COPE meeting tomorrow: Rent forgiveness resources, Noncredit vision, and more
Please join us at our upcoming COPE meeting, Wednesday February 17th 1:30 to 3:00pm at: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87551341568?pwd=bEQwSjVJYVg0S0puRGh0UzR0QkNIZz09.
We will be discussing local and statewide COVID rent and debt relief advocacy, the upcoming forum on the AMT program’s displacement from SFO, and outreach for our non-credit pledge.
- 1:30-2:15: Presentation from Housing Rights Committee on local and statewide rent relief efforts, discussion of possible next steps/future action items
- 2:15-2:35: Community endorsements for non-credit vision statement
- 2:35-2:50: Update on February 26th Aircraft Maintenance Technology forum called by SF Labor Council and SF Supervisor President Shamann Walton
- 2:50-3:00: Announcements & Closing
This is our first monthly COPE meeting at this new time and with Adele Failes-Carpenter serving as the new Political Director. We hope you can make it!
AFT 2121 Nursing faculty organize to take back their department!
AFT 2121 members in CCSF’s Registered Nursing (RN) Department have been dealing with a situation familiar to many of you: their department is under-staffed and the faculty in it are overworked and under-paid.
The Nursing Department is at risk of losing its Board of Registered Nursing accreditation, but the good news is that RN faculty are speaking up on behalf of their program, their students, and their community. Last week, AFT 2121 members in the RN Department delivered a petition signed by nearly the entire department calling on CCSF Leadership and the Board of Trustees to provide the resources needed to maintain CCSF’s reputation as one of the most respected nursing schools in the region.
RN AFT 2121 faculty know how valuable their department is to the entire Bay Area– something the COVID-19 pandemic has made even more clear–so they’re standing up and saying with one voice: CCSF is essential and needs to be saved. And over 1,000 fellow AFT 2121 members are standing with them.
DA votes to Endorse Philippine Human Rights Act: Action tomorrow!
Today the AFT 2121 Delegate Assembly voted unanimously to endorse this Resolution in support of the Philippine Human Rights Act.
Anakbayan-USA and Kabataan Alliance, in partnership with Malaya Movement and the International Coalition for Human Rights in the Philippines, invite you to join an emergency rally to condemn the attacks on indigenous communities in the Philippines. The action will call for the release of the Lumad 26, an end to attacks on Lumad schools, and justice for the Lumad and all land defenders. Speakers from the Philippines will be there to talk about the current situation.
On February 15, 2021, elements of the PNP, AFP, DSWD and paramilitary group Alamara entered Lumad Bakwit school in San Carlos University-Talamban Grounds, Cebu City for what they called a “rescue operation,” but in reality was a raid on the displaced Lumad community. Over 40 Lumad students and teachers were rounded up and removed from their evacuation school centers. Twenty-six remain in custody with the Philippine National Police. The attacks on Lumad have only intensified with the passing of the Anti-Terror Law.
We look forward to rally alongside you all to support our Lumad siblings. #FreeLumad26 #SaveLumadSchools
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