{"id":3425,"date":"2025-12-10T15:45:46","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T21:45:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/?p=3425"},"modified":"2026-01-08T09:23:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T15:23:34","slug":"statement-from-mts-president-lillian-klausen-donation-for-eis-solidarity-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/2025\/12\/10\/statement-from-mts-president-lillian-klausen-donation-for-eis-solidarity-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement from MTS President Lillian Klausen: Donation for EI\u2019s Solidarity Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MTS cares deeply about the safety, dignity, and inclusion of all members, including our Jewish colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our contribution to Education International\u2019s Solidarity Fund is a humanitarian action that reflects our established organizational goals to \u201caddress broad societal issues that promote social justice, cooperation, and understanding.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This donation supports teachers\u2014through their unions\u2014who are working to rebuild disrupted education systems. It is administered by <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ei-ie.org\/en\/about\/who-we-are\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Education International<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, our global partner, not by governments or political groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This donation is rooted in our longstanding belief that education is a pathway to peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Supporting teachers facing crisis does not equate to endorsing any government, curriculum, or ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We understand that members hold a range of perspectives, and we respect the right to express concerns.<br>Member safety, inclusion, human rights and social justice remain central to our work\u2014and we will continue to uphold those values for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Manitoba Teachers\u2019 Society is committed to eradicating hate in all its forms, including antisemitism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our contribution to Education International\u2019s Solidarity Fund is a humanitarian action that reflects our established organizational goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3429,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-thumbnail-displayed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3510,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3425\/revisions\/3510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}