Month: February 2019

Last night at the Spirit Awards, while accepting Best First Feature for his film Sorry to Bother You, Boots Riley spoke out: “We should all be putting our voices out to stop regime change for oil in Venezuela.” We agree, and we are saying clearly that what has happened in Venezuela over the last few […]

Photo: Joe Brusky Oakland Education Association Día 3: El pago deficiente está impulsando la crisis de retención de maestros en Oakland. Su distrito debe tomar medidas para mantener a los maestros en Oakland, ofreciendo una mejor propuesta salarial. We #StandWithOaklandTeachers #WeAreOakland #LAtotheBay #Unite4OaklandKids Day 3: Poor payment is pushing the teacher retention crisis in Oakland. […]

https://bit.ly/2tCKH5N On February 4, 2019, an 11-year-old Black student at Lawton Chiles Middle Academy in Lakeland, FL was arrested after exercising his First Amendment right to freedom of speech by refusing to stand for the Pledge of Allegiance and acknowledging America’s history of racial oppression. This is yet another example of schools criminalizing students of […]