“Stop The Budget Cuts To City College” Virtual Rally

Submitted by the Event Organizer

Stop The Budget Cuts To City College!
Join Us To Fight Back!
April 20, 1-3 PM, ONLINE EVENT ONLY
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84634702723;
Meeting ID: 846 3470 2723
Phone-in number: 669 900 9128

Speakers:

Marcy Rein: co-author of “Free City! The Fight for SF City College and Education for All”
Bob Fitch: City College Disabled Students Program Services Faculty Member

What’s behind the threats to City College of San Francisco (CCSF), and what can we do about it? Get informed to fight back. Q&A period will follow speakers and then a half-hour SF Gray Panther membership meeting.

Contact information:
Art Persyko, Convener, SF Gray Panthers
artpersyko@gmail.com
650-228-4188

Background:

Once again, students, faculty, staff, their unions, and the community are fighting back to preserve CCSF as a Community College.

Community Colleges emphasize lifelong learning for all San Franciscans: young adults, seniors, immigrants, and working-class people of diverse color, genders, incomes, educational backgrounds, and physical or mental development. They provide language development, arts, music, community engagement, social activism, and job skills.

As Bill Shields, former Chair of Labor & Community Studies at City College, wrote, ” For many years, the neoliberal, corporate agenda has included a fierce attack on public education at all levels… More recently, the school wreckers turned their guns on public higher education, including community colleges…”

More information:

“Free City! The Fight for SF City College and Education for All”
https://www.pmpress.org/index.php?l=product_detail&p=1141).

48 Hills Review of “Free City” by Bill Shields
https://48hills.org/2021/03/books-free-city-and-the-fight-for-community-college-education/)

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