Bill Ayers

ONLY two more days to vote…

…for Mother Country Radicals in the election (below).

PLEEEEZE help by posting and emailing friends and colleagues, far and wide. Tell everyone to vote.

Zayd is first in one category, and tied for first in the other.

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Also of interest: the pdf below is a review from Vanity Fair.

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Mother Country Radicals was nominated for the Signal Award in both Documentary and Best Writing. Winners are determined by public vote, so PLEASE VOTE in BOTH categories and share widely!

https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2022/limited-series-specials/general/documentary

https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2022/limited-series-specials/craft/best-writing

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/12/best-2022-podcasts-politics-radicalism-rachel-maddow-weather-underground

New Podcast Episode!
In our final episode for 2022, we speak with @helen.shiller.
In her autobiography, “Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win”, @helen.shiller captures what it means to engage in justice work. Her decades of work exemplify the potential of an insider/outsider approach to social change.
The Under the Tree family wish you and your Beloveds a year of joy, justice, peace and love. See you in 2023!
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From a recent review of the important book edited by David Berliner and Carl Hermanns and published by Teachers College Press, Public Education:Defending a Cornerstone of American Democracy:

Child Labor laws in the United States were ratified less than a century ago, in 1938. When children were liberated from the chains of illiteracy and the drudgery of working long hours for near-starvation pay, public schools emerged as welcoming, empowering institutions that offered the possibility of a better life. Rather than submit to a permanent sentence of indentured servitude, an American child—every American child—was suddenly given the opportunity to be treated as an equal among peers, regardless of race, religion, wealth, or family connections.

One can argue about the extent to which America has fallen short of its promises. But, powerful forces at work in the United States today are working to obliterate public schools and debunk the idea that every child deserves a fair chance. As noted repeatedly by the contributors to Public Education, if our public schools go down, our democracy seems likely to follow.

My chapter in the book is called “A New Deal for Public Schools.”

Mother Country Radicals was nominated for the Signal Award in both Documentary and Best Writing. Winners are determined by public vote over the next two weeks, so PLEASE VOTE in BOTH categories and share widely!

https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2022/limited-series-specials/general/documentary

https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting#/2022/limited-series-specials/craft/best-writing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16y3z2vufFU5tSYBd7pflmCjMVsvE2HUy/view

WORKSHOPS BY CREATORS OF AIRGO: Damon Williams and Daniel Kisslinger, the amazing creators of AirGo, a weekly podcast and movement media hub in Chicago that reshapes the culture of the city and beyond for the more liberatory and creative,(and my mentors at UNDER the TREE) are available to facilitate interactive workshops that help college students, community-builders, nonprofits, and others create humanizing subject-to-subject dialogue to address personal and structural power dynamics and reimagine their spaces. Participants gain tangible tools for to-the-root dialogue, best practices for communication, and organizing strategy for reshaping their campus, organization, or community. Check out their website for more ideas: http://airgoradio.com. You can bring AirGo to your campus by reaching out to their booking folks at Allied Media Projects: https://alliedmedia.org/post/book-airgo-radio