top
East Bay
East Bay
Indybay
Indybay
Indybay
Regions
Indybay Regions North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area North Coast Central Valley North Bay East Bay South Bay San Francisco Peninsula Santa Cruz IMC - Independent Media Center for the Monterey Bay Area California United States International Americas Haiti Iraq Palestine Afghanistan
Topics
Newswire
Features
From the Open-Publishing Calendar
From the Open-Publishing Newswire
Indybay Feature
Fri Nov 4 2016
Anti-Fascist Yvette Falarca Returns to Teaching
Teacher Suspended for Anti-Fascist Activism Reinstated After Sustained Solidarity Campaign
Yvette Falarca of BAMN helped prevent the neo-Nazi rally on the steps of the capitol in Sacramento this summer — and was one of several people who were stabbed by the fascists. Following the action, threats were made against the school at which she teaches if she was not fired. A petition to fire Yvette started online. The Berkeley Unified School District caved, docked some of her pay, and suspended her on September 21. Supporters organized a series of rallies and protests over the next month to get Yvette's job back. On November 1, Yvette announced victory in that she has been reinstated as a teacher at Martin Luther King Middle School, although there are still outstanding issues, including the district's refusal to restore back pay.

Yvette Falarca writes in an "Open Letter of Thanks: I'm so excited to return back to my students! Thank you so much, everyone. This victory belongs to all of us. We've built a movement: the support letters emails (over 50!), phone calls, attendance at mass organizing meetings, school board meetings, support from groups including BAMN and EON/BAMN Caucus, Berkeley Federation of Teachers, Peace and Justice Commission, United Opt Out, Pacific and Asian Community Alliance, Media Alliance, Partisan Defense Committee, Freedom Socialist Party, Oscar Grant Committee, Norma Harrison of Peace and Freedom Party, KPFA, Occupy Oakland and Indy Media, the International Anti-Fascist Defense Fund, and many more, consistent attendance at office hours, protests, and courageous public speeches — all these are expressions of our mass movement with the power to win justice in the Berkeley schools.

Read More | Resolution to Support Berkeley Teacher and Civil Rights Activist Yvette Felarca | calendar Community organizing meeting: Defend Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca! | calendar Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! Stop Student Interrogations! | Yvette Felarca Defense at Berkeley School Board | Yvette Felarca Was Suspended After Attending Anti-Nazi Rally | calendar Community organizing meeting: Return Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca to Her Classroom! | calendar Protest in Defense of Anti-Fascist Teacher Yvette Felarca @ Berkeley School Board | calendar Town Hall to Defend Anti-Fascist Berkeley Teacher Yvette Felarca

Related Feature: Anti-Fascists Shut Down Nazi Rally at California State Capitol
2024-02-09 Catholic Anti-Choice Marchers Get an Earful from Abortion Rights Activists in San Francisco Front Page | Health, Housing & Public Services | Womyn | San Francisco | South Bay | U.S.2024-01-10 Wall of Shipping Containers Intended to Keep the Public Out of People's Park Front Page | Police State & Prisons | Environment & Forest Defense | Global Justice & Anti-Capitalism | East Bay | California2023-12-08 Largest Ever Pro-Palestine Marches in NorCal Demand End to US Aid for Israel's War on Gaza Front Page | Anti-War | Central Valley | San Francisco | South Bay | Peninsula | U.S. | International | Palestine | Santa Cruz Indymedia2023-10-31 Three Activists Detained at Climate Protest for Crossing Beale Air Force Base Gate Front Page | Environment & Forest Defense | Anti-War | Central Valley | California | U.S.2023-09-29 California Climate Justice Actions in Coordination with Massive New York City March Front Page | Environment & Forest Defense | Central Valley | California2023-08-19 Environmentalists Speak Out Against Airport Expansion as Climate Disasters Accelerate Front Page | Environment & Forest Defense | East Bay2023-08-12 Starbucks Bus Tour Stops in San Francisco, Rallies with Allies to Support Unionization Front Page | Labor & Workers | San Francisco | Peninsula | California | U.S.2023-07-19 Halt to Fossil Fuel Funding Demanded as Wells Fargo Operations Shut Down Environment & Forest Defense | Global Justice & Anti-Capitalism | San Francisco | U.S.2023-07-13 Demonstrations Wrack France, Boiling Over After Police Murder of Youth Police State & Prisons | Health, Housing & Public Services | Global Justice & Anti-Capitalism | LGBTI / Queer | International | Government & Elections | Immigrant Rights2023-07-02 A Call for Pride to Return to its Roots as a Riot in Defense of LGBTQ+ Rights Health, Housing & Public Services | LGBTI / Queer | Womyn | San Francisco2023-05-31 Reactionary "Street Art" Campaign Backed by Billionaire Michael Moritz Targeted by Graffiti Artists Police State & Prisons | Health, Housing & Public Services | Global Justice & Anti-Capitalism | Drug War | Arts + Action | San Francisco
We are 100% volunteer and depend on your participation to sustain our efforts!

Donate

$80.00 donated
in the past month

Get Involved

If you'd like to help with maintaining or developing the website, contact us.

Publish

Publish your stories and upcoming events on Indybay.

IMC Network