The firing of Tucker and other teachers demanding stringent safety measures takes place as the political establishment in Texas and across the US, backed by the corporatist unions, rush to fully reopen the economy in the pursuit of profits.
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Smoke rises following Israeli missile strikes on Gaza City, Thursday, May 13, 2021. The four-day burst of violence has pushed Israel into uncharted territory dealing with the most intense fighting it has ever had with Hamas while simultaneously coping with the worst Jewish-Arab violence inside Israel in decades.Khalil Hamra/AP
The San Antonio branch of Jewish Voices for Peace, a national activist group focusing on the Israel-Palestine conflict, will host a teach-in and conversation surrounding Palestine on Saturday.
The organizers are inviting all allies of Palestine for the event at 6:40 p.m., beginning with a reading of names in memorial of Palestinians killed during the conflict.
Parents turn out for a San Antonio teacher about to be fired
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Alejandra Lopez, president of the San Antonio Alliance of Teachers and Support Personnel, speaks at a press conference last September to urge a slower reopening of area schools.Jerry Lara /San Antonio Express-News
Calls by union members, coworkers and parents for San Antonio Independent School District trustees not to fire a kindergarten teacher were not enough to stop the board from voting to end her probationary contract.
Rachell Tucker, a dual language teacher at Highland Park Elementary School, was one of three district employees with probationary contracts who will lose their jobs at the end of the school year. The board vote Monday evening was unanimous.
San Antonio activists take on phony cop ‘unions’
By Shelley Ettinger posted on April 21, 2021
San Antonio Black Lives Matter activists in San Antonio came out April 16 and 17 to demand an end to police killings of Black and Brown people, nationally and locally. The first demonstration, sponsored by the San Antonio Coalition for Police Accountability, Fix SAPD and others, was focused on Proposition B. This referendum on the May 1 ballot would cancel collective bargaining rights for so-called police “unions,” eliminating contract provisions that shield cops from discipline or firing even for the most horrendous acts.
Activists, including members of several unions, picketed outside the San Antonio Central Labor Council’s meeting. Shamefully, the SACLC opposes Prop B to the point of going door to door to urge people to vote it down. That very day, San Antonio cops had killed two people sitting in their car during a traffic stop.