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April 17th Demos and Off Campus

FAQ

April 17th Day of action

Why aren’t we going up to Sacramento anymore?

We took a vote and our organizing poll showed that our members would be more excited to do a rally in SF rather than traveling to Sacramento. Localizing our actions will helpfully encourage many more people to attend! CSUs across the state will be holding their own rallies locally that day as well. 

Is this going to make a change?

With a mass call to stop the cuts and support the increases— we hope so! We have no other choice. This is our window to raise public awareness and opposition to the education cuts before the May budget revision is proposed. Our campus president has expressed her support for our advocacy to do what we can to stop and reverse the cuts. The more students, faculty and staff we have out, the more we can make VISIBLE our labor and the need to fully fund the CSU. 

I cannot attend the day of action but I would like to help making calls to legislators

Great. You can find here on our website the script and the phone numbers to our CA State representatives. If you can call them on Thursday for the day of action, but in any case before May Day.

Can I get in trouble as faculty for participating?

Faculty can encourage and incentivize, but not require their students to participate. They can reschedule class, bring their class to the teach-out to either teach your regular class, or propose to the students to attend organized teach-outs, give special assignments or extra-credit relating the course to the day events, and always offer an alternative for those who do not want to attend. What faculty cannot do is make the participation in the teach-outs or speak-out mandatory if it is not explicitly related to their course.

Has the CFA endorsed this action?

Yes, the California Faculty Association has endorsed and supports CFA members taking action across the CSU to defend against the major cuts coming from Sacramento. While this is not a CFA-led event (we are students, faculty, and staff united), the CFA and many campus chapters are supportive. Many CFA members across the state participated in the February 22nd United to Defend Education Conference at SFSU where this action was voted on and ratified and will be hosting their own rallies.

What comes next? 

We know this fight has major short term impacts, but we also have long term goals. Read more about our shared demands on our platform that was collectively voted on by student, faculty, and staff participants at the United to Defend Public Education Conference February 22, 2025. We will continue fighting for these demands during CFA Lobby Days (late April), during the next CFA Collective Bargaining Agreement negotiations (this year), and on our campuses through shared governance, mass popular education, and direct action as we need to.