Depts Joined Huge Mobilization for City College on Saturday- Now, It’s Your Turn!

Math, Ethnic Studies & Social Justice, and the Business Department joined a massive community mobilization on Saturday in Balboa Park for Prop O & CCSF Trustee candidates Vick Chung, Anita Martinez, Susan Solomon, and Adolfo Velasquez. Thank you Coleman Advocates, SF Rising, & SF DSA for making Saturday’s mobilization a success. Your next mobilization is this Saturday, Oct 1, at 11am in McLaren Park, & it’s urgent that you as faculty show up.

In just 2 weeks, the Real Estate industry has raised $170 million to defeat Prop O & other measures in November. And it’s now less than 2 weeks until voters receive their ballots in the mail, and remember, at least 30-40% of voters will be voting by mail well before election day.

That means now is the moment for everyone to show up & join this fight to regain control of your college. If you want support for your department, if you want better leadership at the college, if you want higher salaries & job security, if you want to better serve your students, then now is the moment to act.

Email Alan D’Souza to schedule your Department Campaign Day now: adsouza@aft2121.org & view this site for the days to claim & other opportunities to engage.

Join Supervisor Mar & AFT 2121 for a Citizenship Day Press Conference at CCSF Chinatown Campus- Thurs 9/29 @ 9:30am

On Thursday, City College will be, for the first time since COVID, hosting its annual Citizen Day to celebrate English as Second Language (ESL) students who have recently passed their citizenship exams. For generations, CCSF’s ESL programs have been a first stop for San Francisco’s immigrant community, providing accessible language classes, citizenship courses, and vocational training in healthcare, custodial, & tech.  

But right now, City College ESL is suffering–hundreds of students have been locked out of the classes they need this fall due to unnecessary layoffs and course cuts. 39 ESL faculty members were laid off last May, and the result is 32% fewer courses this fall, a dramatic cut that is causing real harm to SF’s immigrant community.

In response, Supervisor Gordon Mar & CCSF’s faculty union AFT 2121 are holding a Press Conference before Thursday’s Citizenship Event to broadcast the stories of City College’s immigrant students & deliver a call to action to defend the college at the ballot in November by passing Proposition O & electing CCSF Trustee Candidates Anita Martinez, Susan Solomon, Vick Chung, & Adolfo Velasquez. RSVP: https://bit.ly/ImmigrantCCSF