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The Fight to Protect Public Education & CCSF with AFT 2121 Lecturer Rick Baum
There is an organized political economic attack on public education and Community College in San Francisco. Privatizers, union busters and capitalist politicians want to destroy the college. AFT 2121 lecturer Rick Baum talks about the current attacks and the fight to increase classes, build the Performing Education Arts Center and get parking for the students, staff and faculty that has been destroyed by the privatization of Balboa Reservoir to the for profit Avalon corporation.

The Fight To Protect Public Education & CCSF With AFT 2121 Lecturer Rick Baum
Public Education is under attack and one of the targets is the community college system and CCSF in San Francisco. WorkWeek interviews AFT 2121 lecturer Rick Baum who is also a member of the Higher Education Action Team HEAT.
He talks about the long attack by privatizers to sell off and destroy the classes, faculty and staff by cutting classes and selling buildings and properties.
High paid chancellors including the latest one making $330,000 and administrators along with the accrediting agency ACCJC and FCMAT according to Baum have engaged in an operation to decapitate and destroy the public community college.
He also reports on the plan for a rally to demand more classes, building the of Performing Education Arts Center and more parking for more working class students who have to drive to the college.
He talked about an upcoming rally for those demand on October 24th, 2024 at 5PM at the
CCSF Board Of Trustees on Frida Khalo drive.
Additional Media:
Organized Labor and the Crisis at City College of San Francisco
https://youtu.be/aHtOKqAbZls
Teachers Union Against Itself
https://monthlyreview.org/2017/04/01/a-teachers-union-against-itself/
SF CCSF Students Protest Class Cuts & March To Board Trustee Temprano's House To Oppose Layoffs
https://youtu.be/DwHh9tCrFVg
CCSF HEAT-CCSF Collective Report Card & Privatization Of Community Colleges
https://youtu.be/PLxMQibw8bU
Stop The Closure of CCSF Ft. Mason & Other Campuses & Classes At SF Community College
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUlfNdGgUVY
Community Colleges Under Attack, Working People & The Right To Higher Education, Racism & Capitalism
https://youtu.be/0hjRt8kcV-s
CCSF Art Students Do Art & MusicTo Save Ft. Mason & Stop Privatization Of Balboa Reservoir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3jdKvOHzls
Protest To Stop The Destruction of CCSF Through Elimination of ESL, Shuttering of Campuses, Privatization & Union Busting
https://youtu.be/GzGEZRrOWqY
Stop The Cuts! Hundreds of CCSF Students & Faculty Protest 300 Class Cuts AT BOT Meet-SF & CA Demos Lead The Attack On Public Education
https://youtu.be/7ohpgRD_cOg
CCSF Board Of Trustees At Meeting All Support Chancellor Rocha Cuts & Union Busting
https://youtu.be/2uwdqug6Ii4
AFT 2121 CCSF Faculty Speak Out On Rocha Budget Cuts & Public Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCjhCG0wunc
Students, Faculty & Community Demand STOP The CUTS At CCSF With Funeral
https://youtu.be/2caDc_WN60g
Shooting Yourself In The Foot & Increasing Executive Salaries At CCSF By Chancellor Rocha
https://youtu.be/3esO55xUlp8
Speak-out On Privatization of Balboa Reservoir For Developers Which Threatens SF City College
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbeRvY-HRhY
BUSTING up CCSF! CCSF Chancellor, Bd President & Bd Majority Wrecking City College
https://youtu.be/pizpoBQcQuQ
The Downsizing & Privatization Of CCSF "Vision 2025" & The Secret Illegal CCSF Board Meetings
https://youtu.be/JhDq_BakeQo
Privatization and Destruction of CCSF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnDjK5RAkes&t=2s
Build The PAEC NOW! Stop The Privatization & Developers Rip-off Scam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkGMe_w6JaU
Conflicts of Interest, CCSF & The Attack On Public Education Privatization With Kathy Carroll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux4mRloWBEA&t=3s
Public Education, Privatization, Corruption And The Destruction Of Our Schools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_eu5u70tTE
"Are You Out Of Your Minds"? AFT 2121 Faculty Challenge CCSF Board On Mark Rocha Appointment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEZpOS8p4gQ
HEAT-Higher Education Action Team
https://www.ccsfheat.org
sfcitycollegeheat [at] gmail.com
Production Of Labor Video Project
http://www.labormedia.net
Public Education is under attack and one of the targets is the community college system and CCSF in San Francisco. WorkWeek interviews AFT 2121 lecturer Rick Baum who is also a member of the Higher Education Action Team HEAT.
He talks about the long attack by privatizers to sell off and destroy the classes, faculty and staff by cutting classes and selling buildings and properties.
High paid chancellors including the latest one making $330,000 and administrators along with the accrediting agency ACCJC and FCMAT according to Baum have engaged in an operation to decapitate and destroy the public community college.
He also reports on the plan for a rally to demand more classes, building the of Performing Education Arts Center and more parking for more working class students who have to drive to the college.
He talked about an upcoming rally for those demand on October 24th, 2024 at 5PM at the
CCSF Board Of Trustees on Frida Khalo drive.
Additional Media:
Organized Labor and the Crisis at City College of San Francisco
https://youtu.be/aHtOKqAbZls
Teachers Union Against Itself
https://monthlyreview.org/2017/04/01/a-teachers-union-against-itself/
SF CCSF Students Protest Class Cuts & March To Board Trustee Temprano's House To Oppose Layoffs
https://youtu.be/DwHh9tCrFVg
CCSF HEAT-CCSF Collective Report Card & Privatization Of Community Colleges
https://youtu.be/PLxMQibw8bU
Stop The Closure of CCSF Ft. Mason & Other Campuses & Classes At SF Community College
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUlfNdGgUVY
Community Colleges Under Attack, Working People & The Right To Higher Education, Racism & Capitalism
https://youtu.be/0hjRt8kcV-s
CCSF Art Students Do Art & MusicTo Save Ft. Mason & Stop Privatization Of Balboa Reservoir
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3jdKvOHzls
Protest To Stop The Destruction of CCSF Through Elimination of ESL, Shuttering of Campuses, Privatization & Union Busting
https://youtu.be/GzGEZRrOWqY
Stop The Cuts! Hundreds of CCSF Students & Faculty Protest 300 Class Cuts AT BOT Meet-SF & CA Demos Lead The Attack On Public Education
https://youtu.be/7ohpgRD_cOg
CCSF Board Of Trustees At Meeting All Support Chancellor Rocha Cuts & Union Busting
https://youtu.be/2uwdqug6Ii4
AFT 2121 CCSF Faculty Speak Out On Rocha Budget Cuts & Public Education
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCjhCG0wunc
Students, Faculty & Community Demand STOP The CUTS At CCSF With Funeral
https://youtu.be/2caDc_WN60g
Shooting Yourself In The Foot & Increasing Executive Salaries At CCSF By Chancellor Rocha
https://youtu.be/3esO55xUlp8
Speak-out On Privatization of Balboa Reservoir For Developers Which Threatens SF City College
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbeRvY-HRhY
BUSTING up CCSF! CCSF Chancellor, Bd President & Bd Majority Wrecking City College
https://youtu.be/pizpoBQcQuQ
The Downsizing & Privatization Of CCSF "Vision 2025" & The Secret Illegal CCSF Board Meetings
https://youtu.be/JhDq_BakeQo
Privatization and Destruction of CCSF
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnDjK5RAkes&t=2s
Build The PAEC NOW! Stop The Privatization & Developers Rip-off Scam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkGMe_w6JaU
Conflicts of Interest, CCSF & The Attack On Public Education Privatization With Kathy Carroll
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux4mRloWBEA&t=3s
Public Education, Privatization, Corruption And The Destruction Of Our Schools
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_eu5u70tTE
"Are You Out Of Your Minds"? AFT 2121 Faculty Challenge CCSF Board On Mark Rocha Appointment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEZpOS8p4gQ
HEAT-Higher Education Action Team
https://www.ccsfheat.org
sfcitycollegeheat [at] gmail.com
Production Of Labor Video Project
http://www.labormedia.net
For more information:
https://youtu.be/cYPbj4tGLfE
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RALLY TO DEMAND MORE CLASSES AT CCSF
RALLY ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 at 5:00 OUTSIDE THE MUB BUILDING
LET THE ADMINISTRATION AND BOARD KNOW: YOU WANT MORE CLASSES SCHEDULED FOR THE SPRING
The Building of the Performing Arts Education Building (PAEC)
Student parking needs addressed
Fight for your Future
Endorsements
Rodger Scott, Former President of AFT 2121
Allan Fisher, Former President of AFT 2121
City College Needs More Classes
For the Fall 2024 term, hundreds, if not thousands, of students were unable to enroll in classes they wanted and needed to take in many areas including English, Biology, Chemistry, English as a Second Language, Ethnic Studies, Horticulture, the Arts, and many other areas.
Please join members of the CCSF Higher Education Action Team (CCSFHEAT.org) and demand:
1. The administration schedule more classes for the Spring term.
2. The Performing Arts Education Building (PAEC) first approved and funded by voters back in 2001 be finally built starting no later than Spring 2025.
3. More student parking be made available.
CCSF HEAT is part of a campaign in favor of tuition-free public higher education and opposed to attacks on unions. We seek to reverse the downsizing of CCSF and other public schools including San Francisco State University and the K-12 schools in San Francisco.
The CCSF administration will likely make excuses for not adding more classes by claiming CCSF is facing future deficits and needs to add more money into the reserves to prepare for the future. However, there is over $30 million in the reserve fund—much more than is legally required—and some of this money could be used to add more classes.
Additionally, go to AFT2121.org to find the union’s analysis of how the administration budget numbers and deficit claims are wrong.
The administration may also claim: We can't find people to teach classes. Tell them that is their job—They must hire more faculty now.
HERE IS HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Share this flyer with others. Make copies to distribute.
Contact CCSF’s leadership. Let them know you favor these demands especially if you could not enroll in classes you needed to take.
Attend the CCSF HEAT rally in support of our demands at 5:00 outside the MUB building on the CCSF Ocean Campus where the board will be meeting on October 24.
Chancellor Mitch Bailey chancellor [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:chancellor [at] ccsf.edu) phone 415-239-3303 Cloud Hall rm 324
Vice Chancellor of Academic and Institutional Affairs David Yee dyee [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:dyee [at] ccsf.edu) phone 415-239-3321
Board of Trustees President Alan Wong alanwong [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:alanwong [at] ccsf.edu)
Vice President Anita Martinez anitamartinez [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:anitamartinez [at] ccsf.edu)
Susan Solomon ssolomon [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:ssolomon [at] ccsf.edu)
Vick Chung vchung [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:vchung [at] ccsf.edu)
Aliya Chisti achisti [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:achisti [at] ccsf.edu)
Shanell Williams swilliams [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:swilliams [at] ccsf.edu)
Luis Zamora lzamora [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:lzamora [at] ccsf.edu)
Student Trustee Heather Brandt studenttrustee [at] mail.ccsf.edu (mailto:studenttrustee [at] mail.ccsf.edu)
RALLY ON THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24 at 5:00 OUTSIDE THE MUB BUILDING
LET THE ADMINISTRATION AND BOARD KNOW: YOU WANT MORE CLASSES SCHEDULED FOR THE SPRING
The Building of the Performing Arts Education Building (PAEC)
Student parking needs addressed
Fight for your Future
Endorsements
Rodger Scott, Former President of AFT 2121
Allan Fisher, Former President of AFT 2121
City College Needs More Classes
For the Fall 2024 term, hundreds, if not thousands, of students were unable to enroll in classes they wanted and needed to take in many areas including English, Biology, Chemistry, English as a Second Language, Ethnic Studies, Horticulture, the Arts, and many other areas.
Please join members of the CCSF Higher Education Action Team (CCSFHEAT.org) and demand:
1. The administration schedule more classes for the Spring term.
2. The Performing Arts Education Building (PAEC) first approved and funded by voters back in 2001 be finally built starting no later than Spring 2025.
3. More student parking be made available.
CCSF HEAT is part of a campaign in favor of tuition-free public higher education and opposed to attacks on unions. We seek to reverse the downsizing of CCSF and other public schools including San Francisco State University and the K-12 schools in San Francisco.
The CCSF administration will likely make excuses for not adding more classes by claiming CCSF is facing future deficits and needs to add more money into the reserves to prepare for the future. However, there is over $30 million in the reserve fund—much more than is legally required—and some of this money could be used to add more classes.
Additionally, go to AFT2121.org to find the union’s analysis of how the administration budget numbers and deficit claims are wrong.
The administration may also claim: We can't find people to teach classes. Tell them that is their job—They must hire more faculty now.
HERE IS HOW YOU CAN HELP:
Share this flyer with others. Make copies to distribute.
Contact CCSF’s leadership. Let them know you favor these demands especially if you could not enroll in classes you needed to take.
Attend the CCSF HEAT rally in support of our demands at 5:00 outside the MUB building on the CCSF Ocean Campus where the board will be meeting on October 24.
Chancellor Mitch Bailey chancellor [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:chancellor [at] ccsf.edu) phone 415-239-3303 Cloud Hall rm 324
Vice Chancellor of Academic and Institutional Affairs David Yee dyee [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:dyee [at] ccsf.edu) phone 415-239-3321
Board of Trustees President Alan Wong alanwong [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:alanwong [at] ccsf.edu)
Vice President Anita Martinez anitamartinez [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:anitamartinez [at] ccsf.edu)
Susan Solomon ssolomon [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:ssolomon [at] ccsf.edu)
Vick Chung vchung [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:vchung [at] ccsf.edu)
Aliya Chisti achisti [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:achisti [at] ccsf.edu)
Shanell Williams swilliams [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:swilliams [at] ccsf.edu)
Luis Zamora lzamora [at] ccsf.edu (mailto:lzamora [at] ccsf.edu)
Student Trustee Heather Brandt studenttrustee [at] mail.ccsf.edu (mailto:studenttrustee [at] mail.ccsf.edu)
For more information:
http://www.ccsfheat.org
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