Free City! The Fight for San Francisco’s City College and Education for All
tells the story of the five years of organizing that turned a seemingly
hopeless defensive fight into a victory for the most progressive free
college measure in the US. In 2012, the accreditor sanctioned City
College of San Francisco, one of the biggest and best community colleges
in the country, and a year later proposed terminating its
accreditation, leading to a state takeover. Free City!
follows the multipronged strategies of the campaign and the diverse
characters that carried them out. Teachers, students, labor unions,
community groups, public officials, and concerned individuals saved a
treasured public institution as San Francisco’s working-class
communities of color battled the gentrification that was forcing them
out of the city. And they pushed back against the national “reform”
agenda of corporate workforce training that drives students towards debt
and sidelines lifelong learning and community service programs.
Combining analysis with narrative, Free City!
offers a case study in the power of positive vision and
solution-oriented organizing and a reflection on what education can and
should be.
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