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carrie karsgaard, phd

@carkar.bsky.social
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asst prof of education @ cape breton university - settler - social/epistemic/climate justice, climate change and education, counter-colonialism, social media activism - unama’ki cbu-ca.academia.edu/CarrieKarsgaard

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Scarlet Bjornson @scarletbjornson.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
No one should be surprised. EPSTEIN FILES.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
What if academic life is carbon-coded? Mobility. Speed. Output. AI. Prestige. Growth. We question the fossil-fueled assumptions organizing scholarship itself. open.substack.com/pub/edforpla... @carkar.bsky.social
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What If the Climate Crisis Is Already Built into Academic Life?
Across universities worldwide, an expanding constellation of scholars, centers, laboratories, and initiatives is emerging to study planetary crisis, social transformation, and the limits of modern way...
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Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
Excited this piece exists. Honored to be included! @theguardian.com Want to learn more and get involved? Get a copy of my book Let’s Move the Needle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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‘Weapons of mass construction’: the US ‘craftivists’ using yarn to fight back against Trump
Fiber artists across the US are using their craft to protest against everything from national guard deployments to rollbacks on abortion rights
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Patrick Howard @patrickhoward.ca · 22/11/2025
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Reading the Earth: Why Climate Literacy Belongs Beside Reading and Math
If we’re serious about preparing children for the future, education must widen its purpose.
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
🔥 Every crisis has its curriculum—and young people are refusing this one. What if the climate crisis is also an education crisis—and the lesson is to unlearn? #EducationFutures #Youth @norrag.bsky.social @arizonastateuni.bsky.social @carkar.bsky.social www.norrageducation.org/when-educati...
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When Education Is the Problem: Lessons from Youth Climate Activism - NORRAG -
In this blogpost, which is part of NORRAG’s blog series “Provocations for education from youth climate activism,” Iveta Silova, Jeremy Rappleye and Hikaru Komatsu argue that the crisis we face is educ...
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 29/09/2025
YES! THIS on GenAI! Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins: "An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."
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Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...
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Yale Environment 360 @yalee360.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
When Europeans arrived to the Pacific Northwest, they spread smallpox to the Indigenous people, plundered salmon, hunted down deer, and erected sprawling cities. New research details the profound impact, in numbers.
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Research Details Devastating Toll of Colonization on Pacific Northwest Wildlife
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/07/2025
“I absolutely disagree with Carney that the economy and market forces need to be used because the economy itself is driving us into the ditch. It’s based on the creed of cancer — steady growth — and you can’t have endless growth in a finite world.”
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Grist @grist.org · 27/06/2025
This rural community fought one of the country’s biggest gas-powered data centers — and won. Inside the grassroots opposition that fended off a 2,200-acre data center campus in southern Virginia, and why their struggle isn’t over yet. grist.org/energy/this-... #Climate #Energy #DataCenter #AI
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This rural community fought one of the country’s biggest gas-powered data centers — and won
Inside the grassroots opposition that fended off a 2,200-acre data center campus in southern Virginia, and why their struggle isn’t over yet.
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Patrick Howard @patrickhoward.ca · 26/06/2025
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Funding announced for Mi'kmaq climate change initiatives in Cape Breton
Mi’kmaw knowledge and tradition will spearhead the development of a climate change action plan over the next two years based on action priorities identified by five Cape Breton First Nation communitie...
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Gale Sinatra @galesinatra.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Seems bad because it is bad.
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carrie karsgaard, phd @carkar.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Happening Monday, May 26 - in Edmonton and online: Roundtable on Relational Research Methods in the Face of Climate Crisis. Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/roundtable...
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Roundtable on Relational Research Methods in the Face of Climate Crises
Hybrid Event: Join our May 26 roundtable in person or online to explore how relational research methods can help tackle Climate Crisis!
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 14/05/2025
Victory! After farmers, represented by Earthjustice, filed suit, the USDA agreed to restore climate information to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down. This is a significant win for farmers and other Americans who rely on this scientific data.
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Farmers win legal fight to bring climate resources back to federal websites
“It feels good to win one, right?”
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
First, Carney named Evan Solomon as the first-ever minister of artificial intelligence and digital innovation. It beggars belief that AI has its own dedicated minister while workers get little more than a passing mention.
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cbufa.bsky.social @cbufa.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
We are alarmed by Tim Houston's attempt to control academic research in Nova Scotia. This sets a dangerous precedent, posing a danger to current and future research. Long-term research should not be impacted by partisan issues of the day. researchns.ca/2025/05/01/n...
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New Research Priorities for Research Nova Scotia
In keeping with changes to the legislation under which RNS operates, the Minister of Advanced Education has identified new priorities for RNS, effective May 1, 2025. Research supported by RNS must …
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Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought that complying with authoritarian demands would protect their independence. It didn’t—and history is warning us again. 🔗 theconversation.com/universities... #AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #Authoritarianism #DEI #TheConversation
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Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence
Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
This! I’ve never seen this many people in the streets in this many places in the U.S. in my lifetime. It’s inspiring, dammit.
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Adam Gurri @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · 27/03/2025
Over 2000 protest in wake of student detainment at Tuft's www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...
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Over 2000 protest in wake of student detainment - The Tufts Daily
Students and local activists gathered on Wednesday evening at Powder House Park to protest the detainment of Tufts graduate student, Rumeysa Ozturk, by federal authorities on Tuesday. The protest...
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 24/03/2025
Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.
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Georgetown Scholar Badar Khan Suri Remains in Immigration Jail After Masked Agents Snatched Him in D.C.
Badar Khan Suri is one of the many pro-Palestine scholars being targeted by the Trump administration. Suri, originally from India, is a Georgetown University professor and postdoctoral scholar on reli...
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.
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Hyperallergic @hyperallergic.com · 13/03/2025
Using pigments made from ash and charcoal collected at Altadena burn sites, artists Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, David Solnit, and dozens of volunteers created a painting to hold oil and gas companies accountable.
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Protest Painting Calls Out Fossil Fuel Industry’s Role in LA Fires
The collaborative artwork made by Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, David Solnit, and dozens of volunteers at a rally this week urges lawmakers to hold oil and gas companies accountable.
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Beyond Extraction @beyondextraction.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
NEW! Our all-ages colouring book about extraction is now available in French, Spanish & Portuguese. You can find all versions of 'What It Takes' (with instructions on how to print!) on our website: www.beyondextraction.ca/what-it-takes #DisruptPDAC
Front cover of the colouring book featuring a melting earth and the French translation for "What It Takes: an all-ages colouring book"Front cover of the colouring book featuring a melting earth and the Spanish translation for "What It Takes: an all-ages colouring book"Front cover of the colouring book featuring a melting earth and the Portuguese translation for "What It Takes: an all-ages colouring book"
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Anthony Pash (he/him) @anthonypash.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Time for NS universities to speak up against this legislation and take a stand with faculty. “CBC News contacted all 10 universities in Nova Scotia requesting an interview, but none put someone forward.”
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CAUT/ACPPU @caut.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Nova Scotia has proposed legislation increasing political interference in universities. Political interference in education isn’t just an American phenomenon. It’s alive and well in Canada too. Politicians should not dictate the priorities of universities.
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carrie karsgaard, phd @carkar.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Check out “Research as Solidarity,” where a collective of youth researcher-activists share how research can be a form of solidarity in the face of climate change and systemic inequities. By Research for the Front Lines for the SI of Youth on “Politics of Disruption.” www.mdpi.com/2673-995X/5/...
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Research-as-Solidarity, with Youth Leading the Way
Through the lens of youth engaged in the grassroots network Research for the Front Lines (R4FL) in Turtle Island, this essay explores how youth use research as a form of solidarity with marginalized c...
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Nora Loreto @nolore.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
The Patriotic Divide: while 90% of Canadians may still believe that we're a sovereign country, the elites and their mouthpieces know better. That divide is why the "51st state" discussion is so weird. My latest.
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The positives and negatives of US annexation
Or, how Canada's elites sold out Canada's sovereignty over four decades of neoliberal economic policies.
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Patrick Howard @patrickhoward.ca · 24/02/2025
“Dismantling Democracy” is now its own category of ongoing reporting in the Halifax Examiner. @halifaxexaminer.ca
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carrie karsgaard, phd @carkar.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Manifesto for decarbonizing scholarship - please read, share, sign, and best of all, try some things out. Let’s shift academia towards a different world. #climatesky educators-for-climate-action.com/researchers/
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Researchers
Join usManifesto for Decarbonizing Scholarship and ResearchWe are scholars committed to decarbonizing academia. We call on colleagues to reduce emissions, realign research priorities, and transform hi...
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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Fossil fuel companies are funding misleading #education in #schools. We must demand that students receive accurate, evidence-based information that is free from industry messaging. @albertateachers.bsky.social #abed
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carrie karsgaard, phd @carkar.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
some critical learnings from curriculum development grounded in Indigenous knowledge - among our team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous folks. Free e-prints: www.tandfonline.com/eprint/5GFGE...
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The “gift” of Indigenous knowledge and critical, ­place-based curriculum development through ethical relationality
Formal education in Canada has historically been a tool of cultural assimilation and deep harm. Change in education is needed not only to address historical wrongs and the cultural erasure of Indig...
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Chandra Russo @chandrarusso.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“For rural freedom fighters who are feeling alone, you aren’t.” @jbethiejean.bsky.social and Steven Smith of West Virginia Can’t Wait on a political strategy that centers rural folx.
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From Rural America With Love: An Invitation to Bravery
Rural organizers and volunteer leaders are building the Rural Defenders Union, a network of isolated, under-resourced, anti-authoritarian rural efforts.
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Gwen Snyder is uncivil @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
You know, social media sucks and all, but I am very tired of all this doomer shit I'm seeing everywhere that's like "oh well can't counter social media misinformation, it's too hard, the world is over" Bad guy domination of mass media is not historically unprecedented. Go build relationships
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"Like the abolitionists of the 19th century arrayed against the planter class, today we need to break the economic, ideological and political foundations of billionaire rule." @lfelizleon.bsky.social for @inthesetimesmag.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/labo...
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It’s Time for a United Front to Take on Billionaire Rule
The super rich are in command, as Donald Trump and Elon Musk run a rampage on the working class. To stop them, the labor movement needs to lead.
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carrie karsgaard, phd @carkar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Climate, eco-justice, sustainability, etc. people, come work with us in a great program. Please share this post with any and all. Happy to answer questions. 😊 www.cbu.ca/faculty-staf...
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Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor with specialization in sustainable, regenerative, or ecological studies (Limited Term) - Cape Breton University
The Department of Education in the School of Education and Health at Cape Breton University invites applications for a 12-month full-time limited…
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carrie karsgaard, phd @carkar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Climate, eco-justice, sustainability, etc. people, come work with us in a great program. Please share this post with any and all. Happy to answer questions. 😊 www.cbu.ca/faculty-staf...
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Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor with specialization in sustainable, regenerative, or ecological studies (Limited Term) - Cape Breton University
The Department of Education in the School of Education and Health at Cape Breton University invites applications for a 12-month full-time limited…
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Maya Schenwar @mayaschenwar.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
“We must build robust, independent, social movements and fight to teach the truth — because no executive order, no political intimidation, and no forced ignorance can erase history, so long as we refuse to stop teaching it.” - @jessehagopian.bsky.social truthout.org/articles/tru...
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Trump’s Goal of Burying History Won’t Work If Teachers Refuse to Stop Teaching
Trump wants education to become indoctrination, and the Democratic Party isn’t fighting back. But we can.
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carrie karsgaard, phd @carkar.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
All is not lost of the climate change and social justice front, people. Free webinar series on environmental racism and environmental justice hosted by Environment and Climate Change Canada. Check it 👇🏻 enviroequity.ca/webinar-series
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Webinar Series
Français Environment and Climate Change Canada is hosting a free series of webinars to build capacity on environmental justice and environmental racism to inform the development of a national strategy...
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Dr. Aaron Thierry @thierryaaron.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"The American Association of University Professors, the National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education &other groups argue in a lawsuit filed Mon that the orders exceed executive legal authority, violate both the 1st & 5th Amendments, &threaten academic freedom &access to HE for all"
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Higher ed organizations sue against Trump’s DEI orders
The American Association of University Professors and others argue in a new lawsuit that the executive orders violate the Constitution.
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
For my latest, I talked with @ctulocal1.bsky.social president Stacy Davis Gates and artist and educator Silvia Gonzalez about how Chicago teachers are creating Sanctuary Teams to protect undocumented students and other marginalized youth from Trump's aggression. (Includes organizing resources.)
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Sanctuary Lessons: How Chicago Teachers Are Defending Their Students
“At the end of the day, we protect our students, period,” says educator Silvia Gonzalez.
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Patrick Howard @patrickhoward.ca · 04/02/2025
@mark-carney.bsky.social Canadians expect to be put on a ‘war footing’ to face this existential threat to our sovereignty. Any winning leadership platform to become PM must include a plan to radically re/order the US relationship to defend Canada.🇨🇦 www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...
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A dozen radical responses to Trump’s economic warfare that go beyond Canadian counter-tariffs | CCPA
The belief that economic integration with the United States—epitomized by the 1989 Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement, the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement and finally the Trump-led 2016 Canada-...
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Claire Kraatz @climatemamaclaire.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
What Alberta Wants Children Taught about Fossil Fuels via @thetyee.ca #education #abed thetyee.ca/News/2024/11...
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What Alberta Wants Children Taught about Fossil Fuels | The Tyee
A curriculum guideline says students should learn their province is the ‘most ethical producer of oil in the world.’
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Monisha Bajaj @monishabajaj.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
"Teachers have every reason to be guarded about what they say & do within state-surveilled school spaces. But teachers’ selfhoods do not end at the door of the classroom. Teachers are friends, neighbors, beloveds- & they are amazing organizers" ~@eveewing.bsky.social inthesetimes.com/article/trum...
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Trump’s Reign of Terror on Schools—and How We Fight Back
It’s not enough to be afraid of the laws and rules we don’t want to see in schools. We have to clarify our visions of what we are fighting for.
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Blacklikewho @blacklikewho.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
There have to be other ways to talk about political community inside nation-states without invoking nationalism. How about collective responsibility to those whom we share nothing in common with beyond the sanctity of life and geography? Let’s take the opportunity to invent new social relations.
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Christy Kelly-Bisson @garlicbreath644.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
“Failing to urgently remove the waste from the water near the Mi'kmaq community, he said, sends a message that First Nations residents are "just second-class citizens to the Canadian government.”” #Mikmaki #CDNpoli #NSpoli #NovaScotia www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/atlantic/nov...
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Nova Scotia cleanup plan further delays the removal of toxic sludge from First Nation
HALIFAX - A councillor with Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia says a cleanup plan approved by Ottawa will mean further delays in the removal of contaminated sludge that
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Rethinking Schools @rethinkingschools.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices provides educators with powerful tools to uncover the history and current context of Palestine-Israel in the classroom. rethinkingschools.org/books/teachi...
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Pre-Order Teaching Palestine
Palestine has long been one of the great silences in the official curriculum. Teaching Palestine: Lessons, Stories, Voices provides educators with powerful tools to uncover the history and current con...
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Puff the Magic Hater @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is a great piece. "As deportations ramp up again, we have a choice: We can watch as our neighbors disappear or we can build on these proven strategies to protect the diverse communities we've built together."
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How to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your Neighborhood
Here’s a step-by-step guide.
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Journal of Democracy @jodemocracy.bsky.social · 19/01/2025
According to Elisabeth Ellis, "the antidote to mortally bad reasoning about climate change is more and better democracy.” muse.jhu.edu/article...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Air pollution has dropped significantly in #Paris in the last 15 years. Mayor @annehidalgo.bsky.social’s leadership has traded car space for green space, safe bike space, kid space.. and traded pollution for people. Good trade.
Change in Paris air quality between 2007 and 2023 using visuals
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David Jefferess @djefferess.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Good grief. I just stumbled upon Legacy Plus. The Kielburger brothers have rebranded Me to We as Legacy Plus, continuing their grift under another name, but with the same neoliberal model, promising to build brand identities through stadium events, global education, etc...
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