Today from Mission Local

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The San Francisco’s teachers union has called for a strike to start Monday, writes Joe Eskenazi, after a year of negotiations with the district over pay, healthcare, and special education. If an agreement isn’t reached before Monday, teachers are expected to picket their schools—and principals and administrators are likely to walk out in a sympathy strike.  

Inmates in County Jail No. 2 in SoMa charge that they’ve been without hot water for over a month, and that the cells and common areas are filthy with vomit, maggots, and feces. Abigail Vân Neely writes about the ongoing problems at the site, which houses all the city’s incarcerated women and some men.

For back story, see our report on the women who filed claim against the city after alleging that sheriff’s deputies filmed them at the jail as they were strip-searched.

There’s a particularly crowded field in the June primary for governor. See what the candidates had to say in their first televised debate, held this week in the Bayview–and see if you can tell them apart.

More soon,

Sara

Latest News

S.F. teachers call for strike Monday, city’s first educator walkout since 1979

“We want our community and families to be prepared.”

A person with blue-tinged skin showers nervously in a prison cell, holding a sponge, with a temperature gauge showing cold water and wet floor around them.

A month of cold showers, vomit and human waste inside S.F. jail, arrestees say

“Deputies told them that ‘cold showers were good for you.'”

They all want to be California’s next governor

“If there were a conglomerate of three candidates, I would vote for them, but you can’t do that.”

Back Story

Two modern office buildings with glass and concrete facades are separated by a driveway, lined with parked cars and trees with autumn leaves.

Women in S.F. jail say they were forced to undress while deputies filmed them

“They started screaming.”

SNAP

Bronze statue of a seated man with his chin resting on his hand, set against a cloudy sky and classical building facade.
I be thinkin’
By Joe Eskenazi

Events

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Today: In Their Own Words: Trans People of Color Speak from the Video Archives, GLBT History Museum, February 5, 6-8PM

Tomorrow: The Global Stakes of the Ukraine War, with Ukrainian journalist Vitaly Portnikov, Manny’s, February 6, 7:30-9:30PM

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