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DESCRIPTION:How the Gentrifiers are Gentrifying City College:  Land Grabs, Student 
 Push-out Policies and Downsizing\n\nSave CCSF Coalition General Assembly: 
 Wednesday, MAY 6,\n5:30 – 7:30 pm in MUB 150\n\nJoin in a roundtable 
 discussion of the rotten underbelly of the City College accreditation 
 crisis: An official in Sacramento told Tom Ammiano that Mayor Lee did not 
 want the elected Board of Trustees to be reinstated yet, as important real 
 estate deals need \nto be completed.\n\nWe will analyze the “January 
 surprises” in which the current administration pushed out some 3100 
 already-\nenrolled students in a single week—in the middle of a major 
 enrollment crisis! On January 7, 2015, some \n1400 students with small 
 overdue payments were robo-dropped about five weeks before their financial 
 aid \narrived, throwing their work schedules and childcare arrangements 
 into chaos, and losing the college many \nthousands in state 
 appropriations.  \n\nOn January 9th, the administration announced the 
 abrupt closure of the Civic Center Tenderloin campus on \none afternoon’s 
 notice, on the grounds of seismic concerns.  When some 2000 new immigrant 
 students \nshowed up for their ESL classes on Monday, the doors were locked 
 and the administration provided \ndirections to alternate sites—written 
 in English!  Only 300 students ever made it to an alternate site.  1700 
 \nmore students gone—the same “disposable” non-credit students 
 de-prioritized by the Student Success Act \nand the administration.  
 Fiasco-- or downsizing policy?\n\nWe will have a round table to share 
 analysis and information (invited speakers below):  \n\n The Shock 
 Doctrine and Disaster Capitalism—short videos on lessons from Chicago, 
 where public school \n\nclosures have been concentrated in gentrifying 
 Black and Latino neighborhoods close to valuable downtown \n\nreal estate; 
 \n\n A short slideshow on the Reservoir Wars in the 80s and 90s, in 
 which the real estate industry \n\nunsuccessfully tried three times to pass 
 a ballot measure for luxury housing development at the Reservoir.  
 \n\nGrassroots organizing won the day!  The real estate industry also tried 
 to tear down Balboa High School to \n\nbuild condos—grassroots organizing 
 won the day!  \n\n MECHA and Asian Student Union organizers will discuss 
 the payment policy;\n\n James Tracy will discuss the Civic Center 
 closure and community resistance;\n\n AFT 2121;\n\n Update on the 
 PAEC and the May 5th meeting about the Reservoir.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/04/21/18771356.php
SUMMARY:Save City College General Assembly
LOCATION:City College Ocean Campus in MUB 150 on Phelan Avenue (near Ocean Ave.)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2015/04/21/18771356.php
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