Zinn Education Project
@zinnedproject.bsky.social
Free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook.
Coord. by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
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Coord. by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
Donate & more: https://linktr.ee/zinneducationproject
#tdih 1938 in Germany & Austria: organized terrorism by Nazis against Jews.
Hundreds of synagogues destroyed, 30,000 Jewish men arrested & sent to concentration camps, & more. 💔
As in 📷 below, many people in towns — & the world — just looked on. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/po...
Hundreds of synagogues destroyed, 30,000 Jewish men arrested & sent to concentration camps, & more. 💔
As in 📷 below, many people in towns — & the world — just looked on. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/po...
Nov. 9, 1938: Pogromnacht in Germany and Austria
Violent anti-Jewish demonstrations in Europe in which hundreds of synagogues were destroyed; 7,500 Jewish-owned businesses, homes, and schools were plundered; 91 Jews were murdered; and 30,000 Jewish ...
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November 9, 2025 at 12:47 PM
#tdih 1938 in Germany & Austria: organized terrorism by Nazis against Jews.
Hundreds of synagogues destroyed, 30,000 Jewish men arrested & sent to concentration camps, & more. 💔
As in 📷 below, many people in towns — & the world — just looked on. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/po...
Hundreds of synagogues destroyed, 30,000 Jewish men arrested & sent to concentration camps, & more. 💔
As in 📷 below, many people in towns — & the world — just looked on. 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/po...
Friends in Los Angeles:
On Monday, Nov. 10 at UCLA: Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social will be conversation with Robin D. G. Kelley about his @haymarketbooks.org title, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for an Antiracist Education.”
luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/teach-...
On Monday, Nov. 10 at UCLA: Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social will be conversation with Robin D. G. Kelley about his @haymarketbooks.org title, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for an Antiracist Education.”
luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/teach-...
“Teach Truth: The Struggle for an Antiracist Education” with Jesse Hagopian | UCLA Luskin Center for History and Policy
luskincenter.history.ucla.edu
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Friends in Los Angeles:
On Monday, Nov. 10 at UCLA: Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social will be conversation with Robin D. G. Kelley about his @haymarketbooks.org title, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for an Antiracist Education.”
luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/teach-...
On Monday, Nov. 10 at UCLA: Jesse Hagopian @jessehagopian.bsky.social will be conversation with Robin D. G. Kelley about his @haymarketbooks.org title, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for an Antiracist Education.”
luskincenter.history.ucla.edu/event/teach-...
#tdih 1892. When Board of Trade said it would sign agreement with indiv. unions, but not Triple Alliance with primarily Black workers, more than half NOLA's workforce launched labor strike.
They said NO to racist "divide and conquer" tactics. #TeachTruth
Read ⬇️
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They said NO to racist "divide and conquer" tactics. #TeachTruth
Read ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ma...
Nov. 8, 1892: Massive Labor Strike in New Orleans
Thirty thousand factory and dock workers staged the 1892 New Orleans general strike.
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November 8, 2025 at 1:27 PM
#tdih 1892. When Board of Trade said it would sign agreement with indiv. unions, but not Triple Alliance with primarily Black workers, more than half NOLA's workforce launched labor strike.
They said NO to racist "divide and conquer" tactics. #TeachTruth
Read ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ma...
They said NO to racist "divide and conquer" tactics. #TeachTruth
Read ⬇️
zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ma...
#Fridayreport: This week 226 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Flagstaff, AZ; LA, CA; Miramar, FL; Lexington, KY; Grain Valley, MO; Canton, NC; Redmond, WA; & many more cities.
Some reasons why & how they found us. ⬇️ A few saw Fox News attacks, & looked for themselves 😊
Some reasons why & how they found us. ⬇️ A few saw Fox News attacks, & looked for themselves 😊
November 8, 2025 at 1:26 AM
#Fridayreport: This week 226 teachers signed up at ZEP for people’s history lessons from Flagstaff, AZ; LA, CA; Miramar, FL; Lexington, KY; Grain Valley, MO; Canton, NC; Redmond, WA; & many more cities.
Some reasons why & how they found us. ⬇️ A few saw Fox News attacks, & looked for themselves 😊
Some reasons why & how they found us. ⬇️ A few saw Fox News attacks, & looked for themselves 😊
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trial by jury clearly has a role to play today as it did then. you can read other lessons from this history - ways that multiracial groups people living and working in the North resisted slave power under Black leadership in the latest @hammerandhope.bsky.social
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
November 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
trial by jury clearly has a role to play today as it did then. you can read other lessons from this history - ways that multiracial groups people living and working in the North resisted slave power under Black leadership in the latest @hammerandhope.bsky.social
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
hammerandhope.org/article/unde...
#tdih 1841, Madison Washington & 18 other enslaved people aboard "Creole" (en route Richmond to NOLA) rebelled & sailed ship to Bahamas where most secured freedom, one of largest US slave revolts.
Via @blackpastonline.bsky.social, "The Creole Mutiny," more. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/th...
Via @blackpastonline.bsky.social, "The Creole Mutiny," more. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/th...
Nov. 7, 1841: The Creole Mutiny
Madison Washington and eighteen other enslaved people rebelled onboard the Creole, a ship involved in the U.S. slave trade.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
#tdih 1841, Madison Washington & 18 other enslaved people aboard "Creole" (en route Richmond to NOLA) rebelled & sailed ship to Bahamas where most secured freedom, one of largest US slave revolts.
Via @blackpastonline.bsky.social, "The Creole Mutiny," more. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/th...
Via @blackpastonline.bsky.social, "The Creole Mutiny," more. ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/th...
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The DC grand jury refusing to indict on a felony and the petit jury finding him not guilty is a great example of why people in power have tried so hard for so many decades to prevent cases from getting to juries. It's one of the most important, basic forms of democracy.
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
The DC grand jury refusing to indict on a felony and the petit jury finding him not guilty is a great example of why people in power have tried so hard for so many decades to prevent cases from getting to juries. It's one of the most important, basic forms of democracy.
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I'm so excited about this upcoming class!
Davis's book is really exemplary. It highlights histories of policing that help us understand where we're at today along with potential ways forward.
Davis's book is really exemplary. It highlights histories of policing that help us understand where we're at today along with potential ways forward.
We know about police violence during CRM, but there was also COINTELPRO type surveillance by local dep'ts.
And resistance by CORE & SNCC who confronted police abuses head-on, with sit-ins at precincts, blocking streets to protest officer abuse, & more.
Join us Monday to learn more. Free class ⬇️
And resistance by CORE & SNCC who confronted police abuses head-on, with sit-ins at precincts, blocking streets to protest officer abuse, & more.
Join us Monday to learn more. Free class ⬇️
Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back
Scholar Joshua Clark Jackson will discuss his new book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. This session is part of the Zinn Educat...
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November 7, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I'm so excited about this upcoming class!
Davis's book is really exemplary. It highlights histories of policing that help us understand where we're at today along with potential ways forward.
Davis's book is really exemplary. It highlights histories of policing that help us understand where we're at today along with potential ways forward.
#tdih 1965, five men burned their draft cards in NYC in direct violation of federal law.
An act of solidarity with David Miller who publicly burned his draft card 3 wks earlier, was arrested by FBI, got 2 year prison sentence.
A. J. Muste on right. Read ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dr...
An act of solidarity with David Miller who publicly burned his draft card 3 wks earlier, was arrested by FBI, got 2 year prison sentence.
A. J. Muste on right. Read ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dr...
Nov. 6, 1965: Draft Card Protest
Draft cards burned in solidarity with David Miller, a Catholic pacifist who was one of the first to publicly burn his draft card.
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November 6, 2025 at 12:32 PM
#tdih 1965, five men burned their draft cards in NYC in direct violation of federal law.
An act of solidarity with David Miller who publicly burned his draft card 3 wks earlier, was arrested by FBI, got 2 year prison sentence.
A. J. Muste on right. Read ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dr...
An act of solidarity with David Miller who publicly burned his draft card 3 wks earlier, was arrested by FBI, got 2 year prison sentence.
A. J. Muste on right. Read ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/dr...
We know about police violence during CRM, but there was also COINTELPRO type surveillance by local dep'ts.
And resistance by CORE & SNCC who confronted police abuses head-on, with sit-ins at precincts, blocking streets to protest officer abuse, & more.
Join us Monday to learn more. Free class ⬇️
And resistance by CORE & SNCC who confronted police abuses head-on, with sit-ins at precincts, blocking streets to protest officer abuse, & more.
Join us Monday to learn more. Free class ⬇️
Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back
Scholar Joshua Clark Jackson will discuss his new book Police Against the Movement: The Sabotage of the Civil Rights Struggle and the Activists Who Fought Back. This session is part of the Zinn Educat...
www.zinnedproject.org
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
We know about police violence during CRM, but there was also COINTELPRO type surveillance by local dep'ts.
And resistance by CORE & SNCC who confronted police abuses head-on, with sit-ins at precincts, blocking streets to protest officer abuse, & more.
Join us Monday to learn more. Free class ⬇️
And resistance by CORE & SNCC who confronted police abuses head-on, with sit-ins at precincts, blocking streets to protest officer abuse, & more.
Join us Monday to learn more. Free class ⬇️
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Over at @therumpus.net, I am so happy to publish an essay by @hebagowayed.bsky.social about Zohran Mamdani and the radical idea that Muslims are human! therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
Zohran Mamdani’s Campaign and the Radical Idea that Muslims are Human - The Rumpus
It is against this background of a country that has reduced Muslims into a dark, foreign, terrorist “other,” that Mamdani ran a campaign that centers the affordability of the city for all who live wit...
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November 5, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Over at @therumpus.net, I am so happy to publish an essay by @hebagowayed.bsky.social about Zohran Mamdani and the radical idea that Muslims are human! therumpus.net/2025/11/05/z...
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Just emailed this to the press office of the ADL "Hi Todd. Given the many, many examples - as we have discussed in the past - of Nazi signaling from the Trump administration, should we expect a "Trump Tracker" as well? If not, why not?
A ‘Mamdani Monitor’?? Zohran RESPONDS to the ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt for vowing to “track” his admin for antisemitism.
“I have some doubts in Jonathan's ability to do so honestly, given that he previously said I had not visited any synagogues only to have to correct himself.”
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“I have some doubts in Jonathan's ability to do so honestly, given that he previously said I had not visited any synagogues only to have to correct himself.”
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November 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Just emailed this to the press office of the ADL "Hi Todd. Given the many, many examples - as we have discussed in the past - of Nazi signaling from the Trump administration, should we expect a "Trump Tracker" as well? If not, why not?
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here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
Zohran Mamdani's Establishment-Fighting Campaign Built Community for Young People
“What Mamdani has done is not only inspire and mobilize young people, but he has exposed the establishment and some of their calcified views of participation and inclusion.”
www.teenvogue.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:14 PM
here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol
#tdih 1867, Reconstruction era Alabama delegates drafted a new state constitution, established first state-financed public schools in South.
By 1871, Black & white children attended public schools.
Read "Educational Reconstruction" by @hngreen.bsky.social ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/al...
By 1871, Black & white children attended public schools.
Read "Educational Reconstruction" by @hngreen.bsky.social ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/al...
Nov. 5, 1867: Alabama State Constitution
Delegates gathered in Montgomery, Alabama, to draft a new state constitution during Reconstruction.
www.zinnedproject.org
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 PM
#tdih 1867, Reconstruction era Alabama delegates drafted a new state constitution, established first state-financed public schools in South.
By 1871, Black & white children attended public schools.
Read "Educational Reconstruction" by @hngreen.bsky.social ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/al...
By 1871, Black & white children attended public schools.
Read "Educational Reconstruction" by @hngreen.bsky.social ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/al...
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.” -- Eugene Debs
Eugene V. Debs - Americans Who Tell The Truth
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November 5, 2025 at 5:20 AM
“I am opposing a social order in which it is possible for one man who does absolutely nothing that is useful to amass a fortune of hundreds of millions of dollars, while millions of men and women who work all the days of their lives secure barely enough for a wretched existence.” -- Eugene Debs
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“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis
November 5, 2025 at 3:50 AM
“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis
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Tonight’s Texas school board election results continue to prove parents of public school students love our schools, hate book bans, and want leaders who will support educators and employees who serve our communities.
November 5, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Tonight’s Texas school board election results continue to prove parents of public school students love our schools, hate book bans, and want leaders who will support educators and employees who serve our communities.
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Friends in Cy-Fair ISD are ecstatic. I cannot emphasize enough what an earthquake these results will be. This flips control of the board in a district, where books been banned, LGBTQ students maligned, & whole chapters of textbooks dealing w/ climate change & vaccines electronically censored. HUGE.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Friends in Cy-Fair ISD are ecstatic. I cannot emphasize enough what an earthquake these results will be. This flips control of the board in a district, where books been banned, LGBTQ students maligned, & whole chapters of textbooks dealing w/ climate change & vaccines electronically censored. HUGE.
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Every talking head is going to try to sell you the idea that
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's win was a fluke.
But working people are sending a message: they WANT a politics that prioritizes them, not the billionaires.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's win was a fluke.
But working people are sending a message: they WANT a politics that prioritizes them, not the billionaires.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Every talking head is going to try to sell you the idea that
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's win was a fluke.
But working people are sending a message: they WANT a politics that prioritizes them, not the billionaires.
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's win was a fluke.
But working people are sending a message: they WANT a politics that prioritizes them, not the billionaires.
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An “all you fascists bound to lose” sort of night
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
An “all you fascists bound to lose” sort of night
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Read the responses and you will understand why the campaign is successful.
What are three policy proposals that you heard from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social during his campaign & where do you currently live? [I want to see something/ I allowed QP on this]
November 4, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Read the responses and you will understand why the campaign is successful.
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Great LOCAL NEWS election coverage from Columbia Journalism School students. Check out the latest on the races that affect you most: cjspolitics.substack.com
Columbia Journalism Politics and Elections | Juan Manuel Benítez | Substack
Student reporting and analysis on politics, elections and civic engagement. Click to read Columbia Journalism Politics and Elections, a Substack publication. Launched 5 days ago.
cjspolitics.substack.com
November 5, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Great LOCAL NEWS election coverage from Columbia Journalism School students. Check out the latest on the races that affect you most: cjspolitics.substack.com
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Quick summary of early voting with Princeton ISD still pending: In the most consequential election of the night, Cy-Fair ISD, book banners are down big. The worst candidate in Texas, Monica Brown, is losing in Granbury. All 5 candidates endorsed by Moms for Liberty are losing so far. GREAT START!
November 5, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Quick summary of early voting with Princeton ISD still pending: In the most consequential election of the night, Cy-Fair ISD, book banners are down big. The worst candidate in Texas, Monica Brown, is losing in Granbury. All 5 candidates endorsed by Moms for Liberty are losing so far. GREAT START!
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Several hundred kids just marched past my house because John Marshall High is doing an anti-ICE walk out.
LA's tradition of high schoolers using their voices to push back on racism and inequality is really an inspiring thing.
LA's tradition of high schoolers using their voices to push back on racism and inequality is really an inspiring thing.
November 4, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Several hundred kids just marched past my house because John Marshall High is doing an anti-ICE walk out.
LA's tradition of high schoolers using their voices to push back on racism and inequality is really an inspiring thing.
LA's tradition of high schoolers using their voices to push back on racism and inequality is really an inspiring thing.
#tdih 1985 Calvin College (in Grand Rapids) students call on college administration to divest from corporations doing business in South Africa.
There were also anti-Apartheid campaigns in Grand Rapids Public Schools and the City of Grand Rapids. Read more ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...
There were also anti-Apartheid campaigns in Grand Rapids Public Schools and the City of Grand Rapids. Read more ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...
Nov. 4, 1985: Calvin College Students Call for Divestment from Apartheid South Africa
Students and faculty joined in an ultimately successful anti-Apartheid campaign at Calvin College.
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November 4, 2025 at 12:17 PM
#tdih 1985 Calvin College (in Grand Rapids) students call on college administration to divest from corporations doing business in South Africa.
There were also anti-Apartheid campaigns in Grand Rapids Public Schools and the City of Grand Rapids. Read more ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...
There were also anti-Apartheid campaigns in Grand Rapids Public Schools and the City of Grand Rapids. Read more ⬇️
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ca...