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michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 10/13/1909: #FranciscoFerrer, founder of #ModernSchool movement, wrongly executed in #Spain. 1st secular, coed schools in Spain. #Anarchism #Education. #Children.

Read more: michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...
Newspaper illustration of Ferrer's death by firing squad. By Achille Beltrame - La Domenica del Corriere, 11(43), 24–31 October 1909, front cover.Cropped from eBay listing, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=98541043
October 13, 2026 at 2:17 PM
gegosoft.bsky.social
GegoK12 – The Digital Backbone of Modern Schools
#GegoK12 #SchoolManagementSoftware #EdTech #SmartSchool #DigitalEducation #SchoolERP #EducationTechnology #OnlineLearning #SchoolAutomation #ModernSchool
November 5, 2025 at 3:37 PM
h-ackerman.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy
Any educators on here that have had experience with self-organised learning? Would enjoy to hear your stories, tips and tricks to make it work :)

#education #selforganization #anarchism #moderneducation #modernschool #school #schools #teaching #teachers
June 30, 2025 at 12:41 PM
kristalynsofia.bsky.social
I'll be sharing both intuitive and astrological predictions with the Modern School of Ancient Wisdom Patreon.

I may share a few of them on socials as well, but the deep stuff stays where people can consent to reading it.

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December 29, 2024 at 3:23 PM
kristalynsofia.bsky.social
I may have added an extra perk to the Modern School of Ancient Wisdom Patreon Book Club when no one was watching 👀

Join us for great books, enlightening conversations, and now access to my consultations!✨️🪐🕯

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December 19, 2024 at 9:53 PM
kristalynsofia.bsky.social
I am so fortunate to spend my time and to do my work with incredible people.

Book club discussion on #FolkMagic for resistance is in an hour and I am so excited.

✨️Next month, we read about Folk Magic for resilience.

It's never too soon or too late to join us!

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December 6, 2024 at 4:10 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 7/25/1909: #Spanish army clashed with #workingclass in #Catalonia #TragicWeek. Protesting #colonialism war in #Morocco. Killed > 150. #Educator Francisco Ferrer, #ModernSchool, wrongfully executed. Read more: michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t... #anarchism, #socialism
Barcelona during the Tragic Week, with numerous building on fire. By Enrique Castellá - La premsa i els fotògrafs de la Setmana Tràgica, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56235012
July 25, 2026 at 4:05 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 6/22/1914: Anarchists, intending to bomb #Rockefeller Mansion in revenge for #Ludlow #massacre, when Natl Guards & private cops slaughtered 21, incl #women & #children. Bomb accidentally blew up Ferrer Center, killing 3 anarchists & temporarily shutting down #ModernSchool.
The vehicle shown was called the “Death Special. It had an M1895 machine gun mounted in the bed. PD-US, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2885710
June 22, 2026 at 3:54 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 4/21/1782: Friedrich Froebel was born. Invented #kindergarten. Suppressed by Prussian govt. Among 1st to teach coeducation boys & girls. Inspired anarchist educators like #FranciscoFerrer & #ModernSchool movement. Read more michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...
Friedrich Fröbel (Frederick Froebel), head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. By C.W. Bardeen, publisher - Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-00127 (digital file from original print), uncompressed archival TIFF version (168 MiB), level color (pick white and black point), cropped and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4981802
April 21, 2026 at 1:32 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
After #LudlowMassacre, armed miners fought natl guards & scabs. June 1914, anarchists planned #assassination of #Rockefeller, owner of Ludlow mine. Bomb exploded prematurely at anarchist #ModernSchool. Led to infiltration & disruption by #cops. Read more: michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...
Ludlow death car, filled with armed private cops and a mounted machine gun.
April 20, 2026 at 1:49 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
#BlackHistoryMonth: Hubert Henry Harrison #Harlem activist.
Refused to exalt a "lily white God " & "Jim Crow Jesus." Socialist Party organizer. Supporter of #IWW, #sabotage & #ModernSchool movement.

#socialism #anarchism #union #racism

More on Modern School: www.fifthestate.org/archive/411-...
Hubert Harrison, pictured here in 1913, in a suit and fedora. By Unidentified Photographer - American Labor Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80055166
February 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 1/11/1911: 1st US #ModernSchool opened #NYC. Modeled after #FranciscoFerrer Modern Schools in #Spain. Ferrer wrongfully convicted of #insurrection. Executed 1909.

Read more here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...

#workingclass #anarchism #education #children #freespeech
The NYC Modern School, ca. 1911–1912, showing Principal Will Durant and pupils between two marble pillars. This photograph was the cover of the first issue of The Modern School magazine. By The Modern School - Published on the cover of the first issue of The Modern School magazine, 1912., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2698197
January 11, 2026 at 5:20 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 1/10/1859: #FranciscoFerrer was born. #Anarchism. #Eduation. #ModernSchool. Spain’s first secular, coed schools. 1909 #GeneralStrike against Spanish intervention in Morocco. Govt slaughtered >600 worker & executed Ferrer.

Read more here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...
Cover page of w:en:La Domenica del Corriere. Italian caption "Fucilazione dell'anarchico Francesco Ferrer nel fossato della prigione di Montjuich, a Barcellona" translates as "Shooting of the anarchist Francisco Ferrer in the moat of the Montjuich prison, Barcelona." Image shows firing squad in red and gray uniforms shooting Ferrer, who is blindfolded, wearing a gray suit, his back grotesquely arched. By Achille Beltrame - La Domenica del Corriere, 11(43), 24–31 October 1909, front cover.Cropped from eBay listing, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=98541043
January 10, 2026 at 4:18 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 11/22/1905: Jo Ann Wheeler Burbank was born. Radical #teacher at #ModernSchool in Stelton, New Jersey, named for #FranciscoFerrer after his assassination in #Spain. Also published #MotherEarth in 1930s

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#anarchism #EmmaGoldman
Copy of Mother Earth Journal July, 1933. Shows a sketch of a giant monster, or devil, with a club, with a man in front of it, labeled “police,” and another labeled “capital,” and the body of a woman lying on the ground. Top reads: Mother Earth July ’33 No 4 Craryville, NY. Proclaim Liberty Throughout the Land. Bottom reads: The New Deal, State Capitalism, PAY AND OBEY. By Own scan., CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1334261
November 22, 2025 at 5:47 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 10/13/1909: #FranciscoFerrer, founder of #ModernSchool movement, wrongly executed in #Spain. 1st secular, coed schools in Spain. #Anarchism #Education. #Children.

Read more: michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...
Newspaper illustration of Ferrer's death by firing squad. By Achille Beltrame - La Domenica del Corriere, 11(43), 24–31 October 1909, front cover.Cropped from eBay listing, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=98541043
October 13, 2025 at 1:58 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 7/25/1909: #Spanish army clashed with #workingclass in #Catalonia #TragicWeek. Protesting #colonialism war in #Morocco. Killed > 150. #Educator Francisco Ferrer, #ModernSchool, wrongfully executed.

Read more: michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...

#anarchism, #socialism
Barcelona during the Tragic Week, with numerous building on fire. By Enrique Castellá - La premsa i els fotògrafs de la Setmana Tràgica, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=56235012
July 25, 2025 at 3:52 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 4/21/1782: Friedrich Froebel was born. Invented #kindergarten. Suppressed by Prussian govt. Among 1st to teach coeducation boys & girls. Inspired anarchist educators like #FranciscoFerrer & #ModernSchool movement. Read more michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...
Friedrich Fröbel (Frederick Froebel), head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. By C.W. Bardeen, publisher - Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-00127 (digital file from original print), uncompressed archival TIFF version (168 MiB), level color (pick white and black point), cropped and converted to JPEG (quality level 88) with the GIMP 2.4.5., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4981802
April 21, 2025 at 1:20 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
After #LudlowMassacre, armed miners fought natl guards & scabs. June 1914, anarchists planned #assassination of #Rockefeller, owner of Ludlow mine. Bomb exploded prematurely at anarchist #ModernSchool. Led to infiltration & disruption by #cops.

Read more: michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...
Armored truck fitted with a machine gun, know as the Ludlow Death Special, used to mow down women and children at the Ludlow labor camp.
April 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 3/29/1951: #Rosenbergs convicted of #espionage. #Executed at #SingSing #prison 1953. Sons adopted by Abel Meeropol, composer of anti- #lynching song #StrangeFruit. Sons attended #anarchist #ModernSchool.

Read more on Modern School here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, separated by heavy wire screen, as they leave U.S. Court House after being found guilty by jury. Ethyl is wearing a bonnet. Julius has glasses, and a thin mustache. By Roger Higgins, photographer from "New York World-Telegram and the Sun" - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c17772, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1309692
March 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
#BlackHistoryMonth: Hubert Henry Harrison #Harlem activist.
Refused to exalt a "lily white God " & "Jim Crow Jesus." Socialist Party organizer. Supporter of #IWW, #sabotage & #ModernSchool movement. #socialism #anarchism #union #racism

More on Modern School: www.fifthestate.org/archive/411-...
Hubert Harrison, pictured here in 1913, in a suit and fedora. By Unidentified Photographer - American Labor Museum, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=80055166
February 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 1/11/1911: 1st US #ModernSchool opened #NYC. Modeled after #FranciscoFerrer Modern Schools in #Spain. Ferrer wrongfully convicted of #insurrection. Executed 1909.

Read more here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...

#workingclass #anarchism #education #children #freespeech
January 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social
Today in #LaborHistory 1/10/1859: #FranciscoFerrer was born. #Anarchism. #Eduation. #ModernSchool. Spain’s first secular, coed schools. 1909 #GeneralStrike against Spanish intervention in Morocco. Govt slaughtered >600 worker & executed Ferrer.

Read more here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2022/04/30/t...
Cover page of w:en:La Domenica del Corriere. Italian caption "Fucilazione dell'anarchico Francesco Ferrer nel fossato della prigione di Montjuich, a Barcellona" translates as "Shooting of the anarchist Francisco Ferrer in the moat of the Montjuich prison, Barcelona." Image shows firing squad in red and gray uniforms shooting Ferrer, who is blindfolded, wearing a gray suit, his back grotesquely arched. By Achille Beltrame - La Domenica del Corriere, 11(43), 24–31 October 1909, front cover.Cropped from eBay listing, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=98541043
January 10, 2025 at 5:55 PM