Category: Dispatch
For a Cultural and Academic Boycott of the UAE
TAGATU3 call for a cultural and academic boycott of the UAE.
LA Burning: Capitalism, Climate Change, and Resistance
Join this Spectre Live event to discuss the roots of the killer fires, collective solidarity amidst it, and what must be done to prevent future climate catastrophes.
Panem et Circenses
Beliu García Parra reports from the front lines of the public healthcare crisis in Spain.
Our Children Are in Crisis
A preschool teacher in Vermont writes about the calamity of going back to work in the fall.
A Semester to Die For
In our latest dispatch, an English professor argues that plowing ahead with university reopening in the fall is akin to the Thatcherite mantra, “There is no alternative.”
Middle School Can’t Be Digitized
A middle school teacher explains why we can’t just throw all of our lessons online in the face of COVID-19 and pretend that education is continuing as usual.
A Message from Walter Rodney
Robert Cuffy gives a speech at a march in New York City on Juneteenth, drawing on the words of Guyanese revolutionary Walter Rodney.
What Do I Tell My Students?
A NYC teacher provides an account of being severely beaten by the NYPD for violating an 8 p.m. curfew.