Wayne Zhang

Anti-racist, queer, immigrant, Chinese American, MSED, first year @ChiPubSchools teacher. I like music fandoms, Chicago, and teaching world studies and French!

[Wayne Zhang @MrWayneZhang]

Just missed May, but it's always time to think about Asian American History!

This was a really personal piece to write. It lays out a lot of what I've been feeling as an #AAPIeducator since the pandemic, and what I've been learning throughout my graduate education. 1/4

[The Hechinger Report @hechingerreport]

"More widespread teaching of Asian American history will transform our country’s understanding of American history, while also sending the message to Asian Americans that they belong," writes @MrWayneZhang. https://t.co/853CtHLzrr

[DEACTIVATED @thrasherxy]

this is sexual violation of children, plain as day, israel is showing off to the world they can strip children down to their underwear in december on camera, humiliate them, kill them if they please *on christmas day* & the u.s./u.n./u.k. will do nothing to stop them. shame!

[UN Human Rights Palestine @OHCHR_Palestine]

Disturbing information on summary killings of at least 11 unarmed Palestinian men in front of their family members in Al Remal neighbourhood.
#Gaza #opt #IHL #humanrights

https://t.co/Gf0GdyDPAZ

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

My fellow Jews, how can you look at this and not see our own past. How can you look at this and not see what Israel is doing.

[Austin Berg @Austin__Berg]

Yet another site selected by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson as a winterized base camp for migrants is potentially polluted.

Stunning line from the story ⬇️

“[Ald. Ronnie] Mosley said he was confused about why he just saw the environmental study Monday, if it was completed by the end of October.”

The mayor bragged about moving this plan forward with Mosley, the local alderman, in November. His team seemingly had the environmental study in hand while Mosley did not. (Press release👇)

This news follows the tragic death of a five-year-old boy on Sunday who was living in a temporary shelter for migrants in Pilsen.

Who is running city hall?

[Wayne Zhang @MrWayneZhang]

@janicejackson I wonder the extent to which this is rooted in what the resolution actually says?

Also, the death spirals for neighborhood schools in Chicago are absolutely related to school choice and SBB… not the funding of neighborhood schools

https://t.co/0NifeaGbdA

[Nader Issa @NaderDIssa]

What is Chicago's Board of Education *actually* doing?

It's stating its intent to better fund neighborhood schools so that kids don't *have* to compete to get into selective programs for a good education.

Crucially, parents will still be able to pick those options.

[Nader Issa @NaderDIssa]

What is Chicago's Board of Education *actually* doing?

It's stating its intent to better fund neighborhood schools so that kids don't *have* to compete to get into selective programs for a good education.

Crucially, parents will still be able to pick those options.

[Nader Issa @NaderDIssa]

An inaccurate Daily Mail story claiming Chicago is closing its selective enrollment schools is going viral and causing unnecessary fear.

It simply is not true. Chicago education reporters have covered this with nuance all week. Read us, not a UK tabloid. https://t.co/MUSw7LjRxQ

[Nader Issa @NaderDIssa]

It certainly doesn't help when a former mayoral candidate shares this Daily Mail story and repeats these claims that, right now, are not based in reality.

[Cornel West @CornelWest]

The US veto at the UN to block a vote to end Israel’s barbaric genocidal campaign in Gaza is an act of spiritual obscenity and moral bankruptcy. We must fight to cast a light on the precious Palestinian children, and innocent women and men being slaughtered by Israeli forces enabled by the US government! We must have an immediate ceasefire, end of the siege and end of the vicious Israeli occupation! #CeasefireNow #EndTheGenocide #EndTheOccupation

[Andrew J. Padilla 🇵🇷 @apadillafilm6]

Black Lives Matter protesters were told to keep “politics” out of sports

[vibe instructor✌🏾🐝 @Vanessa_ABee]

“palestinian” is one of the only ethnicities where you can say shit like this publicly with no fear of professional or institutional backlash

[Malcolm Harris @BigMeanInternet]

Leland Stanford literally committed genocide

[Ben Spielberg @BenSpielberg]

Emphasizing antisemitism at this moment is a deliberate tactic used primarily by people who do not care about actual antisemitism to deflect from the mass murder the Israeli government is carrying out and intimidate people who otherwise might more openly oppose that mass murder.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Just how bad is Gaza? A study just concluded the "civilian proportion of deaths is HIGHER THAN THAT IN ALL WORLD CONFLICTS IN 20TH CENTURY"

And that's 20TH CENTURY, you know, the one with both world wars.

The horror we're seeing is truly unprecedented.
https://t.co/ExykIwJbnN

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

The international community has overwhelmingly voted for ceasefire, global orgs like Doctors Without Borders and Amnesty International call for ceasefire, a majority of American voters support ceasefire. It’s not Arab nations, the world condemns the U.S. government.

[Wayne Zhang @MrWayneZhang]

this is truly insane

[Block Club Chicago @BlockClubCHI]

A Logan Square woman is facing eviction for refusing to remove a Palestinian flag. https://t.co/DQQiH4alvi

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

Israel media did not show the mass murder of Palestinian children and innocent civilians, or the mass destruction of Gaza. But Israeli media has no qualms about showing these savage images of Israeli occupation forces detaining and stripping civilians taken from a UN shelter in Gaza today. This evokes some of humanity’s darkest passages of history. It is well past time that the world speaks as one and demands - and enforces - an immediate and permanent #ceasefire.

[Husam Zomlot @hzomlot]

Three young Palestinian men, Hisham Awartani, Tahseen Ali and Kenan Abdulhamid, students at Brown and other US universities, were shot last night on their way to a family dinner in Burlington, USA. Their crime? Wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh. They are critically injured. And Six weeks ago, 6-year old Palestinian child was stabbed 26 times in a hate crime in Illinois. The hate crimes against Palestinians must stop. Palestinians everywhere need protection.
@POTUS @SecBlinken

[Respond Crisis Translation @RespondCrisis]

A released Palestinian prisoner says in Arabic that Israel held them in the cold w/o electricity, "sprayed us w/ pepper spray" & "left us to die."

She never mentioned Hamas or a word like it. Yet @BBC translated to: "No one helped us. Only Hamas cared...We love them very much."