STUDENT LABOR ACTION PROJECT
Santa Barbara City College
MISSION: SLAP SBCC has been organized to ensure social and economic justice on campus and in the community. In order to achieve this end, SLAP SBCC will:
o Promote active student involvement in affecting the policies that affect our lives by providing community organizing skills to the student population through building strong ties with community organizations to bring skills trainings to campus and give students the opportunity to gain experience in community activism;
o Facilitate collective action through coalition building to develop inclusive community solutions and win concrete improvements in the quality of life for all students, staff, faculty and other members of the community in which we live;
o Support conscious community building efforts based on the workers’ rights to organize, the immigrants’ right to an equal standard of living, and the human rights to accessible education, universal healthcare, affordable housing, a stable pension, and a living wage, which we as students expect to receive as we graduate and join the labor force.
BIO: After an exciting highschool career questioning authority, SLAP SBCC arrived at City College only to discover that The Man had left the pyramid footprint on the decision-making processes of power. Remembering Martin Luther King Jrs' words, "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter," SLAP SBCC stood up and screamed "Injustice!" Teaching the students how to raise our voice, SLAP SBCC spoke of direct action, and the walls of the institution began to tremble. As the student body, we gotta list of demands written on the palm of our hand. It is time to SLAP these demands across the face of the man who forgot about our needs when he the told us how to conform and how to live. We have raised our hands in the classroom. Today our demands will be aired, and if our needs are not met, these hands will become the fists of student power, raised in Solidarity to fight for social change and economic justice!
Curious about what all we do? Check the blog for some of our news coverage, (2 front pages in just 1 semester!) Here are some flyers from two of last year's SLAP-organized events"