Taking It Back

The Fight to Take Back Public Education

[Taking It Back @HolyokeBAT]

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[Taking It Back @HolyokeBAT]

@PressSec @realDonaldTrump You are a bad person and have been complicit in the bad actions of others. Do some soul-searching and come to terms with what you’ve done. I hope that you find the will to speak truth from here until your last day, only then will you know peace.

[Taking It Back @HolyokeBAT]

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[Tami Burages @tburages]

This thread contains images with passages from the Mueller Report. I will add new ones as I create them.

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I want to show America what's in that report.

[Sally Yates @SallyQYates]

In a single day, POTUS turns a blind eye to the barbaric murder of journalist and we learn that he tried to order DOJ to go after his political adversaries. Is there no depth to which he will not sink? We can’t let him drag America down with him.

[Ron Perlman @perlmutations]

Hey! You asleep? Wake up. Turn on your tv. See that? Every republican running for office is saying they will protect your health care, especially your pre-existing conditions. See that? The same MUTHAFUCKAS that voted 72 TIMES to KILL IT. Ha! Hahahahaha! Hahahahahahahahahahahaha,

[Lauren Hogg @lauren_hoggs]

I’m so tired of code red drills. I’m tired of hiding in corners of my classrooms. I’m tired of hearing my friends cry while hiding because we know what it’s like for it not to be a drill. I’m tired of being scared to go to school in America.

[Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II @RevDrBarber]

53,000 votes are being suppressed in GA & cable news is focused on Trump & his insults. Here we go again, falling for his game & antics.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The President of the United States calls a woman a “horseface,” blows off the murder of a journalist, siding w/ an authoritarian regime, and rants about conspiracies theories all in the same day, and it’s barely news. We must refuse to normalize this with every fiber of decency.

[Alfie Kohn @alfiekohn]

Resilience is a useful capability to have, sure, but efforts to promote it in kids often distract from efforts to identify and challenge harmful practices (or policies) that *require* resilience

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Last week, we learned that the President of the United States engaged in fraud to avoid millions of dollars in taxes on his family fortune, yet hardly anyone is talking about it. When a democratic society becomes this inured to corruption, democracy itself is it risk.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

In Georgia, in order to try to win the election, cowardly Republicans are blatantly suppressing the vote and denying many African Americans the right to vote. Every American, no matter their political view, must vigorously protest this outrageous action.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Election Day must become a national holiday. In America we should be celebrating our democracy and doing everything possible to make it easier for people to participate in the political process.

[Colin Kaepernick @Kaepernick7]

Thank you Harvard University for honoring me tonight with the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal. I’m grateful for this recognition and to be amongst the other highly esteemed honorees that inspire me.
Photo Credit: Amari Kenoly @foot_candles

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Anyone who tries to suppress the vote is simply a coward. If you can't win an election based on your ideas, then get the hell out of politics. https://t.co/Yo9v0tOcqW

[ACLU @ACLU]

BREAKING: The Washington Supreme Court just struck down the death penalty, citing racial bias.

This makes Washington the 20th state in the nation to outlaw the death penalty. We won't stop fighting until it's struck down everywhere in America.

[Soledad O'Brien @soledadobrien]

White victimhood is the crowning achievement of this adminstration.

[John O. Brennan @JohnBrennan]

It is impossible to overstate @realDonaldTrump’s corrosive impact on our political culture & national character. Rejection of his demagoguery, his lies, and the politics of fear espoused by McConnell & Graham is at hand. If you want to make a difference, vote!!!

[Andrew Gillum @AndrewGillum]

As the 5th of 7 kids — the first to graduate from high school & college— my family knows what it's like to see intergenerational poverty interrupted at the hands of a good public education.

That’s why we are going to raise teacher pay and put more money into public schools.

[Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II @RevDrBarber]

The President told his Trumpvangelicals “we are one election away from losing everything” & none of them challenged him. Their silence is worse than his lie. It reveals their allegiance is not to the God of truth, justice & love.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The median Amazon employee makes $13.67 an hour.

Many of those employees rely on food stamps, Medicaid and public housing to survive.

You know who pays for that? You do.

You know what Jeff Bezos makes every hour? $10,833,33

It's time for Amazon to get off corporate welfare.

[Rebecca Klein @rklein90]

FWIW: The private schools in Florida and Louisiana that have come under fire recently for banning dreadlocks/extensions are both voucher schools.

That means they receive thousands of dollars in taxpayer money to carry out these non-inclusive policies.