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San Francisco teachers’ union endorses Israel boycott movement

There’s been multiple BDS victories over the past week or so. Let’s round them up. South Africa South African dockworkers refused to off-load cargo from an Israeli vessel in the port city of Durban. The workers are members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union and were acting in solidarity with a call from the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions. “We do not want Israeli ships or goods in South African ports and shops,” a member of the South African BDS Coalit...

Jewish community pans 'inflammatory' resolution from United Educators of San Francisco that says US aid to Israel is being used to 'fund apartheid and war crimes'

A United Educators of San Francisco march (Photo: Facebook) The United Educators of San Francisco has become the first American K-12 public school union to endorse the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement (BDS). The resolution passed on May 19, at the height of Israel’s recent assault on Gaza. J Weekly’s Gabriel Greschler reports that the resolution was submitted by ten educators working in San Francisco public schools and that it’s the first U.S. labor union to back the BDS...

A Jewish union member suggested an alternative resolution that condemned Hamas and dropped the BDS call.

San Francisco lawmakers on Monday accused their own citys school district of exploiting state reopening incentives, saying they are "gravely concerned" that one of the biggest districts in California has failed to make a genuine effort to welcome back students in-person. Democratic Assemblymembers Phil Ting and David Chiu and Sen. Scott Wiener asked the state not to give San Francisco Unified School District a reopening grant. They called the districts plan to bring back 12th graders for a hand...

In a historic endorsement, the teachers’ union for the San Francisco Unified School District passed a resolution on May 19 in support of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement against Israel. The United Educators of San Francisco, which is affiliated with the AFL-CIO, the largest federation of unions in the country, is the first American K-12 union of public school teachers to officially support BDS, although other education and trade unions have done so. The resolution was passed rig...

A Concord family is accusing a private boarding school in Massachusetts of failing to protect their daughter, who they say was taken across state lines and sexually assaulted by former summer program director Howie Leung in 2015 and 2016.A lawsuit...

Letters to the Editor: U.S. should ship vaccines to other nations San Francisco Chronicle readers FacebookTwitterEmail Nurse Andrea Delacueva, left, gives a COVID-19 vaccination to Matt Block, 34, of Culver City, California, on April 15, 2021, in Los Angeles.Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Times/TNS COVID-19 shots are now widely available nationwide: About ⅓ of American adults are now vaccinated, protected, and almost never have serious side effects. Many others are wary of taking the vaccine b...

Skip to main content Currently Reading S.F. wanted to bring seniors back to get $12 million in state funding. But the plan might fall short FacebookTwitterEmail 1of2 Lowell High senior Natalia Potente said she and her friends have no intention of returning for a day or two.Marlena Sloss/Special to The ChronicleShow MoreShow Less 2of2 Aug. 19, 2019, was Washington High’s first day of school. S.F. high school seniors can go back starting Friday, but not to their own schools for most.Amy Osborne...