Fwd: 'Alternative Education' : Sharing an article

[Ashish Kothari]

Thanks to Pallavi for sharing - an article from the USA that is both searing in its criticism of the elite, and hopeful of direct action by those who refuse to give in.

ashish

Ashish Kothari
Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa
908 Deccan Gymkhana
Pune 411004, India
https://ashishkothari.in

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Subject:	'Alternative Education' : Sharing an article
Date:	Sun, 1 Jun 2025 11:30:30 +0530
From:	Pallavi Varma- Patil <palla...@gmail.com>
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Please share with whoever you feel might enjoy...

https://truthout.org/articles/elites-want-to-turn-schools-into-factories-of-hopelessness-we-cant-let-them/

 "If end times fascism tells students there’s no future, we must teach as if the future is ours to shape. If schools are being weaponized to train youth for extinction, then education must become a form of survival — rooted in truth, care, resistance and imagination. And that kind of education is already happening — in walkouts for Gaza, in classrooms defying book bans, in radical reading groups and mutual aid projects. "

-P

https://naitaleem.wordpress.com/

[Laurence Davis]

Dear all,

Wednesday, June 4^th marks the UN International Day of Innocent Children Victims of Aggression. 

Here in Ireland, trade unions have called for a National Workplace Moment of Reflection for Peace in Palestine at 1.05pm on the 4th. https://www.ictu.ie/news/unions-call-moment-reflection-june-4th-peace-palestine 

The moment of reflection is a simple but powerful act of solidarity. It is not a work stoppage but an opportunity to pause collectively and remember the thousands of innocent lives lost in Gaza, including more than 16,500 children, since October 2023.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/may/30/gaza-two-family-tragedies-childhoods-cut-short-israeli-airstrikes

By way of a modest contribution to this moment of reflection, I would like to share with list members the following song, sung by Dahlia Attum for all the children of Gaza in November 2023. It is entitled, 'Don't be Afraid'. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMz_oSMXFcs

Kind regards,

Laurence

Dr. Laurence Davis

Senior Lecturer in Government and Politics

Director of the MSc International Public Policy and Diplomacy

Department of Government and Politics

University College Cork, Ireland

http://publish.ucc.ie/profiles/B007/ldavis

 

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