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@ladyofsardines.bsky.social
I am a high school teacher. (she/they)
Flowers from the garden are joining me in the classroom today. Three. More. Weeks.
Same same
Took the weekend off from news while I was in the woods & fuuuuuucking hell
Was on a run & decided this is where I would turn back—today is not the day to get mauled by a wolf or cougar said some ancient part of my brain.
The soundtrack is coyotes howling. When you look up eerie in the dictionary this is what you should see/feel/hear.
The soundtrack is coyotes howling. When you look up eerie in the dictionary this is what you should see/feel/hear.
Camping re-read—my high school copy, 30 years old. Just finished & better than I remember. And I remembered it was marvelous.
Good morning from the key messages visible on my messy art desk (that will not be getting sorted until the school year is over).
Time to get “tough on crime” in Portland again 🙃
What a shitshow this is & will be
Nathan Vasquez has sizable lead over Mike Schmidt in race to be Multnomah County district attorney
Longtime Multnomah County prosecutor Nathan Vasquez has a sizable lead in his attempt to unseat his boss, Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt.
opb.org“Perhaps most significant is how the new recognitions point to the erosion of US ‘ownership’ of the Israel-Palestine peace process...”
How significant is Spain, Norway and Ireland’s recognition of Palestinian state?
Recognitions point to erosion of US ‘ownership’ of Israel-Palestine peace process and open route towards statehood
www.theguardian.com
Struggling w/ something at work & have been trying to remind myself that I do not need a fully conceptualized, fail-safe alternative before rejecting what is clearly harmful/unjust.
Good timing to read this — from 1976. (How to Abolish Prisons, Herzing & Piché, eds. @haymarketbooks.bsky.social)
Thought the same thing when I read this earlier.
in all seriousness, it’s pretty astonishing to see even the NYT being like yea the cops beat the shit out of protesters. www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/n...
Happy birthday, Lorraine Hansberry. (And Yuri Kochiyama & Malcolm X)
Quite simply
I too am obsessed
with a rather desperate desire
for a new world
It’s her birthday tomorrow 💛
Quite simply
I too am obsessed
with a rather desperate desire
for a new world
Quite simply
I too am obsessed
with a rather desperate desire
for a new world
Read this and immediately thought of this photo I saw earlier in the week. (If you haven’t been following Mohammed Salem’s work…it’s harrowing & vital.)
“the attacks include targeting people filling up their water containers”
Amid forced evacuation, Israeli attacks kill 40 Palestinians across Gaza
At least 40 people reported killed in Israeli attacks in northern Gaza’s Jabalia and near Kamal Adwan Hospital.
www.aljazeera.com“the attacks include targeting people filling up their water containers”
Amid forced evacuation, Israeli attacks kill 40 Palestinians across Gaza
At least 40 people reported killed in Israeli attacks in northern Gaza’s Jabalia and near Kamal Adwan Hospital.
www.aljazeera.comWell, I am so glad 💛. I Feel so ineffectual this year, so I really appreciate any positive impact I can have anywhere, on anything! Happy Friday.
If you missed it live, you can watch Rethinking Schools' "Teach Palestine" conversation here!
Teach Palestine
On May 15, 2024, Rethinking Schools hosted a webinar on our spring issue of Rethinking Schools magazine, Teach Palestine. Panelists offered stories, examples, and concrete strategies for teaching truthfully and critically about Palestine-Israel. At a time when the attack on social justice teaching has dramatically expanded as part of the crackdown on opposition to U.S. aid to Israel, it is essential that we support and learn from each other.
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630,000 running from bombs in the south, another 100,000 running from bombs in the north.
The U.N. says that more than 600,000 people have fled Rafah, and other news.
No U.S. troops entered Gaza on Friday, the U.S. military said, emphasizing that it was providing only logistical support for delivery of the supplies, which were donated by a number of countries and organizations.
www.nytimes.com“A group of friends on a picnic on Mount Carmel in Haifa, 1942.”
“These photos disrupt the engineered cultural and political mystification of the Nakba that has, for generations, made its undoing seem impossibly remote.” —Mohammed El-Kurd www.thenation.com/article/worl...
What Was Palestine Before the Nakba?
A stunning photo archive reveals a time before the walls and checkpoints, when Palestine was not defined by its ailments but by its industries and cultures
www.thenation.comRest assured, I do not think we are exceptional or unique, but being a public school teacher is 2024 is hard.
"in the filth of our own entirely avoidable mistakes"
Whew!
"Only later, after the teargas clears and the leering and laughter subside, do we sit puzzled, in the filth of our own entirely avoidable mistakes, and look regretfully backward...
What will we regret the most about the last few weeks?"
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
US students, once again, have led the way. Now we must all stand up for Palestine | Osita Nwanevu
Campus protests in solidarity with the people of Gaza have braved abuse and police raids but history will be kinder
www.theguardian.com
Holy hell
Hell of a message from yesterday's UNC commencement (via Daily Tar Heel)
My kid just asked if we could walk to the bookstore after dinner to pick up a copy of 1984. Happy Mother’s Day to me, lol
Notes to myself (cleaning out my bag).
Don’t get discouraged—this is spadework.
U.S. Files Serial Numbers Off Missiles Sent To Israel
WASHINGTON—In an effort to ensure the munitions were completely untraceable, the U.S. military began filing the serial numbers off all missiles being sent to the Israeli government, anonymous sources ...
www.theonion.com
U.S. Files Serial Numbers Off Missiles Sent To Israel
WASHINGTON—In an effort to ensure the munitions were completely untraceable, the U.S. military began filing the serial numbers off all missiles being sent to the Israeli government, anonymous sources ...
www.theonion.comThat Onion bit about the U.S. filing serial numbers off bombs is too close to this bullshit: “the state department has yet to find definitively that a US weapon was used in a specific incident, in which the intent or the level of negligence constituted a war crime”
US finds Israel’s use of weapons in Gaza ‘inconsistent’ with human rights law, but will not cut flow of arms
State department also says not enough concrete evidence to link specific US-supplied weapons to violations
www.theguardian.comThe new instructions to residents suggest a coming offensive will take the IDF into the centre of Rafah and on to a likely advance through the entire city.
Israel orders central Rafah residents to evacuate as major offensive looms
Hundreds of thousands more people face displacement as military instructions suggest likely attack on centre of city
www.theguardian.com3 months. I have some emails from him safely ensconced in my inbox. Thinking about his family today. (And of all the children who have been killed all over the world during this blood-drenched year.)
Found out today that a student died over the weekend and I just can’t wrap my head around it. This (school) year continues to be one for the record books in terms of awfulness and heartbreak.
Howard Zinn: "The reward for participating in a movement for social justice is not the prospect of future victory. It is the exhilaration of standing together with other people, taking risks together, enjoying small triumphs and enduring disheartening setbacks — together."
"No aid has come into Gaza now since Sunday. No aid, no fuel, no supplies, nothing. And we really are now down to our last reserves.”
Gaza ceasefire talks end with no deal as Israel ramps up Rafah attacks
UNRWA official accuses Israel of subjecting Gaza to ‘medieval siege’ as 110,000 Palestinians flee Rafah.
www.aljazeera.com