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Chicago teachers struggle at a crossroads The drive to reopen Chicago Public Schools (CPS), the third largest school district in the country, has become a pitched battle between educators and the state apparatus, the latter backed up by the corporate media and the unions. The fight by Chicago educators to prevent the reopening of schools is the focal point of the class struggle in the United States, with every other major district in the country looking to Chicago to set a precedent. In this context, it is of the utmost importance for teachers and other educators to organize independently of ...

UPDATED Dec. 22, 10:45 p.m. The San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living, one of the largest senior facilities in the Bay Area, administered 195 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine today to some of its frontline workers, including doctors, nurses, certified nursing assistants, housekeeping staff and food service workers. It is one of the first skilled nursing facilities in the state to administer the vaccine to its staff, according to Michael Wasserman, President of the California Association for Long Term Care Medicine. “It feels like injecting hope,” said Bridget Conlon, one of ...

Three residents at the San Francisco Campus for Jewish Living have died from Covid-related complications, according to an update on its website. The SFCJL is now the second Jewish senior facility in the Bay Area to experience coronavirus deaths. Eight deaths were reported in October in the memory-care program at Rhoda Goldman Plaza in San Francisco. “While the residents were near end of life prior to contracting COVID,” stated a letter signed by the SFCJL’s CEO Daniel Ruth, “the Board, staff and other members of our community are deeply saddened by their passing. These residents were ...

>> marcus young has approximately 25 disciplinary reports in his history. disorderly conduct. theft. disobeying orders. fighting. possession of weapons. possession of narcotics. assault or an attempted assault on inmates. lewd and lascivious exhibition, telephone violations. several spoken threats. >> nixon has also seen his share of trouble. >> i came here for a ride, the whole dorm i was in, it was a big ride, and they emergency transferred everybody into this unit. the officers kept on just bugging us about oh, you won't do this. you won't do that. y'all scared. y'all kids. and they just al...

I need you to get the dirt, toss it up. don't stand around. >> while some squad members appreciate the chance to be outdoors, others like philip nixon, could do with less exposure to the elements. >> how did you get so sun burned? >> rls. we go out there and do work but there's no shade. you know, so we sit out there for the whole time, and get just like that. you know, sunscreen don't really help, because there's no shade. you know, you're in straight sunlight for six hours. ain't really no way to get away from it. >> it's free labor. you go out there working in the field for nothing. it's fr...