Our hearts are with everyone impacted by the raging fires in California. Fueled by climate change, the fires have led to massive evacuations, destruction, and school closings.

What can we do to help? In addition to direct aid, we encourage everyone to redouble efforts to teach about climate justice. The mainstream media continues to ignore the connection between climate change and the wildfires. Our classrooms must be sites to explore the roots of climate chaos, how people are affected unequally, and what we can do about it.

Sign the Teach Climate Justice pledge today and download free climate justice lessons.

This week, we feature our lesson about redlining and housing segregation. It introduces students to the 20th-century housing policies that bankrolled white capital accumulation while halting Black social mobility ---- and contributed to the injustice of the modern wealth gap. 

 
The mixer lesson by Ursula Wolfe-Rocca is based on Richard Rothstein's book, The Color of Law , which shows how government policies segregated every major city in the United States with dire consequences for African Americans.

The Zinn Education Project stands in solidarity with the 30,000+ members of the Chicago Teachers Union and SEIU Local 73 who are on strike to ensure their students have the schools and resources they deserve.

  #CTUSEIUstrike   #PutItInWriting

Receive the new Lisa Delpit book, Teaching When the World Is on Fire, when you submit a story about using any of the lessons at the Zinn Education Project website. The book features authors from ZEP's two coordinating organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.

You are also invited to participate in our Reconstruction Campaign book giveaway and our Teach Climate Justice Campaign book giveaway.

Show your support with a union-made Zinn Education Project t-shirt. The front features our name and logo. The back features a quote by Howard Zinn:

History should emphasize new possibilities by disclosing those hidden episodes of the past when people showed their ability to resist, to join together, and to occasionally win.

The Zinn Education Project lessons are made possible by support from individuals like you. Please donate today so that more teachers receive free lessons, books, and workshops to support social justice teaching in their classrooms. Donate now!