A nation that can feed its billionaires but not its children has an economic system built to protect cruelty.
A nation that can feed its billionaires but not its children has an economic system built to protect cruelty.
That fascists would want to insert their hateful, transphobic, and homophobic message directly into the LGBTQIA+ community is predictable. But the absolutely shameful fact is that Seattle Parks officials recommended that this anti-LGBTQ+ group hold their rally at Cal Anderson Park—they hadn’t even originally planned to hold it there... There is a war being waged on LGBTQIA+ people—by the state and by the raising forces of fascism it is enabling.
The fascist project has no room for young people who think critically, question authority, or imagine a world beyond border walls, binaries, and bunkers... The antidote is not denial; it’s defiant hope and collective action. As the editors of Rethinking Schools remind us, “To step into a classroom is to express confidence in young people’s capacity to learn, to grow, to change, to make a difference — to do good in the world.”
I had the honor of joining Democracy Now! to talk about Trump’s executive orders to abolish the Department of Education and defund schools that teach honestly about race and gender—and why this moment demands urgent resistance.
While Trump and Vance spread lies about Haitians eating pets, the true barbarity is that, as the legendary band Funkadelic famously titled their 1972 album, “America eats its young.”
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