AFT Committee on Political Education Meeting Tues 10/22 1:30-3pm
REMINDER: AFT 2121’s Committee on Political Education (COPE) will be meeting Tuesday 10/22 from 1:30-3pm. At the meeting, we’ll discuss a possible endorsement of Prop L and State Representative Matt Haney. All attending AFT members will vote on whether to recommend those endorsements. We will also discuss our GOTV mobilizations for Alan Wong and our other endorsed candidates leading up to election day. You can find the agenda for the meeting here.
You can use the same link as for other COPE & DA meetings – follow this link from your computer or smartphone. Meeting ID: 810 1671 8065, Password: 783119.
Full meeting link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/
Free Online Event on Student Debt & the Financialization of Public Higher Ed
Colleges closing. Departments and courses eliminated. Austerity driving debt and debt driving austerity. City College has experienced our share of the education austerity agenda through cuts and downsizing and our students experience this as well as the burden of educational debt. Public higher education’s future is being held hostage by financial institutions and actors.
How did it get this way? How do we organize to free public higher education from the talons of debt and create a space for liberatory education? Join the Coalition Against Campus Debt as they share insights to these questions from their book, Lend and Rule: Fighting the Shadow Financialization of Public Higher Education.
Participants will examine how institutional debt is a primary driver of university austerity, miseducation, and the deepening of societal inequality and learn about how to push back.
Details: Tuesday, October 29, 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 PM Pacific via Zoom. Register here.
This event is co-sponsored by Labor Notes, The Debt Collective, and Higher Education Labor United (HELU).
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