Something to keep in mind always, but especially in the coming days:

Grief, loneliness, family estrangement, depression, addiction all seem to hurt more this time of year. Just about everyone I’ve met with this week is struggling extra

… I guess what im saying is, please be good to each other. Life is hard right now for a lot of people, and the holiday season can put every kind of hardship into laser focus. Mind how you go.

America’s Adult Education System Is Broken. Here’s How Experts Say We Can Fix It.
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Just some of the many things experts told us:

• Give adults with the lowest #literacy skills more attention

• Increase availability & flexibility of classes, especially in rural areas

• Train #educators how to work with adults with #disabilities

• Invest more $$ in #AdultEducation

• Increase #teacher pay & add more full-time teachers

by @AnnieWaldman, Aliyya Swaby & @annaleighclark

https://www.propublica.org/article/literacy-adult-education-united-states-solutions?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

40 years ago, giant entertainment companies embarked on a slow-moving act of arson. The fuel for this arson was #copyright #TermExtension (making copyrights last longer), including *retrospective* copyright term extensions that took works out of the #PublicDomain and put them back into copyright for decades. Vast swathes of culture became off-limits, pseudo-property with absentee landlords, with much of it crumbling into dust.

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🥳 The Constitutional Amendment enshrining reproductive freedom in CA officially went into effect TODAY.

#ReproRights
#CALeg
#PublicPolicy
#HappyHolidays
#ShortenThatLinkGovernor

https://www.gov.ca.gov/2022/12/21/historic-california-constitutional-amendment-reinforcing-protections-for-reproductive-freedom-goes-into-effect/