In California, students and activists have launched a statewide campaign to gather signatures for a ballot measure that would reinstate California’s inherited estate tax in order to provide free tuition for public universities and community colleges across California. They launched the grassroots initiative only days after Republican lawmakers voted to slash the federal estate tax as part of Trump’s tax plan. This is one of the student organizers.

Cynthia Diaz: “My name is Cynthia Diaz, and I currently attend City College in San Francisco. College for All is a ballot initiative that will make college tuition free all across California, which includes UCs, Cal States and community colleges, by taxing the inheritance of the rich. It prioritizes low-income students, but it also includes undocumented students under AB 130, formerly incarcerated students and nontraditional students, those who do not go to college directly from high school.”