Dave Stieber

Brilliant, bold, and benevolent are appropriate adjectives to describe Jasmine Crockett.
She’s consistently stood up to Trump and MAGA. Yet the reason why she wasn’t supported enough by Democrats is because of anti-Blackness and misogynoir.

She quit her job to fight for her father’s freedom—and for everyone else inside Alligator Alcatraz Inside the weekly vigils that refuse to let Florida's most notorious detention camp and the immigrants detained there be forgotten.

Inside the weekly vigils that refuse to let Florida’s most notorious detention camp and the immigrants detained there be forgotten.

Men think they're doing their share of housework. They're not. The gender gap is taking a toll on women's mental health and is not showing signs of getting better.

related to the previous post.

"New research from the university suggests that women who carried the bulk of the housework load at age 25 still bear the same heavy burdens decades later as they move into middle age — and that "women's domestic workload only increased during the child-rearing years."

We have $ for a dozen ICE agents to hang around for hours trying to arrest 2 roofers working in MN.

Meanwhile, the agency that investigates and prosecutes violations of Americans' right to organize is shedding staff again. Now down to like 1 agency staff per 145,000 workers.

Happening now: anti-war protestors are gathereing in Chicago's Congress Plaza for a demonstration against ongoing U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran.

Tonight's rally follows a similar protest in Chicago on Saturday; other anti-war actions are being planned across the city over the week.

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

Chicago.
Today.
5pm.

We should not be hosting the Olympics or the World Cup. This is not a safe country.

Elite Doctors Served Jeffrey Epstein While Treating His ‘Girls’

NEW: I and colleagues reviewed 15,000 documents to illuminate how Jeffrey Epstein used VIP doctors to control and manipulate young women* — and how the doctors helped him, treating his needs as more important than the patients'. Gift link.

*see next post in thread

'The Behavior of Rogue States': Global Revulsion as US and Israel Launch War on Iran "The attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States are illegal, unprovoked, and unjustifiable," said Jeremy Corbyn, an independent member of the UK Parliament.

"The attacks on Iran by Israel and the United States are illegal, unprovoked, and unjustifiable."

The war is ON Iran not “with Iran”.
Just like the war was always ON Palestine. The military actions by our country and Israel are absolutely sick. #NoWarOnIran

The United States and Israel bombed a girls' elementary school in Minab, southern Iran.

The US-Israeli strike killed at least 40 children and injured more than 41 others.

Heinous terror.

Just woke up to this.

🚨 US and Israel attack Iran.

So Israel is launching a "preventive" strike on Iran and also announcing a state of emergency, because they expect Iran to respond to their "preventive" strike by launching missiles. So like... what's being prevented here?

The US and Israel have, in fact, begun an illegal war with Iran. The US lured Iran into talks and seemingly reached an agreement that Iran would end its uranium enrichment. As of 8:00 AM, Israel and the US launched a surprise attack on Iran with the intent of assassinating its leadership

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

Netanyahu Calls Iran Strikes Necessary To Prevent War He Just Started

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

Israel, immediately after vaporizing a bunch of little girls:

Black History Month: Lessons for Resistance - Chicago Teachers Union Oppressive governments wielding power against vulnerable people. Racist propaganda and misinformation spreading unchecked. Armed forces terrorizing Black and brown communities. This is America today, ...

And what we can learn from the Black Panthers
www.ctulocal1.org/posts/black-...

Lessons for Resistance: What Chicago’s BLM Movement Teaches Us Now - Chicago Teachers Union In this installment of our Lessons for Resistance series, Kenwood Social Studies teacher Dave Stieber reflects on what the Chicago Black Lives Matter movement can teach us now.

Past editions include what the youth in Chicago taught us during the Black Lives Matter movement
www.ctulocal1.org/posts/lesson...

Lessons for Resistance: Reconstruction as a Roadmap - Chicago Teachers Union What Reconstruction teaches our students about backlash, power, and participation.

The next edition of @ctulocal1.bsky.social ’s “Lessons for Resistance" is out! This series features Chicago Teachers Union members writing about past people, movements or events that can help guide us now. This edition explains how Reconstruction can help us now. 
www.ctulocal1.org/posts/recons...

Rep. Al Green Accepts Censure Vote and Recalls Civil Rights Era Protests The Texas lawmaker says Trump’s “lunatics” comment toward Democrats is why he spoke up.

Rep. Al Green (D-Texas) was escorted from the House chamber just minutes into the State of the Union after standing with a sign that read, “Black People Aren’t Apes!”

It’s the second year in a row Green has been removed during a president’s address to Congress. capitalbnews.org/texas-rep-al...

BREAKING: Family Demands Answers in Death of Georgia State University Student Kyle Bassinga Marietta, GA (BuzzReport)— A grieving family is calling for a full and transparent investigation into the death of 21-year-old Georgia State University student Kyle Bassinga, who was found deceased in a wooded area of Cobb County just days after celebrating his birthday. After an intense and emotional search effort led by family and friends, the discovery brought the outcome they had feared most.

BREAKING: Family Demands Answers in Death of Georgia State University Student Kyle Bassinga

DaQuain Johnson! Everyone should know who he is and MSM should be covering how he was murdered! 💙😔✊🏾

don’t feel comfortable posting my usual content without speaking up for my family. his name was DaQuan Johnson & he was somebody! please share to spread awareness!! #grandrapids #michigan TikTok video by RELLZ 🌻

The Grand Rapids Police Department in Michigan killed a Black man named DaQuan Johnson while he was face down.

“He was 31 years old, he was a father, and he was somebody,” says his cousin.

www.tiktok.com/t/ZThqJk37o/

Chicago is replacing a statue of Christopher Columbus with Mother Cabrini. Columbus raped, enslaved, & murdered people. Mother Cabrini helped people. As the grandson of an Italian immigrant & history teacher I am so glad Columbus is not being celebrated. #byecolumbus

Lessons for us all

Black History Month: Lessons for Resistance - Chicago Teachers Union Oppressive governments wielding power against vulnerable people. Racist propaganda and misinformation spreading unchecked. Armed forces terrorizing Black and brown communities. This is America today, ...

Here is another editions of Lessons for Resistance featuring CPS educator Will Weaver who teaches how the Black Panthers can help guide us today. The articles all feature teaching resources. www.ctulocal1.org/posts/black-...

Lessons for Resistance: What Chicago’s BLM Movement Teaches Us Now - Chicago Teachers Union In this installment of our Lessons for Resistance series, Kenwood Social Studies teacher Dave Stieber reflects on what the Chicago Black Lives Matter movement can teach us now.

The Chicago Teachers Union is running a new series called “Lessons for Resistance”. It is teacher written about people or movements and shows how they can guide us today. Check out this edition from me about the Chicago Black Lives Matter Movement from 2012-2020
www.ctulocal1.org/posts/lesson...

Rev. Jesse Jackson left a lasting impact on civil rights and political possibilities for Black America • The TRiiBE "Our father was a servant leader — not only to our family, but to the oppressed, the voiceless, and the overlooked around the world,” Jackson’s family said.

“My constituency is the desperate, the damned, the disinherited, the disrespected, and the despised. They are restless and seek relief. They’ve voted in record numbers…The Democratic Party must send them a signal that we care,”

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