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A vision for transforming education in the face of climate and ecological breakdown
Preparing students for their futures requires nothing short of transformative systemic change in all aspects of society.
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Internationalist Doctors: A conversation with Vanessa Almeida and John Chikuike Ogbu
Two students from Venezuela’s ELAM medical school talk about becoming physicians in the service of the people.
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Islamophobia: Defending Rutgers’ Center for Security, Race and Rights from Senate Judiciary Committee
“The institutional target of the attack by the Republican members of the Judiciary Committee–the Center for Security, Race and Rights–is an academic institution engaged in research, public education and advocacy “to address the underlying structural and systemic causes of Islamophobia and xenophobia against people of Arab, African, and South Asian descent.”” – Aslı Ü. Bâli / Laurie Brand
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Liberation through reading in Cuba
Literacy campaigns targeting African (Black) youth in Africa and across the diaspora have played a crucial role in fostering educational empowerment.
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Israel lobby and its media enablers threatening academic freedom on campus
Universities must be places where criticisms of official discourses, dominant worldviews can be voiced without fear of reprisal.
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If I understand the world, I can march to change it: The Eighth Newsletter (2024)
In December 2023, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) released a stunning report showing that, since 2018, literacy in reading and mathematics has declined amongst the world’s students.
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Social Media and the war of positions
The collections of ideas we hold are historically conditioned by the mode of life we exist in.
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Michael D. Yates on Labor: Organization, Negotiation, and Education (interview parts 3 & 4)
Parts 3 and 4 of an interview with Michael D. Yates by Farooque Chowdhury.
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Cop City’s ‘Ivory Tower’: Georgia State University is ground zero for militarized policing
While often perceived as institutions of knowledge and progress, universities actively contribute to the myth that policing and prisons keep us safe.
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Dossier no. 73: How the People’s Science Movement is bringing joy and equality to education in Karnataka, India
The People’s Science Movement in India has few parallels in the world in concept, scale, and scope.
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Michael D. Yates on Labor: Organization, Negotiation, and Education (interview parts 1 & 2)
Parts 1 and 2 of an interview with Michael D. Yates by Farooque Chowdhury. The emancipation of labor is one of the foremost questions in all exploitative societies and societies in transition.
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Missing links in textbook history: Colonialism
Providing a useful understanding of our past has never been more difficult. Schools at all levels have been attacked for teaching (or discussing) almost anything that disturbs the status quo or makes students think.
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Communication by and for the People: A conversation with Thierry Deronne (Part I)
A documentary filmmaker and teacher tells the story of Venezuela’s groundbreaking community media movement.
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Charter schools will desert and violate thousands in 2024
Currently, about 3.7 million students are enrolled in roughly 7,800 privately-operated charter schools across the country. The U.S. public education system, on the other hand, has been around for more than 150 years and educates about 45 million students in nearly 100,000 schools.
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‘”Material support” in the form of speech can be criminalized’
Wadie Said on the new Gaza McCarthyism.
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An education policy for colonizing minds
A pre-requisite for freedom in the third world therefore is to shake off this colonisation of the mind, and to seek truth beyond the distortions of imperialism.
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Police brutality against students and silencing of Palestine solidarity at Freie Universität Berlin
Open letter from students and non-tenured academics
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CAIR seeks investigation over teen’s expulsion from Florida school
This comes after the school fired his mother Dr. Maha Almasri, a Palestinian-American, for her posts in support of Palestine.
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NYT amplifies outrage over imaginary calls for genocide
University presidents are under fire from politicians and the media over what is being framed as their waffling over allowing antisemitic speech on their campuses.
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Columbia University suspends ‘Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace’
Columbia University announced it is suspending the campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace for the remainder of the fall term.