The Foster Woods Folk School

🗞️ HAPPY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE'S DAY!

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The 2025-26 school year has begun and the first issue of Owlficial Update is at this link: www.canva.com/design/DAGwX...

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The Foster Woods Folk School The Foster Woods Folk School focuses on education, storytelling, and the arts within an ecosocial justice framework aimed at celebrating and improving our connections as a global community of human an...

We are now enrolling learners for summer camps, courses, and clubs, as well as learners for the 2025-26 school year. Find details on our website at fosterwoods.org.

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A proposed bill in Florida would allow kids as young as 14 to work overnight shifts 𝙙𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙤𝙤𝙡 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠.

It won’t be private school kids who would take those jobs.

With fewer migrant workers, defunded public school kids would fill the void.

It’s all part of the plan.

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The Parallels Between Psychiatric Deinstitutionalization and Prison Abolition “In order to truly fix our broken approach to mental illness, there needs to be a change in attitude: one that goes from seeing people as inherently dangerous to treating them as human beings in need ...

Important essay by Foster Woods Folk School student Ian H. Thanks to our friends at @idavox.bsky.social for publishing Ian's essay.

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Wishing everyone a great spring semester! Can't wait to see y'all when classes start tomorrow!

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Quilt decorated with individual panels representing Bible scenes with angels, figures, animals, etc.

Black and white photo of a Black woman seated, starting out at us, wearing an apron with quilted images on it

Harriet Powers was born into slavery in Georgia in 1830s, lived through Civil War & later created extraordinary quilts based on scenes from Bible & other events. Look closely & you'll see she added quilted designs to her apron, definitively claiming her identity as an artist mfa.org/video/harrie...

MLK Jr on the National Mall, huge crows before him

“I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality, and freedom for their spirits." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

May we all embody that spirit and hold tight to our compassion.

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Jan. 16, 1865: Special Field Order No. 15 Demands by Black ministers after the Ebenezer Creek Massacre led to the short-lived land distribution during Reconstruction known as Special Field Order No. 15.

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Demands by Black ministers after Ebenezer Creek Massacre led to Special Field Order #15: a short-lived land distribution to freed people.

They established civic institutions, schools, militia (for defense from Klan), & more. #TeachReconstruction 🧵
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Anyone looking to ban a book from a school should have to prove they read it by presenting a book report to the school committee.

Jan. 12, 2010: Earthquake in Haiti #tdih On Jan. 12, 2010, Haiti was hit with a devastating earthquake that took the lives of thousands and displaced even more‪. Here is a lesson to help students read between the lines of the mainstrea...

#tdih 2010 Earthquake in Haiti

. . . I want to talk about disasters.
How men make them with
embargoes, exploitation,
stigma, sabotage, scalding
debt & cold shoulders. — Lenelle Moïse

Full poem & more from: @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @democracynow.org ⬇️
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