October 18th Voter Registration Rally

by Debora Bone

Yes 30/No 32 signs

With the election getting close, CCFT members came out in force on Thursday October 18th at noon on the quad to help students to register to vote. There was a lot of excitement as students lined up for pizza and filled out voter registration forms, some for the first time in their lives. two students yes 30

Janet Fine, VAPA instructor, designed a custom silk screen in support of Prop 30. Artists Linda Watson and Jane Gregorius, and several students from the Cabrillo Student Arts Association, joined Janet’s production team out on the quad to roll paint and silkscreen T-shirts with this great design. Students left ready to wear their support for this important initiative that will assure funding for education.

Regina DeCosse brought her Improv dance students to the Rally and they performed a lively choreographed piece to inspire new voters. Adrianna Mee performed her contemporary rap poem, questioning the kind of world we live in and speaking out against injustice.

students dance Thank you to everyone who has joined in the efforts to register voters and to inform our community about these initiatives. CCFT estimates that faculty efforts have helped to get in several hundred, perhaps upwards of a thousand, voter-registration applications. Please remind everyone to VOTE on November 6!

Special thanks to the many volunteers for bringing this together, including:
Janet Fine for designing and printing YES on 30 shirts; Selena Mutranga, the Cabrillo Students Arts Association, Jane Gregorious, and Lynda Watson for assisting with the planning and printing; Regina DeCosse and her improvisational dance class for bringing their movement to the quad; Adrianna Mee for sharing her spoken word; Sadie Reynolds for help coordinating; Debora Bone, Anne Lucero, Eric Hoffman, Debra Spencer, Susan Stuart, Beth McKinnon for their help registering voters;Judy Cassada, Kim Flock, Tobin Keller, Sarah Henne (PVFT), and many more of you who assisted in a myriad of ways.

Education is My Moral Landscape

By Adrianna Mee, a 20-year-old sociology student who has always dreamt of changing the world through poetry

Mee headshot

I would love to believe in the american dream
but manifest destiny only manifests greed
and an absolute power becomes an absolute need
choking the throats of the mouths that we feed
distracting the masses
with pepper spray and gasses
suppressing the youth by cutting their classes
I was bred to be a man of industry
but nothing is what it seems to be
and this life is a penitentiary
where you work real hard but you'll never be free
of all the pain and misery
of this nihilist's reality

but I have to rise above
and call it solidarity
and the answer will always be education
because crime is the social creation
of plantation owners
and isn't it funny that when it comes to money
we call it free speech
but we refuse to value those who teach
and instead pay our taxes to those who preach
political propaganda
through lies and slander
you can put lipstick on a pig but it's still dinner
in the kingdom of the blind there is no winner
put a price on religion, but I ain't a sinner
put science to a race, but he ain't a killer

Incarcerate the world and what do you see?
A removal of all identity
to uphold the American family
and you choose to call that integrity?
No.
My society will uphold diversity
and choose to call it inspiration
a method that cannot be funded by your corporation
or be brought to its knees by intimidation
and your forces of colonization will not work on my mind
though pockets of resistance may be hard to find
us ninety-nine will stand together

October 18th Voter Registration Rally

by Debora Bone

Education is My Moral Landscape

honesty cannot be purchased the truth is not subliminal now you look into the mirror and tell me who's the real criminal?

honesty cannot be purchased
the truth is not subliminal
now you look into the mirror and tell me
who's the real criminal?