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Conference on the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism launches new Institute The newly-formed Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) will hold its inaugural bicoastal conference, Battling the “IHRA Definition”: Theory & Activism, on October 13-14. Through the lens of research on structural racism, state violence, and social justice movements, the conference will analyze political campaigns that seek to codify the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism, and efforts to oppose IHRA policies. This is the first research conference focusing on IHRA campaigns, which ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 6, 2023 9:37am PDT
Fall 2023 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Immigrant Justice News Alert! Biden Against Chinese-American and Immigrants—Except the Rich, are Unacceptable!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 30, 2023 10:21am PDT
Elisabeth Bronfen: "What amazes me most is the stubborn ability to repress" We've greatly reduced the required reading... Five short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, plus the one compulsory piece of Shakespeare from the basic course and vampire and fantasy stories. If very little is read, diversity goes out the window, too....
Posted: Mon, Sep 18, 2023 11:38am PDT
2023 Intenational Underground Railroad Month: 1854 Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar Discover the 1854 Gold Mining District of Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar as we featured this 2023 International Underground Railroad Month...
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2023 10:16am PDT
2023 California Admission Day - Discover International Underground Railroad Month California Admission Day was an essential part of the 1850 Compromise, a fiercely debated US Congressional Act signed by President Willard Fillmore that strengthened and extended slavery in Utah and New Mexico regions. The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, which made the federal government financially responsible for capturing and returning freedom seekers to their enslavers...
Posted: Sun, Aug 13, 2023 2:17pm PDT
Oakland Teachers Strike Music Video Oakland Teachers Strike Music Video...
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2023 6:37pm PDT
SF Board of Education Gives Green Light to Accommodate Eid Holiday Starting in 2024 Arab and Muslim Community says, “We’ll Be Back”...
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2023 3:49pm PST
Social division in the schools and 7 challenges to the welfare state The most difficult task will be to redefine prosperity not only in philosophical concepts, but also in concrete tangible and experiential terms detached from consumption. Many are already working on this. The United Nations adopted a strategy for a "blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet" with the Sustainable Development Goals 2015....
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2022 4:01pm PST
Science Saturdays at the Children's Museum The community is invited to our Science Saturdays on September 17 and October 15 between 11:30 am - 1 pm and then again 2 - 3:30 pm at the Santa Cruz Children’s Museum of Discovery (MOD) to celebrate working female scientists and promote women in STEM....
Posted: Wed, Sep 7, 2022 1:33pm PDT
We Can Do So Much More on Student Loan Forgiveness Education should be free...
Posted: Wed, Aug 24, 2022 5:59pm PDT
KVHS 90.5FM Under Threat of Closure by MDUSD Concord's local radio station, KVHS 90.5FM (The Edge) is under treat of closure by the Mount Diablo Unified School District. This radio station is part of local history, having been established in 1964 by Clayton Valley High vice principal Bob Daugherty. A MDUSD staff report claims the station has no education value, and is too expensive to maintain. The station community, and local listeners want to keep their station - which is known as "the voice of the valley"....
Posted: Sun, Aug 21, 2022 12:48am PDT
Yash Kilam: Teenage humanitarian advocates for those with disabilities While most 16-year-olds are focused on learning to drive and sleeping in on summer mornings, Yash Kilam of Fremont, California is keeping his full attention on helping others....
Posted: Tue, Aug 16, 2022 12:50pm PDT
UC Using CIA Methods at People's Park In 1975 The Church Committee discovered Operation Mockingbird a CIA program which attempted to manipulate domestic American news media for propaganda purposes. Almost 50 years later U.C. is using the same technique to destroy Peoples Park....
Posted: Fri, Aug 12, 2022 2:09pm PDT
Response to Berkeleyside's People's Park Coverage Peoples Park community is not anti-development; we are fighting climate change and do not support the redlining of our Southside district. UC Berkeley can build on sites that are not historically significant. We are anti-fascists centering on urban ecology, consensus decision-making, and rematriation of this land back to the Ohlone people....
Posted: Sat, Aug 6, 2022 3:15pm PDT
Berkeley Police and demonstrators clash over development of People's Park July 29 an Alameda County Superior Court decided it was not a violation of the California Environmental Quality Act for a $312 million dollar development to take shape on the location of Berkeley's largest and longest bohemian hubs: the People's Park....
Posted: Sat, Aug 6, 2022 11:47am PDT
People's Park — Its Place in the History of Land Art Much has been said about the political history of People's Park. People's Park is also an important piece of Land Art. Art historians and artists should speak up to preserve it. The destruction of the park by the University of California has temporarily been stopped by activists; however many trees were cut down. Legal advocates have requested a hearing, which a judge has granted. All demolition and pre-development work is legally halted until the October court hearing....
Posted: Fri, Aug 5, 2022 5:01pm PDT
Go to Parker School in Oakland NOW! OUSD security has shown up! The eviction of the Parker Community School is now underway!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2022 6:27pm PDT
People's Park: Berkeley City Council to Vote on "Tear Gas" Authorization Tonight A special meeting of the Berkeley City Council is scheduled for TONIGHT, Thursday August 4 @ 8:15PM. The topic is to suspend the city's policy banning the use of chemical weapons. This proposed change of policy is in response to the People's Park protest.
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89083608532
More info at: berkeleyca.gov...
Posted: Thu, Aug 4, 2022 9:42am PDT
Stop Privatization Of Education, Port & Public Services: SLAP Educational Conf Intros Pt 1 The Schools and Labor Against Privatization SLAP had an educational conference on July 9, 2022 and these were the first two presentations...
Posted: Thu, Jul 14, 2022 8:56am PDT
A Juneteenth Message from HEAT, SF City College Students, Faculty, and Supporters Juneteenth is partly about the right to a free public education and that is being destroyed at SF City College. Fighting the 80 billionaires in SF is part of the fight for free public education for all....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2022 9:42pm PDT
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