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Community organizing meeting: Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom!
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Date:
Wednesday, October 12, 2016
Time:
5:00 PM
-
7:00 PM
Event Type:
Meeting
Organizer/Author:
community
Location Details:
North Branch - Berkeley Public Library
1170 The Alameda, Berkeley, CA
Return
Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom!
Community
Organizing Meeting
Wednesday,
October 12, 2016
5pm
North
Branch - Berkeley Public Library
1170
The Alameda, Berkeley, CA
Anti-fascist activist and teacher Yvette Felarca continues to be prevented from returning to her classroom at Martin Luther King Jr Middle School after being placed on administrative leave.
After she helped stop a neo-Nazi recruitment rally in Sacramento this summer, and was stabbed in the process, terror threats were made against Ms. Felarca and the school if she's not fired, and instead of defending the entire community, including Ms. Felarca, the school district is capitulating to the neo-Nazis' demands by removing her from her job.
The
school district also took some of her wages out of her bank account,
and some of her students were pulled out of class and interrogated
about her without parental notification or consent.
Last Wednesday, students from all grade levels - elementary, middle, and high school, parents, fellow teachers from Berkeley and Oakland, and a diverse range of community members again rallied in defense of Ms. Felarca at the school board meeting. When board members refused to disclose their personal positions on whether she should continue to teach, and instead scurried off into "closed session", the community held its own meeting in the board room, with many more speaking out. Video of the rally and school board meeting can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdwuri1LFYI
Last Wednesday, students from all grade levels - elementary, middle, and high school, parents, fellow teachers from Berkeley and Oakland, and a diverse range of community members again rallied in defense of Ms. Felarca at the school board meeting. When board members refused to disclose their personal positions on whether she should continue to teach, and instead scurried off into "closed session", the community held its own meeting in the board room, with many more speaking out. Video of the rally and school board meeting can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdwuri1LFYI
Voice
your solidarity with Yvette Felarca, and demand that she be reinstated
immediately, paid her full wages, and the harassment of her and her
students be stopped: boardofed@berkeley.net,
Superintendent@berkeley.net
Defend
Yvette Felarca!
Non-sectarian
defense of all anti-fascists!
An injury
to one is an injury to all!
For
more information:
Press
conference with Yvette Felarca and her lawyer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHhVxvNt3vY
Details
of what happened in Sacramento, and the neo-Nazis involved: http://antifasac.weebly.com/home/blood-in-the-valley-why-people-put-their-lives-on-the-line-to-run-nazis-out-of-sacramento
More
about the fascist organizers of the Sacramento rally: https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/06/27/violent-clashes-erupt-sacramento-between-white-nationalists-and-antifascists
Details
about neo-Nazis converging in Berkeley prior to their attempted rally
in Sacramento: https://itsgoingdown.org/big-nazis-on-campus/
Added to the calendar on Sun, Oct 9, 2016 11:40PM
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Isis Feral speech to Berkeley School Board, demands reinstatement of Yvette Felarca on 10/5/16. See video posted 10/9/16 at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhtE6sBQvPU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhtE6sBQvPU
For more information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhtE6sBQvPU
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