The action followed a Mission Local story on the museum abruptly dissolving a youth climate group after teens showed solidarity with union.
urging the mayor and the Board of Supervisors to address the California Academy of Sciences’ decision to curtail a youth group. detailing how the museum abruptly dissolved a youth group for climate change, the Youth Action for the Planet program, and moved to fire its staff coordinator.
Those actions came shortly after several teenage members distributed fliers in solidarity with the museum workers’ union., the San Francisco Youth Commission said the museum’s actions “appear to represent a disheartening example of pushback against young people for exercising their voices and participating in social justice movements.” Jason Fong, chair of the San Francisco Youth Commission, said that one of his “big fears was that this situation was just going to get pushed under the rug and people would forget about it.”All 16 commissioners present at the Monday commission meeting voted in favor of the motion, according to Fong, who acknowledged that there was “quite a bit of hesitation” among commissioners before the voting due to the limited information available about the incident. that the Youth for Action Planet program was always “designed as a time-constrained pilot project, funded through a specific grant” and that it “concluded upon the completion of its contractual obligations.” The teenage members and the former staff coordinator, however, say the opposite. The museum created the pilot program in October 2023 for young people who care about nature to build leadership and advocacy skills. Its staff coordinator, Aleks Liou, was featured in the museum’sfrom the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services “to fund two additional years of this program beyond its pilot year,” said Liou.On the same night, all the members of the youth program were told by the museum’s administrator not to come to the building for the rest of the week. A number of the teenagers say they never returned to the building again. The museumthat “the Academy identified the need to rebuild” the Youth Action for the Planet program to be an “education program for Indigenous youth,” a decision that was made after piloting the program for six months. On Monday, the commission urged the mayor and the Board of Supervisors to address the museum’s decisions, and called on the museum’s management to provide “a detailed public account of its decision-making process.” “Once we have more information,” said commission chair Fong, “that’s when the Youth Commission will take a formal stance in the form of a resolution.” “It’s cool to see the youth stand in solidarity with each other,” said Liou, the staff coordinator who was allowed to resign on Nov. 22 rather than be fired. This occurred after negotiations between the museum workers’ union and the museum. Since the discord with the museum, some of the former Youth Action for the Planet program members have launched their own organization, Youth Riot Network, to continue focusing on climate and broader social issues., the Youth Commission called on “the Board of Supervisors and the Mayor stand in solidarity with the affected youth and their new organization, Youth Riot Network.” “Youth climate activism in and of itself is super important,” said Fong. “A lot of young people, not just in San Francisco, are very passionate about it, and I think these are programs that we should be supporting and funding.”that works hard to bring you news you can't get elsewhere. Fresh off months of election coverage, we're in a crazy period of end-of-year fundraising at an equally crazy political time. We're asking for your support.REPORTER. Yujie Zhou came on as an intern after graduating from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. She is a full-time staff reporter as part of the Report for America program that helps put young journalists in newsrooms. Before falling in love with the Mission, Yujie covered New York City, studied politics through the “street clashes” in Hong Kong, and earned a wine-tasting certificate in two days. She’s proud to be a bilingual journalist. Follow her on Twitter @Yujie_ZZ.The Youth Commission is just one of the 65 commissions that togethersf, Bilal Mahmood and a heap of other republicans wanted to get rid off. Please keep your comments short and civil. Do not leave multiple comments under multiple names on one article. We will zap comments that fail to adhere to these short and easy-to-follow rules.Meet Jackie Fielder’s new District 9 aides — a blend of experience and new faces Sign up for Mission Local's daily newsletter: The latest San Francisco news in your inbox, no more than once a day, for free.
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