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DESCRIPTION:Tell\nthe Berkeley School Board: No More Racially Targeted Interrogations 
 of\nStudents!\n\nImmigrant\nStudents and Families Announce Lawsuit Against 
 the Berkeley School\nDistrict:\n\n\n\n\nWednesday, November 16, 
 2016\n7pm Press\nConference\n\n\n7:30\npm Speak out inside\n(fill out 
 speakers cards before)\n\n1231\nAddison Street, Berkeley, 
 California\n\n\nPlease\njoin us this Wednesday as we return to the Berkeley 
 School Board to\nsupport Yvette Felarca's ELD (English as a Second 
 Language) students,\nwhose families will be announcing their lawsuit 
 against the Berkeley\nUnified School District for racially targeting them 
 for interrogation\nand intimidation during the school administration's 
 witch hunt against\ntheir teacher.\n\nWhile\nBerkeley middle school teacher 
 Yvette Felarca was finally returned to\nher classroom, after being put on 
 administrative leave for her\nanti-fascist activities, there are still 
 outstanding issues that have\nnot been resolved, including wages that were 
 stolen from her and not\nreturned, which are subject of another lawsuit 
 against the school\ndistrict.\n\n\n\nMore\nDetails and 
 Background:\n\n\nGrievance\nof Yvette 
 Felarca:\nhttps://occupyoakland.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Grievance-of-Yvette-Felarca1.pdf\n\n\n\nPress\nconference 
 with Yvette Felarca and her lawyer, September 
 28:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHhVxvNt3vY\n\n\n\nInterview\nwith 
 Yvette Felarca by KPFA WorkWeek Radio and Labor Video Project,\nwhich gives 
 an overview of the bigger picture of gentrification of\nBerkeley schools, 
 systemic harassment of teachers and students by the\nschool district, and 
 the impacts of privatization on public\neducation: 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt38tXaJ6dQ\n\n\n\nOakland\nEducation 
 Association 
 Resolution:\nhttps://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/10/26/18792693.php\n\n\n\n\nSeptember\n21 
 school board meeting, public comments\nby Yvette Felarca, her students who 
 demonstrated how she helped\nempower them, parents who praised her teaching 
 style and expressed\nconcern about recent racist activities in the schools, 
 fellow workers\nwho wondered about the implications of the district’s 
 actions for\nother teachers, and community members who told personal 
 stories about\nfascism in their own 
 lives:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg2giLt6Fu4\n\n\n\nOctober\n5 rally 
 outside the school board meeting, and public comments inside\nby\nmore 
 students,\nparents, teachers, and community members speaking in defense of 
 Ms.\nFelarca. When\nboard members refused to disclose their personal 
 positions on whether\nshe should continue to teach, and instead scurried 
 off into a second,\nunagendized "closed session", the community held its 
 own\nmeeting in the board room, with many more speaking 
 out:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xdwuri1LFYI\n\n\n\nOctober\n19 school 
 board meeting, more public comments\nin defense of Ms. Felarca, including a 
 description of an\ninterrogation by a student, remote participation from a 
 former\nstudent who called in from Mexico City, and a standing ovation 
 from\none of the student representatives on the 
 board:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=az4GFkzEfSo\n\n\n\nReport\nof what 
 happened in Sacramento, and the neo-Nazis 
 involved:\nhttp://antifasac.weebly.com/home/blood-in-the-valley-why-people-put-their-lives-on-the-line-to-run-nazis-out-of-sacramento\n\n\n\nMore\nabout 
 the fascist organizers of the Sacramento 
 rally:\nhttps://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/06/27/violent-clashes-erupt-sacramento-between-white-nationalists-and-antifascists\n\n\n\nDetails\nabout 
 neo-Nazis converging in Berkeley prior to their attempted rally\nin 
 Sacramento:\nhttps://itsgoingdown.org/big-nazis-on-campus/\n\n\n\nArticle\nabout 
 racist events at Berkeley High School over the last couple 
 of\nyears,\nincluding racist pages in the yearbook which had to be 
 recalled, a\nnoose hanging from a tree, and a terror threat citing the KKK 
 on a\nschool computer, which resulted in a walkout by the majority 
 of\nstudents:\nhttp://www.berkeleyside.com/2015/11/04/racist-threats-posted-on-berkeley-high-library-computer/\n\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/14/18793568.php
SUMMARY:Immigrant Students Sue Berkeley School District for Racially Targeted Interrogations
LOCATION:Berkeley School Board Meeting, 1231 Addison Street, Berkeley, California
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2016/11/14/18793568.php
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