Challenging Censorship, Amplifying Voices: Green Feather Movement, Columbus, and Conferences

Updates from the Zinn Education Project

Show Your Opposition to Censorship----Wear a Green Feather

Taking a page from history, the Zinn Education Project is producing Green Feather Movement buttons and stickers to protest censorship like Indiana college students did in 1953. These buttons and stickers will be distributed at the upcoming Zinn Read-Ins and the National Council for the Social Studies conference.

To request your own union-made stickers and buttons, or to contribute to their production, click here.

Read more about the Green Feather Movement.

Columbus Day Resources
It's Columbus Day...Time to Break the Silence Article. By Bill Bigelow. 2012. If We Knew Our History Series. The attack on Mexican American Studies and Rethinking Columbus shares a common root: the attempt to silence stories that unsettle today's unequal power arrangements. Read more. Also see: The New (and Improved?) Textbook Columbus Are textbooks more truthful about Columbus than they were 20 years ago?
Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years Teaching Guide	Hurricane Dancers Fiction - Middle/High School	Before Columbus: The Americas of 1491 Non-fiction - Elementary-High School
More resources for teaching the truth about Columbus

Upcoming Conferences

Oct. 12 - San Francisco Teachers for Social Justice - Bay Area "Teaching for Social Justice---- The Politics of Pedagogy"	Oct. 18 - Minneapolis Twin Cities Social Justice Education Fair

Oct. 19 - Seattle Northwest Teachers for Social Justice "Rethinking Our Classrooms, Organizing for Better Schools"	Nov. 6-10 - Oakland, CA National Association for Multicultural Education

Nov. 22-24 - St. Louis, MO National Council for the Social Studies Come meet us at Booth #521	Jan. 17-19, 2014 - Los Angeles Creating Balance in an Unjust World Conference on Math Education and Social Justice

New at the Zinn Education Project Website
'Of Mice and Marginalization' Fall 2013 issue of Rethinking Schools magazine	Censored 2014: Dispatches from the Media Revolution; The Top Censored Stories and Media Analysis of 2012-13	Lawrence and the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike

Student Activity	Portrait of an Activist
Invite Your Students to Become Textbook Detectives Ask them to send us what their history and/or science textbooks say (or don't say) about coal. We need examples from around the country. Read why and how you can help.	Judy Bonds, Environmental Activist Americans Who Tell the Truth "Three and one-half million pounds of explosives are being used every day to blow up the mountains. Blasting our communities, blasting our homes... I don't mind being poor. I mind being blasted and poisoned. There ARE no jobs on a dead planet." Read more.

Why I Support the Zinn Education Project
	"Reading Howard Zinn's books and attending his lectures when I was in college greatly influenced and provided me with the perspective and understanding to pursue a career as an attorney representing whistleblowers. "I hope that others who have been inspired by Howard Zinn will give what they can to this project so you are able to reach many, many more teachers and students in the coming year." ----David K. Colapinto, General counsel for the National Whistleblowers Center

	The goal of the Zinn Education Project is to introduce students to a more accurate, complex, and engaging understanding of United States history. www.zinnedproject.org