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Join: Hunger Strike! No More Nukes production in our backyard. UCSF-Mission Bay Community Center
1675 Owens Street, San Francisco
5/15-5/17...
Event Date: Mon, May 14, 2007 8:00am PDT
Posted: Sun, May 13, 2007 4:18pm PDT
John Grisham and Dennis Fritz Unite On A Journey Toward Justice Together and Separately they attend many fundraising events and appear on Television and Radio Talk Shows....
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007 2:57pm PDT
Urgent Actions for Oakland Schools We are at a crossroads in stopping the closure of schools and getting
back local control for Oakland. The good news is we have a bill to
return local control (AB 45), in the state assembly and it looks like
it may pass. However the work to stop the school closures is at a
turning point with only a month and a half before closure, we are
bringing our resolution for a moratorium on closures to the school
board and we are turning up the heat on State education official Jack
O'Connell. Edu...
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007 2:14pm PDT
NICHOLS: More lies from Livermore nuclear weapons lab 
"A group of citizens of the Bay Area are seeking a lawyer to take legal action to stop the open air explosions set off by Livermore Lab in Tracy, California......
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007 1:19pm PDT
Action at Burger King in Santa Cruz to Support the CIW 
The Student/Farmworker Alliance announced that May 11th and 12th would be Days of Action vs. Burger King calling on the world's #2 burger chain to take responsibility for the conditions of farmworkers in the fields. On May 11th, four students from the University of California at Santa Cruz and one loyal Burger King customer went to the Burger King on Mission Street / Highway 1 in Santa Cruz to drop off a letter to manager calling attention to the human rights crisis in Florida's tomato field...
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 10:06pm PDT
Boots Riley Withdraws Plans for Berkeley Grad Speech in Support of UC Custodians 
Boots Riley Withdraws Plans for Keynote Speech at Saturday's UC Berkeley's Black Graduation
Comes Out in Support of Custodian Union's Fight to End Poverty-Level Wages...
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 1:23pm PDT
ACTION ALERT: Urge Lawmakers to Protect All Youth Next week, legislators in the Senate will vote on the Student Civil Rights Act,
which protects all youth, including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT), by strenghtening student civil rights standards in California
public schools....
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 9:32am PDT
FUEL THE REVOLUTION: BIOFUELS CONFERENCE & SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORTATION EXPO University of California, Santa Cruz Women's Center
1156 High St, Santa Cruz 95064...
Event Date: Sun, May 20, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 12:04am PDT
Fuel the Revolution: Biofuels Conference & Sustainable Transportation Expo University of California, Santa Cruz
1156 High St, Santa Cruz, 95064
UCSC Women's Center...
Event Date: Sat, May 19, 2007 1:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 12:02am PDT
Hunger Strike across UC Campuses: No More Nukes in Our Name! Quarry Plaza, UC Santa Cruz campus...
Event Date: Fri, May 11, 2007 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2007 11:05pm PDT
Free Skool Summer Quarter deadline weeks away Do you have unique skills and knowledge? Do you want to see change in the world? Are you willing to share what you know in a non-authoritarian and interactive way in an informal setting?...
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2007 2:44pm PDT
World-Renowned Holocaust, Israel Scholars Defend DePaul Professor Norman Finkelstein The battle over political science professor Norman Finkelstein to receive tenure at DePaul University is heating up. Finkelstein has taught at DePaul for the past six years. Finkelstein’s two main topics of focus over his career have been the Holocaust and Israeli policy. We speak to two world-renowned scholars in these fields: Raul Hilberg, considered the founder of Holocaust studies, and Avi Shlaim, a professor of international relations at Oxford University and an expert on the Arab-Israel...
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2007 7:31pm PDT
Action at Burger King to Support the CIW a group is meeting at the base of UC Santa Cruz
@ 3 PM
to head down to the Burger King on Mission St....
Event Date: Fri, May 11, 2007 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, May 9, 2007 1:35am PDT
UC Berkeley British Petroleum Protest and Custodian Living Wage Solidarity (audio/mpeg 7.6MB) UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff demonstrated against a proposed half billion dollar deal between British Petroleum and the university. Campus custodians also marched for a living wage....
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 10:04pm PDT
Anti-Iraq War Protest at UCSC WHAT: Protest against the War in Iraq, Calling for the Withdrawl of Troops
WHEN: May 9th, 12-4
WHERE: Baytree, march to Base of Campus
WHY: To end the War...
Event Date: Wed, May 9, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 9:52pm PDT
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
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