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#tdih 1986 Iran-Contra conspiracy began to unravel when Hasenfus captured by Nicaraguan troops.

U.S. gov't used illegal weapons sales to Iran proceeds to illegally support Contras.

Bill Barr assisted with cover-up. Read ⬇️
#TeachCentralAmerica
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"So Iran/Contra was . . . a way both to bypass specific restrictions in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate . . . and to neutralize a more diffuse antiwar and anti-interventionist sentiment that had overcome the American public." -- @GregGrandin ⬇️
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"Too often, when it comes to U.S. Cold War interventions, the official curriculum is sanitized and disjointed, leaving students ill-equipped to make sense out of their nation’s global bullying." -- @LadyOfSardines

Defend right to #TeachPeoplesHistory
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#tdih Sept.11, we share a 🧵 of tragic anniversaries incl. at Attica Prison, U.S. backed coup in Chile, Myrna Mack murder in Guatemala, attacks on WTC and Pentagon, & more. We include "Whose 'Terrorism'?" lesson.

In their memory, let us teach and work for peace and justice.
#tdih 1971 Prisoners at Attica presented a manifesto consisting of 28 demands to NY State officials.

They were in midst of uprising (9/9 - 9/13) that ended in brutal repression.

Find teaching resources ⬇️, including primer on Attica from @projectnia zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/atti…
#tdih 1973 Chile’s democratically elected president, Salvador Allende was killed in a U.S.-backed coup.

As a direct result, this was followed by decades of brutal dictatorship. #TeachOutsideTextbook zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/salv…
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#tdih 1986 Iran-Contra conspiracy began to unravel when Hasenfus captured by Nicaraguan troops.

U.S. gov't used illegal weapons sales to Iran proceeds to illegally support Contras.

Bill Barr assisted with cover-up. Read ⬇️
#TeachCentralAmerica
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/iran…
"So Iran/Contra was . . . a way both to bypass specific restrictions in the wake of Vietnam and Watergate . . . and to neutralize a more diffuse antiwar and anti-interventionist sentiment that had overcome the American public." -- @GregGrandin ⬇️
thenation.com/article/archiv…
"Too often, when it comes to U.S. Cold War interventions, the official curriculum is sanitized and disjointed, leaving students ill-equipped to make sense out of their nation’s global bullying." -- @LadyOfSardines

Defend right to #TeachOutsideTextbook
zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
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#tdih 1980 Three nuns (Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, and Dorothy Kazel) and one lay worker (Jean Donovan) were abducted, raped, and murdered in El Salvador by members of the U.S. backed National Guard. #terrorism #TeachCentralAmerica zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/nuns…
President Ronald Reagan’s administration blamed the nuns for their own murder. Foreign-policy advisor Jeane Kirkpatrick told reporter, “The nuns were not just nuns. The nuns were also political activists” and Secretary of State Alexander Haig said, “perhaps they ran a roadblock.”
We recommend video & report, "Laying Out a Case for Deporting Human Rights Abusers" by @ClydeHaberman via @nytimes about campaign to have generals who ordered murder of nuns deported from safe haven in Florida. nytimes.com/2014/11/10/us/…
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