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#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember when the heroic Cuban people defeated US imperialism. 
On this day in 1961, about 1500 far-right Cuban exiles trained, financed, and supported by the CIA tried to invade Cuba, landing in Playa Girón, to “recover” Cuba for the US imperialist benefit. They also planned to kill Fidel Castro and destroy the popular Cuban Revolution.
The Cuban Revolutionary Army, directly led from the front lines by Fidel Castro, repelled the attack in less than three days.
#PeoplesHistory | Today, we remember Commander Hugo Chávez. Known as the father of the Bolivarian Revolution, Chávez inaugurated a new period in Venezuelan history.
Through his comprehensive and inclusive social and economic policies, he brought back dignity and pride to the Venezuelan people and helped forge important projects of Latin American unity.
The great leader of the Bolivarian Revolution moved mountains and shook the global order. Here we bring you some of his most memorable quotes.
#tdih 1942, Huey Newton was born in Monroe, LA. His family (sharecroppers) fled to Oakland as part of Great Migration after his father was almost lynched. (h/t @Isabelwilkerson) Newton co-founded Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1966. Read more ⬇️
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"Thank you for posting the picture of Huey Newton and the children. I am the girl in the picture. I was 11-years-old and volunteering as a typist for the Black Panther Party . . . Today I work on computers, so I am still typing!" -- Annissa Nadirah Karim
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Here is a lesson that introduces students to the pivotal and largely untold (in schools) history of the Black Panthers. By @JessedHagopian and Adam Sanchez of @RethinkSchools. Download for free. #teachoutsidetextbook #peopleshistory
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Peace yall,
Some comrades and I are hosting an AA meeting every Wednesday for Black, Indigenous, and people of Color (BIPOC) who want to stop drinking and/or drugging. Details for the meeting are in the graphics below.
Some comrades and I are hosting an AA meeting every Wednesday for Black, Indigenous, and people of Color (BIPOC) who want to stop drinking and/or drugging. Details for the meeting are in the graphics below.
This meeting will be a place to read and discuss the BIPOC, working-class, and leftist roots of the 12 steps and push back against conservative and neoliberal traditions that claim to be the only history of AA and the steps.
Left-wing and right-wing cultural, spiritual, and behavioral science traditions went back and forth to create AA and the 12 step programs.
#PeoplesHistory | 🇮🇷 On this day in 1953, the CIA’s first successful coup overthrew Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh and his democratically elected government. British intelligence backed their US counterparts in this illegal act.
Mossadegh was an icon of Iran’s secular democracy and resistance to foreign colonial powers. He became Prime Minister in 1951. He nationalized Iranian oil and instituted radical measures such as social security, land reform, and wealth redistribution.
The nationalization of oil, which took it out of British hands, was celebrated by the Iranian people. But the colonial and imperialist powers were not happy.
#PeoplesHistory | August 15 marked one year since the Taliban took control over #Afghanistan, marking the end of the military occupation and war led by the #US and its #NATO allies.
Let’s look at the legacy of two decades of US-NATO imperialism and the punitive measures taken against the Taliban govt.
#PeoplesHistory | 🇮🇹 Today, we celebrate # Italy's #LiberationDay, when 77 years ago, the #Partigiani defeated fascism and the German occupation in 1945.
#FestaDellaLiberazione
#FestaDellaLiberazione
After a general strike & a working-class uprising in many Italian cities, the anti-fascist #Partisans, mostly led by communists, defeated Adolf Hitler's occupation armies alongside the remaining loyalists of Benito Mussolini & took control of the Northern industrial centers.
Days after liberating Milan and Turin, the Partigiani captured and executed Benito Mussolini and the leadership of the 20-year fascist dictatorship.
#FestaDellaLiberazione
#FestaDellaLiberazione
#PeoplesHistory | 🇧🇫 A Burkinabe court has given a long-awaited verdict and sentenced Blaise Compaore to life imprisonment for the murder of his predecessor: Burkinabe Marxist, pan-Africanist and revolutionary Thomas Sankara.
#Sankara was the President of Burkina Faso from 1983 to 1987. His government focused the foreign policies on anti-imperialism, rejecting foreign aid and policies of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank and nationalizing all land and mineral wealth.
The Sankara government also introduced various progressive policies, including strengthening and liberation of women, massive education and self-reliance programs.
#PeoplesHistory | On April 5, 2010 #JulianAssange’s @WikiLeaks published the “Collateral Murder” video, which showed the gunning down of civilians, children and two @Reuters journalists, uncovering war crimes in Iraq.
“It’s very simple. People have a right to know and a right to question and challenge power. That’s a true democracy.” Julian Assange, founder and publisher of #WikiLeaks
#CollateralMurder #FreeAssangeNOW #DropTheCharges #JournalismIsNotACrime
#CollateralMurder #FreeAssangeNOW #DropTheCharges #JournalismIsNotACrime
#PresidentsDay: "Nowhere in all this information is there any mention of fact that more than one in four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking & slavery." -- by @HowardU Prof. Clarence Lusane, "Black History of the White House" #TeachTruth ⬇️
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“When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don’t forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.” - - @ClintSmithIII on @pbsnewshour reads a "letter to past presidents." #PresidentsDay
Clint Smith, in video above, is author of "How the Word Is Passed" -- an examination of how monuments & landmarks (incl. for U.S. presidents) represent — and misrepresent — central role of slavery in U.S. history & its legacy today.
Book info, lessons ⬇️
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Book info, lessons ⬇️
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#PeoplesHistory | 🇳🇬 Since 1993, in Nigeria, 4 January is observed as the Ogoni Day to remember the Ogoni people’s peaceful struggle against discrimination, suppression and the destruction of their environment and livelihoods by oil companies and the Nigerian government.
On 4 January 1993, some 300,000 Ogoni people peacefully protested against Shell’s activities in the Niger Delta and the environmental destruction of Ogoniland.
In 1990, Ken Saro-Wiwa founded the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP), a mass‐based social movement organization of the indigenous Ogoni people of Central Niger Delta.
On #VeteransDay and all year long, students deserve to learn truth about war, including from veterans themselves and their families.
Read ⬇️how Koch Brothers founded and funded Bill of Rights Institute exploits and lies about story of Pat Tillman.
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Read ⬇️how Koch Brothers founded and funded Bill of Rights Institute exploits and lies about story of Pat Tillman.
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#VeteransDay Black and white WWI vets were attacked by U.S. gov't. with tanks, bayonets, and tear gas when they came to D.C. from across the country to demand their wartime bonus in 1932. #TeachOutsideTextbook #PeoplesHistory zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/bonu…
#VeteransDay Remember Oliver Law who served as Commander of the integrated Abraham Lincoln Brigade, fighting fascism in Spain just before WWII.
The U.S. gov't. outlawed the brigade; called them "premature antifascists." #TeachTruth
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The U.S. gov't. outlawed the brigade; called them "premature antifascists." #TeachTruth
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Born #tdih 1868: William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois, one of most important scholars of 20th century. Sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, author, editor; co-founder of @NAACP, leader of Niagara Movement, and editor of NAACP’s @thecrisismag. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/web-…
"One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. . . The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that . . . it paints perfect man & noble nations, but it does not tell the truth." ― W.E.B. DuBois
"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." -- W. E. B. Du Bois | To #TeachReconstruction, begin w/ Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America," 1st published in 1935. #peopleshistory #teachoutsidetextbook zinnedproject.org/materials/blac…
#PresidentsDay weekend: "Nowhere in all this information is there any mention of fact that more than one in four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery." -- Read ⬇️by @HowardU prof. Clarence Lusane, "Black History of White House" zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
“When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don’t forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.” - - @ClintSmithIII on
@pbsnewshour reads a "letter to past presidents." #PresidentsDay
@pbsnewshour reads a "letter to past presidents." #PresidentsDay
Clint Smith, in video above, has a new book (in June). "How the Word is Passed" -- an examination of how monuments & landmarks (incl. for U.S. presidents) represent — and misrepresent — central role of slavery in U.S. history and its legacy today. Read ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/materials/how-…
zinnedproject.org/materials/how-…
"What was the language used by American Indians? Choices: German, English, Spanish, none at all." Entire page ⬇️for students about Native Americans via @studiesweekly is full of lies. Pull immediately! (& vet rest of their materials) TY Calif. parent who sent this, sounded alarm!
We recommend that everyone read and share "Tips for Teachers: Developing Instructional Materials about American Indians" by @debreese & @JeanMendoza2016 (also authors of "Indigenous Peoples' History") here: …ansinchildrensliterature.blogspot.com/2020/10/tips-f… And check out @UCBHSSP for recommended resources.
There is NO excuse for using materials that lie about Native American history.
The @SmithsonianNMAI provides invaluable lessons online via Native Knowledge 360. Read and share the link below. #teachoutsidetextbook #peopleshistory americanindian.si.edu/nk360
The @SmithsonianNMAI provides invaluable lessons online via Native Knowledge 360. Read and share the link below. #teachoutsidetextbook #peopleshistory americanindian.si.edu/nk360
#tdih 1921 Tulsa Massacre. White rioters murdered hundreds of Black residents & looted/burned to ground thriving Black community. Can't teach about this week without context of institutionalized racism (incl. dispossesion) in Tulsa & all U.S. #Reparations zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/tuls…
Many people first learned of Tulsa Massacre last year from @watchmen and 100th anniversary of Red Summer of 1919. Young people should not have to depend on HBO for essential lessons in U.S. history. Read ⬇️about Red Summer and beyond. #BlackLivesMatter zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
. @TheAtlantic with @HBO produced online graphic history of 1921 Tulsa Massacre following @watchmen series. White supremacists killed estim. 300 African Americans and looted/burned 40 square blocks of homes, hospitals, schools, churches, and businesses. theatlantic.com/sponsored/hbo-…
#tdih 1873 Colfax Massacre by white supremacists in Louisiana on Easter Sunday. Republicans had narrowly won 1872 election to retain control of state and a Black militia defended the victory, but Democrats used brutal violence to overturn results. See ⬇️zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/colf…
"The bloodiest single instance of racial carnage in Reconstruction era, the Colfax Massacre taught many lessons, including the lengths to which some opponents of Reconstruction would go to regain their accustomed authority." -- Eric Foner #peopleshistory zinnedproject.org/materials/free…
Although federal charges were brought against several white insurgents (terrorists), the Supreme Court later ruled in "U.S. v. Cruikshank" that 14th Amendment only applied to state actions and offered no protections against acts by individual citizens. zinnedproject.org/materials/peop…
#tdih 1944 Frank S. Emi was interrogated because he refused to be drafted while imprisoned by US gov't during Japanese American internment. "I contend what you are doing is against the rights I have as a citizen of this country." Convicted. Read ⬇️
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At Heart Mountain, adults required to complete a "loyalty" questionnaire. Frank Emi said "under the present conditions," unable to answer & advised others to do same. #resistance. Read more & see oral history interviews with Emi in Densho Encyclopedia: encyclopedia.densho.org/Frank_Emi/
Read more stories of the fight for democracy and human rights in Asian American history. #teachoutsidetextbook #peopleshistory zinnedproject.org/materials/asia…
#tdih 1870 150 yrs ago. Fifteenth Amendment to U.S. Constitution was formally adopted. Declared the right of U.S. citizens to vote could “not be abridged or denied” by any state "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.” zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fift…
On a per capita and absolute basis, more African Americans were elected to public office during the period from 1865 to 1880 than at any other time in U.S. history. These legislatures brought in programs of public benefit such as universal public education. #TeachReconstruction
Over time, the 15th Amendment would be narrowly interpreted, allowing states to implement white supremacist restrictions such as poll taxes and "literacy" tests that did not mention race by name, but effectively prevented most African Americans from voting. #teachvotingrights
#tdih 1971 A cab driver, a day care provider, and two professors broke into FBI office in Media, Penn. & stole documents that exposed COINTELPRO surveillance, infiltration, discreditation, and disruption of domestic political organizations. #peopleshistory zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/coin…
Despite a massive FBI campaign to find the "burglars" of the Media, Penn. office who exposed COINTELPRO, their identities remained a secret until they came forward in 2014. See interview below on @democracynow and watch @1971Film democracynow.org/2014/1/8/it_wa…
Textbooks ignore this role of the FBI in U.S. history, but it’s essential background to understand what’s happening today. High school teacher Ursula Wolfe-Rocca wrote a lesson for her students drawing on primary documents from COINTELPRO. See ⬇️. zinnedproject.org/materials/coin…
Born #tdih 1868: William Edward Burghardt (W. E. B.) Du Bois, one of most important scholars of 20th century. Sociologist, historian, Pan-Africanist, author, editor; co-founder of @NAACP, leader of Niagara Movement, and editor of NAACP’s @thecrisismag. zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/web-…
"One is astonished in the study of history at the recurrence of the idea that evil must be forgotten, distorted, skimmed over. . . The difficulty, of course, with this philosophy is that . . . it paints perfect man & noble nations, but it does not tell the truth." ― W.E.B. DuBois
"The slave went free; stood a brief moment in the sun; then moved back again toward slavery." -- W. E. B. Du Bois
To #TeachReconstruction, begin w/ Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America," 1st published in 1935. #peopleshistory #teachoutsidetextbook zinnedproject.org/materials/blac…
To #TeachReconstruction, begin w/ Du Bois's "Black Reconstruction in America," 1st published in 1935. #peopleshistory #teachoutsidetextbook zinnedproject.org/materials/blac…
#tdih 1942, Huey Newton was born in Monroe, LA. His family (sharecroppers) fled to Oakland as part of Great Migration after his father was almost lynched. (h/t @Isabelwilkerson) Newton co-founded Black Panther Party for Self-Defense in 1966. Read more ⬇️zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/huey…
"Thank you for posting the picture of Huey Newton and the children. I am the girl in the picture. I was 11-years-old and volunteering as a typist for the Black Panther Party . . . Today I work on computers, so I am still typing!" -- Annissa Nadirah Karim zinnedproject.org/news/memories-…
Here is a lesson that introduces students to the pivotal and largely untold (in schools) history of the Black Panthers. By Adam Sanchez and @JessedHagopian of @RethinkSchools Download for free. #teachoutsidetextbook #peopleshistory zinnedproject.org/materials/blac…
#PresidentsDay weekend: "Nowhere in all this information is there any mention of fact that more than one in four U.S. presidents were involved in human trafficking and slavery." -- Read ⬇️ by @HowardU prof. Clarence Lusane, "Black History of White House" zinnedproject.org/if-we-knew-our…
“When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don’t forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.” - -@ClintSmithIII on @pbsnewshour reads a "letter to past presidents." #PresidentsDay
For middle school, we recommend "Never Caught: The Story of Ona Judge" by @ericaadunbar, the true story of Ona Judge who escaped from enslavement by George and Martha Washington. zinnedproject.org/materials/neve…
