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Students and UC Faculty oppose UC Berkeley-BP Partnership (audio/mpeg 1.3MB) UC BERKELEY STUDENTS AND FACULTY RALLIED ON CAMPUS TODAY TO OPPOSE A NEW MULTI MILLION DOLLAR PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP WITH UC BERKERLY AND BP, ONE OF THE WORLDS LARGEST ENERGY AND OIL COMPANIES. THE PARTNERSHIP WILL CREATE the ENERGY BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE, TO research AND DEVELOP NEW FORMS OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS, BUT STUDENTS AND FACULTY SAY THE PARTNERSHIP WILL TURN UC BERKELEY INTO A RESEARCH HUB FOR BP PROFITS, NOT PUBLIC GOOD....
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 5:31pm PDT
Hunger Strike Teach-In Charles Merrill Lounge
UCSC...
Event Date: Wed, May 9, 2007 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 12:28pm PDT
UC Student Hunger Strike: No More Nuclear Bombs In Our Name! 
May 9th will see the beginning of a hunger strike to demand that the University of California stop engineering, testing and manufacturing nuclear bombs. This bold act of civil resistance is being coordinated by students and community members across multiple UC campuses. Some of us have pledged to go without solid food - permanently, if necessary -- unless our demand is met!...
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 12:26pm PDT
"No Gun Left Behind: The Gun Lobby's Campaign to Push Guns Into Colleges and Schools" Brian Siebel, senior attorney with the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, talks about his new report that draws attention to the gun lobby's efforts in recent years to change college campus rules prohibiting firearms....
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 9:47am PDT
US University Snubs UAE Over Israel CAIRO — A major US university has shelved plans to open a satellite campus in the United Arab Emirates in protest of the Gulf state's boycott of Israel, drawing rebukes for mixing education with politics....
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 9:17am PDT
STOP BP-Berkeley, March on May 8th! 
The Academic Senate recently pushed through a resolution supporting the EBI, amidst much fear-mongering among the engineering sciences about "academic freedom". This hasn't reassured us about BP's motives, nor, we're sure, has it reassured you!...
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 3:02am PDT
Screening of "Occupation 101" for Palestine Awareness Week Classroom Unit 1
UC Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue, May 8, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 11:06pm PDT
Palestine Awareness Week: Check Point at UCSC 
Palestine Awareness Week is taking place at UC Santa Cruz from May 7th through May 10th and began with a Check Point established in the Baytree Plaza. Five Palestinians were being detained for no apparent reason while two Israeli soldiers mentally and physically abused the detainees and prevented them from leaving the prison cell. One Palestinian women plead over and over to be released because she was pregnant and worried should would lose her baby. Unsympathetically, the solider told her to...
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 6:58pm PDT
May 8th: March for Custodian Wage Equity @ UCB Custodians at UCSC need your support. After a very unproductive negotiation session with UC Administration last Friday, UC custodians are moving full steam ahead for a Commencement March for Custodian Wage Equity at UC Berkeley on Tuesday, May 8th. UC was given $8.5 million earmarked for custodians on 4 UC campuses, but the administration is only offering a fraction of that. We're aiming to fill a charter bus with workers, students and community members to demand they hand all of the money ov...
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 12:40pm PDT
US: Circle of corruption widens in student loan investigation As investigations continue into improper financial dealings between the student loan industry and universities, more schools, companies, and federal officials have been implicated. Most recently, evidence demonstrates that the US Department of Education has increasingly helped promote the interests of lenders by rejecting any federal regulation of the relationship between the banks and schools....
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 7:08am PDT
Letter from fired UKZN Teacher Fazel Khan and Fazel Khan solidarity website Letter from Fazel Khan and Fazel Khan solidarity website
May 6, 2007 1:05 PM
Dear All
There is now a website in support of Fazel Khan at http://fazel.shackdwellers.org . It has a brief over view of the circumstances of his firing, statements in support of Fazel, documents from his hearing, an online petition and so on as well as a short version of the film that he co-directed on the 2006 UKZN strike. There will be a solidarity meeting and a screening of
videos 60 min. on Sunday May 20...
Posted: Sun, May 6, 2007 6:38am PDT
Eleventh of Every Month for 9/11 Truth Downtown Santa Cruz Clock Tower
(corner of Water St / Mission St / North Pacific Ave)...
Event Date: Fri, May 11, 2007 5:00pm PDT
Posted: Sat, May 5, 2007 9:21pm PDT
Student-led Protest @ Nancy Pelosi's office SF Federal Building
450 Golden Gate Ave, San Francisco
Near Civic Center BART...
Event Date: Tue, May 8, 2007 2:30pm PDT
Posted: Sat, May 5, 2007 5:24pm PDT
Jeffrey J. Kripal speaks on Esalen The Booksmith
1644 Haight Street
San Francisco, CA 94117...
Event Date: Tue, May 22, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2007 2:56pm PDT
Cal Student Worker Support Rally Today!!! CAL STUDENT WORKER RALLY FOR EQUAL PAY, FRIDAY 2PM SPROUL PLAZA...
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2007 9:03am PDT
SCHOOL MATTERS: Blacks Lose Faith in Education Among the findings of a statewide survey of Californian's thoughts on the state's public education system, is the fact that African Americans are steadily losing faith in the system, while Latinos remain optimistic. Carolyn Goossen writes on education and other issues for NAM....
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2007 7:07am PDT
Two UCSD TAs Fired for Political Reasons This week two UCSD teaching assistants were dismissed from their positions for political reasons in a blatent abuse of administrative power and a violation of free speech....
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 4:25pm PDT
SAC: McClatchy High School Student Protest In front of McClatchy High School
3066 Freeport Blvd., Sacramento, CA...
Event Date: Fri, May 4, 2007 3:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 2:53pm PDT
Take Action May 11-12: SFA Days of Action vs. Burger King! 
The historic Taco Bell and
McDonald's agreements were
two huge steps down the path to farmworker justice, and students and youth
were pivotal in both campaigns. Today, the movement for Fair Food continues
as the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and its allies look to expand the
precedents of these agreements to the world's #2 burger chain: Miami-based
Burger King....
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 2:09pm PDT
Free Skool Picnic & Running a Free Skool We have fun, we meet people, we eat, we talk, we have workshops, we play soccer, we have music....
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 11:33am PDT
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