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Allison Jackson
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Steven BeschlossWhat does it say about the US justice system that over two years after the Capitol attack and deadly insurrection, its ringleader is not only still unindicted, he’s still inciting violence and plotting to retake office?
tulticanThe Long and Tired History of Media-Driven Reading Wars - Like now in the 1940s, scholar after scholar noted that high illiteracy rates were caused by high poverty levels. https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/01/28/the-long-and-tired-history-of-media-driven-reading-wars/ via @plthomasEdD #Education
Peter Greene: Vouchers Are Not Really About School Choice - Republicans want to eliminate public schools and in time shift the financial burden for education to parents, not taxpayers. https://dianeravitch.net/2023/01/28/peter-greene-vouchers-are-not-really-about-school-choice/ via @dianeravitch #Education #Politics
Rabbi Danya RuttenbergReminder: despite white people loving to quote the line from “I Have a Dream” abt individualistic things (judging people), most of the speech was abt systemic racism, incl things that continue to harm now—police violence, housing injustice,voter suppression, insufficient change.
And reminder: Rev. Dr. King spoke about American imperialism, capitalist exploitation, and more. He understood that all systems were interconnected.
Quotes in next tweets
“We’ve deluded ourselves into believing the myth that Capitalism grew from the Protestant ethic of hard work & sacrifice.Capitalism was built on the exploitation & suffering of Black slaves & continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor – Black & white, here & abroad.” MLK
. “A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death.”
—Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Beyond Vietnam,” 1967
Ilana Hornhow different the world would be if the prevailing view was that we, as a society, should all care for each other.
Emily L. HauserAll the reasons I’m a Democrat-
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HawaiiDelilah/status/1611865544621461504
