New Mexico educators: Form rank-and-file safety committees to close schools and save lives!
The Texas Educators Rank-and-File Safety Committee calls on teachers, school workers, parents and their families in New Mexico to build committees in your districts to defend the lives, livelihoods and rights of educators, students and communities.
The actions of governors and governments throughout the Southwest region during the COVID-19 pandemic have prioritized profit over the lives of residents, and New Mexico is no exception.
Kindergarten teacher at Southside Independent School District in San Antonio, Texas on August 13, 2020. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Near the end of the spring of 2020, New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham decided to end her shelter-in-place order so as to begin priming the pump for her fall economic reopening plans. Another Democratic Party politician, Albuquerque Mayor Tim Keller, proclaimed a May 15 summer school reopening as the city reached 5,500 COVID-19 cases and 242 deaths.