#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.
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…
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…
As a direct result, 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. #TeachCentralAmerica 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 & sickened again." -- Howard Zinn via @theprogressive Read: progressive.org/magazine/remem…
Shortly after 9/11/2001, Pres. Bush proclaimed a “war on terrorism.”
We need to engage students in a deep critical reading of terms such as “terrorism,” “freedom,” “patriotism,” & “our way of life”.
See @RethinkSchools lesson below by Bill Bigelow. zinnedproject.org/materials/whos…
We need to engage students in a deep critical reading of terms such as “terrorism,” “freedom,” “patriotism,” & “our way of life”.
See @RethinkSchools lesson below by Bill Bigelow. zinnedproject.org/materials/whos…
The U.S. gov't. response to 9/11 attacks was war in Afghanistan, followed by invasion of Iraq — and, domestically, an explosion of Islamophobia.
Here are lessons to challenge Islamophobia, including part two of the Whose Terrorism lesson above. challengeislamophobia.org
Here are lessons to challenge Islamophobia, including part two of the Whose Terrorism lesson above. challengeislamophobia.org
"I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the U.S. . . ."-- Oakland Congressmember Barbara Lee offered the lone no vote against war. She faced death threats.
Listen to interview on @democracynow democracynow.org/2021/9/10/barb…
Listen to interview on @democracynow democracynow.org/2021/9/10/barb…
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