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Focus on LEGISLATIVEactivities
Calls, visits, e-mails, target lawmakers in critical areas, voter registration tables on college campuses
Reach out to EVERY PARENT
Phone calls, fliers, letters home, walking neighborhoods, leafleting, mall grade-ins, videos
Use Day of the Teacher to APPRECIATE educators and ALLIESactivities
Partner with PTA to thank educators, field trips to fire stations, campus honor tents to recognize faculty and staff, and other ally activities
Promote the need forREVENUE for schools and other essential public services
Educate members and community about TAX FAIRNESS, "Refrain from Shopping" day, day without higher education dollars, campus lunch-ins.
It's NOT BUSINESS AS USUAL. Declare a STATE OF EMERGENCY.
300 volunteers needed for a sit-in in the State Capitol.
“State of Emergency” campaign hits Main Street
The “State of Emergency” campaign came to Main Street in Santa Clara today, drawing media attention to local impacts of the Legislature’s stalemate on the state budget crisis.Silicon Valley teachers, parents and labor leaders held a news conference on Main Street to dramatize that their urgent demand for state lawmakers to extend some temporary taxes is really about “Main Street priorities” like protecting our schools, public safety and communities from devastating cuts.
Speakers were Don Dawson, CTA Board member and San Jose educator; teacher Tracy Pope, president of United Teachers of Santa Clara (UTSC); UTSC member, teacher and Santa Clara Unified School District parent Viola Smith; teacher Dave Villafana, president of Cupertino Education Association; Santa Clara Unified parent Stephen McMahon, president of the San Jose Teachers Association; San Jose firefighter Jeff Welch, president of San Jose Firefighters Local 230; and Anna Schlotz, lead organizer for the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council.
With tax deadline day looming on Monday, April 18, speakers thanked the public for paying the taxes that fund