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Impeccable Scholarship Costs Norman Finkelstein Tenure at DePaul! An impressive record of scholarship was not enough to ensure tenure for DePaul University Professor Norman Finkelstein. An unprecedented yet predictable campaign of hate and slander waged by Israel Inc., commandeered by noted Harvard plagiarist, strident enemy of human rights, and America's leading apologist for Israeli state terrorism, Alan Dershowitz was successful in the denial of tenure to Norman....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 5:54pm PDT
Activist Group Urges Students to Protest Military Opt-Out Policy Tuesday, June 12, 2007 : World Can’t Wait called on all Berkeley High School students Monday to sign a letter protesting the U.S. military’s requirement that Berkeley High give student information to military recruiters unless the students request the school not to....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:20am PDT
Important Action to Defend Fired Worker (6/13) 
FORWARD WIDELY!!!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 11:49pm PDT
Workers, Student Groups Announce Back-to-School Boycott of American Eagle Outfitters Tuesday, June 12, 2007 : NEW YORK, June 12 — U.S. and Canadian university students joined apparel and service workers today to announce the beginning of a Back-to-School boycott of American Eagle Outfitters near the retailer’s Union Square store. Today’s rally coincided with American Eagle’s annual shareholder meeting in midtown Manhattan and featured hundreds of activists pledging not to purchase clothing from the chain store until it enforces its Code of Conduct at the company’s Canadian di...
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 2:26pm PDT
Cal Dining Workers Get Pay Raise Monday, June 11, 2007 : Student workers employed by Cal Dining were notified last Friday that they would receive a raise to $11....
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 8:56am PDT
CHANGE Confronts David Rockefeller WE ARE CHANGE visits David Rockefeller at his house....
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 4:16am PDT
Chicago: DePaul Students Sit-In for Academic Freedom Upset over DePaul University’s denial of tenure to Professors Norman Finkelstein and Mehrene Larudee, and after a meeting between 30 student leaders and DePaul President Fr. Dennis Holtschneider at his office, students have taken action to defend academic freedom, currently under attack at the nation’s largest Catholic educational institution....
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 1:34am PDT
Get a Degree to Change the World! New College Open House The Cultural Center, 766 Valencia Street...
Event Date: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jun 11, 2007 4:05pm PDT
2007 U.S. Farm and Food Policy ~ Identifying resources for Socially Disadvanged Farmers 
The Farm and Food Policy Diversity Initiative is a diverse collaboration of organizations representing people of color farmers, rancher, farm workers and urban food system advocates. It is designed to ensure organizations serving people of color in the food system have the opportunity to link their own initiatives into a comprehensive agenda of food and agriculture policy proposals that allow diverse communities to benefit from the opportunities that other farmers have had for decades and to...
Posted: Mon, Jun 11, 2007 10:30am PDT
CAL Student Workers Declare Victory But Continue To Fight FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 7, 2007
CONTACT:
Tristan Bunner: 805.798.5096,
calfoodworker@gmail.com
Student Worker Action Group...
Posted: Mon, Jun 11, 2007 6:36am PDT
A socialist perspective to defend Sri Lankan university workers Monday, June 11, 2007 :The Socialist Equality Party (SEP) and International Students for Socialist Equality (ISSE) in Sri Lanka are today distributing copies of the following statement in English, Tamil and Sinhala on university campuses in Colombo....
Posted: Mon, Jun 11, 2007 6:34am PDT
Norman Finkelstein Denied Tenure At DePaul University A DePaul University professor who has accused some Jews of improperly using the legacy of the Holocaust to get compensation payments has been denied tenure after a drawn-out public fight.
Norman Finkelstein, whose work led to a long-running public feud with a Harvard law professor and lawyer famous for representing O.J. Simpson, said he was disappointed by the faculty panel's 4-3 decision.
``They can deny me tenure, deny me the right to teach,'' the 53-year-old told the Chicago Sun-Time...
Posted: Sun, Jun 10, 2007 6:33pm PDT
UCSD Attempts to Stifle Student Free Speech With Policy Change Saturday, June 9, 2007 :
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Posted: Sat, Jun 9, 2007 11:56pm PDT
Partial Victory Declared by Cal Student Workers but Struggle Continues After over 7 months of struggle, Cal student workers employed by Cal Dining are declaring a partial victory today. They have been informed that, as of July 1, 2007, they will receive the base wage rate of $11.25/hr. This rate is equal to the rate non-Cal student full and part time staffs have received since August of last year, though some non-Cal student staff will soon be receiving $11.70/hr....
Posted: Fri, Jun 8, 2007 9:00pm PDT
Native American Students at DQ University Struggle to Save Student Representation See Below...
Posted: Fri, Jun 8, 2007 8:06pm PDT
Administrators Back Off from 3 yr. Suspension of Prominent Activist FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
June 8, 2007...
Posted: Fri, Jun 8, 2007 2:29pm PDT
Fairfield Families Win New Policies for Police in Schools Thursday, June 7, 2007 : (Fairfield, CA ) The City of Fairfield and ten families adopted a settlement agreement yesterday providing for comprehensive new policies to address police conduct on school campuses. This agreement resolved a March 2, 2007 incident when the Fairfield police came onto the campus of Rodriguez High School (RHS) and rounded-up a group of innocent students, accusing them of being gang members. Today, pursuant to the agreement, the Fairfield Police Chief and the RHS Princi...
Posted: Thu, Jun 7, 2007 2:50pm PDT
School Beat: Cultivating and Keeping Our Teachers Thursday, June 7, 2007 :Teachers are at the center of a strong educational system. Well-qualified, engaging, dynamic educators are what every parent wants for their children and what, hopefully, schools are looking for when they have openings on their staffs. But we all know that being a teacher isnt easy these days (was it ever?) and the challenges are not a particularly well-kept secret....
Posted: Thu, Jun 7, 2007 7:08am PDT
Big Oil, Biofuels and UC Berkeley (audio/mpeg 1.9MB) The Energy Biosciences Institute is a new partnership British Petroleum - one of the worlds largest oil and energy companies – and a public
university, UC Berkeley. Opponents of the deal dispute biofuels efficiency and say big oil is using the biofuel label to continue business as usual....
Posted: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 11:00am PDT
Letter from Kolkata: Its Summer But Schools Not Out Wednesday, June 6, 2007 :New America Media, News Feature, Sandip Roy, Posted: Jun 06, 2007 Editors Note: In India the pressure to get onto the information superhighway is intense and doing well in school and beyond requires going to coaching centers year round. The results of this competitive drive can be deadly, writes NAM editor Sandip Roy....
Posted: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 6:38am PDT
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