TAKE ACTION: Protect Unbiased Education & Free Speech

TODAY Tell your state legislator to vote no on SB 1277,  SB 1287, AB 2918 and AB 2925.

CA state legislators are poised to vote on four bills that seek to stifle criticism of Israel in public schools including K-12 and universities. The CA Senate Appropriations votes on August 12, the CA Assembly Appropirations votes on August 15, floor votes will take place soon after.

Click here for more info on these bills. Click here for bill text.

TAKE ACTION NOW

1. Copy and paste the emails below into a message. They are our state legislators and members of the Senate and Assembly Appropriations Committees.

To: Assemblymember.McCarty@assembly.ca.gov, Senator.Ashby@senate.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Hoover@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.nguyen@assembly.ca.gov, Senator.Caballero@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Jones@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Becker@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Bradford@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Seyarto@senate.ca.gov, Senator.Wahab@senate.ca.gov, Assemblymember.nguyen@assembly.ca.gov Assemblymember.wicks@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.sanchez@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Arambula@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.bryan@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Calderon@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Carrillo@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.dixon@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.fong@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.grayson@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.haney@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.hart@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.patterson@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.pellerin@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.ta@assembly.ca.gov, Assemblymember.Villapudua@assembly.ca.gov,

cc: Mark.McKenzie@SEN.CA.GOV, approps.committee@assembly.ca.gov

2. In the subject put: Protect unbiased education & free speech. No to on SB 1277,  SB 1287, AB 2918 and AB 2925.

3. Copy and paste this message or write your own:

Please vote no on SB 1277,  SB 1287, AB 2918 and AB 2925.

These bills misuse our state tax dollars to promote biased education in K-12 public schools and to restrict free speech in public colleges and universities.

The underlying purpose of these bills is to withhold information about and silence criticism of Israel’s human rights abuses of Palestinians – abuses that now include genocide.

Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic but biasing public education and attempting to silence discussion about any government’s human rights abuses, including Israel’s, is racist and against the freedom of speech provisions so critical to our constitution.