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Message*	Stop Attack On Education! DAY OF ACTION! <a href="http://calaction.org/actions/?id=4230">http://calaction.org/actions/?id=4230</a> Thurs. March 4 - Statewide Strike and Protest<br /> <br /> Stop the Attacks on Education! <br /> Money for Schools--Not for Wars and Bailouts! <br /> <br /> Thursday, March 4 will be a statewide day of action to defend public education and to fight against the cuts. Students, parents, faculty, and school employees at all levels--K12, community college and university--and everyone who supports the right to education are mobilizing to fight back. <br /> <br /> Last fall, the UC Regents announced a huge 32% increase in tuition. <br /> <br /> Last week, it was announced that more than 900 K-12 public school teachers and staff would be laid-off in San Francisco. This is part of a plan to cut the San Francisco Unified School District's budget by $113 million, or by over 25 percent! <br /> <br /> In early February, City College of San Francisco, the only option for many working-class students, announced that its entire summer school program would be scrapped. The huge tuition increases and cutbacks are making higher education an impossible dream for hundreds of thousands of young people in California. <br /> <br /> Public education all over the country is under attack. As the rich attempt to "solve" the economic crisis by cutting the things that people need most, the government has handed over between $9 trillion and $11 trillion to the richest bankers, and submitted the largest military budget in U.S. history, which includes nearly $500 million each day to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan. <br /> <br /> If there is money for wars, bank bailouts and prisons, why is there no money for public education? It's time to stand up and make our voices heard. <br /> <br /> <strong>Following are some of the many actions taking place on Mar. 4:<br /> . 10am - City College of San Francisco, action starting at Ocean Ave. & Phelan, main campus <br /> . 10am - San Francisco State University, action starting at 19th and Holloway Ave. <br /> . 3pm - Save Our Schools march, starting at 24th and Mission, marching to Van Ness and MacAllister Sts. <br /> . 4pm - Defend Public Education! Solidarity with Teachers and Students, Meet at Van Ness and McAllister Sts. <br /> . 5pm - Rally in Defense of Public Education and All Public-Sector Services!, Civic Center Plaza</strong> <br /> <br /> Join us for an organizing meeting on Sat. Mar. 13, 2pm at 2489 Mission St. #28, SF to discuss future actions against the cuts and plans for the Students & Teachers contingent at the Mar. 20 Anti-War Protest to demand "Money for Schools, Not for War!"<br /> <br /> Call 415-821-6545 for more information or to get involved.
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Date(s): Thu, Mar 4th, 2010

Thurs. March 4 - Statewide Strike and Protest

Stop the Attacks on Education!
Money for Schools--Not for Wars and Bailouts!

Thursday, March 4 will be a statewide day of action to defend public education and to fight against the cuts. Students, parents, faculty, and school employees at all levels--K12, community college and university--and everyone who supports the right to education are mobilizing to fight back.

Last fall, the UC Regents announced a huge 32% increase in tuition.

Last week, it was announced that more than 900 K-12 public school teachers and staff would be laid-off in San Francisco. This is part of a plan to cut the San Francisco Unified School District's budget by $113 million, or by over 25 percent!

In early February, City College of San Francisco, the only option for many working-class students, announced that its entire summer school program would be scrapped. The huge tuition increases and cutbacks are making higher education an impossible dream for hundreds of thousands of young people in California.

Public education all over the country is under attack. As the rich attempt to "solve" the economic crisis by cutting the things that people need most, the government has handed over between $9 trillion and $11 trillion to the richest bankers, and submitted the largest military budget in U.S. history, which includes nearly $500 million each day to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan.

If there is money for wars, bank bailouts and prisons, why is there no money for public education? It's time to stand up and make our voices heard.

Following are some of the many actions taking place on Mar. 4:
. 10am - City College of San Francisco, action starting at Ocean Ave. & Phelan, main campus
. 10am - San Francisco State University, action starting at 19th and Holloway Ave.
. 3pm - Save Our Schools march, starting at 24th and Mission, marching to Van Ness and MacAllister Sts.
. 4pm - Defend Public Education! Solidarity with Teachers and Students, Meet at Van Ness and McAllister Sts.
. 5pm - Rally in Defense of Public Education and All Public-Sector Services!, Civic Center Plaza

Join us for an organizing meeting on Sat. Mar. 13, 2pm at 2489 Mission St. #28, SF to discuss future actions against the cuts and plans for the Students & Teachers contingent at the Mar. 20 Anti-War Protest to demand "Money for Schools, Not for War!"

Call 415-821-6545 for more information or to get involved.