FBI Raids Home Of Activist, Teacher Anthony Smith, Arrests Him October 29, 2020 FBI Raids Home Of Activist, Teacher Anthony Smith, Arrests Him2020-10-292020-10-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/anthonysmith-e1603988673969.jpg200px200px Above photo: Jessica Griffin/Inquirer. NOTE: The article below comes from a local CBS news outlet. In this tweet, Philly for Real Justice provides their view on the situation. #FreeAnt pic.twitter.com/4DJQhtiy8l — bad jawn happening in philadelphia. 💋✨🩰 (@in_Dee_vidual) October 29, 2020 An activist and West Philadelphia teacher is facing federal charges related to rioting surrounding the George Floyd protests in Philadelphia this past June. Eyewitness News has learned that Anthony Smith, of West Philadelphia, has been arrested and […]
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Reports surfaced on 16 October that a teacher who had taught freedom of speech and showed cartoons depicting the Islamic prophet Muhammad to his students had been decapitated in the north-west suburbs of Paris, and that police chased down and fatally shot the main suspect, a Moscow-born Chechen teenager. A Tunisian MP is being investigated for allegedly attempting to justify the decapitation of a French teacher in a gruesome terror attack this week, reports DW. The independent MP Rached Khiari’s remarks made on social media, as well as his position in parliament would be probed, according to the Public Prosecutor’s Office […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/10/1080796219_0:56:3079:1788_1200x675_80_0_0_53cde43d83b97c6ce0e100837290728e.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010191080811943-eu-foreign-policy-chief-says-shocked-by-beheading-of-french-teacher/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell says he was shocked by the recent deadly attack on a history teacher in a Paris suburb. “Deeply shocked by the appalling #ConflansSainteHonorine attack. We stand alongside our French friends and the victim’s family. Hate and violence, terrorism and extremism will never overcome freedom and democracy,” Borrell wrote on Twitter. Profondément choqué par l’attaque effroyable de #ConflansSainteHonorine. Nous nous tenons aux côtés de nos amis Français et de la famille de la victime. La haine et la violence, le terrorisme et […]
Demonstrators like the one shown here carried “I am Samuel” signs as they gathered on Place de la République in Paris on Sunday to pay tribute to slain history teacher Samuel Paty. Similar gatherings took place in several other cities as France reels from the attack. Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Bertrand Guay/AFP via Getty Images Demonstrators like the one shown here carried “I am Samuel” signs as they gathered on Place de la République in Paris on Sunday to pay tribute to slain history teacher Samuel Paty. Similar gatherings took place in several other cities as […]
Rallies have been held across France in tribute to a history teacher beheaded in a terror attack near Paris. One of the largest gatherings was staged in the French capital, as thousands flocked to the Place de la Republique. Central Paris was flooded with people as thousands gathered at the Place de la Republique to pay homage to Samuel Paty, a teacher from the neighboring town of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, who was killed earlier this week after showing cartoons of Islamic prophet Mohammed during a lesson. Government officials, including Prime Minister Jean Castex, as well as Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and the head […]
An 18-year-old man has been charged with predatory criminal sexual assault of a minor after he was caught on a livestream abusing a seven-year-old student in the middle of an online class in Chicago. The shocking incident occurred in somewhere West Chesterfield during a break from an online class on Thursday, when the teacher asked the students to mute themselves and turn off their cameras. The young victim’s camera, however, remained on and caught the sexual abuse act – live-streaming it to multiple students, as the teacher desperately urged them to log off immediately. When police raided the victim’s house to […]
Residents of the French suburb where history teacher Samuel Paty was brutally slain and beheaded on Friday have been shocked by the incident, with some even saying they are afraid to allow their children back to school. “Our children are not safe, we don’t know what to do. We won’t allow them to school anymore,” a parent of a child attending the school where the murdered teacher worked says, in a video published by RT’s video agency Ruptly. Another parent, whose child is studying in the same class where the teacher showed cartoons deemed offensive by some, gave his account of […]
Authorities in France say they’ve detained nine people in connection with the decapitation of a history teacher in a Paris suburb on Friday. The teacher had shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his class, authorities said. Michel Euler/AP hide caption toggle caption Michel Euler/AP Authorities in France say they’ve detained nine people in connection with the decapitation of a history teacher in a Paris suburb on Friday. The teacher had shown caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad to his class, authorities said. Michel Euler/AP Officials in France say they’ve detained nine people in connection to the brutal beheading of a teacher […]
French teacher Samuel Paty, who was brutally murdered near Paris on Friday, had his private details exposed on social media last week, after a parent complained he’d shown “naked man” cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed in class. The original complaint was reportedly lodged by the father of a 13-year-old girl who studied at the school in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, where Paty taught history and geography. He said in a Facebook video that the teacher had, at some time earlier this month, shown the class a caricature of a “naked man,” stating it was the “Muslim prophet.” Before displaying the offensive imagery – widely […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/11/1080803391_0:299:3072:2027_1200x675_80_0_0_cd1f4d4877e4ea209db3a97b7ed3a838.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010171080803428-farewell-ceremony-for-french-teacher-to-take-place-wednesday-reports-say/ MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The farewell ceremony for the murdered French history teacher will take place on Wednesday, national broadcaster BFMTV reported Saturday citing government sources. The information was later confirmed to the channel by education minister Jean-Michel Blanquer. The time and location for the ceremony have not yet been determined. It will be organised in consultation with the victims family, BFMTV reported. © REUTERS / CHARLES PLATIAU Flowers at the Bois d’Aulne college are seen after the attack in the Paris suburb of Conflans St Honorine, France, October 17, 2020. Reports emerged on Friday […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/07e4/0a/10/1080789610_0:344:3030:2048_1200x675_80_0_0_e5c193b0a8e70faa65ee3b340381589f.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Sputnik https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png https://sputniknews.com/europe/202010171080797982-aftermath-of-gruesome-murder-of-school-teacher-in-paris-suburb—video/ Commenting on the killing, French President Emmanuel Macron characterised it as the “murder of history” and an attack against the republic itself. Sputnik is live from Conflans-Sainte-Honorine after a man was decapitated in a suspected terror attack on Friday night. According to a French police spokesperson, the victim was a middle school teacher who had held discussion with students on freedom of speech and the Prophet Muhammad, also showing them cartoons featuring the founder of Islam to his students. The suspected assailant was later killed by police in Eragny-sur-Oise, a neighbouring town, during a […]
French police have detained four people, including a minor, in connection with brutal slaying of a schoolteacher in Conflans-Saint-Honorine near Paris that was described by President Emmanuel Macron as Islamist terrorism. The perpetrator, who attacked the teacher on Friday afternoon while allegedly shouting “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is Great,” was later confronted and killed by police in nearby Eragny. The teacher was stabbed in the throat or “decapitated,” according to French media. French authorities have not officially confirmed the perpetrator’s identity yet. However, multiple outlets, citing unnamed sources and social media, have identified him as an “ethnic Chechen” allegedly born in Moscow in […]
Olga Quiroga taught in the city’s public schools for three decades as a bilingual educator and was known for her patience and passion for teaching immigrant students. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: Chicago has lost a beloved teacher to COVID-19. Olga Quiroga taught in the city’s public schools for three decades. She was a bilingual educator known for her patience and her passion for helping immigrant students, a journey she understood personally when she came to the U.S. from Mexico in the 1980s. Olga Quiroga died on October 1, just a day after her 58th birthday. We’re joined now by Giovanna Quiroga, who […]
In recent months, the United States have seen significant developments in racial and social justice, in the wake of multiple incidents of police brutality against Black Americans involving white police officers, primarily encapsulated in the killing of Minneapolis resident George Floyd, a black man, who was asphyxiated by a white officer in May. A Westchester County, New York, high-school teacher is in hot water after handing out to school kids cartoons that allegedly compare US police to slave owners and the Ku Klux Klan (KKK), a white supremacist hate group in the United States, the New York Post reported on Sunday. […]
In the history of love stories, few have been as strange and unlikely as the one depicted in My Octopus Teacher. Netflix’s first original South African feature documentary concerns the wholly unexpected, and ostensibly transformative, affair struck between Craig Foster, a South African filmmaker, and an amphibious mollusk that he discovered in the Atlantic Ocean near the small seaside bungalow he frequented as a kid. It’s a relationship that transcends all boundaries, and serves as a quietly profound (and crazy) portrait of the bonds we share with everything in our environment—even if its cinematic depiction is sometimes far from perfect. Debuting […]
In 1947, India finally won back its independence from the discriminatory colonial regime that prevented Indians from growing in their own motherland. In the last 73 years, free India has had to struggle with several roadblocks on the path to development – and one of them has been providing education to as many children as possible. Thousands of poor Indians still dwell on the streets, and as their daily struggle is to make enough to afford one meal a day, educating their kids doesn’t quite make it on their list of priorities. No government scheme matters to these underprivileged people, who […]
National teacher union supports strikes over reopening plans by Collin Binkely/AP education writer/abcnews One of the nation’s largest teachers unions is authorizing its members to strike if their schools plan to reopen without proper safety measures in the middle of the global pandemic. The American Federation of Teachers, which represents 1.7 million school employees, issued a resolution on Tuesday saying it will support any local chapter that decides to strike over reopening plans. In providing its blessing, the union is also offering local chapters access to its financial and legal resources as they navigate a return to the classroom. Union officials […]
Since Madeleine went missing aged 3 in 2007 from the resort she was staying at in Praia da Luz, there have been nearly 9,000 reported “sightings” in 101 countries across the world, some of which have been treated as more credible than others. A retired teacher has told Portuguese police that she believes she saw Madeleine McCann at a supermarket on the Algarve coast in 2017. The witness, known only as Maria, said that she saw the missing Brit three years ago, but did not to tell the police at the time. However, after seeing renewed public interest in the case […]
Brian Papin, Facebook photo Brian Papin, a Special Education teacher at Cedar Grove High School in Atlanta, Georgia who encouraged the Black Lives Matter supporter kneeling on a white baby’s neck in a viral photo to “lean into it until death” is no longer employed at the DeKalb County School District. According to Fox 5 Atlanta, Brian Papin resigned. “The teacher is no longer employed with DCSD. Again, there is no place for racism or abuse in our school district.” – DeKalb Schools said on Twitter. DeKalb County School District (DCSD) administrators were made aware of the disturbing social media posts […]
Justin Kucera; photo via Twitter A Michigan school fired a teacher and coach for simply saying “Trump is our President” on social media. Justin Kucera was a well-liked social studies teacher and varsity baseball coach at Walled Lake Western, but the school district decided to get rid of him over his political views. Kucera tweeted earlier this month, “I’m done being silent. Donald Trump is our president” I’m done being silent. @realDonaldTrump is our president ❌🧢 Don’t @ me — Coach Kucera (@CoachKWLW) July 7, 2020 TRENDING: BREAKING: President Trump Signs Executive Order Banning Illegal Immigrants From 2020 Census Count For […]
Mary Kay Letourneau—who gained tabloid infamy for raping her 12-year-old former student, having children with him, and later marrying him—has died of cancer, her attorneys said. The 58-year-old split from husband Vili Fualaau, now 36, more than a year ago. It was not publicly known that she was ill. “Expected but sad anyway,” her attorney David Gehrke, told TV station KOMO. “She was a good person.” Letourneau was a married mom of four working as a sixth-grade teacher in Washington state in 1997 when she was arrested for sexual contact with Fualaau. The case made headlines around the globe and turned […]
Social Studies Derrick Garforth A social studies teacher in Rhode Island vandalized a Christopher Columbus statue last weekend.Officers watched Derrick Garforth throw paint on the boarded up monument. Leftists believe Columbus is evil for discovering the New World in 1492. It makes you wonder what the angry felon was teaching the kids at school. ABC6 reported: TRENDING: UPDATE — FULL BODYCAM VIDEO Reveals Atlanta Police Being Patient, Respectful with Rayshard Brooks (VIDEO) One of the suspects involved in vandalism at the Christopher Columbus statue in Elmwood Avenue is a teacher at Pawtucket Public Schools who is now out on leave pending […]