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Free Labor + Community Studies Class (CCSF)

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Wednesday, September 3, 2025 - 6:15 pm to 9:30 pm | Cost: FREE
CCSF Mission Campus | 1125 Valencia St, San Francisco

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LBCS 114 Class, Shaping Public Policy for Labor and Community Organizations, CCSF Mission Campus.
Free City!
Love and solidarity,
John Hayakawa Torok, CCSF Adjunct
Labor and Community Studies Department
City College of San Francisco
Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street, SF.
Fall 2025.  Share this call for enrollment widely. These are Free City! classes for San Francisco residents. The two night classes are on Wednesday (15 weeks) and Tuesday (10 weeks). They start September 3rd and September 30th, respectively.
Writing and speaking well are related. As a former writing tutor and writing group facilitator we seek improvement of your writing. We further seek to improve public speaking skills in class. Both are needed in your community/labor activist toolkit. The focus is your hopes in social justice work, to contextualize them in U.S. social justice activism, and oral history, using critical pedagogy and popular education methods.
Go to www.ccsf.edu to register and enroll. Brief Course Descriptions and CRN are below.
LBCS 114: Labor and Community Studies: Shaping Public Policy for Labor and Community Organizations, Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street, S.F. MIC 278
Wednesdays 6:10 pm
CRN 73364 731       Start: September 3.
Public policy shapes our workplaces, neighborhoods, the criminal justice system, and the environment. This course examines the role of policy making in working class communities and communities of color. Particular attention will be given to local policy formation and the ways that local organizations can influence the process for the benefit of all. Occupy Oakland and the labor movement will be discussed.
ASAM 23: Asian American Studies: Asian Americans and American Ideals and Institutions,
Mission Campus, 1125 Valencia Street, SF. MIC 229
Tuesdays 5:10 pm
CRN 73803 002       Start: September 30.
An Ethnic Studies Introduction to Asian and Pacific Americans and their long-term experience with basic governmental ideals and institutions at the national, state, and local levels. Examine the impact of Asians, Asian American agency, group affirmation, struggle, and resistance on legal-constitutional America and the countervailing impact of race and racism and political structures imposed on different groups of Asian Americans by U.S., California, and local governments.
We will read and discuss among others judicial opinions like U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark (federal birthright citizenship), Ex parte Mitsuye Endo (Japanese American concentration camps unconstitutional), and People v. Hall (Chinese testimonial exclusion because of race proper in California).
The instructor, John Hayakawa Torok, can be reached at I look forward to our conversations together. Please proceed to www.ccsf.edu to enroll.

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Cost: FREE
Categories: Charity & Volunteering, Early Bird / Presale, In Person, Lectures & Workshops, Political Activism, Protests / Causes
Venue: CCSF Mission Campus
Address: 1125 Valencia St, San Francisco