We had over 460 City College students, faculty, and San Francisco community members attend our Defend CCSF ESL Virtual Press Conference yesterday. Thank you Supervisor Gordon Mar for co-sponsoring the event! Thank you to our amazing community allies Tania Estrada (Women’s Center), Amos Lim & Yuee Zhou (CAA), Flora Luo (CPA), and Malinalli Villalobos (PODER) for underlining the value of City College ESL classes to San Francisco! And especially, thank you to our powerful and eloquent student and faculty speakers for exemplifying why City College ESL courses are so essential. Whether it’s finding your first community in a new country, learning to speak to your neighbors, finding a job, starting a business, or attending a 4-year university, City College’s ESL Programs change lives.
We cannot let CCSF administrators take that away (see Mission local article). CCSF is a majority student of color pillar of San Francisco–it’s essential to our POC and immigrant communities, and it needs to be funded, not cut in half. See Supervisor Mar’s statement on that in more press from our event here (CBS KPIX 5).
However, to win this campaign to defend CCSF, we need you, our community, fully engaged. Join us in taking the following steps right now:
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Sign AFT 2121’s petition calling on elected leaders to Fund our CCSF
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Attend our Thursday, April 22, 6pm-7:30pm Night School. AFT 2121, Associated Students, and CCSF Collective are hosting an Ocean Campus Night School right by the Chancellor’s Office (Conlan Hall) to show him and the rest of CCSF leadership what our classes are all about. From dance to budget analysis, we’re going to live stream our learning and speak directly to the Trustees and CCSF Admin team: alternatives exist, & cuts are not the answer.
RSVP here now: http://bit.ly/AFT2121NightSchool
Thank you all for making yesterday such a fantastic event and for continuing to speak up for the value of public education in San Francisco.
In Solidarity,
AFT 2121
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