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Leidesdorff: President of First California School Board
First Public School Board President in California will one day be included in the History-Social Science Content Standards of our California State Board of Education...
Posted: Fri, Oct 8, 2004 12:57pm PDT
"Name" is the Name of the Game
The president of Cal State Hayward announced that she will propose changing the name of the campus to Cal State East Bay. Some argue this will enhance the campus' image while others argue it will deflect attention away from more pressing campus needs....
Posted: Thu, Oct 7, 2004 11:03pm PDT
Anarchy Reading and Discussion Group
There is a new anarchy reading group starting on Tuesday October 5th at 8 pm in West Berkeley....
Posted: Tue, Oct 5, 2004 1:12am PDT
Berkeley 40th Ann. Free Speech Movement- Howard Dean, Molly Ivins etc.
It is the 40th anniversary of the peak of the Free Speech Movement, when the administration ordered students pamphleting on Sproul plaza to be arrested, Jack Weinberg was placed in a police car, and it was then surrounded by thousands of students, and Mario Savio gave his famous speech...
Posted: Sun, Oct 3, 2004 5:25pm PDT
Leidesdorff Day 2005
Celebration honoring the African Founding Father of California...
Posted: Tue, Sep 21, 2004 6:38pm PDT
Education not Incarceration Training and Teacher Meeting
Education not Incarceration Training + Meeting,
Refreshments will be provided.
Monday, September 20th at the Eastside Arts Aliance
2587 International Blvd.
Cycles of Violence Training at 6PM
Teacher Meeting (open to non-teachers) 7-9PM
If you need childcare please call Carolyn in advance
at 510.923.0670....
Posted: Sun, Sep 19, 2004 10:55am PDT
Education not Incarceration Announcement
ENI Announcements for the week of September 17th
1. Next ENI Teacher's Meeting + Training - Monday,
September 20th
2. No on Measure Y Campaign - Workday Saturdays &
Phonebanking Wednesdays
3. Freedon School Opening in Richmond - This Friday!
4. Education Rising Rally - September 21
5. National Mobilization for Great Public Schools -
September 22
6. Teacher's For Social Justice Conference - October 2...
Posted: Fri, Sep 17, 2004 5:38am PDT
National Student Campaign for Starbucks Workers
Join the Campaign for Starbucks Workers: An independent, student-led initiative supporting the Starbucks Workers Union IWW IU/660......
Posted: Wed, Sep 15, 2004 8:14pm PDT
An Anarchist Perspective of Australian High School Life
Let us analyse our school days. Let us dissect the pre-determined routine that is imposed upon us, regardless of our needs and desires. The unsolicited schedules and activities that we are forced to comply with. Though were we consulted?...
Posted: Tue, Sep 14, 2004 3:11pm PDT
Sat., Sept. 18-Free Art in the Park for Kids
On Sunday, Sept. 18, there will be free art activities for kids ages 5-10 at Precita Park, Treat & Cesar Chavez from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.....
Posted: Sun, Sep 12, 2004 11:23am PDT
CALIFORNIA SAFE SCHOOLS PRESENTS 5 GREEN FLAG AWARDS TO LA UNIFIED SCHOOLS
California Safe Schools Awards Five Southland Schools with National GREEN FLAG Awards...
Posted: Sat, Sep 11, 2004 9:11pm PDT
March for Public Education in Oakland TOMORROW!
MARCH TO DEFEND OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION!
LABOR DAY 10:00 a.m.
Assemble at Grand Lake Theater, Marching to Frank Ogawa Plaza, the Art and Soul Festival...
Posted: Sun, Sep 5, 2004 12:40pm PDT
Education is not a Commodity for Trade
"Educational policy can and must bring light into globalization.. The world is no longer as simple as in biblical times when the traders could be simply chased from the temple. Education must remain master in its own house.. Education is not a commodity.."...
Posted: Tue, Aug 31, 2004 7:20am PDT
Removing Intelligence From America
The Europeans and the Asians cannot understand why Americans don't know anything. Is it due to our failing educational system, our focus on money and consumerism, bureaucratic paralysis and the emphasis on job specialization, our isolation from other nations, or all of the above? I fill in "all of the above" with my number two pencil....
Posted: Mon, Aug 30, 2004 11:04pm PDT
Operation Piggy Rescue, Inc. (movie trilogy)
Operation Piggy Rescue, Inc. (movie trilogy)
Fabulous fable about a factory farm rescue
please help me with ideas...:-D...
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 7:05pm PDT
Media Miseducation
On a relatively new, provocative Web site, award-winning journalist/author Burton H. Wolfe castigates the mass communications media for misusing terminology. He states, for example, that there is no such person as a "Palestinian" and "suicide bombers" are not suicide bombers. V...
Posted: Sat, Aug 28, 2004 4:27pm PDT
Blogger Challenges Jerry Falwell on Christian Family Values
"Whenever We Read the Obscene Stories, the Voluptuous Debaucheries, the Cruel and Torturous Executions, the Unrelenting Vindictiveness, with which more than Half the Bible is filled, it Would be More Consistent that we called it the Word of a Demon, than the Word of God. It is a History of Wickedness, that has Served to Corrupt and Brutalize Mankind." Thomas Paine (1737-1809; Original Founding Father....
Posted: Wed, Aug 25, 2004 11:28pm PDT
Blogger Challenges Jerry Falwell on Christian Family Values
"Whenever We Read the Obscene Stories, the Voluptuous Debaucheries, the Cruel and Torturous Executions, the Unrelenting Vindictiveness, with which more than Half the Bible is filled, it Would be More Consistent that we called it the Word of a Demon, than the Word of God. It is a History of Wickedness, that has Served to Corrupt and Brutalize Mankind." Thomas Paine (1737-1809; Original Founding Father....
Posted: Wed, Aug 25, 2004 11:02pm PDT
Exposing Evangelical Hypocrisy
Petition to U.S. Congress to eliminate religious institutions from tax exempt status - unless texts are purged from their public handbooks promoting criminal activity....
Posted: Tue, Aug 24, 2004 2:06am PDT
Labor Day March for Public Education in Oakland
Join the Labor Day March to Defend Oakland Public Education
Labor Day
Monday Sept. 6 , 2004
10:00 am
Assemble at Grand Lake Theater (corner of W. Grand and MacArthur, Oakland)...
Posted: Wed, Aug 18, 2004 9:51am PDT