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Congress is discussing a budget plan that would cut Medicaid for 21% of Ohioans, including children, the elderly, and 40% of births in Ohio. Medicaid helps to keep local hospitals running, plays a crucial role in supporting K-12 students, schools, and school-based health providers and families.

Click "start writing" and tell your member of Congress to oppose any legislation that cuts Medicaid, SNAP, or leaves working families behind while the rich get richer.

Tell Central Ohio Technical College to Respect Faculty and Sign Their Contract

In Congress, Trump’s allies are trying to sneak a new voucher program into a bill about taxes. But this “tuition tax credit” is nothing more than a national voucher program that also allows people like Elon Musk and Betsy DeVos to turn a profit, personally earning millions of dollars from the scheme, while our public schools, which 90 percent of all students attend, are underfunded and undermined.

Members of Congress—regardless of party—should urge President Trump to end this terrible anxiety and cruelty by reinstating the protection of schools, hospitals and churches against ICE.

Member Mobilization Leaders (MMLs)

Member Mobilization Leaders (MMLs)

Who are they?

The Member Mobilization Leaders (MMLs) are a set of individuals that CTU brought on board through funding by a grant through OFT in Summer 2020. The MMLs (originally titled Political Mobilization Leaders, or PMLs) are leadership positions created to increase member activity in targeted projects. As of April 2024, the MMLs are under the leadership of Legislative Chair Jimmy Musser.

Name	Position	School
Tracey Barbieri	Teacher & Membership Assistant	Cleveland School of Science & Medicine
Reta Berry	Teacher & Chapter Chair	FDR
Rachel Calipetro	Teacher	Paul Dunbar
Qiana Camp	Transition Coordinator	Transition Coordinator, multiple
Avriel Chaney	Teacher, Chapter Chair, Legislative Assistant	Lincoln - West School of Science & Health
Karen Dodson	Teacher	CMSD Remote High School
Gerard Linn	Transition Coordinator	Transition Services, multiple
Toni McCall	Teacher	Collinwood High School
Tequita Spoon-Hector	Teacher	East Clark
Lakisha Tuggle	LPN

2024 - 2025 School Year Projects:

MMLs are currently working on getting volunteers from each worksite in their network out to our levy & political canvasses.
MMLs were trained over the summer in new tools to help them for the busy 2024 fall campaign season.

2023-2024 School Year Projects:

The MMLs ran a workshop during the Fall Leadership Conference with help from OFT Political Organizer Melissa Miser & CTU MML Director Cindy Antonio. The MMLs discussed their program and goals with new and returning Chapter Chairs for the entire school year.
The MMLs worked to gather signatures for the Citizens Not Politicians initiative to end gerrymandering (again) in Ohio. CTU is leading labor in collecting signatures and CTU MML Rachel Calipetro is the number one signature collector in the entire state!

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