(2022-02-04). Can Israel stop the world from saying 'apartheid'? Concealing the suffering in Palestine. mronline.org 
Israel attempts to improve its public image to counter efforts by human rights organizations that reveal the nature of Israeli apartheid.
(2022-02-04). New Hampshire teachers unions fight state censorship of anti-racist education. liberationnews.org 
A new bill in the New Hampshire state legislature, HB 1255, would all but explicitly ban the mention of indigenous genocide and race-based chattel slavery in New Hampshire class rooms.
(2022-02-04). Shooting at suburban Minneapolis, Minnesota school leaves one student dead. wsws.org One student was killed and another critically injured Tuesday afternoon when two students shot at their classmates at the entrance of South Education Center in Richfield, Minnesota.
(2022-02-04). Is it already too late to say goodbye? dissidentvoice.org It seems we may have reached the moment when it is time to say goodbye. It has been fun, educational and sometimes cathartic — for me at least. I hope you got something from our time together too. I am not going anywhere, of course. Not for now at least. I love to write. For …
(2022-02-04). The 'Freedom' convoy: Canada's far right revolt. nationofchange.org Unfortunately, some of those involved in the convoy and on online forums dedicated to it have called for a January 6th style event in Ottawa…
(2022-02-03). Make Noise about the Silent Crisis of Global Illiteracy. dissidentvoice.org 
Amadou Sanogo (Mali), Je pense de ma tête, 2016. In October 2021, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) held a seminar on the pandemic and education systems. Strikingly, 99% of the students in the region spent an entire academic year with total or partial interruption of face-to-face classes, while …
(2022-02-03). First-hand report: The truth about Nicaragua's revolution. workers.org 
Delegates from Labor Against Racism and War and Workers World Party with members of the ATC (Asociación de Trabajadores del Campo), Managua. Based on a talk by the author at a Jan. 30 webinar, hosted by the Alliance for Global Justice, entitled "Nicaragua: What We Saw; What's Next." Red traveled . . . |
(2022-02-03). Amazon worker organizing accelerates with union voting. workers.org 
Worker organizing at Amazon received international coverage when the Associated Press used a photo of this Workers Assembly Against Racism rally for the Amazon Labor Union, on Oct. 25, 2021, to announce upcoming union elections in February 2022. Headlines screamed alarm Jan. 26 in capitalist business media like the Wall . . . |
(2022-02-03). State Standards Misteach One Of The United States' Most Important Eras. popularresistance.org Reconstruction has much to teach us about why our society looks the way it does today — and how it might be positively transformed. However, in the first-ever comprehensive review of state standards on Reconstruction, the Zinn Education Project found that most states do a dreadful job defining the era or outlining for educators its crucial themes. Standards mostly erase the role of Black people striving to execute their vision of freedom, instead favoring a top-down emphasis on government and the role of white people. Black people are included in state standards, but more often as objects than subjects. Eve…
(2022-02-03). The Dangerous Trend Of The 'Parents Rights' Movement. popularresistance.org Given the current political divide and his ambitions to be the next Republican presidential candidate it should not be surprising that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has said he supports what has been called the "Don't Say Gay" bill going through the state House of Representatives. Not surprising, no, but disgusting, yes. | One notices in "Parental Rights in Education," a portion of the bill reads "A school district may not encourage classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in primary grade levels or in a manner that is not age appropriate…" While the idea of age appropriateness does not…
(2022-02-03). Saturday 2/5: Building an Independent campaign to Put the Public in Public Education. indybay.org
(2022-02-03). Australian Education Union shuts down Victorian work bans as it enforces COVID-hit school reopening. wsws.org As the schools are forced to reopen amid dangerously high levels of COVID-19 infection in the community, the union bureaucracy will do everything within its power to suppress opposition among teachers and school workers.
(2022-02-03). Tuesday 2/8: Climate Crisis: Help Stop Wall Street's Toxic Money Gamble w/ Our Economy & Planet. indybay.org Online event via Zoom…
(2022-02-03). Thursday 2/3: 15th Amendment Day: Protect Voting Rights & Pass Living Wages Now! Virtual Rally w/ PPC. indybay.org Online via livestream…
(2022-02-03). School Privatization Week: Charles Koch Buys into National Parents Union. mronline.org 
There's millions of dollars sloshing around Massachusetts Parents United and National Parents Union these days. Some of it is from Charles Koch.
(2022-02-03). George Jackson's "Blood in my eye:" A critical appraisal. mronline.org 
Originally from Chicago, Ill, George L. Jackson grew up in California. In 1961, a young Jackson convicted of armed robbery for allegedly stealing $70 from a gas station. Outrageously, Jackson was sentenced to one year to life, despite assurances from his attorney of a favorable deal if he plead guilty.
(2022-02-03). Solidarity forged from slave chains. mronline.org 
When the American Civil War ended, Lincoln and his successor Andrew Johnson gave the defeated Confederacy generous peace terms. Vengeance upon the slaveocracy was to be no part of the reconciliation process. It was to be amnesty for Southern slave-owners but new chains for the former slaves.
(2022-02-03). Why wouldn't Biden grant clemency to Leonard Peltier? mronline.org 
Last Friday, it became known that the 77-year-old Native American political prisoner Leonard Peltier was sick with COVID-19. Peltier has been in prison for over 46 years, which makes him the oldest political prisoner in the United States.