#tdih Sept.11, we share thread of tragic anniversaries incl. Attica Prison Uprising, U.S. backed coup in Chile, Myrna Mack murder in Guatemala, attacks on WTC and Pentagon, & more. We end w/ "Whose 'Terrorism'?" lesson. | In their memory, let us teach & work for peace & justice.
#tdih 1971 Prisoners at Attica presented a manifesto consisting of 28 demands to New York 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. This was followed by decades of brutal dictatorship. #teachoutsidetextbook zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/salv…
#tdih 1990 Anthropologist Myrna Mack Chang was murdered in Guatemala by U.S.-backed military due to her outspoken criticism of the Guatemala government's treatment of the indigenous Maya. #CentralAmerica zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/murd…
"Let us think about a rational response that brings real peace & justice to our world. But let us not as a nation add to the inhumanity of our times." -- Orlando & Phyllis Rodriguez. Their son Gregory was killed #tdih 2001 at World Trade Center in NY @vph zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/orla…
#tdih In memory of 11-yr-old Asia Cottom (her parents are holding her photo). Asia, two of her @dcpublicschools classmates, and three of her teachers were on a National Geographic Sustainable Seas Expedition. They died when the AA Flight 77 crashed into the Pentagon, #tdih 2001.
Author Ariel Dorfman on @democracynow describes a series of 9/11 anniversaries in India, Guatemala, Haiti, Attica, NY, and Chile where he worked with Salvador Allende until the coup. democracynow.org/2011/9/8/a_fat…
The images were heartbreaking: people on fire leaping to their deaths from a hundred stories up. . .Those scenes horrified & sickened me.
Then our political leaders came on TV, & I was horrified and sickened again. -- Howard Zinn via @theprogressive
Read: progressive.org/magazine/remem…
Then our political leaders came on TV, & I was horrified and sickened again. -- Howard Zinn via @theprogressive
Read: progressive.org/magazine/remem…
Shortly after 9/11, Pres. Bush proclaimed a “war on terrorism.” We need to engage students in a deep critical reading of terms such as “terrorism,” “freedom,” “patriotism,” and “our way of life” — that evoke vivid images but can be used for ambiguous ends. zinnedproject.org/materials/whos…
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