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Please act to today on behalf of teachers and students. 

This is National Teacher Appreciation Week, and our movement is celebrating the profound impact educators have on our lives, remembering those in our past who inspired us to raise our own vision higher and better understand our world.

Today Dr. West also honors his own mother’s dedication as a beloved teacher with a lasting legacy in Sacramento, where the Irene B. West Elementary School still proudly bears her name.

<[link removed]>Donate to the West Abdullah Presidential Campaign Championing for Education Justice <[link removed]>Your donation supports our movement's commitment to:

- Prioritizing Public Schools: Reducing the need for charter schools and focusing resources on public schools that serve all.


- Ensuring Free Tuition: Making state and community college tuition-free for all.


- Supporting Our Teachers: Guaranteeing a minimum wage of $80,000 for all K-12 public school teachers.


- Ending the School-to-Prison Pipeline: Removing police from our schools and restoring safety and trust.


- Canceling Student Debt: Freeing a generation from the shackles of debilitating loans.


- Promoting Fair Admissions: Reinstating the fair consideration of race, ethnicity, and class in school admissions.


- Teaching Full History: Abolishing laws that restrict the accurate teaching of our nation’s factual history.


- Increasing Funding: Boosting support for HBCUs and Tribal Colleges and Universities.



We stand at a pivotal moment where you can honor teachers with your action today. 

Dr. Cornel West and Dr. Melina Abdullah, lifelong educators themselves, are championing a transformative vision for our nation’s educational system—a vision that honors the spirit of every teacher by fundamentally reshaping our approach to education justice. 

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Ensuring Ballot Access in 50 States

Every state requires independents to meet unique rules to be allowed alongside corporate duopoly party candidates on state election ballots.

As a result, Dr. West will either stand as the candidate of likeminded independent parties, as the candidate of his newly-formed Justice for All Party, or as an independent candidate via required petition signatures or pay-to-play fees—depending on each state's regulations. <[link removed]>

This campaign is not funded by corporate donations or super-PACs, but individual, grassroots donations. Our people-powered movement stretches every donated dollar to keep the movement moving forward.

Please—act to help us today.

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Now, more than ever, your support is crucial. As independents standing for true voter independence, we rely completely on individual funding. Our growing, grassroots, people-powered revolution is committed to ending the duopoly and ushering in a new era of fairness and opportunity in education.

Your donation today will fuel this vital movement, helping us bring about systemic change and uphold the dignity of every student and teacher in America.

Thank you for standing with us in this fight for the heart and soul of our nation.

In service and solidarity,


Dr. Cornel West for President 2024
Independent Presidential Candidate

P.S. Every contribution brings us closer to an education system that uplifts, not undermines; that liberates, not confines. Please, make your most generous gift today. Donate here <[link removed]>.

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Dr. West, affectionately known to many as Brother West, is the Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Philosophy and Christian Practice at Union Theological Seminary.

Dr. West is the former University Professor at Harvard University, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and the first Black person to receive a Ph.D. In Philosophy from Princeton University. He has written 20 books and he is best known for his classics, Race Matters and Democracy Matters, and for his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He will deliver the historic Gifford lectures at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in Spring 2024.

Dr. West enters the 2024 Presidential contest at a time in which he describes a national crisis of moral bankruptcy and spiritual obscenity driven by a derelict duopoly of both major parties that equally places profits over people and the planet. West asserts that running as an Independent candidate affords him the opportunity and duty to deliver policy prescriptions incorporated by and for the people, instead of political parties beholden to corporations and special interest groups who feel no solidarity with poor and working-class people of all races, gender identities, and age groups.

The Cornel West Campaign to empower poor and working people everywhere stands at a pivotal moment in history, committed to being a true campaign for people around the globe. Our aim is and will always be to unite in solidarity with movements of truth and justice, who seek a choice beyond empire, white supremacy, capitalism, patriarchy, and the confines of the corporate-dominated two-party system.

About Dr. Melina Abdullah

Dr. Melina Abdullah is a Professor of Pan-African Studies at California State University, Los Angeles, where she has also served as Department Chair. A respected scholar and dedicated activist, Dr. Abdullah is deeply involved in organized labor and social justice movements, holding roles such as the Chair of the Council for Racial and Social Justice with the California Faculty Association’s Los Angeles Chapter. She has been a lifelong union organizer and a delegate to the County Federation of Labor, melding her academic expertise with grassroots activism to champion causes such as the "Cops Off Campus" campaign and the establishment of Ethnic Studies in educational curricula.

A founding organizer of Black Lives Matter, Dr. Abdullah continues to lead the Los Angeles chapter and serves as Director of Black Lives Matter Grassroots, driving local and national initiatives that aim to dismantle systemic racism. Her leadership has been pivotal in various campaigns for justice and equity, including #BlackWomenAreDivine and #EndPoliceAssociations. Dr. Abdullah's commitment to social change is also evident through her role in media, where she produces and hosts "Move the Crowd" on 90.7FM KPFK, furthering public political education.

Beyond her professional and activist roles, Dr. Abdullah is a devoted mother and a champion of community engagement and empowerment. Raised in Oakland, California, by a family of union workers, she embodies the values instilled by her ancestors and strives to pass on a legacy of resilience and advocacy to her three children and her community in Los Angeles’ Crenshaw District. Her extensive contributions to social justice have earned her numerous accolades, including the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance “Champion of Change” Award and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Award from Loyola Marymount University.

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