[NOTE: Freedom schools were a key element of 1960s civil rights activism in the deep South. Their important legacy is no longer only history, but is now being revived and reinvented, starting in Florida, as resistance to resurgent racism in education. What a great idea.] Washington Post After Florida restricts Black history, churches step up … Continue reading Freedom Schools Are Back! (Starting In Florida)
In Germany, the AfD are weaponising climate change The Economist — Sep 14th 2023 A spectre is haunting Europe: the spectre of a rising hard right. In Germany the overtly xenophobic Alternative for Germany (afd) has surged to become the country’s second-most popular party. Its success is polarising domestic politics and it seems poised to … Continue reading A fresh wave of hard-right populism is stalking Europe
From Reading Religion: The End of Public Execution Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South By: Michael Ayers Trotti 266 Pages — $32.95 Published By: University of North Carolina Press Michael Ayers Trotti’s The End of Public Execution: Race, Religion, and Punishment in the American South opens with a short transcription of a newspaper … Continue reading When Hanging Wasn’t Brutal Enough for Black Prisoners: Southern Whites Brought In “Old Sparky”
Late Update, August 26, 2023: HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa was re–elected for a second and final five–year term late Saturday in results announced much earlier than expected following another troubled vote in the southern African country with a history of violent and disputed elections. An opposition party spokesperson said within minutes … Continue reading Dyer: Zimbabwe Election (With Updates)
In a June blog post here about virulent persecution of LGBTQ folk in Uganda based on a draconian new “kill the gays” law, a correspondent known to us as “William Leddra” issued a call to Quakers, who have two yearly meetings in Uganda, and affiliations with Friends United Meeting [aka FUM] based in Richmond, Indiana, … Continue reading A Response to a Comment: Who Is this Quaker named “Wlliam Leddra”?