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Amigxs, the next episode of Encuentros Politicos is a collaboration with Haymarket Books, Black Lives Matter Week of Action + USALA Radio "#BlackLivesMatteratSchool: Philly Edition" Jan 13 at 5p est Join Black Lives Matter at School activists and educators for a conversation about the new uprising for educational justice, Philly-style... Education activists Tamara Anderson, Jesse Hagopian, Ismael Jimenez, and Dana Morrison join Edwin Mayorga for a conversation about the struggle against systemic racism in schools, how we can win real educational justice and the lessons from Black Lives Matter at School organizing in Philadelphia and beyond. #phled To register visit the eventbrite page

From yesterday. HT Zinn Education Project #tdih Forty-one years ago today, on Jan. 5, 1980, the song Rapper’s Delight by the Sugarhill Gang (and reportedly Grandmaster Caz) became the first hip hop single ever to reach the Billboard Top 40. Teach with a beat! The Zinn Education Project recommends materials for educators who want to use rhythm, rap, and poetry in their classrooms to teach history and climate justice through language arts. Scroll down the page at the link for more. #TeachOutsideTextbook

HT Rondi Silva Mutual aid projects are a form of political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions, says Dean Spade, a trans activist, writer, and speaker. Not through symbolic acts or putting pressure on representatives, but by actually building new social relations that are more survivable.

From Jeanne Theoharis 65 years ago, longtime activist Rosa Parks made her historic stand on the bus. For years, people have been asking me to do a YA version of the book to correct the widespread misinformation about her and provide young people a substantive look at the Black freedom struggle across the 20th century, given Mrs. Parks' 60+ years of activism in Montgomery and Detroit. Finally I could see it. It comes out February 2 with Brandy Colbert!