Texas Attacks Immigrants - LULAC

 

LULAC STATE DIRECTOR: TEXAS, WAKE UP!

Nation’s Oldest and Largest Latino Civil Rights Organization Cites Data Supporting Immigrant Contributions to the State’s Economy and Prepares to File Federal Complaints Against Texas Agencies

San Antonio, TX – Hundreds of delegates who attended the 95th annual Texas LULAC State Convention in Odessa have issued a stern warning to elected state officials to wake up, read the data, and stop the discriminatory actions that attack the fastest-growing and most significant labor segment in the Texas economy, while also hurting other Texans in the process.

“We have emerged from this historic convention unified and determined to stop Governor Greg Abbott and his supporters in the Texas Legislature who have targeted us through their discriminatory laws,” says Gabriel Rosales, elected Texas LULAC State Director. Rosales is a lifelong San Antonio resident and labor activist. “Texas SB 4 and SB 17 were written and pushed through with Latinos in the crosshairs. Those elected officials who voted to oppose diversity, equity, and inclusion, known as DEI, are fighting the inevitable changing demographics of Texas. They are racially profiling anyone who is an immigrant or looks like an immigrant. In the process, they are hurting others, including children,” says Rosales.

Several major resolutions were adopted by the convention delegates, including one that intends to draw action against Texas leaders from the highest levels of the federal government against the impact of SB17, adopted by the 88th Texas legislature outlawing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts at higher education institutions and elsewhere in state public agencies.

“Banning DEI also adversely impacts programs that help students with academic learning disabilities,” says Rosales. “Children with autism or who are on the spectrum should not be victims of political agendas that gut assistance wholesale without regard to the untold numbers of families they are hurting. Texas LULAC stands with organizations fighting for the developmentally disabled in our state, and we will not allow these cuts to go unchallenged,” he adds.

According to the latest research, for every 1,000 workers, immigrants and asylum seekers contribute $2.6 million to state and local taxes within their first year of eligibility. Moreover, once immigrants have been here for about five years, their median wage will likely increase to about $29,000 per year as they earn higher wages and as a more significant share get full-time jobs, raising a two-earner family’s income to about $58,000, further boosting their contribution as workers and taxpayers.

“Texas LULAC urges voters statewide to examine the data that clearly shows our state’s economy benefits from immigrant labor,” says Rosales. “Indeed, the future of Texas and our country will be better because of the upsurge in younger, stronger laborers willing to do the lower-paying, essential jobs others will not,” he adds.

Citing the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Texas LULAC charges the State of Texas with discriminating against protected classes and inadequately represented groups in higher education. Texas and its public colleges and universities receive federal financial assistance and have agreed to follow nondiscriminatory practices to receive these funds. The dismantling of DEI initiatives under Senate Bill 17 unfairly targets Latinos, Blacks, and Asians based on their race, color, and national origin.

“The State LULAC Assembly meeting in Odessa, Texas, voted on Sunday, May 19, 2024, to approve this resolution to file complaints with the appropriate federal agencies, including the United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of Education,” says Rosales. “We urge the federal agencies to conduct prompt investigations of these allegations and take immediate actions to eliminate these discriminatory practices that are in violation of their contractual obligations and violations of the Civil Rights Act. Our membership has authorized me within 30 days after the conclusion of the Texas LULAC State Convention to initiate the formal complaint process and shall file these grievances with the appropriate federal agencies,” said Rosales.

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About LULAC
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the nation’s largest and oldest Hispanic civil rights volunteer-based organization that empowers Hispanic Americans and builds strong Latino communities. Headquartered in Washington, DC, with 535 Councils and 145,000 members across the United States and Puerto Rico, LULAC’s programs, services, and advocacy address the most important issues for Latinos, meeting the critical needs of today and the future. For more information, visit www.LULAC.org.

For Educators Grappling with Student Protests

 For educators grappling with student protests, here’s how to play a supporting role

From mentoring to monitoring to joining in, there is much faculty can do to foster constructive outcomes and help young people confront the injustices of the world they are inheriting.

Lee Smithey May 17, 2024

    As tent encampments have sprung up on college and university campuses — including my own at Swarthmore College — some, but not all, administrators have called in armed police to arrest student protestors. To date, police have arrested more than 2,800 students across the U.S. In some cases, law enforcement officers have forcefully arrested faculty members as well. Predictably, the repression has backfired, fueled solidarity among educators and led to the establishment of even more encampments from coast to coast (141 campuses in the U.S. at last count). 

If you are an educator, you may have spent recent weeks grappling with your position with respect to student nonviolent resistance. You’re not alone, and in this moment, perhaps it is helpful to identify ways teachers and staff at schools, colleges and universities have supported students engaged in nonviolent civil resistance. Below, I will share a range of options, progressing from familiar faculty roles to those with greater proximity to student nonviolent action.

 

https://wagingnonviolence.org/rs/2024/05/for-educators-grappling-with-student-protests-gaza-supporting-role/

 

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 A friend of mine Ed Lee.  A  colleague at Sacramento State University. Then, a college president.  Just got dismissed for talking with the students.

 

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article288535505.html

 

This act is an abuse of power. 

 

Here is an example of an alternative.  

https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/views/2024/03/25/cease-fire-now-neutrality-complicity-opinion

 

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MOST CAMPUS PROTESTERS AREN’T EXTREMISTS, BUT THE EXTREMISTS HAVE SEIZED THE NARRATIVE, THANKS TO THE MEDIA

  

 

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/most-campus-protesters-arent-extremists-but-the-extremists-have-seized-the-narrative-thanks-to-the-media

 

MOST CAMPUS PROTESTERS AREN’T EXTREMISTS, BUT THE EXTREMISTS HAVE SEIZED THE NARRATIVE, THANKS TO THE MEDIA

 

By Peter Dreier

On our blog. 

 

It is hard to find an objective analysis of the ongoing student protests about Israel and Palestine – which so far have taken place on over 50 campuses and led to over 2,000 arrests --  or the wider war that has provoked the demonstrations. Here are some thoughts:  

 

1. Most of the student protesters want an end to the horrific violence and violations of basic human rights (housing, health care, food) that they see on TV and on social media every day. 

 

2. Most protesters don’t support Hamas (a theocratic, anti-women and anti-LGBTQ terrorist organization) or want to see  the mass murder or exile of Israeli Jews. Still, a small fraction of protesters do support Hamas.  For example, when the  national office of Students for Justice in Palestine called Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel "a historic win for the Palestinian resistance," and when 34 Harvard student organizations issued a joint statement saying they "hold the Israeli regime entirely responsible for all unfolding violence," that can reasonably be interpreted as support for Hamas.  These views are often what the media reports and what gets the headlines. Most news outlets, particularly TV, are suckers for extremism. 

 

3.  Most of the protesters want an end to the Jewish settlements in the West Bank and to Israel’s widespread discrimination against its Palestinian citizens. They want equality and peaceful co-existence between Jews and Palestinians. They want Netanyahu gone, but they don’t know enough about Israeli politics to know what kind of government might replace him and his government. They don’t have clear or well-reasoned thoughts on the end-game, such as what to do when the Gaza war is over. But neither do most well-informed experts. I favor a two-state solution and many of the protesters I’ve talked to share some vague idea that this would be a good idea, but they don’t understand much about Israel-Palestine history or the real options. They don't know about the Israeli peace movement or groups like Standing Together, founded by Israeli Jews and Palestinians to work toward mutual understand, justice, and peace. They don't understand the geo-politics of the Middle East and what it would take to forge a real peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians that would require pressure from other Arab governments, the US, the EU, and the UN to allow self-governance for both Jews and Palestinians. 

 

 

4.  I don’t deny the existence of campus anti-Semitism nor do I deny that it has been increasing.  Anti-Semitism is not the same as anti-Zionism, but sometimes the two overlap.  When Jewish students hear slogans like “intifada forever,”  “Zionists don’t belong here,” or  “Settlers, Settlers Go Back Home,  Palestine Is Ours Alone,”  they aren’t unreasonable to view them as attacks on Jews.  When protesters tell Jewish students to “go back to Poland,” when they see swastikas on campus buildings, or view the poster of UC-Berkeley Law School Dean Erwin Chermininsky that calls him a “Zionist” and depicts him with flood on his knife and folks “while Gaza starves,” they recognize it as anti-Jewish bigotry.  Such incidents  only have to happen once and they can be hard to forget. 

 

More: 

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/most-campus-protesters-arent-extremists-but-the-extremists-have-seized-the-narrative-thanks-to-the-media

 

 

 

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Its Hard to Write This e mail

 

This email is hard to write. Last weekend, my husband and I joined the anti-war encampment at Washington University in St. Louis to support students protesting their university’s complicity in Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. When the University called in armed police officers to violently break up what had been a very calm, even festive, gathering on the University lawn; my husband and I were both arrested.  In addition to the arrest, my husband, Steve Tamari, a 65-year old history professor, was also brutally beaten by four police officers for filming the arrests of students. Horrifying footage shows him slammed to the ground, then dragged away while his body remains limp, before officers callously drop him on his injured ribs with his hands tied behind his back. My husband returned home from the hospital yesterday with nine fractured ribs and a broken hand. One doctor told him he was lucky to be alive, as his lungs could have easily been punctured during the abuse, which would have killed him on the spot. Somehow, through it all, he issued this statement and reminder from his hospital room: “My ordeal…is a small price to pay for Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza, aided and abetted by the U.S. government, the military, the political elite of both the Democratic and Republican parties, and, most outrageously, institutions of higher education like Washington University(…)The students are our collective best hope for an end to wanton violence, a more humane future, and a free Palestine.” Take action now to support student protesters around the country. Use this tool to email 37 university presidents to support the student’s demands and tell administrators to be on the right side of history. We are at a historical crossroads where students are meeting this critical moment by taking their demands directly to their administrations and forcing them to the table.  The demand is simple: Divest from companies that are actively contributing to Israel’s genocide.  At Washington University, students are demanding that the university cut all financial and recruitment ties with the weapons manufacturer Boeing. Boeing, based in St. Louis, is responsible for munitions that have destroyed homes and killed families in Gaza.  Like many other administrators across the country, Washington University leaders instead chose violent repression rather than address students’ concerns about the school’s complicity in genocide. In addition to Steve and me, more than 100 students, faculty, and community members were arrested for participating in the Gaza solidarity encampment at Wash U. During the violent arrests, at least 21 protestors sustained injuries. The repression didn’t stop there. The university administration banned twenty-three students and six faculty from campus. The faculty members were placed on administrative leave, locked out of their work emails, and instructed not to communicate with any faculty, staff, or students at Washington University, even in an off-campus setting.  Washington University is of course just one example. In the last two weeks, over 2000 students have been arrested on college campuses during anti-war protests. Often, arrests have been accompanied by extreme police brutality like we just saw at UCLA, University of Texas, and Columbia. This is clearly a coordinated attack on the campus movements for Palestinian freedom. We stand wholeheartedly with the students across the nation and the globe demanding transparency and urging divestment from the war machine.  Students need all of our support right now. Here are three ways to help today:   5 MIN: Use this tool to email University administrators from around the country and support students’ demands and their right to protest safely.   15 MIN: Check this list to find out if a school you attended has an active Gaza solidarity encampment. If so, call and email the school administration to express your support as an alumni for student protesters and their demands. Then ask fellow alumni to do the same.   5 HOURS: Support students at your local college campus. Check the list above to find out if a school near you has an active Gaza solidarity encampment. Then, look for an online account on Instagram, Twitter, or Tiktok set up by the specific encampment, or look for your local chapter of Students for Justice for Palestine (SJP). Check these accounts to find out what kind of support students are asking for in your area.   We must all use the power at our disposal to grind this war machine to a halt. Sandra Tamari Executive Director Adalah Justice Project   P.S. If you want to contact Washington University administrators specifically to tell them to divest from Boeing, end their complicity, and stop violently repressing students & faculty, tag them on X (formerly Twitter) @wustland @WashUChancellor, or contact Chancellor Andrew D. Martin directly at admartin@wustl.edu and 1-314-935-5100. You can find the contact information for the other WashU administrators here.

Our mailing address is: Adalah Justice Project P.O. Box 541 Glen Carbon, Illinois 62034

Solidarity with Student Actions

 FREE PALESTINE

 

 Sacramento DSA stands in unwavering solidarity with the students at Columbia, Cal Poly, USC, UC Berkeley, UCLA, NYU, University of Michigan and the dozens of rapidly developing encampments at campuses across the country, who are demanding an end to the US-backed genocide in Gaza.

Visit the Sacramento Regional Coalition for Palestinian Rights' Instagram and website for local events. Continue urging our Sacramento area Representatives Matsui and Bera to support an immediate, permanent ceasefire; neither has done so yet.

https://x.com/GregCasar/status/1783607704449110219

Why the Columbia U President Should be Criticized

Robert Reich

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The most important thing I teach my students

And why Columbia’s faculty should issue a vote of no confidence in its president, Nemat Shafik

ROBERT REICH APR 23

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Friends,

The most important thing I teach my students is to seek out people who disagree with them. 

That’s because the essence of learning is testing one’s ideas, assumptions, and values. And what better place to test ideas, assumptions, and values than at a university? 

Apparently, Columbia University’s president, Nemat Shafik, does not share my view. Last week she prostrated herself before House Republicans, promising that she would discipline professors and students for protesting the ongoing slaughter in Gaza in which some 34,000 people have died, most of them women and children. 

The following day she summoned the New York City Police Department to arrest more than 100 students who were engaging in a peaceful protest against it. 

Can we be clear about a few things? Protesting this slaughter is not expressing antisemitism. It is not engaging in hate speech. It is not endangering Jewish students. It is doing what should be done on a college campus — taking a stand against a perceived wrong, at least provoking discussion and debate. 

Education is all about provocation. Without being provoked — stirred, unsettled, goaded — even young minds can remain stuck in old tracks. 

Israel’s war on Hamas is horrifying. The atrocities committed by both sides illustrate the capacities of human beings for inhumanity and show the vile consequences of hate. For these reasons, it presents an opportunity for students to reexamine their preconceptions and learn from one another. 

If Columbia, Yale, or any other university now roiled by student protests were doing what it should be doing, it would be a hotbed of discussion and debate about the war. Disagreement would be welcome; demonstrations, accepted; argument, invited; differences, examined and probed. 

The mission of a university is to coach students how to learn, not tell them what to think. It is to invite debate, not suppress it. Truth is a process and method — more verb than noun. 

I love it when my students take issue with something that I or another student has said, starting with “I disagree!” and then explaining why. Disagreeing is not being disagreeable. Disagreement engenders thought and discussion. It challenges students to reconsider their positions and probe more deeply.

Which is why universities should encourage it. Why they should protect unpopular views. Why they should invite and welcome speakers with views that rile many students. To be riled up is to be attentive, open to new ideas. 

And why peaceful demonstrations should be encouraged, not shut down. It is never appropriate to call in armed police to arrest peaceful student demonstrators.

Finally, it’s why universities should go out of their way to tolerate expression that may make some people uncomfortable. To tar all offensive speech “hate speech” and ban it removes a central pillar of education. Of course it’s offensive. It is designed to offend. 

There is a limit, of course. Expression that targets specific students, “doxes” them, or otherwise aims to hurt them as individuals doesn’t invite learning. It is a form of intimidation. It should not be allowed. 

I’m old enough, and have been a professor long enough, to have seen campuses explode in rage — at bigots like George Wallace when he ran for president, at the horrors of the Vietnam War, at university investments in South Africa, and at efforts to prevent free speech. 

Some of these protests were loud. Some caused inconvenience. Some protesters took over university buildings. But most were not violent. Nor did they seek to harm or intimidate individual students. 

Whenever university presidents have brought in the police, and students have been arrested and suspended, all learning has stopped. 

Which brings me to the central role of university faculties in protecting free expression on campus. 

This role is especially critical now, when the jobs of university presidents and trustees have degenerated mainly into fundraising — often from wealthy alumni who have their own myopic views about what sorts of speech should be allowed and what should be barred. 

The faculty of Columbia University has every right — and, in my view a duty — to protect peaceful free expression at Columbia with a vote of no confidence in Shafik’s leadership, and seek to end her presidency. 

The Columbia faculty along with those of Yale, NYU, and other campuses now engulfed in protests against what is occurring in Gaza should do everything in their power to use the resulting provocations, inconveniences, and discomforts as occasions for learning rather than repression. 

Duane 

 

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Republicans Attack Columbia University - and Win

 Republicans Attack Columbia University – and win

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/18/columbia-university-congress-antisemitism-republicans-gaza?CMP=share_btn_url

 

 

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/18/columbia-university-congress-antisemitism-republicans-gaza?CMP=share_btn_url

 

From the Guardian – Opinion 

 

It’s hard to believe that the hearings genuinely seek to protect Jewish students when its grandstanding inquisitors include Representative Elise Stefanik, a Republican from New York who has trafficked in white nationalist conspiracy theories’ Photograph: José Luis Magaña/AP

In a congressional hearing, Republicans used specious charges of rampant antisemitism to advance an illiberal agenda on campuses

As Jewish faculty at Columbia University, we watched with alarm as our president, Minouche Shafik, appeared before the House education and workforce committee on Wednesday to answer questions about antisemitism on our campus. While we are deeply concerned about antisemitism, we are also disturbed by the ways the hearing – like those in December, and surely those to follow – used specious charges of rampant antisemitism to advance an illiberal agenda.

Read more

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/18/columbia-university-congress-antisemitism-republicans-gaza?CMP=share_btn_url

 

Link on our blog;

 

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/republicans-attack-columbia-university-and-win

 

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Happy Birthday Dolores

 

Happy Birthday Dolores

Dolores Huerta turns 94 today, April 10th! Throughout her remarkable life, she led boycotts alongside Cesar Chavez that changed the landscape of labor rights and inspired generations to fight for a more equitable world.

But Dolores' work doesn't stop here. The Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF) carries her torch, building upon her legacy by empowering marginalized communities through grassroots organizing, education, and civic engagement.

Today, as we celebrate Dolores' birthday, we invite you to join us in securing the future of her impact.

Ed note.

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/happy-birthday-dolores

 

 

Dolores was a member of DSA from 1982 until at least 2016.  I do not know if she remains a DSA member.  She was an Honorary Chair of DSA from at least 1990 until the 2017 Convention. She spoke at numerous DSA functions and conventions.

The honorary chairs were abolished in that year.

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Biden; Stop the Bombing

 I’m deeply troubled that the Biden administration continues to approve the transfer of thousands more bombs to Israel. 

Not only does this further our moral complicity in the bloodbath in Gaza, but it gives away whatever bargaining leverage the Biden administration might have to stop Benjamin Netanyahu from further death and destruction in Gaza. 

One need not take sides in this war to be horrified by the killing of tens of thousands of innocent civilians. 

Of course Hamas deserves condemnation for seeking the obliteration of Israel and for the inhumanity it wrought on October 7. The Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu deserves condemnation for killing over 30,000 Palestinians living in Gaza, a large percentage of them children. By May, the World Food Program and others suggest that half the population of Gaza may be on the verge of catastrophic starvation.

I believe Joe Biden genuinely wants this conflict to end. I believe he truly thinks Israel’s operation to go after Hamas has been “over the top,” as he’s said, in terms of it being wildly disproportionate to the odious actions Hamas took on October 7. I believe Biden was truly “outraged and heartbroken” by the Israeli airstrikes in Gaza earlier this week that killed seven aid workers for the charity group World Central Kitchen. And I believe he really does want to draw a “red line” and prevent Netanyahu from mounting a planned invasion of Rafah, where 1.4 million Palestinian refugees have sought shelter. 

Despite all this, the Biden administration has been unwilling to impose a single cost or consequence that would translate into real pressure on Netanyahu. Instead, the U.S. has just authorized the transfer of billions of dollars’ worth of more military equipment to Israel. It just approved a shipment of two-thousand-pound bombs, and twenty F-35s.

Beyond America’s moral complicity in the bloodbath in Gaza there is also politics — here in America and in Israel. 

Americans are no longer willing to provide unconditional support to the Israeli government as it kills or starves ever more Palestinians. Many Democratic voters are unhappy with Biden’s inability or unwillingness to confront Netanyahu, the most rightwing Prime Minister of the most rightwing government Israel has ever had. 

Netanyahu, for his part, needs to keep this war going for his own political survival. He knows that if the war stops, he is probably going to lose power.

We can and we must get tough with Netanyahu. The U.S. government has the authority to suspend an arms package any time before delivery. 

Granted, it is politically difficult to confront an Israeli Prime Minister. I was in the Clinton administration when Netanyahu met with him in June of 1996. I heard Clinton explode after that meeting, “Who’s the fucking superpower here?” 

But there comes a time when America must stand up even to our closest allies when those allies are in the wrong. In 1956, Dwight Eisenhower threatened sanctions if the Israelis did not withdraw from Sinai. That was just before an American election. The Israelis did withdraw. Eisenhower was reelected. 

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MAGA Republicans Destroy Texas Schools/Teachers

 

Texas is in the middle of a teaching crisis,

A new report from the Texas American Federation of Teachers shows that 70% of Texas educators say they’re ready to leave the profession.

That alarming statistic underscores just how bad the teaching crisis in Texas has become. Since the 2012 school year, around 10% of Texas teachers have left the field each year—citing low wages, poor benefits, unmanageable workloads, and political debates putting their classrooms in the middle of Republicans officials’ culture wars.

The teacher shortage has led to larger classrooms, burnout among educators, and a dip in academic performance among students. In fact, between 2019 and 2022, state math scores dropped 7 points for eighth graders and 5 points for fourth graders.

One-in-five Texas teachers say they currently have a second job after school. That’s unacceptable—and it’s a failure of the Republican statewide leadership that has failed to support our public teachers and students time and time again. 

Help us sound the alarm about Texas’s teaching crisis and fight for real investment in our public schools, teachers, and students. Chip in $9, or whatever you can, to help Team Casar fight for teachers in Texas and across the nation.

Chip In »

Duane, over the last few years, teachers in Texas experienced a global pandemic, rising costs and stagnant pay, and attacks on their curriculums from right-wing politicians.

Texas Republicans like Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, and Ted Cruz have failed to significantly raise wages and pay for Texas teachers for years. Then they attacked teachers for wanting adequate health protections for them and their students during the pandemic. And today, they continue to wage phony culture wars around “Critical Race Theory” and “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion” programs for political gain. 

Texas Republicans have failed Texas’s teachers, schools, and students.

But we can change that. The recent report showed that 73% of Texas teachers would stay in their jobs for better pay and more manageable workloads. That’s what Team Casar is fighting for—can you join us?

Chip in $9, or whatever you can, to help us invest in Texas public schools and address the teaching crisis in our state. We can’t let Texas Republicans continue to destroy public education.

 

Thank you for supporting our teachers,

-Greg

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Mayoral Hopeful Flo Cofer Envisions a Democratic Sacramento

Flo Cofer

With an activist background and a left-wing perspective, Sacramento mayoral candidate Flo Cofer bears the markers of an outsider candidate. But backed by big unions, sitting councilmembers, and the city paper, she’s giving the Sac elite a run for their money.

 

https://jacobin.com/2024/03/flo-cofer-sacramento-mayor-homelessness-policing

 

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Join the Poor People's March

 

See post below.