United to Defend Public Education 

Statewide Organizing Conference

Governor Newsom announced a new round of cuts to the UC and CSU systems for the coming academic year, while several CSU and UC campuses experience ongoing austerity measures, including lay-offs, and student fee increases. In addition, the new presidential administration has pledged opposition to funding public services, basic civil liberties and social justice oriented curricula. The organizations below call on fellow unionized and non-unionized faculty, student-worker and staff unions, and other students and unions interested in advocating for a fully funded CSU and other public education systems, and for the defense of civil liberties and academic freedom to attend this organizing conference on Saturday February 22nd. 

At the conference we will strategize how we stop the cuts to education, build mass support for redirecting CSU statewide funds to the classroom, defend academic freedom and civil liberties, and prioritize CA state funding for public education and social services instead of incarceration, deportation and occupation. 

The SFSU faculty union and student organizations have offered to host the Organizing Conference. SFSU has been a stronghold of social justice activism since the 1968 Third World Liberation Strike, and last academic year the faculty and students showed their combined power in two historic strikes, and Students for Gaza won divestment from weapons manufacturing companies and those who violate human rights. When we organize together, we can project the future we want and need, and be the best advocates for quality public education for working people in California. Let's organize, agitate and mobilize for public education this coming Spring!

Endorsers

Asian Student Union, SFSU

Associated Students of SFSU 

Bay Area Labor 4 Palestine

California Faculty Association (CFA) SEIU Local 1983

CFA Bakersfield

CFA Channel Islands

CFA East Bay

CFA Los Angeles

CFA Maritime Academy

CFA Monterey Bay

CFA Sacramento

CFA San Francisco

CFA San Jose

CFA Caucus of Rank & File Education Workers (CREW)

Faculty for Justice in Palestine, SFSU

General Union of Palestine Students (GUPS)

La Raza Student Organization

SFSU Student Union

UAW Local 4123

UCSC People's Aid

YDSA