Dear Progressive Reader,
As the Delta variant of the coronavirus rages across the United States, new safety protocols are being implemented, or at least proposed. But as Mark Fiore illustrates this week, many elected officials are making this task more difficult. “Far too many Republican politicians are attempting to hitch their stars to the anti-vaxx, anti-mask crowd,” he says. Meanwhile, as Sarah Lahm reports from Minnesota, school districts are contending with angry pushback to masking proposals. “We have a right,” she reminds us, “and an obligation to keep our children safe, whether or not it suits Republicans’ increasingly ridiculous attempts at political theater.”
The future of schools is very much on our minds at The Progressive, as you can see from the cover of our new issue. A special mini-version of this newest magazine has been shared with educators and activists across the country. This week on our website, Rann Miller looks at the impacts of state takeovers of local public school districts, and Omar Yanar writes an op-ed about the ways that schools can and should become more of a catalyst for positive social change.
Also this week, Ed Rampell reviews the new film about health care advocate Ady Barkan which opened in theaters yesterday and will screen on PBS in January. And Esty Dinur provides a moving portrait of her visit to the protests against the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline. “This is a battle over who gets to determine the future,” activist Winona LaDuke tells her. “We’re going to continue battling it out, river by river.”
Please keep reading, and we will keep bringing you important articles on these and other issues of our time.
Sincerely,
Norman Stockwell
Publisher
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