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Eve Becker
@leafandpen.bsky.social
Education, reading, writing, building bridges, anti-capitalism, travel, arts. 2 decades writing YA fiction, 2 decades teaching middle school, 4 years teaching college, 11 years running writing retreats for teachers. Retired, but not very retiring.
Zohran was the only candidate who gave a good answer to that lame-ass question about candidates’ first foreign visit as mayor. Mamdani, mensch, would stay right here in the Big Apple and fight for New Yorkers.
“The Nation” Endorses Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander in the New York City Democratic Primary
New Yorkers deserve better than Andrew Cuomo.
www.thenation.com
June 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Reposted by Eve Becker
EVERYBODY WATCH.

ICE IS OUT OF CONTROL.

Video of SEIU California’s President David Huerta getting assaulted & arrested during an ICE raid in the warehouse district of Downtown Los Angeles today.

He’s an LA native, American citizen and labor leader.

Don’t turn away.
June 6, 2025 at 10:51 PM
It’s happening now.
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
April 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
And in other news… but more of the same news, Columbia, which has been taking over northern Manhattan by eminent domain since I was a kid, so why is anyone surprised at their evil empire behavior… Columbia has a new acting president. Her husband sits on the board of airbnb
March 29, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Reposted by Eve Becker
"The establishment elite preferred to see democracy die rather than risk its wealth, power, and privileges."

- Historian Benjamin Carter Hett on how the Nazis took power.
March 14, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Deliberately hiding their authoritarian power grab…
March 14, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Any student of Cambodian history, Chilean history, Chinese history—pick a letter of the alphabet—knows: This is how it starts.
March 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
As the oligarchs dismantle the DOE, pls understand that “education innovation” is often code speak for funneling money from the classroom to profit-driven edutech companies

(📸 : part of my 8th grade classroom wall c. 2012)
#educationindustrialcomplex
March 7, 2025 at 4:18 PM