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Administrative Paranoia Taking Its Toll at UCSC 
Administrative Paranoia Taking Its Toll at UCSC
Tens of Thousands Spent on Police for "Disaster" Grad School Event
On October 23, 2006, the administration of UC Santa Cruz spent tens of thousands of dollars bussing in at least three dozen police officers (from UCLA, UC Berkeley, UCSC and possibly UCSF) to guard a Graduate & Professional School Fair from the student population. The plan worked magnificently - a solid steel fence was erected outside the fair (located at College 8), with co...
Posted: Mon, Nov 20, 2006 10:04pm PST
Students Disrupt UC Regents Meeting (video/mpeg 20.9MB) The Coalition to Demilitarize the UC action at the UCLA Regents meeting on November 16th, 2006, was very inspiring. Nine of us were arrested after about a half-hour of chanting and shouting information and critiques of the UC and the nukes labs, etc. that the Regents (and the other people in the room) had no answer for.
Video durations: 1 minute; 54 seconds; 33 seconds; 23 seconds...
Posted: Sun, Nov 19, 2006 1:21pm PST
School Beat: Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy—A Long Way From Ohio When the school administrators in Columbus, Ohio, told us our son was low functioning and that Inclusion would not be the "least restrictive environment" for him, we knew we had to look elsewhere. Jack was bored in his special education classroom, and they took his disinterest to mean that he was functioning at a low cognitive level. If he was to have a chance to show us what he was capable of, we'd have to find a community that believed in him....
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 9:46am PST
TONIGHT: SF School Board to Vote to Eliminate ROTC SF SCHOOL BOARD TO VOTE TO ELIMINATE Junior ROTC - Tuesday, 11/14...
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 8:51am PST
More Background about JROTC in SF Public Schools Tuesday, November 14th, 7:00 P.M.
(This will be a big meeting. You should show up at 6:00 P.M.)
555 Franklin Street, 1st Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 7:42am PST
Lifting the Fog on 9/11: Experts Present Scientific Evidence at UC Berkeley 
An all day symposium, titled "Lifting the Fog", took place Saturday at the Valley Life Science Building at UC Berkeley. To an auditorium full of attentive listeners, a number of experts (most notably Dr. Steven Jones, a renowned physicist) gathered to present their findings about the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001....
Posted: Sun, Nov 12, 2006 3:18am PST
Community Meeting Stirs Up Bad Memories 
The Jack Leary Healing Forum was held to support abuse survivors, but may have done more harm than good...
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 4:51pm PST
School Beat: Election Day Not Bad for Schools The returns from the November 2006 election are in and the results for education in California are quite interesting. Locally, San Francisco's Board of Education (BOE) will have all new members filling the open spots, all of whom are closely connected to students in our schools. Statewide, except for re-electing Governor Schwarzenegger, voters came through for clearly identified needs (facilities bonds Proposition 1D and A) and rejected the strategically unsound and ill-defined fiscal solutio...
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 7:23am PST
Free Skool Santa Cruz DISTRO DAY II (11/8) You are invited to pick up a Winter 2006 Free Skool Calendar or help pass 'em out at the Farmer's Market this Wednesday, November 8 starting at 4pm. Take 'em to your friends, leave them at the places you hang out, give one to your mom! You can also leave them in our awesome new DIY calendar boxes posted around town (see locations below)....
Posted: Tue, Nov 7, 2006 12:06pm PST
Common Vision Tour Featuring Human, Arjun, Guardians, Rocker T and Jah Warrior Shelter 
Common Vision, the good people who are planting fruit trees and teaching percussion to school children throughout the state, are partway through their recycled-veggie-oil-powered benefit tour.
Please get out and support these incredible people... and have a great time rocking to some reggae sounds....
Posted: Mon, Nov 6, 2006 5:54pm PST
Political Killings in the Philippines, Film Screening at UC Santa Cruz (11/9) 
In response to the rapidly increasing number of political killings perpetrated by Philippine President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo’s regime, the Critical Filipina/o Studies Cluster of UCSC will be holding a special film screening at 6:30pm, Thursday, November 9th at Oakes Learning Center. Come and learn about what’s going in a country severely affected by U.S. imperialist interests....
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 2:27am PST
School Beat: Supporting Public Education in the Voting Booth Election day, this year falling on Tuesday November 7th, is once again an extremely signification day for San Francisco's public schools. Voters will drastically shape the physical and political context of our school system as they select a Governor, San Francisco Board of Education members, and decide whether or not we will have sufficient funds to repair our school structures as legally mandated. Starting at the top, Schwarzenegger is once again donning the mantle of the education governor....
Posted: Thu, Nov 2, 2006 8:49am PST
Children, culture, borders, and the future. 
Simple fun and serious issues: A Halloween Carnival, a small thing in a complex world, helps build a bridge of success for students and community....
Posted: Tue, Oct 31, 2006 5:00pm PST
NorCal Zapatista Solidarity With Oaxaca! Networking Zapatista Solidarity throughout NorCal regions. The crisis in Oaxaca requires additional direct action to draw media attention to the abuse of the people of Oaxaca by police thugs....
Posted: Mon, Oct 30, 2006 5:00pm PST
Free Skool Santa Cruz Winter Quarter Begins Free Skool Santa Cruz Winter Quarter begins next Wednesday!...
Posted: Sun, Oct 29, 2006 5:57pm PST
Practical Activism Conference at UCSC Colleges Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room
University of California, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sat, Oct 28, 2006 11:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 27, 2006 2:52am PDT
Lt. Governor Candidate Wants Free Education By 2009 The plan Alexander is presenting will unfold over the next three years; first, students will receive a 35 percent reduction in college tuition fees by 2007, by 2008 students will receive an additional 20 percent reduction on fees, and by 2009 all state colleges and universities will offer free education....
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 8:54pm PDT
10/26: Educator Happy Hour with ACLU-NC Educator Happy Hour for Tracked in America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government Surveillance...
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 9:45pm PDT
5-Week Digital Filmmaking Class Starting Soon: MAKE YOUR OWN DOCUMENTARY!!! 
MAKE YOUR OWN DOCUMENTARY in only 5 weeks at the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 2:46pm PDT
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