If We Knew Our History - Zinn Education Project Monthly Column
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An Earth Day Message: Take Heart from the Abolition Movement
By Bill Bigelow
 Rethinking Schools curriculum editor and Zinn Education Project co-director

 

Every Earth Day, some of us are tempted to say things like "We live on the same planet; we're all in this together."

But no, we're not.

This Earth Day we need to recognize that the fossil fuel industry is waging war on the planet----and on the future. And, like the abolition movement before us, we need to act accordingly. Continue reading.
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By Julie Treick O'Neill and Tim Swinehart. Lesson that asks students to develop a list of demands to present to the rest of the world at the Indigenous Peoples' Global Summit on Climate Change.
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By Bill Bigelow. In this role play, students become members of the American Anti-Slavery Society, facing many of the real challenges to ending slavery.

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