The following email is from Juanett Davis, Student Body president elect of Santa Monica College, regarding the ?May Revise Rally? occurring in Downtown Los Angeles?s Pershing Square this Monday, May 24 @ 12:00pm.
Goal: To empower community college students to fight back against state proposed budget cuts that would increase student fee?s as limit the number of qualified students admitted into top California Universities, as well as to empower Los Angeles area youth to become educated, registered and mobilized on community college campuses in order to maximize student voter participation in the November 2, 2004 election.
Initial CalSACC Region 7 Campus Targets:
1. Compton Community College 2. East Los Angeles Community College 3. El Camino Community College 4. Glendale Community College 5. Los Angeles City Community College 6. Los Angeles Harbor Community College 7. Los Angeles Pier Community College 8. Los Angeles Mission College 9. Los Angeles South West College 10. Los Angeles Trade Tech College 11. Los Angeles Valley College 12. Pasadena College 13. Santa Monica College 14. West Los Angeles College
Strategy: The collaborative effort to increase awareness, voter education, registration and participation among college students will be focused initially on the fourteen (14) Los Angeles area campuses within CalSACC Region 7. A rally will be held on May 24th, in downtown Los Angeles. Speakers will vary from students, faculty, community leaders, and organizers. We would like for each participating school provide 100-200 students with transportation too and from the rally. Follow up efforts will be then take voter registration teams to they individual colleges.
If you are interested or would like to recieve more information please contact Juanett Davis at prettyoungthang01@hotmail.com.
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