One Thousand March Against City Budget CutsDoug Jastrowbyline‚ Mar. 27‚ 2009Before they began their march down Market Street, organizers of yesterday’s Big Ass March to Save City Services and Jobs greeted everyone who approached them, from curious on-lookers to fellow SEIU union members, with the same welcoming phrase: “You’re in the right place, at the right time.” Yet those who provide city-funded services to the homeless, elderly and disabled – as well as those who depend on these services – fear they are being told the exact opposite by city budget officials in the Newsom Administration: “wrong place, wrong time.” |