Posts in Education
Tell your Mayor and Supervisor to stand up for City College by expanding the Workforce Education Recovery Fund!

The City College of San Francisco is facing massive layoffs. In solidarity with AFT 2121, we are calling on our Supervisors and Mayor to support expanding the Workforce Education & Recovery Fund to help fund CCSF.

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Ask your MoCs to #DefundHate!

In our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Congress can use this to check immigration enforcement authorities by cutting off the flow of money to programs that mistreat people coming to the United States.

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Defense, Militarism, Foreign Policy & the "Power of the Purse"

In our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Trump administration programs and schemes can be blocked by denying them funds, and some of their destructive regulation and rule changes can be countered by mandating how funds have to be used.

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Ask your MoCs to wield the Power of the Purse!

In our “checks and balances” government, Congress holds the power of the purse—the authority to direct how the government spends money, and thereby what the government does and how. Trump administration programs and schemes can be blocked by denying them funds, and some of their destructive regulation and rule changes can be countered by mandating how funds have to be used.

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