In one of her first addresses after becoming the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, Vice President Kamala Harris is set to address the nation’s second-largest teachers union as the group plows through a laundry list of left-wing priorities at its annual gathering, including promoting transgender policies for children.
Harris is set to address the American Federation of Teachers, led by its controversial president, Randi Weingarten, on Thursday as the organization has been busy voting to pass a litany of far-left resolutions at its 88th annual convention in Houston.
The union voted unanimously to endorse Harris for president on Monday, becoming the first union to do so after President Joe Biden bowed out of the race Sunday. “She has a record of fighting for us—fighting to lower the costs we pay, for reproductive rights, for worker empowerment and to keep communities safe from gun violence. As President Biden said in his endorsement of Kamala Harris, she has his full support to be the Democratic nominee for president,” Weingarten said in a statement.
The White House said Harris’s keynote address would be a “continuation of her consistent efforts to fight for workers across America, including as Chair of the White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment.”
Meanwhile, AFT members have been passing other resolutions condemning school choice, which allows children primarily from low-income areas to get out of failing schools, calling such policies “insidious,” claiming they “increase school segregation,” and saying the schools “discriminate” against “LGBTQIA+” students for not all conforming to gender theory.
The union also passed a resolution with a litany of grievances against “ultra-right MAGA” Republicans because Republican-led states have prioritized policies such as parental rights and notification requirements regarding curriculum and claims of transgender identity among students, as well as school choice.
The resolution also claims the Republican-led states have adopted policies that “outlaw the teaching of history and concepts opposed by those in power” despite the fact that the AFT endorsed teaching school children the pseudo-historical 1619 Project from Nikole Hannah-Jones.
Another claim from the resolution states that Republicans “enable the widespread banning of books in schools and libraries in their disfavor,” although the books Republicans have attempted to remove from schools are generally those with pornographic and even pedophilic material, including illustrations.
The teachers union also condemned moves to restrict abortion and sex transitions for children in the resolution, claiming that restricting the irreversible medical interventions for children is “discriminatory” despite the large and growing body of evidence that the drugs and procedures are either not backed by scientific research or are dangerous.
The resolution from the teachers union also calls former President Donald Trump a “Nazi” and claims the Supreme Court granted him the right to conduct a coup d’etat or assassinate his political rivals. Similar rhetoric has been widely condemned by conservatives, who have argued that the fearmongering about the Republican presidential nominee may have contributed to the attempt on Trump’s life earlier this month.
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While the convention is not over, and not all the resolutions set to be brought to a vote have had a chance yet, the AFT’s book of proposals is also full of far-left priorities, such as “stop enabling genocide: halt U.S. military aid to Israel” and “committing to end a ‘lifetime on alert’ for physical and psychological violence against LGBTQIA+ youth and adults,” which endorses a plethora of gender ideology priorities. The book of proposals includes one supporting the right for biological boys to play on girls’ sports teams.
Another proposal would see the AFT endorse “Black Lives Matter at School,” which is a K-12 movement from supporters of the violent organization to push children to be social justice activists, as well as get rid of police officers in schools.
