Teachers 4 Social Justice

COME THROUGH THIS FRIDAY: 6-8pm

Teachers 4 Social Justice invites you to this year's 'Thank a Teacher for Social Justice' celebration! Join us for an evening of (re)connection and gratitude.

ASL interpretation provided. Wheelchair accessible. Fam friendly. Delicious food by

6pm- 8pm

Location:
901 Minnesota Street (entrance)
(4 bocks from MUNI)

RSVP through QR code or link in bio.

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Community! T4SJ is hosting a celebration of our community on Friday, May 19th, 6-8 PM. We are reincarnating our annual "Thank a Teacher for Social Justice" event and revisioning it as a celebration of art, community and joy at ICA Museum in the Dogpatch neighborhood in SF.

Everyone is an awardee! Free food, drinks and T4SJ arts and activity stations (create your own zine and more!). Wheelchair accessible and family friendly

Please sign the petition and share widely! We call on our representatives in congress to support H.R. 2590: Defending the Human Rights of Palestinian Children and Families Living Under Israeli Military Occupation Act.

H.R. 2590 was introduced by Congresswoman Betty McCollum(D-MN) and currently has 32 co-sponsors including our local representatives Representatives Barbara Lee, Jackie Speier, Jerry McNerney, Jared Huffman and Mark DeSaulnier, and endorsed by over 170 civil society organizations. This bill seeks to ensure that U.S. taxpayer funds are not used by the Israeli government for 1) the military detention of Palestinian children; 2) the demolition of Palestinian homes and property; and 3) to further annex Palestinian land, in violation of international law.

It is incumbent upon Congress to take responsibility for how $3.8 billion of our tax dollars a year are used to further human right violations. Holding Israel accountable for its use of U.S. aid is long overdue. In recent reports, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International state that Israel is committing “crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution” against Palestinians, echoing the voices of Palestinian civil society. These reports outline the disturbing and systematic human rights violations committed by the Israeli government, including sweeping restrictions on freedom of movement targeting Palestinians in the occupied territories; the demolition of homes and “near-categorical denial” of building permits; de facto permanent military occupation; land expropriation; and the systematic rejection of residency rights of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

Gavin Newsom, YOU NEED TO MEET WITH THESE TEACHERS IMMEDIATELY!!!!

Please call Gavin Newsom at 916-445-2841 and demand he meet with these teachers! Or you can text SIGN PWULTU to 50409 to sign on to a Resistbot petition.

Who are the Oakland school district hunger strikers? There is widespread concern about the teachers’ well-being, and one was taken to the hospital this week.

OFFICIAL CAMPAIGN LAUNCH

NoSchoolBoardRecall.org Campaign Launch

Saturday, November 13 - Doors open at 1:30 pm
17th & Folsom - In Chan Kaajal Playground

In-person event is family friendly, masks required
Remote option available with RSVP

Please RSVP here: https://bit.ly/launch_RSVP

In celebration of the release of Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators (AK Press, September 2021), we’re excited to announce a webinar series to support the movement for abolition across educational contexts.

Please join us for our third webinar of this series, "Lessons in Liberation: Abolition in our PreK-12 Classrooms," happening Tuesday, September 28, at 4:00 - 5:30 PM PST / 6:00 - 7:30 PM CST / 7:00 - 8:30 PM EST.

Registration:
To receive a link to view the webinar livestream, please register at http://LessonsInLiberationEducators.eventbrite.com.

Accessibility:
ASL Interpretation will be provided by Certified Deaf Interpreters and Deaf Interpreters. We will also provide CART Captions. Please contact Sheeva at [email protected] for additional accessibility needs or questions.

Lessons in Liberation: Abolition in our PreK-12 Classrooms A webinar series in celebration of the release of “Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3loT5V3dKq4

Lessons in Liberation #2: Healing Justice Pedagogies

TOMORROW, TUESDAY SEPT 14th, join us for the second webinar in a fall series to celebrate the release of Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators (September 2021, AK Press ).

This week’s event,
"Lessons in Liberation: Healing Justice Pedagogies" is happening Tuesday, September 14, at 4:00 - 5:30 PM PST / 6:00 - 7:30 PM CST / 7:00 - 8:30 PM EST.

Registration:
To receive a link to join the webinar, please register at http://LessonsInLiberationHealing.eventbrite.com.

To catch the recording and join from YouTube, watch at bit.ly/Lessons_in_Liberation_Live

Accessibility:
ASL Interpretation will be provided by Certified Deaf Interpreters and Deaf Interpreters. We will also provide CART Captions. Please contact Sheeva (she or they) at [email protected]

💫Panelist bios also on the eventbrite link 💫

Happening today! Image 1: Features the cover of “Lessons In Liberation” in the bottom right corner of the image. The top right diagonal of the background is magenta and the bottom left diagonal background is off-white, with a large yellow circle and small green dots. On top of the large yellow circle there is black text that reads, ‘Coming September 2021’. On top of the magenta background there is black text that reads, ‘Available for pre-order at AKpress.org.’

Image 2 Description: Beginning at the top and moving in a clockwise direction, the background of this image is magenta, green, off-white, and light purple with a yellow text box. The image heading text says, ‘Mark your Calendars! for the “Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators” Webinar Series.’ Information about the first three webinars follows this heading: ‘Grounding Education in Abolition, Wednesday, September 1, 2021; Healing Justice Pedagogies, Tuesday, September 14, 2021; Abolition in our PreK-12 Classrooms, Tuesday, September 28, 2021. Webinars will be at 4 PM PST/ 6 PM CST / 7 PM EST. Register at LessonsInLiberation.Eventbrite.com”.

Image 3: Beginning at the top and moving in a clockwise direction, the background of this image is magenta, green, off-white, and light purple with a yellow text box. The image heading text says, ‘Mark your Calendars! for the “Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators” Webinar Series.’ Information about the last three webinars follows: “Students for Abolition, Tuesday, October 26, 2021; Bridging Abolition to School Leadership, Tuesday, November 16, 2021; Abolitionist Community Organizing and Education, Tuesday, November 30, 2021. Webinars will be at 4 PM PST/ 6 PM CST / 7 PM EST. Register at LessonsInLiberation.Eventbrite.com’.

Image 4: The background of this image is magenta and light purple, with a bright yellow and bright green circle. Across the top of the background, is written ‘Lessons in Liberation: Grounding Education in Abolition, Wednesday, September 1, 2021, 4 PM PST / 6 PM CST / 7 PM EST’. On top of the light-purple background is black text that says, ‘FEATURING Mariame Kaba, Project NIA; Chrissy A.Z. Hernandez, “Lessons in Liberation” Editorial Collective; Lisa Kelly, Oakland Unified School District; Edgar Ernesto Ibarra Gutierrez, MILPA. Brought to you by the Education for Liberation Network and Critical Resistance.’ Images of the 4 panelists are to the right of this text. Below these images is text that reads, ‘Moderated by Erica Meiners and Farima Pour-Khorshid’ as well as the moderators’ photos. There is black text in the green circle that reads: ‘Register at
LessonsInLiberation.Eventbrite.com. CART captions and ASL interpretation provided. Email [email protected] for additional access needs.’

Due to unsafe air quality, we will be postponing our collective care until further notice. We hope that our and communities will consider sending love, light and resources to those impacted by these wildfires 💫💛✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿💫 to send resources please check out RYSE Center drop-off locations. "The Bay Area has been choking on wood smoke since Sunday night after wind-stoked fires broke in Napa and Sonoma counties.
On Thursday morning, most of the Bay Area reached an "unhealthy level," prompting schools to keep students inside at recess and forcing some to close entirely. "We're seeing the worst air quality ever recorded in many parts of the Bay Area," Flannigan told SFGATE earlier this week. "The entire Bay Area population is likely being affected by the smoke." The movement of smoke is dependent on the weather, said Charles Bell, a forecaster with the National Weather Service. "We're going to see a really strong settling of the smoke in the Bay Area on Friday and Saturday, not to mince words but it's going to be really bad. It's not going to be fun." http://m.sfgate.com/news/article/air-quality-San-Francisco-Bay-Area-Beijing-12272792.php -14334654

REMINDER: This Saturday, October 14th at 9am! “Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.” –Audre Lorde
H.E.L.L.A. People’s On the Run is a grassroots organization collaboration between the Teachers 4 Social Justice and the People’s Education Movement to create opportunities for educators/organizers of color to heal collectively, network and build together. The acronym H.E.L.L.A. stands for Healing, Empowerment, Love, Liberation and Action, which are the guiding tenets of the H.E.L.L.A. Critical Affinity Group within T4SJ and People’s stands for the Bay Area chapter of the People’s Education Movement. Considering the structural barriers designed to keep people of color alienated, isolated and collectively disempowered within the realm of teaching and organizing [i.e. 83% of the teaching profession is White; Gentrification and the displacement of POC throughout the Bay Area, etc.] our hope is to build on our existing efforts of centering the needs, healing, strengths and individual/collective power of POC in our organizing spaces.

Every 2nd Saturday beginning in October 2017 and ending in May 2018, participants who sign up will meet at the white pillars at Lake Merritt in Oakland. At 9 am we will begin with stretching, affirmations and Assata Shakur’s chant. At 9:15 am folks will choose one of the following groups to join:

-Mindful Meditation/Yoga Squad *please bring a yoga mat

-Walking Squad

-Jogging Squad

-Running Squad

Please come wearing all black attire, bring water and revolutionary loving/healing energy to exchange with other educators and organizers of color!

17th annual conference is on!!!

Conference today! And don't forget: bring cash! The Dreamers Cafe is ready with coffee for you all, and proceeds support DACA college scholarships.

Conference Resource Fair- Request for Vendor/Org space

Coming to this year's conference? Are you part of a nonprofit or organization that would like to spread the word on what you do? Apply to have a table at our Conference Resource Fair! Details below - only one week left to apply!

https://t4sj.org/events/t4sj-conference-2017/conference-resource-fair/

t4sj.org CONFERENCE RESOURCE FAIR Each year dozens of non-profit businesses, curriculum resource companies, book publishers and individuals are give space at our Resource Fair. Orgs/Vendors are lined up al…