"If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave."- Gabriel Boric, President Elect of Chile. The people of Chile have spoken. May this election reverberate across the Latin American continent. One by one, the fascists will fall. progressive.international/wire/2021-12-2…

One thing about Oakland youth: THEY ORGANIZE. So proud of the Oakland Tech students who organized this protest against OUSD’s anti-Black school closures!!!

We know that @ousdnews' school closures disproportionately impact Black students, but did you know they also target schools w/ high #s of Black principals, teachers & staff? 70% of the principals who will lose their job due to closure are Black, that is simply stunning. #oakedu

I love how we are now at a point—not only in capitalism but in manufacturing consent—where the news can just casually say, "This man owns 30,000 houses." Without the next sentence being, "And his existence is an indictment of society and an affront to god."

To ask teachers to be on the front line of mass shootings, the front line of a pandemic, and the front line of the struggle against inequality all while underpaying them and systematically underfunding the education system is both cruel and a recipe for societal collapse.

In what reality of SF are you living where someone on the streets can afford a spot in a brand new building? Maybe that really is the world in the eyes of Nellie Bowles, a descendant of one of the largest landowners in US history

Really excited to share this syllabus on The Homeless Industrial Complex. Annie Powers and I collected texts from within and about the movement for unhoused people, in solidarity with tenants inside and out. All readings available at bit.ly/carceralhousing :

It’s official, Colorado voters passed Prop FF to give ALL public school students the option to eat two free school meals daily, regardless of their family’s income. No more shame, worry, or stigma, because a child doesn’t have money to eat. Thanks Hunger Free Colorado #copolitics & you!

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor The racist governor of Florida and the complicit College Board have given us no choice. FREE Ebook: Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice, edited by Jesse Hagopian and Denisha Jones haymarketbooks.org/books/1554-bla…

Marking one full year of institutional neglect and stonewalling after UCPD was called on a Berkeley School of Education student during the height of the pandemic for allegedly not wearing a mask. dailycal.org/2023/02/01/sto…

If you're a doctoral student who's thinking about this institute, please consider applying today. Short application, and potential wonderful opportunity and community to join! Deadline today.

Not a great day for the “charter schools are public!” crowd. nytimes.com/2023/06/05/us/…

This is the Oakland Federal Building right now. More than 700 Jews are rotating at sit in to call for a ceasefire, and they don’t plan to go anywhere unless subject to arrest. Please amplify this! #CeasefireNow

Anne Boyer has resigned as the poetry editor of the New York Times magazine: “Because our status quo is self-expression, sometimes all artists have left is to refuse. So I refuse.”