This will be an eye opener! Fellow teachers—Join me at Teach Truth: Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance and Resilience @surjkc.bsky.social @zinnedproject.bsky.social @acslaw.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social publicschoolstrong.controlshift.app/events/teach...

Join me at Teach Truth: Colonialism and Indigenous Resistance and Resilience, looking at the limits of the U.S. Constitution publicschoolstrong.controlshift.app/events/teach...! @surjkc.bsky.social @zinnedproject.bsky.social @publiccitizen.bsky.social #TeachTruth

@surjkc.bsky.social (and partners) @bannedtogetherdoc.bsky.social screening was a powerful afternoon learning. I came out of it knowing much more about what the local LGBTQ community and communities of color faces from the Right and how to effectively join with students to fight back! Go see it!

Join us for a screening of Banned Together, a film that follows 3 students as they fight to reinstate 97 books suddenly pulled from their school libraries. We will have a panel, lunch, and calls to action. Sign up! docs.google.com/forms/d/1wGc... Check out the trailer here: youtu.be/1clSuZSPfD8

🚨 7,000 NEA teachers voted to cut ties with the ADL — the union’s leadership just overruled them. But organizers say the vote marks a turning point: rank-and-file educators are rising for Palestine. Here’s how the fight to #DropTheADL is just getting started: mondoweiss.net/2025/07/nea-...

Show up to oppose the destructive company CoreCivic from opening an ICE prison in Leavenworth

Thank you to @kairoscenter.org @surjkc.bsky.social @kctenants @mojwjva.bsky.social @jvpkc.bsky.social @kansasinterfaithaction @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social for such an inspiring and powerful evening!. The collective energy is building for the crisis ahead…

You may have heard of Zohran Mamdani: the DSA member who just won the primary race for mayor of New York City. He is a democratic socialist... but what does that mean? Read this thread to see if you're a democratic socialist too.

This week, ICE illegally denied me entry into a processing facility in my district, and today, they released a statement saying I “[gave] the appearance of a political stunt intended to generate publicity rather than pursue genuine oversight.” I have some thoughts.🧵

In the past month, 370 teachers signed up at ZEP for free people’s history lessons from Decatur, GA; Ridgeland, MI; Omaha, NE; Dover, NH; Philadelphia, PA; Providence, RI; Nashville, TN; & more cities. Some reasons why ⬇️ Donate so we can reach more ➡️ teachingforchange.app.neoncrm.com/forms/zep-do...

Join me at Banned Together Screening, August 30th! @bannedtogetherdoc.bsky.social publicschoolstrong.controlshift.app/events/banne...

So amazing to meet you! And celebrate this moment with you @imarajones.bsky.social ! I also remember you rocking the room with “It’s all of us or none of us!” Fight on fellow teachers and journalists!

Show up on July 10th in community to celebrate and plan our justice work together, now and future! Then find lessons from the authors of this powerful new book, You Only Get What You’re Organized to Take. Bitly onflyer @kairoscenter.org @mojwjva.bsky.social @bootsonthegroundkc.bsky.social

Join us for a documentary screening about kids who fight back against book bans and censorship. Stay for conversation, action steps, and snacks! More info on the film at bannedtogetherdoc.com @bannedtogetherdoc.bsky.social

While regenerative A.I. sounds futuristic, the energy required to power them comes from burning good, old fashioned dinosaur bones If you’re wonder where bazillionares like Elon Musk are building these new toxic, environmentally unfriendly data centers… You must be new here.

Statement on SURJ KC withdrawing support from the Shut Down ICE rally tonight www.facebook.com/share/p/1Afm...

#TeachTruth day of action means deep learning about Black and indigenous resistance and resilience amidst U.S. colonialism and then planning action and solidarity. We go forward with help from our friends @zinnedproject.bsky.social @surjkc.bsky.social

Thank you Kansas City for coming out to #TeachTruth day of action to stand up for educators and honest education! @zinnedproject.bsky.social

We hear about how pro-immigrant side is extreme. There is literally nothing more extreme than this statement. Being willing to sacrifice the country’s foundations for an evil goal

‘This is not over’: Tesla Takedown protesters keep pressure on Elon Musk despite DOGE exit “This is not over because Musk decided to go home with his tail between his legs,” said co-organizer Melissa Knutson. #TeslaTakedown #HandsOff #FightOligarchy www.cnn.com/2025/06/07/b...

Both reporters have checked in, but are currently covered in CS gas. Currently reviewing footage, @acatwithnews.bsky.social thinks it may have been a tear gas canister that he took to the forehead

Public education is the foundation of a multiracial democracy. If we are serious about ensuring quality education for all students — not just the wealthiest — we must reject efforts to defund public schools and criminalize our youth.

10 days away! Have you signed up yet? Come out to support local educators and learn about the history of resistance and resilience of Black and Indigenous people in our area with a caring community. Enjoy some snacks and don’t forget to bring banned book to exchange @zinnedproject.bsky.social

Come learn about Black and Indigenous freedom seeking amidst white settler violence in the complex history of the Shawnee Indian Mission. Join us in community for a morning of powerful learning! Meet our speakers below! @zinnedproject.bsky.social

Countless teachers are bravely committed to defending the freedom to learn — & thereby defend democracy & justice — in their classrooms. They can’t do it alone. They need our public support. Make some noise. Host a #TeachTruth Day of Action event, June 7. Add your city to the map. Read how ⬇️

A Palestinian student arrested during an interview about finalizing his US citizenship helped launch a $1 million fundraising campaign to strengthen the legal safety net for immigrants in Vermont on Thursday, a week after a federal judge freed him from custody.

This replica of the car in which 6-year-old Palestinian child Hind Rajab was killed while fleeing Gaza City with her family last year was displayed in Bradford, UK, on what would have been her 7th birthday. The original vehicle was shot 335 times by Israeli forces.

📊 NEA’s new report shows most teacher salaries still lag behind pre-recession levels. It’s time to pay educators like the professionals they are.

"More than two dozen pro-Palestinian protesters were arrested Monday after occupying an engineering building at the University of Washington, where they demanded the university sever ties with Boeing over its military contracts and role in supplying weapons used in the war in Gaza."

The first domino falls! Today Lehigh County, Pennsylvania became the first US pension fund to suspend new Tesla purchases in its actively managed funds 👏🍸🎉 #teslatakedown substack.com/home/post/p-...

All's well that ends well. #HEYHEYHEYHEY

We are so honored and humbled to win this award, and know the work goes on more urgently than ever. Thank you @neatoday.bsky.social and our partners @mojwjva.bsky.social @surj.bsky.social and more www.nea.org/professional...

On May 1st, I showed up alongside KC workers, immigrants and neighbors because the racism of Trump targets my students and our public schools. Join me on SURJ’s mass call, May 7th at 7pm for the next step! Click here to sign up: surj.org/mayday #MayDay2025 @surjkc.bsky.social @surj.bsky.social

Join us the at Teach Truth Teach-In on The Shawnee Manual Labor School/Indian Mission! publicschoolstrong.controlshift.app/events/teach...

Musk spent hundreds of millions of dollars to back Trump last year, much of it through dark money PACs that shrouded their spending in secrecy. If Trump really wanted to crack down on secretive election influence efforts, he would start not with small-dollar Democratic donors, but with Musk.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA www.wsj.com/business/aut...

“However bad everyone on the outside thinks it is, it is a million times worse. They’re dismantling and destroying everything.” Read, share, respond. Call your representatives. The health and well-being of Americans & America's innovation economy are at stake. www.science.org/content/arti...

USCIS tricked a Kansas mom into showing up for a spousal interview for her green card appointment—it was a trap for ICE to detain her. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

"He (King George III) has excited domestic insurrections amongst us [note: by enslaved Africans], and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages..." - the final complaint about British rule in the Declaration of Independence

The horrific anti-Palestinian violence we saw in Brooklyn this weekend — a pro-Israeli government mob beating, chasing, and harassing anti-genocide activists, all while the NYPD was largely absent — is the inevitable result of this type of policy which criminalizes support of Palestinian freedom.

New location! Join us at the River Market 4:00 on May Day, May 1st, to Rally together for working people, to stand up against attacks on immigrants and people of color, and to stop the billionaire takeover! #MayDayStrong #MayDay2025 @mojwjva.bsky.social @kcwac.bsky.social