Dear CCSF allies,
At our Save CCSF Virtual Press Conference on Monday, Maria Rivera, CCSF Alumni and now UC Berkeley Undergrad, reminded us of what our fight for CCSF is all about: “Está invirtiendo en el futuro de San Francisco cuando invierte en City College. You’re investing in the future of San Francisco when you invest in City College.”
New San Franciscans like Maria, students of color, low-income residents, anyone who needs a leg up in a city that is characterized by increasing income disparity and displacement of communities of color, that is the promise of CCSF. To provide opportunity for San Franciscans who need it.
Thank you to Shaw San Liu Executive Director of the Chinese Progressive Association, Rudy Corpuz Executive Director of United Playaz, Rudy Gonzales Secretary-Treasurer of the San Francisco Building & Construction Trades Council, Angelica Campos of Associated Students, Lacy Barnes & Jeff Frietas Senior Vice President & President of the California Federation of Teachers, and Susan Solomon United Educators of San Francisco President for standing up for City College and the essential mission it serves. Thank you to City College students past and present, and thank you to all of the CCSF faculty who shared their powerful CCSF stories. Over 220 of our community members showed up, and our collective voices were heard (see coverage on KPIX 5, 48 Hills, Bay Area Reporter).
Do you know who wasn’t there with us standing up for our College and our students? CCSF’s Trustees. AFT 2121 invited leaders on the CCSF Board of Trustees to stand with us and they did not come. It’s clear that our Trustees have failed the call to lead this fight, to keep CCSF’s administrators accountable, and to advocate effectively and forcefully for CCSF at the local and state level. They’ve let down CCSF’s faculty, sought to undermine union jobs, and most of all, they’ve let down students like Maria.
We need to send a message to CCSF’s Trustees: if you want to build a legacy in San Francisco, then you should work to increase opportunities for POC students and faculty, not diminish them. You should fight to expand classes and programs, not cut them. Help us send this message by taking the following two actions:
- Sign your name to AFT 2121’s Open Letter to CCSF’s Trustees imploring them to remember that their role is to lead the fight to preserve and expand CCSF, not dismantle it. http://bit.ly/CCSFTrustees
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Meet us at City Hall this Saturday, May 8 at 11am for our Save CCSF City Hall Rally & CARE-A-VAN March: https://forms.gle/u1s3fC4LqYynWQVv7. Bring your CCSF art and get ready to chant, march, and stand up for public education!
Thank you for being a part of this struggle. This is a long-term fight for greater equity and opportunity in our City, and we are grateful to be standing aside allies like you.
In solidarity,
TEAM AFT 2121
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