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More than 90% of disadvantaged households in Japan are struggling to put food on the table for their children, according to a recent survey. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/17/japan/society/japan-financially-strained-households/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #ngo #poverty #hunger #children #inflation #savethechildrenjapan
U.S.-funded research has identified more than 210 sites where Ukrainian children have been taken for military training, drone manufacturing and other forced re-education by Russia, as part of a large-scale program. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/16/world/russia-reeducation-ukraine-children/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #ukraine #russia #russiaukrainewar #vladimirputin#volodymyrzelenskyy #children
Shohei Ohtani's electrifying two-way performances for the Los Angeles Dodgers ensure a daily stream of baseball headlines in Japan, but concern is growing over a shrinking player base in Japan. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/09/16/baseball/japanese-baseball/japan-baseball-numbers-shrinking/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #baseball #japanesebaseball #shoheiohtani #sadaharuoh #katsuhikonakamura #children
Police have served third arrest warrants on two elementary school teachers linked to an online chat group sharing secretly taken images and videos of girls. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/12/japan/crime-legal/third-arrest-girls-images/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesepolice #nagoya #children #elementaryschools #childporn #sexcrimes #yokohama
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
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Yes, kids were more depressed during the covid lock downs, but that was due, at least in part, to the fact covid infections, themselves, increased the risk of depression by 50-60% as compared to uninfected children.
Yes, kids were more depressed during the covid lock downs, but that was due, at least in part, to the fact covid infections, themselves, increased the risk of depression by 50-60% as compared to uninfected children.
A total of 65 children died from abuse in Japan in fiscal 2023, down by seven from the preceding year, according to the Children and Families Agency. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/11/japan/society/child-abuse-deaths/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #children #childabuse
A new generation in Sept. 11 families, one with no memory of the attacks, is increasingly shouldering the responsibility to never forget. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/11/world/society/new-911-generation-us/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #society #us #911 #terrorism #children
At least 45,000 children have been wounded in Gaza, many of them suffering life-changing injuries, according to UNICEF. Over 18,000 children have been killed in the war, among a total death toll of 64,000, it said. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/11/world/gaza-children-treatment-abroad/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #israelhamaswar #children #health #mentalhealth #gaza #palestinians
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Today in Labor History September 8, 1901: Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist educator, opened the libertarian Escuela Moderna in Barcelona, Spain. It was one of the first schools in Spain to coeducate boys and girls. During Ferrer’s days, the Spanish literacy rate was only 50% and all schools were church-regulated. The teachers at the Church-run schools emphasized rote memorization of Catholic dogma, were hostile to any scientific and political thinking that displeased the Church and often physically brutalized students. In contrast, Modern Schools purged their books of all religion and their curriculum was fully secular. These ideas were so popular that 40 more Modern Schools opened in Barcelona in just a few years, while 80 other schools adopted his textbooks.
In 1909, mass protests against Spanish intervention in Morocco grew into a General Strike. The state responded with a week of terror and repression known as “The Tragic Week,” during which they slaughtered over 600 workers. The authorities blamed Ferrer, even though he was nowhere near Barcelona at the time. And they executed him later that year. Ferrer’s execution led to worldwide protests and organizing. Modern Schools started to pop up outside of Spain, inspired by his original Escuela Moderna. After his death, activists created more than 200 Modern Schools in Spain and 20 more in the U.S., one of which continued operating until 1958.
By the time of the First World War, Modern Schools were operating in Philadelphia, Detroit, New York, Seattle, Portland, Chicago and Salt Lake City, with more soon to follow in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Paterson. They taught classes in English, Yiddish, Czech, Italian and Spanish. While most of the Modern Schools lasted only a few years, the school in Stelton, New Jersey. lasted four decades. Some of the students at the original New York Modern School were photographer Man Ray and Margaret Sanger’s son. The last Modern School in America was in Lakewood, New Jersey. It operated from 1933 to 1958. Two of its last students were the Rosenberg’s sons, who attended the Modern School summer camp after their parents were executed.
Read my complete article on Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School movement here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #franciscoferrer #modernschool #spain #barcelona #anarchism #education #students #children #generalstrike #repression #protest#demonstrations
Today in Labor History September 8, 1901: Francisco Ferrer, Spanish anarchist educator, opened the libertarian Escuela Moderna in Barcelona, Spain. It was one of the first schools in Spain to coeducate boys and girls. During Ferrer’s days, the Spanish literacy rate was only 50% and all schools were church-regulated. The teachers at the Church-run schools emphasized rote memorization of Catholic dogma, were hostile to any scientific and political thinking that displeased the Church and often physically brutalized students. In contrast, Modern Schools purged their books of all religion and their curriculum was fully secular. These ideas were so popular that 40 more Modern Schools opened in Barcelona in just a few years, while 80 other schools adopted his textbooks.
In 1909, mass protests against Spanish intervention in Morocco grew into a General Strike. The state responded with a week of terror and repression known as “The Tragic Week,” during which they slaughtered over 600 workers. The authorities blamed Ferrer, even though he was nowhere near Barcelona at the time. And they executed him later that year. Ferrer’s execution led to worldwide protests and organizing. Modern Schools started to pop up outside of Spain, inspired by his original Escuela Moderna. After his death, activists created more than 200 Modern Schools in Spain and 20 more in the U.S., one of which continued operating until 1958.
By the time of the First World War, Modern Schools were operating in Philadelphia, Detroit, New York, Seattle, Portland, Chicago and Salt Lake City, with more soon to follow in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Boston and Paterson. They taught classes in English, Yiddish, Czech, Italian and Spanish. While most of the Modern Schools lasted only a few years, the school in Stelton, New Jersey. lasted four decades. Some of the students at the original New York Modern School were photographer Man Ray and Margaret Sanger’s son. The last Modern School in America was in Lakewood, New Jersey. It operated from 1933 to 1958. Two of its last students were the Rosenberg’s sons, who attended the Modern School summer camp after their parents were executed.
Read my complete article on Francisco Ferrer and the Modern School movement here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/the-modern-school-movement/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #franciscoferrer #modernschool #spain #barcelona #anarchism #education #students #children #generalstrike #repression #protest#demonstrations
Mine was the first testimony in the inquiry on tackling online harms facing young people in New Zealand - you can watch it now here - play from the beginning: https://www.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl/education-and-workforce/news-archive/watch-public-meetings-of-the-education-and-workforce-committee/
And don't forget you can read the written testimony here! https://www.parliament.nz/resource/en-NZ/54SCEDUW_EVI_8611cb90-f850-4b63-6bf5-08dda3e61931_EDUW9294/5fd980b518f491b3423ec4ca2fba741aa1346393 #socialmedia #children #onlineharms #algorithms #bigtech #NewZealand
Aral Balkan
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📌 "The unthinkable in #GazaCity has already begun"
This is a summary of what was said by 🔵 UNICEF Communication Manager for the #MiddleEast and #NorthAfrica Regional Office, Tess Ingram, from #gaza at the UN noon briefing
📑 Published SEP-04 (prime source) 👇🏽
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unthinkable-gaza-city-has-already-begun
East Asia’s fertility plunge is driven not just by financial costs but by perfectionist cultural expectations that burden parents with intense educational and social demands, discouraging larger families. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/09/05/japan/east-asias-demographic-crisis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #japan #asia #eastasia #china #japan #southkorea #education #children
📌 "The unthinkable in #GazaCity has already begun"
This is a summary of what was said by 🔵 UNICEF Communication Manager for the #MiddleEast and #NorthAfrica Regional Office, Tess Ingram, from #gaza at the UN noon briefing
📑 Published SEP-04 (prime source) 👇🏽
https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/unthinkable-gaza-city-has-already-begun
Nizar Kerkeni 🇹🇳 نزار القرقني
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They are literally wiping Gaza city of the map of the earth.
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They are literally wiping Gaza city of the map of the earth.
‘The unthinkable in Gaza City has already begun’
“This unthinkable is not looming – it is already here. The escalation is underway.”
“The cost of inaction will be measured in the lives of children buried in rubble, wasted by hunger, and silenced before they ever had a chance to speak.”
Tess Ingram, #UNICEF
![The grandmother of three-year-old Ibrahim al-Mabhuh, who survived an Israeli air strike on a house that killed his parents and two sisters, holds him in Gaza City [File: Ebrahim Hajjaj/Reuters]](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/115/147/537/122/592/040/original/dbb3edd48fbeaaca.webp)