Also linking the #Patreon post about the term I coined "cycle of genocide"

https://www.patreon.com/posts/cycle-of-51682791

#cycleofgenocide #politicaleducation #NativeWriter #Colonialism #BreakCycles

You can read more about my family's history with the boarding school that my late grandfather attended on #patreon.

I archived photos I took when we visited the school.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/family-history-52230301

If you can subscribe monthly at any amount, it would be a huge help! I lost quite a bit of subscribers over the pandemic and my patreon is my primary source of income.

#NdnsOfPatreon #NativesOnPatreon #NativeWriters #PoliticalEducation #Historical #Archiving #MutualAid

More schools that forced American Indian children to assimilate revealed
Bringing the total to 523 institutions. This article is non pay walled, non Natives, accomplices, settlers, please read!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/08/30/indian-boarding-schools/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjkzMzY4MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjk0NzUwMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE2OTMzNjgwMDAsImp0aSI6IjFmNzM5YjZiLWI1YzMtNDgwMS05Mjc4LTk0ZDk1MDhjNDI3MiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9uYXRpb24vMjAyMy8wOC8zMC9pbmRpYW4tYm9hcmRpbmctc2Nob29scy8ifQ.5s4EiqiCyeRWEvzmPhZoViw6nZrq4evKvz2v7Kk-fT8&itid=gfta

#cycleofgenocide #boardingschools #politicaleducation #intergenerationaltrauma #NativeMastodon #IndogenousMastodon #NdnMastodon

Politics should be taught in primary schools, Alastair Campbell says | Alastair Campbell | The Guardian
#Politics
#Education
#PoliticsEducation
#PoliticalEducation
#Campbell
#Arguing
#Policy
#BigIssues
#Newsnight
#BBCNewsnight
#Phillips
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/25/politics-should-be-taught-in-primary-schools-alastair-campbell-says

Naples municipalist movement Massa Critica “Didn't run for the elections...The idea was to create a long term agenda for the city in a participatory way with public assemblies in squares in different neighbourhoods of Naples.” explained Maria Francesca De Tullio.
#Storytelling #PoliticalEducation
https://youtu.be/tVDMPvexxu0

At SURJ Bay Area we are gearing up for the six iteration of our Study and Action #PoliticalEducation

Whether you are already plugged into #RacialJustice #activism or are trying to determine how to get involved in organizing it is worth checking out https://bit.ly/StudyAndAction

At SURJ Bay Area we are gearing up for the six iteration of our Study and Action #PoliticalEducation

Whether you are already plugged into #RacialJustice #activism or are trying to determine how to get involved in organizing it is worth checking out bit.ly/StudyAndAction

YDSA at ASU is doing some great things #YDSA #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #Socialism #Solidarity #Strikes #FoodInsecurity #ClimateChange #Sustainability #TenantsRights #AbortionRights #PoliticalEducation

Most of adulthood, I assumed I'd condemned myself to monolingualism by avoiding studying Spanish in HS (notoriously bad teacher). In the tenants' mvmt the limits this imposes comes up often, paining me. A few months ago I learned about "comprehensible input," changing everything. Over the years, I'd dabbled with app learning, but never built the habit. Then this fall, members of TANC discussed but ultimately didn't come together around taking community college Spanish together. I decided to investigate self-directed learning methods.

Somewhere in the process of that search I stumbled upon a thread that mentioned Dreaming Spanish, a site & youtube channel that teaches learners beginning from zero knowledge, using the comprehensible input method. https://www.youtube.com/@DreamingSpanish
https://www.dreamingspanish.com/method
The premise, which has relatively substantial research backing & lots of anecdotal support, is that the fastest way to learn is to approximate how we learned our 1st language(s)—by receiving a huge amount of "input" (& nothing else, not grammar, not memorization, not speaking).We learn most from "input," as theory goes, when we understand most of it, ie when it's "comprehensible" to us. E.g. watching videos with illustrations, gestures, & slow speaking entirely in the language (or else through crosstalk, ie similar communication from a real speaker).

In the hardcore version of comprehensible input held by the Dreaming Spanish crew, you only need to take in progressively more complex, but consistently understandable, real use of the language by native speakers, up until an advanced level of understanding. After hundreds of hours, you have unconsciously learned the basics of the languages vocabulary, grammar, and sounds, only at which point do they recommend reading and conversation. Until then, its video, crosstalk, and eventually audio input.

At the same as I encountering comprehensible input, I was reading Jacques Ranciere's the Ignorant Schoolmaster, which describe an 19th century French teacher who taught Flemish students to learn French without knowing a word of Flemish—by handing them books in French.

I wasn't serious about this until a couple weeks ago, but now I'm hooked & watching an hour & a half of Spanish videos a day (at 1.5x speed, at least), largely replacing TV. I've already moved on to more difficult videos. Its way more engaging & easier than an app or class. If I'm able to stick to the learning plan I've set out, which has me increasing input as I become comfortable w/ just audio (podcasts around the house etc), & if the timeline laid out by the program is anywhere near accurate, I'll be conversational within the year. Unbelievable.

#LearningSpanish #multilingualism #PoliticalEducation

Oh geez, how did I not know #Goodreads was owned by #Amazon? Glad to learn the #fediverse has an alternative with easy Goodreads data import. Here I am hmu https://bookwyrm.social/user/strikescanbeillegal #books #reading #PoliticalEducation

What should I read next? What are you reading next?

#books #PSL #PoliticalEducation #Socialism #ElectoralStrategy #Anarchism #Organizing #TheSouth #politics #labor

What should I read next? What are you reading next?

#books #PSL #PoliticalEducation #Socialism #ElectoralStrategy #Anarchism #Organizing #TheSouth #politics #labor

oooh narrow escape from an encounter with my deputy grand boss in the break room with a copy of @inthesetimesmag in my hand. Don't get sloppy kids! 📕 #OrganizerLife #PoliticalEducation

Monica she/her
#introductions

interests: #abolition #healingjustice #blackfeminist #M4BL #healthequity #politicaleducation #economicdemocracy #QTPOC #QTBIPOC #antioppression #architecture

https://archive.org/details/soniavazborges

Book Launch: Militant Education With Sónia Vaz Borges by The People's Forum

Topics
#SóniaVazBorges, #politicaleducation, #PAIGC, #GuineaBissau, #GuineaBissau, #CapeVerde, #CaboVerde, #portugal, #portuguesecolonialism, #anticolonialism, #booklaunch, #Africa, #education, #revolution, #PartidoAfricanoparaaIndependênciadaGuinéeCaboVerde, #WestAfrica

book launch for Militant Education, Liberation Struggle, Consciousness: The PAIGC education in Guinea Bissau 1963-1978 by Sónia Vaz Borges. reproduced from here, event page here.