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Reposted from @zinneducationproject On Feb. 19, 1968, over 27,000 teachers and administrators from the Florida Education Association (FEA) handed in their resignation letters and walked out. It was the first statewide teachers strike in the United States. The Florida Teachers’ Strike of 1968 occurred in response to Governor Claude Kirk’s refusal to meet Florida Education Association (FEA) demands on salary and school budget increases, and the overall failure of Florida legislators to fund public education. The strike lasted until March 8, when the State Board of Education and FEA came to an agreement on increasing funds for public education. Many teachers went back to work after the strike ended but thousands were also refused rehire due to their involvement in the strike. Learn more about the strike in “For the students: the 1968 Florida teacher strike” (undergraduate thesis by Jody Noll) and “‘We Are Not Hired Help’: The 1968 Florida Statewide Teacher and the Formation of Modern Florida” by Jody Noll. Florida Historical Quarterly 95, no. 3 (2017): 356-382. In his 2017 article, Noll describes how the strike was a continuation of Florida’s Black Civil Rights Movement and how African-American “leaders within Florida’s civil rights movement viewed the teachers’ strike as a means to address the disparities between white and African-American schools.” The strike occurred after Florida’s teachers unions merged as an integrated FEA in 1966. With the unions united, Black and white teachers found common ground in the labor struggle. This is one of many people's history stories in Florida history that could be labeled too "controversial" to teach — in Florida and other states. What's the "danger" of these stories? That young people learn from the past how to shape a more just future. In solidarity, The New Press has partnered with the Zinn Education Project to send books to teachers and teacher educators in Florida (as well as Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, New Hampshire, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Texas). Learn more at https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/free-books-florida-texas-virginia [linked in bio] https://www.instagram.com/p/Co3k8RutJIN/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Snapshot of the latest creation. #jewelrygram #atxartist #jewelrydesigner #queerart #hematite #glasspearls #necklaceoftheday #brassjewelry #kineticart #jewellery #austintexas https://www.instagram.com/p/CnqJTidNmJ-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Reposted from @zinneducationproject On Dec. 29, 1890, a Lakota encampment on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation was attacked by the U.S. Army. U.S. soldiers murdered close to 300 Lakota people near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Twenty U.S. soldiers were awarded the Medal of Honor for their participation in the massacre. Beginning on Feb. 27, 1973, 83 years later, Wounded Knee was the site of a 71-day standoff between members of the American Indian Movement and federal law enforcement officials. Read more in “Native History: AIM Occupation of Wounded Knee Begins” by Alysa Landry at Indian Country Today. Episode 5 from the excellent documentary We Shall Remain includes Wounded Knee history. Listen to the song “Wounded Knee” by Joe DeFilippo and performed by the R. J. Phillips Band, a group of Baltimore studio musicians. [Image description: Poster by Bruce Carter remembering the 1890 massacre and the 1973 occupation at Wounded Knee. Poster shows a Native woman and small child surrounded by black silhouettes of soldiers holding bayonets.] https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmz5c5-J3J0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Of my late Mother's jewellery, this silver and garnet bracelet was among my favourites. Eventually I might dismantle it and repurpose its components into my own creations, but not yet. Each December I mark her birthday, but I miss her always. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmr6VO_JsCE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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A sample of the neo-notsees Travis County recruits as "election workers". They're probably throwing away my ballot right now. Bourgeois "democracy" really is a pathetic joke. #ElectionDay https://www.instagram.com/p/Cks7XBqO9h_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Healthcare is a human right. Why do we continue to tolerate constant violations of our basic human rights? How dare we look down our noses at other countries when we don't even have universal healthcare? When rent steals most of our paycheck? When neo-n@z!s walk free and the innocent languish behind bars? When politicians make progressive-sounding promises then do NOTHING to fulfill them? Why are Americans such utter c0w@rds? https://www.instagram.com/p/CkqLIyQuy7Z/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Reposted from @swedishsummers 👻 cancel culture 👻 #canceldebt #cancelstudentdebt #cancelmedicaldebt #endmedicaldebt #youarenotaloan #nooneisworthanamountofmoney #debtcancellation #capitalismiskillingus #capitalismiskillingtheplanet #peopleoverprofit #theworldisburning #debt #peoplesbailout #wealldeservebetter #wealldobetterwhenwealldobetter #thereisenoughforeveryone #thereisenough #redistribute #socialismorbarbarism https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj4ZwNFNsK_/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Bell, 2012 (detail), acrylic on canvas, 40 in x 72 in #HardEdgePainting #PlanetaryNebula #AstronomyLover #FineArt #AcrylicOnCanvas #ShadesOfGreen #SpaceArt https://www.instagram.com/p/CjlfCYFplLx/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Reposted from @bendthearc Shana Tova to our beloved Jewish community & everyone celebrating #RoshHashanah! May we continue to build a country free from white supremacy, antisemitism, and racism — where Black liberation is realized and all people are thriving. Wishing you a sweet new year. 🍎🍯 https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci83HEKNEqk/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Reposted from @zinneducationproject “It was the crying that woke her. Twelve-year-old Shirley Ann McDonald had just fallen asleep when the loud wails startled her awake. They were coming from her brother Walter, who, still just a baby, needed to be changed. Shirley Ann stumbled into his room, changed him, and went back to her own bed. Seconds later, bullets crashed into Walter’s room, blasting apart his tiny crib. He was unharmed. After she changed his diaper, Shirley Ann had taken him back to her own room with her, hoping he would sleep better. His sister’s concern for her baby brother unwittingly saved his life. The McDonald home was fired on just before midnight on Wednesday, Sept. 1, 1965. News accounts reported, “the blasts tore through the living room wall and ledge. More blasts from a shotgun ripped through the bedroom where Mrs. McDonald slept with her husband Leon.” It remains astounding no one was hurt, as all ten children of the McDonalds were home that night. The shots came from guns wielded by “nightriders” — nocturnal terrorists officially known as the Ku Klux Klan. While this type of racial violence was not new to the citizens of Hayneville, the Civil Rights Movement had seriously increased its occurrence. Discovering Pattie Mae McDonald supported the movement, she and her family had been the targets of the harassing phone calls and anonymous death threats that were typical of the time.” As Mike Selby, author of Freedom Libraries: The Untold Story of Libraries for African Americans in the South, described that night in the excerpt above, it was late in the evening on Sept. 1, 1965, when a heavily-armed gang of Ku Klux Klan members descended on the family home of community organizer and activist Pattie Mae McDonald. McDonald ran a Freedom Library and her reputation for being involved in the Movement made her home a target. https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch-letRJD97/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Social media companies serve fascism. Twitter suspended me on the 4th of July 2021 for being an outspoken trans leftist, so how many accounts do marginalised people have to lose before you start to care? SHARE THIS. If you share posts like this, we cannot be silenced. #BigTechCensorship #FreeSpeech #SmashFascism #AbolishThePolice #CapitalismIsTheCrisis #BillionairesShouldntExist #BannedOnThe4thOfJuly #FreeShadetreader https://www.instagram.com/p/ChkYc7lu9xj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Reposted from @ninaturnerohio As kids go back to school, let’s remember that Ruby Bridges is only 67-years-old. https://www.instagram.com/p/ChieF9aJpk-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Reposted from @holocaustmuseum In a matter of hours, they were tried, convicted, and beheaded for the crime of treason. These young Germans had dared to oppose the regime—and were caught in a crucial moment, when the Nazis feared their grip on the public was slipping. Brother and sister Hans and Sophie Scholl and their friend Christoph Probst were members of the “White Rose,” a resistance group made up primarily of university friends. In urgent, pleading messages, copied and mailed to thousands of Germans, they begged their fellow citizens to rise up. Their voices went unheard then, but today the group is a symbol of righteous rebellion. In their writings, they warned that Hitler would destroy Germany. They refused to close their eyes to the mass murder of Jews, which they called “a crime that is unparalleled in the entire history of mankind.” “The Jews, too, are human beings,” they wrote. On February 22, 1943, Hans and Sophie Scholl and Christoph Probst were executed by the Nazi regime. On International Youth Day, we remember the White Rose and its young members who risked their lives to speak out when so many other Germans remained silent. #InternationalYouthDay #WhiteRose #Resistance https://www.instagram.com/p/ChLSRwUpNed/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Reposted from @zinneducationproject The Korean War is not publicly commemorated like the Civil War or World War II, so it is little wonder that the Korean War massacre, No Gun Ri, is also hidden from public memory. The event is one of the deadliest acts committed by U.S. ground troops in the 20th century. If reports of upwards of 300 civilians killed are correct, then the event is comparable to better known tragedies such as the 1968 My Lai Massacre. On July 26, 1950, the U.S. 8th Army, the highest level of command in South Korea, ordered that all Korean civilians traveling and moving around the country must be stopped. It was declared that “no refugees will be permitted to cross battle lines at any time. Movement of all Koreans in groups will cease immediately.” The army stated that it was fearful of North Korean guerrilla troops disguising themselves as peasants. One day earlier, U.S. soldiers had rousted hundreds of civilians from villages near the town of Yongdong in central South Korea and ordered them south along the main road, as a North Korean invasion force pushed toward the area. On July 26, these civilian refugees approached a railroad bridge near the village of No Gun Ri. Members of the U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment dug in near No Gun Ri and only three days into their time at the war front opened fire on the civilians. One veteran recalls being instructed “fire on everything, kill ’em all.” Over the course of a three-day barrage of gunfire and air strafing, hundreds of South Korean civilians were killed. The massacre went almost unreported outside of Korea until 1999 when three AP journalists, Sang-Hun Choe, Charles J. Hanley, and Martha Mendoza, brought the story to international attention. They conducted an extensive investigation, including hundreds of interviews with veterans and Korean survivors and a review of thousands of military documents. However, they had to fight for close to a year to get the story published. Charles Hanley noted that “the story of No Gun Ri was shocking when it emerged in 1999, but within the following decade it became clear that events like this were quite common place during the Korean War https://www.instagram.com/p/CghhhbSFy5c/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Reposted from @zinneducationproject “There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.” As people celebrate #FourthOfJuly this weekend and amidst the 100 year anniversary of Howard Zinn’s birth, we share this quote from Terror over Tripoli from Failure to Quit: Reflections of an Optimistic Historian. What is there to celebrate about the foundation of a country on enslavement and genocide? Learn more about #HowardZinn100 at https://www.howardzinn.org/zinn-at-100/ https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfmo3hHF5Nr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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As a uterus owner trapped in Texas, I now officially have zero value except as an incubator. I've already tried several times to flee this hellscape, but something always goes awry.... https://www.instagram.com/p/CfNQVqclWpU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Reposted from @zinneducationproject “In the Middle Ages when the feudal lords . . . concluded to enlarge their domains, to increase their power, their prestige and their wealth they declared war upon one another. But they themselves did not go to war any more than the modern feudal lords, the barons of Wall Street, go to war. “ — Eugene V. Debs in Canton, Ohio on June 16, 1918. On June 16, 1918, Eugene Debs made his famous anti-war speech protesting World War I which was raging in Europe. “The working class have never yet had a voice in declaring war. If war is right, let it be declared by the people – you, who have your lives to lose.” For this speech he was arrested and convicted in federal court in Cleveland, Ohio under the war-time espionage law. Read more in “Free Speech on Trial: Eugene Debs at Canton, Ohio” by Glenn V. Longacre at the National Archives: https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2017/winter/debs-canton Listen to a reading of excerpts by Mark Ruffalo from this classic speech by Eugene Debs via Voices of a People’s History of the United States: https://youtu.be/zuGp-0G1p4M [Image description: Black and white photo of Eugene Debs speaking to a crowd in Canton, Ohio.] https://www.instagram.com/p/Ce4lrhiFO-0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=