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After The Encampments
On April 24th, I entered Harvard Yard for a rally. In my eight years as a PhD student and graduate labor organizer at the university, I had joined gatherings under the John Harvard statue too many...
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The Pentagon Goes to School
The divestment campaigns launched last spring by students protesting Israel’s mass slaughter in Gaza brought the issue of the militarization of American higher education back into the spotlight. Of...
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Paulo Freire’s Legacy And The Necessity of Critical Pedagogy in Dark Times
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world –Nelson Mandela Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian educator, would have turned 103 on September 19, 2025. Freire was not...
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Assembly of First Nations (AFN) Calls for Action to Advance Reconciliation on...
On September 30th, the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak acknowledged the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, also known as Orange Shirt Day, and is urging...
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Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy
Henry A. Giroux and Anthony R. DiMaggio (2024) Fascism on Trial: Education and the Possibility of Democracy, Bloomsbury, London and New York: Bloomsbury. This is an important book for a pivotal time....
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Student Protests and the Corporatisation and Militarisation of Higher Education
The long-simmering crisis over Israel’s genocide of Palestinians has reached a breaking point. Campus protests in solidarity with Gaza have erupted across North America, spanning at least 45 US states,...
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A Victory Within Reach: Realizing Teacher Unionism’s Progressive Potential in...
From his grave, Albert Shanker, or more accurately, the machine he built, controls the largest teachers union in the world, the United Federation of Teachers (UFT), which represents about 200,000 New...
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How Israel Has Made Trauma a Weapon of War
A slick, high-priced television production. Speeches from top officials. A live audience of thousands. A unified show of collective sorrow and military resolve. That is how the Israeli government hoped...
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Campuses Are Pulling Out All the Stops to Crush Palestine Solidarity This Fall
This semester at U.S. universities, campuses are being transformed from centers of struggle against the genocide in Gaza to epicenters of repression against student activism. University...
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Chalking Bans and ID Checks at Protests Repress Palestine Solidarity on Campus
As the genocide in Gaza rages on, U.S. universities welcomed students, faculty and staff back this fall by rolling out a red carpet of repression. The dedication to stifling pro-Palestine speech and...
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Jewish Students Mark Sukkot Holiday With Calls to End Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Several Jewish-led student groups are marking the holiday of Sukkot on campuses across the country by constructing small, temporary structures called sukkahs and adorning them with messages of...
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‘He’s Not Kidding,’ Advocates Warn as Trump Threatens to Defund Schools for...
Education advocates implored voters to take Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s latest comments on public schools on Friday after his appearance on the Fox News morning show “Fox &...
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Why Are Young Working-Class Men More ‘Conservative’?
It has been a safe assumption for generations that young people tend to be more liberal than their elders. However, in today’s United States, some of the conventional wisdom around age and ideology is...
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California Law Mandates That Public School Children Be Taught About State’s...
From the time the Europeans arrived on American shores, the U.S. government authorized more than 1,500 wars and attacks on Indigenous people and at the conclusion of the “Indian wars” in the late 19th...
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Paulo Freire and the Enemies of Justice
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela Paulo Freire, the radical Brazilian educator, would have turned 103 on September 19, 2024. Freire was not...
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The Crisis of the Neoliberal University and the Need for a Working Class...
This past year in the U.S., a new chapter in class struggle has been written. Students, many from the Palestinian diaspora, anti-Zionist Jewish people, leftists, and people of conscience of all stripes...
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Billionaires Who Aim to “Disrupt” Education May Get a Chance Even If Trump Loses
If reelected U.S. president, Donald Trump, echoing other Republicans, has said he would shut down the Department of Education. All signs point toward a second Trump term expanding school privatization...
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