Teach Truth Campaign: At Every Rally

Rally sign by the Zinn Education Project. Find more or make your own.

As the United States marks 250 years since the start of the American Revolution, attacks on honest history are intensifying. Preserving historical truth, and the freedom to teach it, is one of our strongest safeguards against authoritarianism.

Bring the #TeachTruth message to rallies and celebrations including May Day, Pride, Juneteenth, June 27, July 4, Good Trouble Weekend of Action (July 17-19), Fall of Freedom (Oct 2-3), American Library Association Unite Against Book Bans, No Kings Day, and more.

At every rally you attend, we ask for your help to raise awareness about the attacks on public education and the need to defend the freedom to learn.

South African activist Steve Biko said, “The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.”

Preserving historical truth is a safeguard against authoritarian rule, as Jason Stanley explains in Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future.

While education is central to the fascist agenda, it is not getting adequate attention from progressive forces. You can help shine a light on education.

We can send you a free Teach, Vote, Resist, Organize poster, you can download posters, or make your own.

Order informational postcards (fee for postage) and/or Teach Banned History and Teach Against Fascism buttons to distribute. We offer a Teach Truth pop-up display box with banned books with colorful information sheets about why they were banned, plus postcards, buttons, and signs. We ask for $25 to help defray the costs of shipping and some of the materials. Order the box.

You can find local education organizing efforts to join on the national map below, hosted by our cosponsor Public School Strong/HEAL Together.

Another way to defend the freedom to learn is with a donation to the Zinn Education Project. We provide educators with free lessons, online classes, study groups, and books — and we defend their right to teach outside the textbook. Most of our support comes from individual donors.

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