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Educaation: Scheme invented to prevent the young from learning too quickly. Abolish education...
Posted: Sat, Jun 16, 2007 11:39am PDT
Carlos Garcia – Right Fit, Right Time for San Francisco’s Schools Friday, June 15, 2007 :For a decade, San Francisco’s public schools have been best known for corruption, political squabbles and ultimately failures. That was before, as on June 13th the School Board was united in choosing Carlos Garcia to lead its schools....
Posted: Fri, Jun 15, 2007 7:07am PDT
How do you pay for your education? Thursday, June 14, 2007 :Graduating with a college degree is more than ever a necessity today. Students and their families are doing whatever it takes to pay for higher education, including taking on excessive amounts of debt....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 3:44pm PDT
Mexico 2006: Buscando el Cambio Social 
En el aniversario del desalojo de l@s maestr@s de Oaxaca, publico por primera vez un audiodocumental con las voces de luchadores para el cambio social en Oaxaca, Chiapas, y en todo Mexico. En estos dias, hay muchissimas gentes buscando maneras cumplir el cambio, unos politicalmente, unos con accion directo, unos con guerra guerillera. Aqui se encuentra una documental de 58 minutes....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 10:51am PDT
High Schoolers, Anti-War Group Protest Military Recruitment Thursday, June 14, 2007 : Students at Berkeley High School along with an anti-war group held a press conference near the school Monday opposing the war in Iraq and a federal policy requiring student information to be released to military recruiters....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 8:51am PDT
Bill Christison: A Grave Injustice at DePaul University Wednesday, June 13, 2007 :I plan to demonstrate publicly but without violence this coming Sunday (June 17, 2007) against the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Rome for condoning the actions of one of its subordinate units De Paul University in Chicago, Illinois, USA in denying tenure for Dr. Norman Finkelstein because of the latter,s criticism of the policies of the government of Israel and the government of the United States in the Occupied Palestinian Territories....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:34pm PDT
Keith Rosenthal: Workers Score a Victory at Harvard Wednesday, June 13, 2007 :O n Wednesday, June 6, the 265 security guards in SEUI Local 615 overwhelmingly approved their first-ever negotiated contract with Harvard University and AlliedBarton, a private security firm contracted by Harvard, which employs the guards....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:33pm PDT
Students sit-in to demand tenure for Palestine supporting professors Wednesday, June 13, 2007 :This morning, DePaul University students in Chicago began the third day of their sit-in at DePaul President Fr. Holtschneider's office. The students have spent two nights sleeping in the office, a rally is to be held today in solidarity with them and it is possible that the DePaul University Faculty Council will pass a vote of no confidence in the president of the school....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:07pm PDT
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
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