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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 20h

Great to hear. While working on it, we recommend checking out "Economics for Emancipation: A Course on Capitalism, Solidarity and How We Get Free" from the Center for Popular Economics ⬇️and the (out of print) high school guide "Teaching Economics As If People Mattered" economics4emancipation.net

Economics for Emancipation

A Course of Economics for All

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Jeanne Theoharis @jeannetheoharis.bsky.social · 1d

I'm so looking forward to this conversation on KING OF THE NORTH with the great @sifill.bsky.social with @zinnedproject.bsky.social & @jessehagopian.bsky.social on Monday October 27 at 7:00 EST. All are welcome to tune in: www.zinnedproject.org/news/king-of...

King of the North: Part Two

Historian Jeanne Theoharis returns to discuss her book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.’s Life of Struggle Outside the South in conversation with Sherrilyn Ifill. This session is part of the...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 1d

The first Colored Convention in Maine was held on #tdih 1841, in Portland, Maine.

"Delegates addressed both their own economic conditions and the broader national and international struggle for Black liberation."

Follow: @ccp-org.bsky.social Read ⬇️
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Oct. 6, 1841: Maine’s First Colored Convention

The first Colored Convention in Maine was an opportunity for northern Black abolitionists to organize and strategize for racial justice and the freedom of those still enslaved throughout the South.

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This Is NOT Business As Usual @jemartisby.bsky.social · 2d

"Conservative" is not the word. It's "extremism"--and a host of other words.

But there is nothing conservative about what this regime is doing.

Their project is not conservative, it's regressive.

They don't want to conserve, they want to destroy.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 2d

Free Central America teaching workshop on Monday, Oct. 6: “Cultural Identity Preservation Through Storytelling” & “Resistance and Advocacy of Marginalized Communities (focus on Garifuna)." Hosted by UCI History Project with @teachingchange.bsky.social ⬇️

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Teach Central America Workshop - Teaching for Change

Join us for an online workshop on Monday, October 6 with educators who developed Central American Studies units for upper and lower elementary. They will present these lessons: “Cultural Identity Pres...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3d

Time to #TeachOutsideTextbook about Central America

Join #TeachCentralAmerica Week (Oct. 6-10), hosted by
@teachingchange.bsky.social

Sign up ⬇️for the campaign.

Find lessons, books, films, poetry, art, biographies, teaching stories, & more for pre-K-12.
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Teach Central America Week — Teaching Central America

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3d

"Too often, when it comes to U.S. Cold War interventions, the official curriculum is sanitized & disjointed, leaving students ill-equipped to make sense out of their nation’s global bullying." -- Ursula Wolfe-Rocca

Defend right to #TeachPeoplesHistory
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Disguising Imperialism: How Textbooks Get the Cold War Wrong and Dupe Students

By Ursula Wolfe-Rocca The perpetual interventionism and global hegemony exercised by the U.S. government today urgently need to be questioned and dismantled. Such a monumental task requires a citizenr...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3d

"So Iran/Contra was . . . a way both to bypass specific restrictions in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate . . .

& to neutralize a more diffuse antiwar & anti-interventionist sentiment that had overcome the American public." -- Greg Grandin via @thenation.com
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Unclassified State Department documents with redactions throughout

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3d

#tdih 1986 Iran-Contra conspiracy began to unravel when Hasenfus was captured by Nicaraguan troops.

U.S. gov't used proceeds from illegal weapons sales to Iran to illegally support Contras.

Bill Barr assisted with cover-up.

Read ⬇️ 🧵#TeachCentralAmerica
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Oct. 5, 1986: Eugene Hasenfus Captured During Iran-Contra Scandal

The cover-up of the Iran-Contra scandal began to unravel when Eugene Hasenfus was captured by Nicaraguan troops.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3d

Despite & in response to EOs censoring teaching honestly, teachers are bravely signing up in greater numbers to access people’s history lessons.

Donate so we can reach & support more teachers with free people’s history lessons & defend their right to use them, here: www.zinnedproject.org/donate/

To access lessons which provide my students with opportunities to read and think critically. — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
I am interested in teaching students to critically think about the past and how it shapes both the present and future. — Brooklyn, New York
I am about to teach the book Warriors Don’t Cry and want to prepare my freshmen students with historical context. — Kamuela, Hawai’i

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3d

More reasons ⬇️ why teachers signed up this week to access people's history lessons for the classroom from the Zinn Ed Project.

In many cases, the teachers face risks for teaching truthfully.

I want to incorporate a ZEP lesson for Indigenous Peoples’ Day. — Avondale, Arizona
I would like to access a lesson plan that I saw in Teaching Palestine. — Minneapolis, Minnesota
I read good things about your Reconstruction lessons and want to try them in my U.S. history class. — San Diego, California
I love ZEP. It’s a critical lens and resource list for any teacher fighting the good fight, as I am lucky to be doing. — New York, New York

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 3d

Weekly report.

This week 187 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Avondale, AR; San Diego, CA; Wilmington, DE; Kamuela, HI; Mayfield, KY; Minneapolis, MN; Brooklyn and New York, NY; Pittsburgh, PA; Lehi, UT; Chantilly, VA; & many more cities.

Some reasons why. ⬇️🧵

I’m teaching about McCarthyism. — Lehi, Utah
To be able to teach history the way it is meant to be taught. — Wilmington, Delaware
I like the lessons and content because they tell the truth about U.S. history. — Chantilly, Virginia
I want to access and share high quality, historically accurate resources that highlight the contributions and struggles of marginalized communities. — Mayfield, Kentucky

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 4d

The SNCC Legacy Project @sncclegacy.bsky.social offers a free teaching resource -- an informational booklet and a set of six toolkits on SNCC voting rights, women & gender, art & culture, Black power, organizing, & freedom teaching.

View & download free here: sncclegacyproject.org/sncc-grassro...

Black and white photo of woman showing a man an information flyer. She is wearing glasses. He is holding a young child. The background is green with white text: SNCC & Grassroots Organizing

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 4d

Via @sncclegacy.bsky.social:

The students. . . kneeled and prayed on [City Hall] steps.

“We are children of God. We petition all our fellow [people] men to love rather than hate.”

1 by 1, police dragged them off.

Read ⬇️-- youth activism & police brutality.
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Burglund High School students walkout - SNCC Digital Gateway

On October 4th, 115 Burglund high schools students walked out in response to the expulsions and the murder of Herbert Lee. SNCC had not organized the...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 4d

#tdih 1961 McComb, Miss., at great risk, 100+ HS students walked out to protest the expulsion of classmates for sit-in & murder of voting rights activist & farmer, Herbert Lee.

Marched to City Hall.

While the teens prayed, police beat & jailed them. 🧵
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Oct. 4, 1961: Burglund High School Walkout

Burglund students walked out in response to the expulsions of their classmates and the murder of Herbert Lee.

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Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social · 4d

Who fears critical thinking?

In my new @wordinblacknews.bsky.social article, I show how the @zinnedproject.bsky.social’s “Teach Truth on Constitution Day” campaign teaches which rights it doesn’t protect—& how the rights we have were won by struggle. ✊🏾

#TeachTruth
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No Wonder the Right Suppresses Lessons on the Constitution

Educator and activist Jesse Hagopian writes that teaching truth doesn’t harm kids — it prepares them to fight for justice.

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TX FReadom Fighters @freadomfighters.bsky.social · 6d

Starting Sunday, check out all the webinars and programs with authors, booksellers, etc. from @everylibrary.bsky.social
in honor of Banned Books Week and in support of the freedom to read. Listen in!⬇️. www.everylibrary.org/everylibrary...

EveryLibrary Live! Banned Books 2025 Calendar

Join EveryLibrary Live! for Banned Books Week Fest 2025, a free online celebration featuring 25+ authors, editors, and advocates in bold conversations about storytelling, censorship, and the freedom t...

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 5d

#tdih 1935 Fascist Italy invaded Ethiopia with poisonous gas, bombs, concentration camps.

"From Kingston to Johannesburg, from Detroit to Ghana, Port-of-Spain to Paris, Black communities rallied in defense of Ethiopia." #PanAfrican #TeachOutsideTextbook ⬇️
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Oct. 3, 1935: Ethiopia Invaded by Italy

Ethiopia was invaded by Fascist Italy under Benito Mussolini.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 5d

"When students critically examine who created the Constitution & what rights it does & does not guarantee, they don’t retreat into cynicism; they step forward as active participants in democracy . . ." -- @jessehagopian.bsky.social via @wordinblacknews.bsky.social

wordinblack.com/2025/10/no-w...

No Wonder the Right Suppresses Lessons on the Constitution

Educator and activist Jesse Hagopian writes that teaching truth doesn’t harm kids — it prepares them to fight for justice.

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ACLU @aclu.org · 5d

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador.

Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

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skellyton bones jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 5d

Another reason we can't "just get private bookmobiles to schools to get kids banned books" is that this isn't about the books. It's about the fundamental rights to democratic spaces that represent a whole community.

Right now, judges are chipping away at *our* rights.

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Another Judge Chips Away at Library Patron First Amendment Rights

A District Court judge rules that neither library patrons nor authors have First Amendment rights when it comes to library collections.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 6d

#tdih 1968 Tlatelolco Massacre

10 days before Olympic games in Mexico City, police and army fired on thousands of demonstrators -- high school & college students, and neighboring families.

Hundreds were killed, thousands were beaten & jailed. 💔

Read ⬇️

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Oct. 2, 1968: Tlatelolco Massacre

Student demonstrators and other civilians were killed by the military and police in Mexico in advance of the 1968 Olympic Games.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 6d

#tdih 1937 Parsley Massacre

U.S.-backed Dominican dictator President Rafael Trujillo, blaming immigration for country's problems (sound familiar?) and inspired by Hitler, tightened border patrols & ordered execution of more than 20,000 Haitians. 💔

Read ⬇️ 🧵
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Oct. 2, 1937: Parsley Massacre

Under the orders of U.S.-backed Dominican dictator President Rafael Trujillo, the execution of more than 20,000 Haitians began in what is now known as the Parsley Massacre at Massacre River.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 6d

Join #BannedBooksWeek and prepare for the #AmericanRevolution250 by participating in the @ncacensorship.bsky.social read-ins of historical fiction "Chains" by @halseanderson.bsky.social

Host an event or find one near you. Read: www.righttoreadnight.com

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Chains

Book — Historical fiction. By Laurie Halse Anderson. 2010. 336 pages. Historical fiction based on the life of an enslaved teenager during the Revolutionary War.

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Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social · 6d

The normalization of book bans & curriculum censorship has helped pave the road to where we are now. See new report ⬇️.

That is why we ask everyone to raise the alarm & defend the #FreedomtoLearn & #TeachTruth at every public event, see: www.zinnedproject.org/news/teach-t...

pen.org/report/the-n...

The Normalization of Book Banning

This report offers a window into the complex and extensive climate of censorship between July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2025.

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