AFT Local 1521

Post-election actions and training to defend democracy! We urge you to sign up for the Mobilizing to Defend Democracy training happening tonight and tomorrow at the link below. This training will explain the scenarios we may face in the coming weeks that threaten democracy and the right to #CountEveryVote. Participants will practice the skills needed to organize and mobilize others to join us in action, and learn how to participate in these critical mass actions while protecting the health and safety of everyone involved.

Join your union, labor, and community allies at a rally and march this Saturday to defend each other and demand democracy!

That's right. We're calling until polls close tonight. Vote #Yeson15, #Yeson16, and Andra Hoffman Seat 1, David Vela Seat 3, Nichelle Henderson Seat 5, and Mike Fong Seat 7 for #LACCD Board of Trustees! #CollegesWeAllDeserve https://linktr.ee/LACCDelection

Follow the money!

A new law requiring an ethnic studies class in order to graduate from the California State University will likely have far-reaching implications for the state’s 115 degree-granting community colleges.

Did you know that 55% of students in #LACCD in 2016 have experienced housing insecurity? Vote #Yeson21 to help expand rent control laws throughout California! Prop 21 does not force cities to expand rent control. It simply gives local governments the right to choose if rent control is the right choice for their community. #Vote2020

It’s not too latevote until Tuesday Nov. 3rd! Drop your ballot off at an official ballot box or polling location near you (or come by one of our 9 #LACCD community colleges). Also not too late to join our #CollegesWeAllDeserve phone banks! Let's get out the vote! We have raffles and special guests for you #GOTV2020 https://linktr.ee/LACCDelection

Happy Halloween What a gourd day to be phone banking for the #CollegesWeAllDeserve. Open to the public. Creep it real and dress up! Best costume wins $200 cash prize. Help us get out the vote: #Yeson15 (we're neck and neck in the polls), #Yeson16, and elect leaders who are allies in our fight for equity and student success here at #LACCD!

Experts see community college as a low-cost option that can help students with career exploration. Community colleges are typically less expensive than four-year universities and allow students to earn credentials in less time.

More women are in leadership positions within the California Community Colleges for the first time in history, according to a study from the Community College League of California.

Community colleges are inherently more local in mission and impact than most four-year colleges. They respond to local labor market needs, and their graduates tend to stay close by, contributing to their region as workers, civic leaders, and parents raising the next generation. This vital local role filled by community colleges, though often taken for granted, could point to part of the solution for the chronic underfunding of these institutions.

Our faculty, students, and community volunteers have made 40,000 dials to LA County residents this election cycle to vote #Yeson15, #Yeson16, and for our candidates (Hoffman - Seat 1, Vela - Seat 3, Henderson - Seat 5, Fong - Seat 7) who are allies in our fight for the #CollegesWeAllDeserve. Can you join us? https://linktr.ee/LACCDelection

With a dizzying 33 candidates, the election of 4 seats on the 7 member Los Angeles Community College District (#LACCD) board has brought into focus the basic needs of some of the poorest college students in California amid the pandemic, as well as issues of declining enrollment, budget oversight and accountability over the chancellor. #Vote2020