Tag: protest

Parents, Students, and Faculty Picket at San Jose Ave. and Randall Street

April 10, 2023June 1, 2023 The Guardsman protest, Ellen Yoshitsugu, Jess Leary Duquette, Dolores Huerta Elementary School, Panchito, English Learner Advisory Committee

Parents, students and teachers picket at San Jose Ave and Randall St.

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Faculty, Staff and Students Protest Layoffs with Day of Action Rally at City College

March 29, 2022May 3, 2022 The Guardsman protest, budget cuts, class cuts

The in-person rally, followed by a virtual press-conference attended by more than 400 people, featured lively call-and-response chants and testimonials from faculty, staff and students who addressed the importance of retaining class offerings for the most underserved students in the Bay Area.

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Call for Leonard Peltier’s Pardon; Nation Looks to Biden to Right a Wrong

March 14, 2022February 2, 2023 The Guardsman USP-2Coleman, Leonard Peltier, Shannon Rivers, Louie Gutierrez, Oglala Sioux Reservation, American Indian Movement, protest, Presidential Pardon, Covid, Katherine Castillo, Leonard Peltier's Pardon

Supporters of a Native American activist who has spent more than 40 years behind bars for a crime he says he didn’t commit have ramped up their push for clemency after he recently tested positive for COVID-19.

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California Highway Patrol Break Up a Peaceful Protest and a Wheelchair

September 9, 2020September 19, 2020 The Guardsman Golden Gate Bridge Authority, Hero Tent, George Floyd, Kiana Simmons, counter-protest, protest, San Francisco Police Department, guardsman, John Taylor Wildfeuer, California Highway Patrol

Since the death of George Floyd, many including students have taken to the streets to protest the use of excessive force by police in America. Bay Area students have a long history of protest, notably the Third World Liberation Strikes of 1968, which fought for more inclusion and diversity on the campuses of San Francisco State and UC Berkeley.

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Student Activist Groups Coming for City Supervisors

September 9, 2020September 19, 2020 The Guardsman ESL, African American Studies Department, Fort Mason, Equity for Older Students Group, CCSF Collective, summer reporting, BSU, OLAD, Olivia Lewman, Older Adult Learners, city college, English as a Second Language, protest, Older Adult Learning, budget cuts, Black Student Union

City College faculty, students, and student groups organized a protest at San Francisco’s Fort Mason Center on June 22. Protesters expressed their anger regarding the recent decision to forgo the lease for the college’s Fort Mason campus, the removal of ESL and OLAD programs, and the disinvestment in its Black students.