Proclamations
Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring Memorial Day
PROCLAMATIONBY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to Americans who have suffered and died in war. The custom of marking this day originated just after the Civil War. To help heal the wounds of war, Americans in all parts of the...
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Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring “Harvey Milk Day”
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued a proclamation declaring May 22, 2013 as "Harvey Milk Day" in the State of California. The text of the proclamation is below:PROCLAMATION As one of the first openly gay politicians to hold office in the United...
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Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring Special Election for 52nd Assembly District
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued a proclamation declaring a special election for the 52nd Assembly District of the State of California on September 24, 2013. The primary for this special election will be held on July 23, 2013. Text of the...
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Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued a proclamation declaring May 2013 as “Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month” in the State of California. In an ongoing effort to strengthen California's economic and cultural ties to Asia and the Pacific Rim,...
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Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring Korea-California Friendship Day
LOS ANGELES - In a meeting today with South Korean President Park Geun-hye, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. presented a proclamation declaring May 9, 2013 as “Korea-California Friendship Day” in the State of California. The full text of the proclamation is...
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Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring Wildfire Awareness Week
SACRAMENTO - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today issued a proclamation declaring May 5-11, 2013 as "Wildfire Awareness Week" in the State of California. With one of the state's earliest fire seasons on record underway, Governor Brown also joined fire and emergency...
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Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring a “Day of Prayer”
PROCLAMATIONBY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA Each year, in accordance with Public Law 100-307, the President proclaims the first Thursday in May as a National Day of Prayer. A National Day of Prayer is an occasion for each of us to reflect more deeply on the...
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Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring Workers Memorial Day
PROCLAMATION The workers who grow our food, catch our fish, transport our goods, maintain our roads and extract raw materials from the earth risk their lives every day. While we fittingly set aside a number of special days each year to honor those who have fallen...
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Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring A Day of Remembrance of the Armenian Genocide
PROCLAMATION Between 1915 and 1923, Armenians were subjected to torture, starvation, mass murder and exile from their historic homeland. 1.5 million lost their lives. The Armenian Genocide, also known as the “First Genocide of the Twentieth Century,” represented a...
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Governor Brown Issues Proclamation Declaring Earth Day
PROCLAMATIONBY THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA In 1992, some 1,700 of the world’s leading scientists, including the majority of Nobel laureates in the sciences, signed the following Warning to Humanity about the critical challenges facing the world’s...
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