Happy Pride! Ethnic Studies must be intersectional! ❤️ Help us protect San Francisco Unified's groundbreaking Ethnic Studies program: https://sfusdes2025.netlify.app (link in bio)

📢URGENT ACTION needed starting now through end of day Friday, 6/27📢 San Francisco Unified School District Superintendent Su is about to publicize a disruptive change to the schedules of 9th graders and their teachers that is an attack on Ethnic Studies and will create chaos in the 25-26 school year and beyond. ➡️Visit https://sfusdes2025.netlify.app/ for details, templates, phone numbers, etc.⬅️

‼️Organizational Allies: We need your help to stop California’s AB 715! Defend our right to teach about Palestine in our classrooms!‼️ Please help us send official letters of opposition from organizations to the California Senate Education Committee by this Friday, June 27th! 👩🏾‍💻Follow the easy instructions and template at: tinyurl.com/ab715-letters (link in bio) ❌AB 715 comes directly from the Project Esther (companion to Project 2025) playbook, which is designed to dismantle pro-Palestinian advocacy within the United States by weaponizing false charges of antisemitism, attributing anti-Jewish discrimination and hate to actions and rhetoric that are not actually antisemitic.  ❌ While 715 is being championed by Democrats in California, it employs the same intention and mechanisms to censor educational content when it comes to Israel and Palestine that MAGA Republicans have employed in red states to silence critical perspectives on race, sexuality and other controversial subjects.   ❌ AB 715 expands beyond the focus of ethnic studies in the now-withdrawn bill it replaced, AB 1468, to encompass the entire K-12 educational system. While the bill is pitched as an effort to combat discrimination in the form of antisemitism in California public schools, the reality is that the bill’s authors seek to 1) stifle any criticism of Israel and 2) prevent teaching about Palestine within California public education.

Get your CLES swag today at tinyurl.com/CLES-merchstore! Help us reclaim, defend, and build liberatory Ethnic Studies across the United States by purchasing CLES swag designed in collaboration with author and illustrator Robert Liu-Trujillo (work.robdontstop.com)! The design features youth holding up protest signs that read: Coalition for Liberated Ethnic Studies, Stop Anti-Asian Violence, We Didn’t Cross The Border, The Border Crossed Us, Free Palestine, Black Lives Matter, Read Banned Books, No More Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women, Ethnic Studies is Queer Too!

‼️NEW CALL TO ACTION - HELP STOP AB 715 ‼️ On May 14, the California Assembly Education Committee passed AB 715. It then goes to the Assembly Appropriations Committee and if passed there, to the Assembly floor. Bills must clear the Assembly by June 6, so please take some time to send emails, calls, and outreach to stop AB 715! Link in bio! 🛑 AB 715 is a blatant attack on racial justice, education and educators! 🛑 AB 715 is a thinly veiled attempt at vilifying open and accurate discussion of Palestine in our schools! 🛑AB 715 would amend the California Education Code to expand the definition of “nationality” to include perceived ancestry or religion tied to a country. This would conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism, and thus facilitate banning books, articles and films that purportedly "promote discrimination” based on nationality or religion! ➡️Take a few minutes to send emails, calls, and outreach to stop AB 715: tinyurl.com/stop-ab715 (link in bio)

Repost @cair_sfba CAIRCA, @arocaction, @jvpaction, and other members of a statewide coalition strongly condemn the unanimous passage of AB 715, a bill that would concerningly expand the definition of “nationality” in California’s Education Code to include perceived ancestry, ethnicity, or even religious affiliation tied to a country, such as Israel. The bill passed in a 9–0 vote during a special Assembly Education Committee hearing earlier today.    AB 715 is an assault on academic freedom that would open the door to punish educators who teach about Palestine, colonialism, or human rights abuses, simply because someone claims an offense tied to their national or religious identity.    Visit ca.cair.com to learn more.

‼️URGENT & TIME SENSITIVE - TAKE 1 MINUTE TO PROTECT ETHNIC STUDIES‼️ We are winning—but the fight isn’t over.  Thanks to powerful, intersectional organizing from students, educators, and community members like you, AB 1468 is tentatively being pulled from its hearing. This is a major victory. The bill sought to gut Ethnic Studies and censor conversations about Palestine, colonization, anti-Arab racism, and Islamophobia. Together, we forced its now anticipated withdrawal. But instead of listening to us, they’re doubling down.  AB 715 is now being quietly gutted and amended to push the same dangerous agenda—this time under the guise of combating antisemitism. Rumored changes would weaponize a politicized definition of antisemitism to silence educators who teach about Palestine, replacing honest education with fear and censorship.  Tell your Assemblymembers: We won’t trade one bad bill for another. We are watching AB 715 closely. Stand up for Ethnic Studies, academic freedom, and Palestinian voices. Send a letter by 5/14: tinyurl.com/stop715 (link in bio)

As we stand in the crosshairs of MAGA’s attack on K-12 education, the legal rights that protect educators’ ability to teach about liberation and justice depend on our collective political power to defend them. Many of our students are coming to school in a condition of extreme unsafety, with daily threats that the MAGA regime may abduct their parents, take away their medical care and their bathrooms, or assassinate their cousins abroad. The repression targeting teachers is aimed at creating a climate of fear to make teachers afraid to protect kids, and to make kids afraid to ask for what they need to learn. Courage is as contagious as fear, and we are here to spread courage for our students. At the same time, we want our resistance to be strategic and sustainable. In that spirit, this article provides an overview of students’ and teachers’ free speech rights in and out of the classroom. Please keep it close at school so you can share it with other teachers, administrators, and parents. 📚Read The Article: tinyurl.com/KYR-Teachers (link in bio)