Join us Tuesday August 18th at 6 PM! YDSA members up and down California have the opportunity to help pass the largest tax increase in history on California’s wealthiest commercial property owners, raising $10-12 billion per year for public education and social services.

With the Movement for Black Lives uprising deepening into the call for defunding the police, it will be necessary to expand revenues required to build alternative, sustainable public services and practices. Progressive taxation—especially taxing the rich—is an essential path to accomplish that goal. Proposition 15, on the November 3 ballot, is backed by labor and opposed by the most reactionary sectors of capital.

At this event, we'll watch a presentation by labor historian Fred Glass on the history of austerity politics and increasing inequality in California caused by the passage of Prop 13 in 1978. Prop 15 will reform the disastrous Prop 13 tax loopholes by taxing mega companies like Chevron, Disney, and Amazon to fund our schools and services. Join YDSA chapters from across the state on Tuesday August 18th at 6 PM as we start our fight to tax the rich!

Suggested Readings:

Disaster Capitalism Is Coming for Public Education by Katie Ferrari

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/05/public-education-schools-covid-coronavirus-charter-teachers

Teachers Unions Look Like the Last Line of Defense in Trump’s “Reckless” School Reopening Crusade by Hamilton Nolan

https://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/22668/teachers-unions-trump-reckless-school-reopening