Best of the Blogs: The Push

Progress Florida’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 3-2-18
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Progress Florida’s Best of the Blogs for the week ending 3-2-18
Best of the Blogs is featured weekly as part of Progress Florida’s popular free Daily Clips service.

Can Schools Discipline Students for Protesting?
By Vera Eidelman
Blog Of Rights
Students around the country are turning last week’s heartbreaking school shooting in Parkland, Florida, into an inspiring and exemplary push for legislative change.

From Columbine to Stoneman Douglas: What Have We Learned?
By Dr. Rachel Pienta
The Florida Squeeze
For the past ten days, like so many Americans, I have been immersed in the aftermath of the Parkland school shooting.

Aspen Institute: How a Farmworker Movement Changed the Way Your Food Gets Made…
Coalition of Immokalee Workers
On February 9th, the Aspen Institute hosted an animated discussion on the CIW’s Fair Food Program, its roots in the CIW’s twenty-year struggle to advance farmworkers’ fundamental human rights, and its remarkable potential for helping workers around the globe who toil at the bottom of corporate supply chains in dangerous, low-paying jobs.