Teacher Solidarity

#Solidarity!

Palestinian teachers waged their biggest strike in years. No US media coverage. Here's the story: 972mag.com/palestinian-te… #Palestinians

Same globally. Difference is how/whether national unions mobilize members to protect the profession, public education, students.

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.

Lots of ferment with education workers internationally, with little coverage by media. Why?

Teachers on strike? News we don't see in nat'l. media, including from our teachers unions: balkaninsight.com/2022/09/13/kos… #edchat

#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

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.

@eduint @ponorgua @IntlFromBelow @amnestyusa 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/2021/07/1…

Looks like a brilliant conference. Dehumanizing students, teachers, education is a global problem. Hope #teachers #Unions are discussed as part of the solution.

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/2022/03/30/mak… @DrPrestonGreen

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/2022/02/28/stu…

Teachers in Puerto Rico - on strike - for a living wage. Solidarity! peoplesdispatch.org/2022/02/10/tea…

"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… @EdgeofSports @NewPoliticsMag #SportsNews

After some technical difficulties, the archive is operational again: teachersolidarity.com/blog/a-new-era… . Updates are now on FB: facebook.com/Teacher-Solida…

#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

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/

Resources, #research documenting the global nature of this project and resistance to it, including attacks on teachers #unions: teachersolidarity.com