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<[link removed]>Imagine you’re an Oakland parent, and you wake up one day to find your kids’ school is about to close. It can upend your whole family life. Where will your kids go to school? What about the friends they’ve made? How will you get them to a school way outside your neighborhood every morning and still make it to work on time? Thanks to a few billionaire privatizers, many Oakland families are already facing this reality - and now the district wants to close even more schools. But this November, we can stop them. Help put socialists on the School Board - become a monthly donor to East Bay DSA >> <[link removed]>



(This is not the same as paying dues to national DSA, which many of you already do. East Bay DSA only receives a percentage of national dues, but if you give monthly dues to the chapter, they come straight to us!)



I’ve been an Oakland teacher for the last five years, and I’ve seen the School Board let teachers and students down over and over, falling in line with the district and its billionaire backers, against what people in Oakland actually want. The district makes BS promises that students from closed schools will get first priority choosing new schools, but it’s just not true. Families have to navigate a maze that’s impossible to follow - which is especially hard when their first language isn’t English. Meanwhile, teachers are left stranded, scrambling to figure out where they’ll work next, and kids and teens have just lost the teachers, classrooms, and friends they depended on.



But this crop of School Board candidates is different. Jennifer Brouhard, Valarie Bachelor, and Pecolia Manigo are gonna fight like hell to make sure the district listens to working-class Oakland, not the billionaires and business interests. As teachers and parents in Oakland Unified School District, they’ll bring real live classroom, union, and parent experience to the School Board, not just use it as a stepping stone for a political career. That’s why East Bay DSA - and my union, Oakland Education Association - are backing them all the way. 



Help us talk to every Oakland voter about these union School Board candidates - start monthly dues to East Bay DSA >> <[link removed]>



Friend, East Bay DSA is the real deal. My parents raised me a socialist, and when I went on strike with the teachers in 2019 and saw East Bay DSA on the picket line at 6 am every day, I knew it was time to become a DSA member. Our chapter is out there supporting workers - not just us teachers but nurses, baristas, you name it. We put our actions where our mouth is. As teachers, we’re exhausted, and it’s hard enough to go on strike, or to knock doors for candidates every afternoon after a long day in the classroom. I feel so much solidarity and power we feel when East Bay DSA shows up, and it keeps me going. And now it’s time to put that power toward fighting for public education for everyone.



I just started my monthly dues this week, and I hope you will, too. Pitch in now >> <[link removed]>



Solidarity,







Jose Padilla

Prep Teacher, Emerson Elementary School

Member of Oakland Education Association







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