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Thank you for the support for the Feb. 3, EPA "Live In Peace" March & Rally event. We were thrilled with the community response and plan to continue the momentum. EPA Peace & Unity is continuing the momentum by working together with one of our partners, OEPA. You may also note, we are currently working on several projects with our partners to create a much more healthier and safer community EPA Peace & Unity...

PLEASE FORWARD AND TAKE ACTION! MARCH AND RALLY IS FEBRUARY 28TH; E-MAIL OR CALL NOW! Dear Friends, I ask for your urgent support to take action to stop the closure of East Oakland Community High School (EOC), as part of our work to implement our four point plan to stop pushouts. It is an absolute tragedy that our un-elected State Adminstrator is trying to shut down this inovative community school as part of a nationwide trend to shut down and privatize public schools. It is th...

Mary Anne Mays returns to the PVUSD, works half-time her previous schedule, and still makes double what a teacher makes....

A Latina Santa Clara University student writes about the "South of the Border" party at SCU, where white students dressed up as Latino stereotypes....

No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is very clearly another masterful sleight of hand by George Bush and Co. Like his many other tricks (remember the “Clear Skies” program that actually weakened the Clean Air Act), NCLB is full of seemingly lofty goals and requirements ostensibly focused on improving education for all children, while actually attacking the entire project of public education. Most strikingly, its supporters have positioned it as an unshrinking effort to address the racial and class in...

A few weeks ago, the official (Regent-endorsed) student government of UC Santa Cruz, the Student Union Assembly, unanimously approved the following resolution demanding that low-paid workers receive wages in accordance with other nearby institutions. The UC promised thousands of dollars to the lowest paid workers, many of which are members of AFSCME 3299, yet, up to this date, have not released this money. 60 workers were arrested outside the UC Office of the President last Thursday, Febru...

A report just released by the California Legislative Analyst's office says the state's alternative schools are doing a poor job of tracking students who are at risk of dropping out. "Sneezie" is a high-school senior in San Francisco who has been through a string of alternative programs. She's getting her work done but not sure she's learning anything anymore....

Free screening of Eliza Heminway's documentary film "Closing the Books" and a public forum will be held February 24th at SF Public Library to help save the 5.8 acre historic UC Berkeley Extension campus on 55 Laguna Street in San Francisco from the wrecking ball. UC is trying to turn this billion dollar parcel into condos and shops. Neighbors organize to save this historic 1850s treasure and public park area paid for with our tax dollars and ensure it remains in public use, ideally as a univ...

On February 15, 2007, students at UC Santa Barbara, Columbia University, and Columbia College in Chicago will be on strike against the war. Solidarity actions are planned at a dozen other schools - including 5 in the Bay Area: San Francisco State, Lowell High School, Mills College, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz. Thousands are expected to attend nation-wide....

Friends and comrades mentioned to me that the League of Filipino Students in the US was commemorating its “tenth” anniversary. Colleagues who knew me from my LFS days and were also active during the struggle to bring down the US-Marcos dictatorship would chide me: weren’t you already active in the ‘seventies, and wasn’t the LFS around even longer than that? I would tell them, yes, of course. In fact, the LFS first came into being in the US in September 1983, not September 1997 as some have b...