Our aim is to bring together teacher activists internationally by sharing their struggles and building solidarity, from below.
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As poor as US media coverage is of US teachers' strikes, it's even worse about teachers' labor activism globally. Did you know teachers in Romania have been on strike? reuters.com/world/europe/rom…
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Palestinian teachers waged their biggest strike in years. No US media coverage. Here's the story: 972mag.com/palestinian-teach… #Palestinians
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Same globally. Difference is how/whether national unions mobilize members to protect the profession, public education, students.
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Plaster falling from ceilings in DC classrooms; no heat in classrooms in Cordoba, Spain. In the global North, which has huge wealth and inadequate political force to make it used for people who created it.
Denuncian la falta de gasoil para las calderas de los colegios públicos de la capital cordopolis.eldiario.es/1_946… vía @cordopolis_es
Lots of ferment with education workers internationally, with little coverage by media. Why?
NS: Striking school support workers in Annapolis Valley called back to bargaining table-CBC ow.ly/hr4B50Lt7QM
Teachers on strike? News we don't see in nat'l. media, including from our teachers unions: balkaninsight.com/2022/09/13… #edchat
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#Iran's University Students Trade Unions Council has listed 204 universities + other higher education institutions that have joined a strike to demand the release of dozens of students arrested in recent days. #OpIran #MahsaAmini #IranRevolution
#مهسا_امینی
#اعتصابات_سراسری
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My remarks at the @NEUnion workshop for academy activists will draw on political work, #research Mary Compton, former NUT prez, posted on teachersolidarity.com. It's still relevant though there's a new, more toxic formula to destroy teaching as a career.
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It's good to hear EI supports this principle. Please RT your condemnation of Biden/ US policy in regard to Haitian refugees: commondreams.org/news/2021/0…
Looks like a brilliant conference. Dehumanizing students, teachers, education is a global problem. Hope #teachers #Unions are discussed as part of the solution.
Definitely a convo K-12, college educators need: (Virtual) Conference to Restore Humanity, July 25-28, international scope. Centering our humanity, #socialjustice in #education:
humanrestorationproject.org/… @denisha_jones @HenryGiroux @BisforBerkshire #edchat
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Educators are not asking for too much, just an Urgent Salary Review is enough. #SaveTheTeachingProfession #teachersmatter #teachersdeservebetter
@psczimbabwe @MoPSEZim @OMpslsw @ZimTreasury @FinanceZw @kubatana @eduint @OpenParlyZw @ParliamentZim
Pushing unregulated charters is a global phenomenon, pushed by the Right. @cyclingkev explains the UK's push to make all schools into charters/academies: world-education-blog.org/202… @DrPrestonGreen
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Students are occupying the main hall of Wills Memorial building in solidarity with striking University of Bristol staff. They are prepared with food and sleeping bags to stay "as long as possible."
#BristolUni #RentStrikeBris #UCUstrikes
thebristolactivist.com/2022/…
Teachers in Puerto Rico - on strike - for a living wage. Solidarity! peoplesdispatch.org/2022/02/…
"It always starts from what’s in the streets, then ricochets onto the field." Interview with Dave Zirin on the politics of sports, analysis you won't see in the sports pages. newpol.org/issue_post/the-po… @EdgeofSports @NewPoliticsMag #SportsNews
After some technical difficulties, the archive is operational again: teachersolidarity.com/blog/a… . Updates are now on FB: facebook.com/Teacher-Solidar…
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#solidarity. 15,000 signed petition about conditions of #teachers in @France. Lousy politician threw it in the trash w/o even letting the #education committee see it. @OaklandEA @J4J_USA @drloisweiner @arabfrenglish
👨🏫866 500 enseignants mal payés.
📊23,9% de salaire manquant tous les mois.
✍️15 425 signatures pour dénoncer cela.
🗓️12 mois de travail sur ce sujet.
... et il a fallu 2 minutes⌚️ à @BrunoStuder67 pour tout mettre à la poubelle sans laisser débattre la commission éducation.❌
After some technical problems, the website is up again. It has a tremendous archive about attacks on public education and resistance by teachers, students, parents, and unions globally. Take a look if you haven't seen it: teachersolidarity.com/
Good! Better: AFT, NEA, and the EI, which they dominate, oppose global standardized measures for student learning: oecd.org/PISA/
This is big news!! Thank you @FloridaEA for the relentless advocacy against high stakes testing facebook.com/182997028419749…
Resources, #research documenting the global nature of this project and resistance to it, including attacks on teachers #unions: teachersolidarity.com/
Thread. Good to see broader public understand what's been happening in edpolicy. Better: Note this goes well beyond the GOP, is a global project. Best: Note that it's being reinvented under our noses with use of #edtech, accelerated by the pandemic.