The new Rethinking Schools magazine is a lifeline to educators who deplore genocide want a #FreePalestine !

It includes my essay about how the war on Gaza is also a war on history, education, and children.
#TeachPalestine 📖🇵🇸

rethinkingschools.org/issue/volume-3…

Ok, I’ll bite, who’s Debra Silverstein?

I'll be moderating this book talk with Hamilton Nolan on Sunday 4/21 after the Labor Notes conference at In These Times office. If you're in Chicago then come by, there will be some special guests and a party after, maybe some other surprises who knows

The Power of Telling the Story of Gaza

Join Asmaa AbuMezied, Jehad Abusalim جهاد أبو سليم, Mosab Abu-Toha, Yousef M. Aljamal, Dr. Abusalama, and Jennifer Bing, for a tribute to Refaat Alareer, hosted with AFSC

Tuesday, April 23rd at 1:00 pm ET

RSVP to attend:
tickettailor.com/events/haymark…

HEY! James has a new piece in my fave mag inthesetimes about how congress, already hella white, disbanded the DEI office that was actually doing stuff, to promise an even more white future. Y’all need to read this and share it! Thank you!

Author, humorist and ITT senior editor Kurt Vonnegut died on this day in 2007.

“The America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate ... The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.” inthesetimes.com/article/i-love…

If you are in Chicago for Labor Notes (or if you couldn't get into the conference but are going to be in town anyway), come by the In These Times office on Sunday evening to see Hamilton Nolan and some special guests. And stick around for the afterparty!

“One of the tough things for magazines is how do you continue to grow and adapt and make sure that you’re reaching new readers and new audiences,” Bloomekatz said. “It’s a hard thing to keep pushing for 40 years.”
jweekly.com/2024/04/10/tik…

After almost 40 years, Tikkun Magazine is officially shutting down. These are some of the issues I produced there when I was managing editor in 2016. Was really honored to work with some incredible folks and so many brilliant writers and artists. Sad to see it close.

I simply believe that no one going about their business should have to deal with five belligerent people jumping out and pointing weapons at them while screaming at them to get out of their car.

Heba Zagout’s family, including her surviving children, are trying to evacuate Gaza. i worked on this piece about her a few months ago for In These Times. read about her there and on the family’s gofundme link! please consider donating gofund.me/848f246c

Today in actually important news, my feature about the reform movement inside UFCW, one of America's biggest unions, is now online at In These Times. It focuses on ufcw3000 leader Faye Guenther, who is about to be a real badass force in labor.
inthesetimes.com/article/revolt…

Now that your sunglasses are off and it’s dark, you can clearly read this comrade’s sign: END THE GENOCIDE IN GAZA NOW!

h/t US Palestinian Community Network who was out giving Biden the (un)welcome he deserves

Gearing up for an incredible conference! See you there?

Note on this: US Palestinian Community Network now asking folks to gather at Pearson & Michigan at 3 p.m. because it will be a better place to demand Biden stop funding, fueling, and enabling the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. This is at least the 32nd mass mobilization that USPCN is leading.

Take a minute and stop staring at the sun today 🕶️ and join US Palestinian Community Network + CJP + thousands to (un)welcome Biden to Chicago at 2:30 pm at Roosevelt/Columbus. 'He's still not welcome here, because he's responsible for the 33,000 Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza.'—Hatem Abudayyeh 🇵🇸

'How are you, fighter?'

Read #WalidDaqqa (who died Sunday) in In These Times.
inthesetimes.com/article/palest…

I wrote this piece 3 months into this genocide. Today marks 6.

Thousands more babies have been killed since. Thousands of parents failed. Two million people starved. Two million traumatized. Two million displaced.

Horror is too tepid a word.

inthesetimes.com/article/gaza-g…

Walid Daqqah—one of the longest held Palestinian political prisoners & a powerful storyteller—has reportedly died while still imprisoned by the Israeli government after nearly 40 years. These are some of his writings that we published shortly after Oct. 7.
inthesetimes.com/article/palest…

“I refuse to allow myself to see any human being as less than human; I insist that we must recognize the grief of all those in mourning.”
-JFREJ board member Rabbi Ellen Lippmann’s powerful words to us as we prepare to mark 6 months since the Oct 7 attack.
inthesetimes.com/article/hostag…