#tdih 2022 In an act of terrorism, 10 people were killed in a massacre by a white supremacist at a Buffalo grocery store. 💔

Listen to 'Name. Age. Detail.' via This American Life. Moving essay portraits by Michael Harriot, Eve L. Ewing used to go by wikipedia brown, @KieseLaymon, & more. ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/buff…

Starts soon ⬇️ (Lessons from SNCC are needed now more than ever!)

📣 Calling all educators, students, parents, & community members! It's time to defend the right to #TeachTruth and protect LGBTQ+ rights. Join us in standing against anti-history education bills & the censorship of marginalized voices. Let's make our voices heard! Zinn Ed Project

Migrant families are being transferred/evicted from NY shelters close to end of school year.

Adds to hardships: interrupted schooling & removal of support networks.

Any right-to-education related legal action that can be taken?

See Documented ⬇️
documentedny.com/2024/05/03/mig…

Equal Justice Initiative Why did so many Black teachers lose their jobs after the Brown v. Board ruling?
The mass displacement following the landmark Supreme Court decision affects communities and the teaching profession to this day. chalkbeat.org/2024/05/10/bla…

Media spin about Duke Univ. students walking out on Seinfeld or the encampments being 'antisemitic' is smoke and mirrors propaganda.

Watch excellent MEF doc 'The Occupation of the American Mind' narrated by Roger Waters ✊.

Free, various lengths. ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/materials/occu…

The money that our government spends bombing Palestinians could be used to fund our communities here, the communities that are continuously divested from and defunded.

We could fund housing, healthcare, and education instead of genocide.

We deserve better.

We packed #TeachTruth Interactive Pop-up Display boxes today for June 8 Day of Action!

Host an info table at a public place: library, bookstore, farmers market, pride parade, historic site.

Sign up: zinnedproject.org/news/teach-tru… (Or donate for more boxes zinnedproject.org/donate/)

Among other things in my first democracy column, I take issue with the The New York Times editor's recent suggestion that reporting to defend democracy is 'partisan.' It's actually bowing to partisanship not to rather than reporting beyond the party trap.

#tdih 1973: Charges against whistleblowers Ellsberg & Russo dismissed in Pentagon Papers trial.

The top secret in the papers?: The HISTORY and role of U.S. in Vietnam War.

People's history teachers are whistleblowers, every day! #TeachOutsideTextbook ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/pent…

Friday report: This week 159 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Modesto, CA; Storrs, CT.; Hagerstown, MD; Buffalo, NY; Kent, OH; Portland, OR; Marietta, PA; Providence, RI; Ladson, SC; Seattle, WA; Bridgeport, WV; & many more cities.
Some reasons why ⬇️

Thur. May 16: Panel on banned books at Four Freedoms Park Conservancy, Roosevelt Island in NY with Katrina vanden Heuvel (@thenation), Nick Buron (@QPLNYC), Amy Mikel (@BKLYNlibrary), Megan Pamela Ruth Madison, & Christine Emeran (@ncacensorship).

Free. Open to the public. RSVP⬇️
fdrfourfreedomspark.org/event/banned-b…

Join Abolitionist Teaching Network and dozens of other organizations around the U.S. for the #TeachTruth Day of Action on Saturday, June 8, to defend the freedom to learn. Learn more and sign-up at the link in our bio.