Join Your Trustee Candidate Kickoff this Saturday 9/10 at 11am | AATF Holds BIPOC Affinity Space Friday 9/16 at 1pm

Posted on September 7, 2022 by AFT 2121

Trustee Candidate Campaign Launch Event, Sat. 9/10, 11am @ Mission Playground

Our community is suffering right now–we’re suffering the consequences of failures in leadership by Chancellor Martin & the current Trustees. City College urgently needs new leadership to responsibly manage the money winning Prop O will bring & protect our vital community mission.

Your endorsed Trustee Candidates Vick Chung, Anita Martinez, & Susan Solomon will stand up for students & hold admin accountable. We need to work together to ensure they win, and that means you.

RSVP now for your Trustee Candidate Kickoff this Saturday, Sep 10, at 11am at Mission Playground (on 19th St between Valencia and Linda). Departments will be sponsoring campaign events from now on, & ESL is sponsoring this one. If you’re in ESL, make sure you show up Saturday, and all other faculty are encouraged to join as well. If you can’t make Saturday, join a Prop O Campaign Mobilization at 11am on Sunday at the Sunset Reservoir Playground (24th and Quintara). RSVP: https://bit.ly/ccsfWINS

You will have a chance to meet your candidates & then head out and help them win! You’ll be hanging campaign literature on doors & talking to any voters you meet along the way.

AATF Holds BIPOC Affinity Space: Being BIPOC in White Academia

Friday, September 16, 1 PM

It is with many mixed emotions that I send this email. We’ve lost so many great colleagues to the cuts at our college. And yet, while we grieve, we must simultaneously find a way forward. Joan Baez writes, “Action is the antidote to despair.” and Dr. Garcia Peña titled her book, “Community as Rebellion.” I hope we can continue to be uplifted by our mutual hope and collective action against the odds.

Friday, Sept 16th will be our inaugural meeting for the academic year.

Here is the zoom link.

I’ve attached the flier.

Here is the website link.

The Affinity Spaces will be held for both white and BIPOC faculty that will each have separate racial discussions as each group experiences and is impacted by racism differently. All are welcome to attend and engage in introspective discussions. Some topics may be triggering and attendees are asked to assess their ability to choose “equity over peace” (as Dr. Standback-Stroud said on Flex Day) in discussions of antiracism at our institution.