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How Vouchers Harm Public Schools

January 2, 2025 Hilary Wething, Economic Policy Institute. Educate! Education, Privatization, Public schools, Report, School Vouchers

Voucher programs for schools are rapidly expanding across the country. Under these programs, public budgets provide funding to parents to either send their children to private school or homeschool them. These programs’ growing popularity raises the question of whether letting public money leave the public school system and subsidize private forms of schooling is a way to improve children’s access to an excellent education. EPI’s analysis shows that vouchers harm public schools. To illustrate the damage, EPI has developed a tool that estimates fiscal externalities—the dollar costs to school districts from students leaving public schools with a voucher.

US Report Finds Homelessness Soared 18% This Year

December 28, 2024 Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams. Educate! Affordable Housing, Biden administration, Homelessness, Report

The controversial federal system for tracking homelessness in the United States recorded an 18% increase from 2023, breaking the record previously set last year, according to a report released Friday. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's (HUD) process—which advocates and experts have long argued is flawed and results in inaccurate data that understates the homelessness crisis—provides a snapshot of how many people are unhoused for a single night each January. This year, the HUD report states, "a total of 771,480 people—or about 23 of every 10,000 people in the United States—experienced homelessness in an emergency shelter, safe haven, transitional housing program, or in unsheltered locations across the country."

New Report Shows A Surge In European SLAPP Suits

December 21, 2024 Stella Levantesi, DeSmog. Strategize! Censorship, Climate Justice, Europe, Lawfare, Oil and Gas Industry, Report, SLAPP Lawsuit

Lawsuits to silence those speaking out and fighting in the interest of the public are increasingly being used as a form of private censorship, according to a new report published last week by the Coalition Against SLAPPS in Europe, or CASE. Developed in collaboration with the Daphne Caruana Galizia Foundation, the report shows that SLAPPs continue to rise in Europe and identifies a total of 1,049 cases between 2010-2023. The lawsuits cover a broad range of topics, and environmental issues made up the second-most-targeted subject of all the SLAPP suits reported, behind corruption.

Israel’s Genocide Day 426: Israel Bombs Tents In Gaza

December 6, 2024 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Amnesty International, Ceasefire, Egypt, Gaza, Genocide, Hamas, Israel, Israeli war crimes, Lebanon, Palestine, Report

Leading international human rights organization Amnesty International has concluded, in a report it released on Wednesday, that Israel was responsible for acts of genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza strip. The group said that it had been analyzing events and statements by Israeli officials for months, concluding that the legal threshold for the crime of genocide has been met. It is the first time that Amnesty has reached such a conclusion during an ongoing conflict. Amnesty’s chief Agnes Callamard said in a statement on Wednesday that “month after month, Israel has treated Palestinians in Gaza as a subhuman group unworthy of human rights and dignity, demonstrating its intent to physically destroy them,” adding that “Our damning findings must serve as a wake-up call to the international community: this is genocide.

Ukraine’s ‘White Wolves’ Fighting Alongside Extremists In Syria

December 3, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Report, Syria, Ukraine, Wars and Militarism

Ukraine’s White Wolves special operations unit is deployed in northern Syria alongside Hayat Tahrir al-Sham-led (HTS) militants who are waging an assault against the Syrian government in the countryside of Idlib and Aleppo, according to multiple sources cited by Al Mayadeen on 3 December. There is “direct Ukrainian involvement … in ongoing battles against the Syrian army across the fronts of Aleppo, Hama, and Idlib,” Al Mayadeen’s sources said. “The Ukrainian units operating in Syria are part of the White Wolf group, which is affiliated with Ukraine's Security Service.” The White Wolves unit is known for its expertise in the development and use of drones.

Historic Investigation Of US Boarding Schools For Native Children

November 26, 2024 Niko Georgiades, Unicorn Riot. Educate! assimilation, colonization, Indigenous Peoples, Report, Residential Schools, Traumas

For the first time in its 248-year existence, the United States government investigated its own Federal Indian Boarding Schools, a genocidal element of the racist settler colonial project by which the country was formed. From the passage of the Civilization Fund Act in 1819 up until 1969, the U.S. government stole Indigenous children from their parents, and separated and killed family members as part of a broader policy to steal territory and sever the cultural, economic and spiritual ties between Indigenous peoples. Children were forced into boarding schools to assimilate to the European settlers’ way of life.

The World Bank Must Stop Ploughing Funds Into Factory Farming

November 15, 2024 Alessandro Ramazzotti, DeSmog. Educate! Agriculture, Factory Farming, Food and Agriculture, Report, World Bank

Animal agriculture is one of the leading drivers of the climate crisis. According to a recent World Bank report, food and agriculture generate almost a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, of which meat and dairy account for nearly 60 percent. Separate analysis shows that cattle ranching accounts for around 70 percent of the current deforestation of the Amazon. Recognising the significant problems that animal-based foods are causing, the World Bank’s cafeteria stopped serving meat earlier this year.

Genocidal Scorecard

November 12, 2024 Chris Hedges, Consortium News. Educate! Embargo, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Report

A United Nations report, published last month, lays out in chilling detail the advances made by Israel in Gaza as it seeks to eradicate “the very existence of the Palestinian people in Palestine.” This genocidal project, the report ominously warns, “is now metastasizing to the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.” The Nakba or “catastrophe,” which in 1948 saw Zionist militias drive 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, carry out more than 70 massacres and seize 78 percent of historic Palestine, has returned on steroids.

Extreme Weather Events Have Cost $2 Trillion Over The Past Decade

November 12, 2024 Paige Bennett, EcoWatch. Educate! climate crisis, Climate finance, Extreme weather, Report

According to a new report by the International Chamber of Commerce and consultancy firm Oxera, extreme weather events over the past 10 years have cost a total of $2 trillion globally. The countries that have faced the biggest losses include the U.S., China and India. The report tracked nearly 4,000 extreme weather events from 2014 through 2023. In total, the results found that these events affected more than 1.6 billion people and cost around $2 trillion in economic losses. Over just the past two years, losses linked to extreme weather cost the world $451 billion.

United Nations Finds 70 Percent Of Gaza Deaths Women And Children

November 9, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Child Wellbeing, Crimes against humanity, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Israeli war crimes, Palestine, Report, United Nations (UN), Violence against Women, War crimes

The majority of the casualties in Israel’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip have been women and children, according to a report released on 8 November by the UN Human Rights Office. According to the report, nearly 70 percent of the confirmed number of dead are women and children, which “demonstrates an apparent indifference to the death of civilians and the impact of the means and methods of warfare selected.” It also marks a “a systematic violation of the fundamental principles of international humanitarian law,” the report said. It notes that 80 percent of the deaths took place in residential buildings or in homes.

Report: Trump Plans UK-Style Attack On Israel Criticism

November 6, 2024 Joe Lauria, Consortium News. Educate! Donald Trump, First Amendment, Israel, Palestine, Report, State Repression

A second Trump administration could criminalize criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza as support for terrorism, along the lines of the British Terrorism Act, according to a report in Drop Site News. The report says the plan is to “break the pro-Palestinian movement in the U.S.” “The plan, dubbed ‘Project Esther,‘ casts pro-Palestinian activists in the U.S. as members of a global conspiracy aligned with designated terrorist organizations. As part of a so-called ‘Hamas Support Network,’ these protesters receive ‘indispensable support of a vast network of activists and funders with a much more ambitious, insidious goal — the destruction of capitalism and democracy,’ Project Esther’s authors allege. This conspiratorial framing is part of a legal strategy to suppress speech favorable to Palestinians or critical of the U.S.-Israel relationship, by employing counterterrorism laws to suppress what would otherwise be protected speech, legal experts told Drop Site News.”

Fifty Two Nations Call For Global Arms Embargo On Israel

November 4, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Resist! Gaza, Iran, Israel, Palestine, Palestine Solidarity, Report, Türkiye, United Nations (UN), Wars and Militarism

The Foreign Ministry of Turkiye sent the UN a letter signed by 52 nations and two organizations calling for a halt in military transfers to Israel, stating the Israeli army is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan called for the arms embargo on Israel while speaking at a news conference in Djibouti on 1 November. While attending the Turkiye–Africa collaboration meeting, Fidan announced that the group letter was sent to the UN and that it must be "repeated at every opportunity that selling arms to Israel means participating in its genocide."

US Embassy Blocks Iraq-Lebanon Humanitarian Air Bridge

November 3, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Israel, Lebanon, Report, US Aid To Israel, US Imperialism, US Sanctions, Wars and Militarism

The US embassy in Lebanon has blocked the establishment of a humanitarian air bridge between Baghdad and Beirut, insisting instead that any humanitarian aid for those displaced by the Israeli war be delivered via Jordan “for inspection first,” according to a report by Lebanese daily Al Akhbar. Washington reportedly also threatened Lebanon's national airliner, Middle East Airlines (MEA), with sanctions if its planes were used to transport those wounded by Israel's terror attack that caused communication devices to explode across the country.

US Ambassador To Lebanon Promotes ‘Internal Uprising’ To Assist Israel

October 30, 2024 News Desk, The Cradle. Educate! Hezbollah, Israel, Lebanon, Report, US Aid To Israel, US Diplomacy, US Imperialism, Wars and Militarism

A high-ranking Lebanese security source revealed to Al-Akhbar newspaper that the US Ambassador to Lebanon, Lisa Johnson, is continuing her agenda to prepare Lebanon for a “post-Hezbollah era” by mobilizing “internal” forces against the Islamic resistance movement while it fights the Israeli Army. In discussions with Lebanese politicians, Johnson reportedly said, “Israel cannot achieve everything through war; it’s time for you to do your part and launch an internal uprising under the banner of ‘Enough.’” The ambassador added, “The Lebanese people must show their desire to rise up and get rid of Hezbollah and return to the context that emerged after the assassination of Rafik Hariri, especially since the regional, international, and field circumstances are in your favor.”

Planet Will Warm As Much As 3.1°C Under Current Policies

October 26, 2024 Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, EcoWatch. Educate! climate crisis, Global heating, livable future, Report, United Nations

Without greater action, the planet will warm as much as 3.1 degrees Celsius by the end of the century, according to the latest United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Emissions Gap Report: No more hot air … please!. In the coming round of Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), countries must commit to slashing their collective yearly greenhouse gas emissions by 42 percent by the end of the decade and by 57 percent by 2035, a press release from UNEP said. Otherwise, the annual report says, the chance of meeting the Paris Agreement goal of keeping global heating to 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average will disappear within a few years.

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