The Latino Racial Justice Circle in Baltimore is raising money to help support the families of workers who died in the Francis Scott Key Bridge collapse: gofund.me/05cfe3e9
Please help the Latino Racial Justice Circle raise $60K to support the familie… Kate Jakuta needs your support for Support for families of Key bridge collapse
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Next semester, I'm teaching a 100-level Global History of Technology course and was thinking of having students make zines inspired by assigned readings in social & cultural hist. Any recs on software packages for zine-making (both for those w/drawing skills & for those who prefer to collage)?
Hey, LPE people--I have a former student who's currently a 1L interested in summer work opportunities in labor law. Any rec's on Boston-area orgs, internships, etc?
'Rereading Black Reconstruction as the main assigned text for U.S. Civil War & Reconstruction course I'm teaching for the first time. Always breathtaking writing & analysis from Du Bois, brief refs & remarks that became books by others, concepts & paradigms to dwell on:
I try to accommodate w/make-up assignments, resubmissions, alternative office hours...but it doesn't get to the root of the problem.
I'm always frustrated w/athletics exploiting students, but this semester it's killing me. Not only missing tons of class & a req event, falling behind on assignments, misunderstanding assignments incurring poor grades, but also making them play w/broken finger, while severely ill, etc! WTF?!
Growing up in AZ in the 90s-00s, I got more or less distinct curricula at public school and at home. (Classmates called me a "Communist" for wanting Social Security to exist.) What determines choosing the two-track route or the avoidance/exit one? Safety? Material circumstances? Community?
So great to have heard today from a former student & History major who's on the picket line w/the UAW in Mansfield, MA as part of the UMass-Amherst Labor Studies program!
Here is a brief primer on permafrost carbon. Permafrost (frozen soil) stores a HUGE amount of carbon because ancient life took up carbon dioxide, built biomass, then died. These organisms' organic matter (~50% C) slowly accrued in Earth's best freezer for 1000s of yrs. 1/
