Children

Lockheed Martin, Raytheon And BAE Systems Are Propagandizing Children

August 1, 2026 Alan MacLeod, Mintpress News. Educate! Children, Education, Military Industrial Complex, Propaganda, STEM

Raytheon sponsors the Girl Scouts of America. BAE Systems is reading your toddlers their favorite fairytale stories. And Lockheed Martin funds children’s math and STEM festivals. This is done with great fanfare, supposedly to empower and inspire children to pursue their passion for science. In reality, though, these companies are attempting to launder their images and enlist the next generation to become cogs in the military-industrial complex. All the while, these organizations’ products are being used across the world by the United States and Israel to commit war crimes – in Iran, Yemen, Palestine, and beyond – to target children.

How The Global Food Economy Is Killing Children

July 11, 2026 Vijay Prashad, The Tricontinental Institute for Social Research. Educate! Children, Food Security, Foodborne illness, health, Starvation

On 4 June 2026, the World Health Organisation (WHO) released a devastating assessment of the state of the world’s food systems. According to the new estimates, which draw on data up to 2021, unsafe food causes approximately 866 million illnesses and 1.5 million deaths every year. Nearly one in nine people globally falls ill from contaminated food, with the African and Southeast Asian regions together accounting for nearly three-quarters of all foodborne illnesses and 60% of global deaths. The burden falls most heavily on those who have contributed least to the crisis: children.

When Children Are The Target

July 1, 2026 Vijay Prashad, Consortium News. Educate! Children, Deaths, Gaza, Genocide, Palestine, Wars and Militarism

The United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel has releasedone of the most devastating reports ever produced by a U.N. investigative body on the Israeli genocide in Gaza. Its title is almost unbearable to read: “The Essence of Childhood Has Been Destroyed.” Behind the title lies an accusation of extraordinary gravity. The Commission concludes that Israeli authorities and security forces have deliberately targeted Palestinian children and that these actions amount to genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Gaza Strip, alongside war crimes in the occupied West Bank.

UN Inquiry: Israel Deliberately Targeted Palestinian Children In Gaza

June 24, 2026 Jordan Atwood, Nation of Change. Educate! Children, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, United Nations

A United Nations inquiry has accused Israeli authorities and security forces of deliberately targeting Palestinian children in Gaza, finding that the killing, maiming, starvation, displacement, detention, and deprivation of children formed part of a pattern that furthered Israel’s genocide against Palestinians. The report, released by the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, examined Israeli violations and crimes against Palestinian children from October 7, 2023, through March 31, 2026. Its findings reach far beyond casualty figures.

More Than 770,000 Children Are No Longer Receiving SNAP Benefits

June 21, 2026 Nicole Santa Cruz, Pro Publica. Educate! Austerity, Children, Food Insecurity, SNAP Program, Trump Administration

As a House committee debated President Donald Trump’s signature domestic policy bill last year, Republican backers repeatedly emphasized that its changes to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as food stamps, wouldn’t affect vulnerable people. SNAP reforms would “restore integrity” to the program and ensure it works for the “most vulnerable among us, including children,” said Rep. Glenn “GT” Thompson, a Pennsylvania Republican and chair of the House Agriculture Committee. Passing the bill would be a “historic accomplishment” that will ensure “those in need can continue to receive the assistance they need,” said Rep. John Rose, a Republican from Tennessee.

A Global War On Children

May 25, 2026 Nick Turse, Counter Punch. Educate! Children, Somalia, Trump Administration, Wars and Militarism

“It’s got no anything,” President Donald Trump said of Somalia in a recent xenophobic rant. “All they do is run around shooting each other.” As is true of so much with this administration, every accusation is also a confession. U.S. troops have been shooting Somalis since the early 1990s, after lame duck President George H. W. Bush launched an ostensibly humanitarian intervention there that would be embraced by his successor, Bill Clinton. By June 1993, U.S. and U.N. troops had begun attacking various targets in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, linked to warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, who had helped overthrow dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

Mothers Are Stretching Every Dollar

May 10, 2026 Barbara Rodriguez, 19th News. Educate! Children, Debt, Economic insecurity, Mothers

Sherrah Hill, a mother of six, didn’t think a simple promise to her kids — that she would buy them ice cream with toppings to celebrate their good grades — could stress her out so much. But then she stood in one of the aisles of her local grocery store in South Florida, staring at a package of sprinkles priced at $8. “Inside, I was dying because I was like, ‘How do I tell my kids that I can’t afford to get sprinkles for their ice cream?’” Hill said. These are the realities that some mothers are facing as they grapple with the rising cost of many things in their lives, including consumer goods, food and the average price of gas.

Growing Calls To End Unilateral Coercive Measures

April 26, 2026 Jill Clark-Gollub, Popular Resistance. Resist! Children, Congress, Cuba, Deaths, Sanctions

This spring constituents and grassroots organizations have been raising awareness in Congress and in public forums of the harms caused by Unilateral Coercive Measures (UCMs or “sanctions”). Sanctions have become the “go-to” foreign policy tool of the United States government, now impacting a quarter of the global economy and one-third of the world’s population. These measures cause an average of 564,000 deaths around the world annually—comparable to the toll from armed conflict—mostly among children under 5 years old. On April 22, Congresswoman Delia Ramírez (D-IL) hosted a Congressional briefing on “Humanitarian Impacts of Economic Sanctions, Cuba as a Case Study.”

Protesters Fill Capitol, Read Letters From Children Held In Immigration Custody

March 24, 2026 L. Cam Anderson, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Children, Human Rights, ICE, Immigrant Solidarity, immigrants rights, Minnesota

Saint Paul, MN — More than 100 people filed into the Minnesota State Capitol on Feb. 26 to protest the prolonged detainment of children in Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities around the country. The crowd, led into the capitol building by the immigrant rights-oriented nonprofit Unidos MN to protest a legislative session, pooled into the second floor outside of the Senate Chamber as an array of speakers read letters sent by children detained in ICE detention centers in Texas aloud. The protest follows a recent trend in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detaining more and more children, the Associated Press reported.

In The Fight Against ICE, Kids Are On The Front Lines

February 18, 2026 Madeline Lane-McKinley, In These Times. Strategize! Chemical Weapons, Children, ICE, State Violence, Youth Activism

On Saturday, January 31, my partner, Kyle, and our 14-year-old, Zinnia, joined a union-organized rally dubbed “Labor Against ICE” in Portland. Packed with union members and local groups, as well as families, children and elders, there were thousands of people and all the markings of a “peaceful protest.” After speeches from city councilmembers, immigration lawyers and community members, the rally then formed into a march to the ICE facility several blocks away. Within minutes, they were tear-gassed by federal agents. That night, I was at an event in Seattle, reading the messages pouring in.

Trauma Of ICE Raids Is Rippling Through Public Schools

February 14, 2026 Eleanor J. Bader, Truthout. Organize! Children, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Minneapolis, Schools, State Repression

In several Minnesota communities, public school teachers and community volunteers are now riding school buses with their students to ensure that at each afternoon drop-off, the adults who were expected to be waiting at home for their child’s arrival have not been taken by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids during the school day. “The president’s decision to send thousands of masked, heavily armed agents into our communities has forced educators to adapt in many ways,” Monica Byron, the president of Education Minnesota, told Truthout via email.

The Children Of Dilley, Texas Detention Center

February 12, 2026 Mica Rosenberg, Pro Publica. Educate! Children, Detention, ICE, Immigrant Rights, Texas

Fourteen-year-old Ariana Velasquez had been held at the immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas, with her mother for some 45 days when I managed to get inside to meet her. The staff brought everyone in the visiting room a boxed lunch from the cafeteria: a cup of yellowish stew and a hamburger patty in a plain bun. Ariana’s long black curls hung loosely around her face and she was wearing a government-issued gray sweatsuit. At first, she sat looking blankly down at the table. She poked at her food with a plastic fork and let her mother do most of the talking.

Immigrant Children Lead Uprising At Texas Detention Center

January 27, 2026 Chris Walker, Truthout. Resist! Children, Detention Center, Immigrants, Texas

An uprising broke out at an immigrant jail in southern Texas on Saturday, with around 1,000 immigrants detained in the facility — many of them children — chanting “Libertad” and “Let us go,” according to an attorney who witnessed the event. The protest took place at South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, which closed in 2024 but was reopened by the Trump administration this year to detain immigrant families. On Saturday, facility personnel abruptly ordered immigration attorneys who were present to leave, saying “an incident” had taken place.

Minneapolis: Children Hospitalized After Van Hit With ICE Flash-Bangs

January 16, 2026 Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams. Educate! Children, ICE, Minneapolis, State Violence

The father of three children who were hospitalized in Minneapolis on Wednesday night accused federal agents of launching flash-bang munitions and tear gas into their family van after they were caught up in protests against the Trump administration’s deadly immigration crackdown. “Officers threw flash bangs and tear gas in my car. I got six kids in the car,” Shawn Jackson told KMSP. “My 6-month-old can’t even breathe.” The explosions were strong enough to trigger the car’s airbags. “They were innocent bystanders driving through what should have been a peaceful protest when things took a turn,” Destiny Jackson, the children’s mother, explained.

Health Professionals: ‘Sanctions Kill More People Than War, Mostly Children’

December 1, 2025 Sanctions Kill/ Americas Without Sanctions, Popular Resistance. Resist!, Slider Children, Health Professionals, Public Health, Sanctions, Wars, Webinar

On the eve of the International Day against Unilateral Coercive Measures, Americas Without Sanctions/SanctionsKill will host a webinar on BLOCKADES AND COERCIVE MEASURES: STOP THE WAR ON CHILDREN! Co-moderated by Dr. Margaret Flowers, pediatrician, director of Popular Resistance and co-founder of SanctionsKill; and Dr. Adlah Sukkar, a pulmonologist, lifelong human rights defender, and founding member of Doctors Against Genocide. The webinar is part of a new campaign launched this month in which health workers are invited to sign a letter to the US government demanding an end to its use of unilateral coercive measures (sanctions).

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