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ACLU of Northern California Seeks Pentagon Files on Peace Groups
ACLU OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA SEEKS PENTAGON FILES ON PEACE GROUPS
ACLU Launches Nationwide Effort to Uncover Details of Pentagon Domestic Spying Program...
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 6:13pm PST
Oakland Schools to Continue Hiring Scabs
The Oakland Unified School District ended it's scab hiring at the Airport Hilton, but has resumed it at district offices at 314 E. 10th Street in Huerta Hall. These will continue through Saturday, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. All are encouraged to go there to let the educational bureaucrats know what the Bay Area working class thinks about hiring scabs in our community....
Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 12:04am PST
Only Fifteen days until Spring Quarter deadline
We want you to teach Free Skool Santa Cruz...
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 4:07pm PST
Black History ~ Negro Hill, California
Historical Legacy of Black Pioneers in Early California Comes Alive
Negro Hill, California was a vibrant community in 1850 when California became a state.
Let us continue the journey to give dignity, honor and respect to early Black Pioneers....
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 3:42pm PST
Jan 31: New College Media Studies MA Program Open House
Jan 31 at 6:30 PM: New College Media Studies MA Program Open House. Learn about New College's innovative media studies education for social change. New College, 766 Valencia St., Room 11B, San Francisco...
Posted: Sat, Jan 28, 2006 8:52pm PST
Students help AB 606 pass in the Assembly!
GSA Network is pleased to announce that AB 606, the Safe Place to Learn Act, passed out of the California State Assembly yesterday, with a vote of 45-32. The bill now moves on to the Senate...
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 9:45pm PST
Charter School Unionizes
Edison Brentwood Academy and Edison-McNair Academy in East Palo Alto are the first Edison Schools Charter schools to unionize. Contract was ratified, and includes increase in pay and limited protection for 5th-year teachers....
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 7:34pm PST
Black History - 150th Anniversary California Colored Convention Movement
Join us for a free, lively evening of California Black History and experience the closing of a wonderful exhibt of the first railroad west of the Mississippi, originally surveyed from our California State Capitol, Sacramento to Negro Bar, CA.
8th Annual California Black History Month Reception...
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 7:32pm PST
Oakland Teachers Will Lose
Oakland Teachers will loose unless.......they put money and benefits aside for the moment...and focus on the main need...to replace Ward with someone or group they can actually negotiate with...
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 1:29pm PST
Educators demand a fair contract and protest Randolph Ward's intimidation tactics
More than 100 people turned out on short notice to demand a fair contract and to protest Randolph Ward's intimidation tactics. That night AFSME President Morris Tatum announced that his members have pledged that they will support OEA picket lines in the event of a forced strike....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:55pm PST
You don’t need a diploma to go to jail
Town Halls support children of color struggling to learn in West Contra Costa schools...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:22am PST
How dare SFUSD reject City funds to keep our schools open!
f you don’t think that the current San Francisco Unified School District financial crisis is your problem, think again. The following is what all the parents of public, private and parochial school students in the city of San Francisco should be thinking about and then doing in the next few days....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:21am PST
San Francisco Unified School District and the recent closures of some schools
The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has NOT allowed the students to have a greater say in the closure and vision of the schools in San Francisco. Again and again in an environment of hostile shouting and fiasco decisions are made at many SFUSD Board Meetings. Parents for sure have a say but the students too have a greater stake in their future in San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 6:45am PST
Be a Class Traitor for $300 a day
Randy Ward, state administrator for Oakland Unified School District's receivership, is already getting ready to hire scabs when the K-12 teacher go out on strike--which it's almost certain they will. But remember that he forced 7,000 district employees to take a 4% pay cuts, while laying off 100 custodians, in 2004. Now this parasite, with privatization of the whole district on his agenda, is going for more blood and wants the teachers to pay more for their healthcare. The working class in th...
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 10:06pm PST
School Beat: Closing Schools Again
Schools got closed in San Francisco again last night. After about an hour of passionate public testimony regarding the flaws in the process and the uneven impact on communities (especially African-American communities) as reflected by the schools on the list for closure, merger or relocation, the board deliberated and eventually made their very hard decisions....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:32am PST
Labor Studies Courses at SJCC
San Jose City College is gearing up for classes starting at the end of this month! Unions want more people to become informed and active in the challenges ahead. Help get your colleages involved by enrolling in one of our 5 week mini classes(Marked *) or our special programs to become a Mediator or assistant with our immigrant Community! These are practical classes taught by excellent instructors that are committed to helping to create a more just society....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 10:04pm PST
Black Parents Considering Student Strike Over School Closings
Black parents met in the memorial room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Waterfall to stop what one city supervisor called the "death of black San Francisco" through the closing of dozens of schools in black and low-income neighborhoods. The decision by the San Francisco Unified board has been delayed until today January 19. Omar Khalif, one of the organizers of the Black Parents Together movement, urged parents to participate at the school board meeting, and says that a school strike m...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 7:33am PST
Balboa High School Students tackle Polution Issues in the Bayview Hunters Point
In a very bold attempt to think outside the box the students from Balboa High School went out of their way to study and explain the cumulative pollution impacts that have adversely impacted thousands of innocent folks mostly living in Public Housing at Hunters Point....
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 12:56pm PST
SFUSD gets an 'A' in gentrification
On the eve of Martin Luther King Day and two weeks before Black History Month begins, the School Board of the city known as "America's most progressive" is likely to vote against Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, June Jordan, Enola Maxwell, Gloria R. Davis and even Willie Brown - closing nearly all the schools in San Francisco named for Black luminaries and several other schools located in Black neighborhoods. Martin Luther King Middle School is spared for the moment, perhaps because the schoo...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:17am PST
SF Board of Education Halts Decision on School Closings
Bowing to overwhelming public pressure, the San Francisco Board of Education voted last night to put off a controversial decision on school closures as city leaders scramble to avoid displacing thousands of students next year. At issue was a proposal to close five schools and merge or relocate nearly two dozen others to balance the San Francisco Unified School District budget. The schools were selected because of low enrollment or proximity to other schools....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:49am PST