Hundreds of gays, lesbians and supporters lined the south steps of the State Capitol to recommit to the cause of fighting for equality Wednesday at around 5 p.m. Organized by the nonprofit Equality Action NOW (which also helped organized the larger March 16 rally at the State Capitol), the people were there to tell the world that they want equality, and they want it now. On the eve of the California Supreme Court hearing arguments on the validity of Prop. 8, the state amendment to ban same-sex marriages, the hundreds marched from the State Capitol to the steps of the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts Building. The gathered held signs with slogans such as, “We are never going away,” "God d