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June 22 - 28, 2001
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Fighting for Their JobsUnion leaders claim teacher-activists targeted by school district By Neela Banerjee Carrying roughly-scrawled signs which read, “Justice for teachers is an integrated fight,” some 50 teachers, students, and parents came together to support civil rights activist and teachers’ union leader Yvette Felarca, who was recently terminated from her job as a substitute teacher in the Oakland Unified School District. Gathering outside one of the most heated school board meetings of the year, Felarca and her supporters protested what they consider to be a politically-motivated attack on Felarca in direct response to her struggle for affirmative action. |
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