“Stop Woke”???: The Assault on Education and Truth in Florida and Other States. What Can We Do?

Monday, August 15 from 5:00-6:00 pm PST / 8:00-9:00 pm EST

The attack by political conservatives on accurate education about American history, especially on matters of race and voting, is at DefCon 1. Educators are being intimidated, muzzled, discouraged, and fired, and students are being provided incomplete, inaccurate, and damaging information. Florida, led by Governor and leading Republican 2024 candidate Ron DeSantis, is ground zero for this assault on truth. There’s textbook censorship, School Board meetings disrupted, the “Don’t Say Gay” law, Civil Rights history canceled, and an Orwellian state “Civics Literacy Excellence Initiative.”

Join Dr. J. Michael Butler, the Kenan Distinguished Professor of History at Flagler College (in St. Augustine FL), for a discussion from the front lines of a war on History and Civics educators in Florida. Dr. Terry Anne Scott, Director of the Institute for Common Power, and former University of Washington professor Dr. David Domke will co-host.