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Out of America: Going to college? Watch out for Bush's bandits A scandal over privatisation of student loans has all the hallmarks of this administration's worst habits...
Posted: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 10:19am PDT
Military Avoids Job Fair as Students Protest to "Unplug UCSC from the War Machine!" 
UC Santa Cruz's Last Chance Job Fair took place on April 24th, but this year the United States Army and United States Marine Corps were not among the participants. With foreknowledge of students planning a large demonstration against the presence of military recruiters at UCSC, both the Army and Marines withdrew a week before the Job Fair took place. Despite recent attempts by the UCSC administration to repress dissent on campus, Students Against War (SAW) organized unpermitted rallies and a ...
Posted: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 5:22am PDT
Jane Addams Peace Camp Orchard School, Aptos, California...
Event Date: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 3:00pm PDT
Posted: Sun, Apr 29, 2007 3:09am PDT
Berkeley: The Oaks & The Gym - a Public Forum Featuring Ignacio Chapela, Gray Brechin, L 105 North Gate- UC Berkeley Campus
Euclid and Hearst...
Event Date: Tue, May 1, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 8:39pm PDT
ACLU-Marriage, Equality & the Law First Congregational Church, 900 High St., Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Tue, May 15, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 5:49pm PDT
"Get Up Stand Up"-- Literally A reaction to a recent anti-war protest held on April 24, 2007 at the UC Santa Cruz campus concerning military recruiters on UC campuses. A call for action amongst the so-called activists that seemingly prevail at UCSC....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 1:11am PDT
CALIFORNIA: Bill banning teen drivers from talking on cell phones passes state Senate This article discussed the issue of banning cell phone use from drivers under the age of eighteen. I feel it is unfair to single out a particular group when the issue affects everyone on the road....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 12:39am PDT
A Stance Against U.S. Army and U.S. Marine Corps Recruitment The use of education against war rather than violence and force....
Posted: Fri, Apr 27, 2007 12:06am PDT
Hayward Teachers Settle; The Task That Still Remains On 4/26/07, KPFA's evening news, 6 p.m., reported the Hayward teachers voted overwhelmingly (some 890 to 106 or so) for the union contract giving teachers an 11% raise over 2 years plus a 1% bonus. The teachers wanted 17% in 1 or 2 years originally. The basic funding problems remain because Democrats & Republicans in Sacamento are not taxing the rich....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 10:37pm PDT
San Francisco State University Students Walk Out! 
Today, on April 26th, Students from San Francisco State walked out of classrooms to protest higher fees in education and the privatization of public education....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 10:07pm PDT
Tests, Pizza, Bald Principal--PARTY!!! High School Administrations bribe the students to take tests with food and silly promises. Students do not want to take standardized tests because they recoqnize the futility in them. Standardized tests do not actually manage to evaluate either the students or the schools accurately. Most students do not care about the results, so they do not really even try. How does this really show how well the public educational system is functioning?...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 6:53pm PDT
Teachers Rock at a United Educators of SF Rally (video/quicktime 42.3MB) Hilltop School, Raging Grannies, the Teachers' Union Band from Hayward -- all joined San Francisco teachers, paras, and bus drivers in a rollicking rally outside the SF Unified School District on April 24, 2007. Three-minute QT movie. 42MB....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 5:53pm PDT
Free The UC Banners 
Two UC Berkeley students descended from the heights of a redwood tree near Sproul Plaza Wednesday and submitted themselves for arrest by the UCPD after one week of tree-sitting....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 5:24pm PDT
SFSU Students Protest Privatization of Education On Thursday, April 26th, Students at SFSU engaged in a five hour long march today to protest the impending fee hikes as well as class size and funding cuts to EOP programs. Students also protested the administration in general for its lack of support for students....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 5:19pm PDT
To Educate or Not to Educate? Comprehensive sex education should be taught at schools nation wide. There are many consequences to students not getting all of the facts which include high pregnancy and abortion rates as well as high STD and STI numbers. There are other countries where comprehensive sex ed. is taught and their numbers on all are lower. It also breaks down what is really being taught in all inclusive sex ed. programs....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 3:13pm PDT
Student tree-sitters descend from redwood tree to accept arrest by UCPD Wednesday April 25th, 2007 – At 12:30pm, UC Berkeley students Jason Ahmadi and Mike Schuck plan to return their feet to the ground after a one-week occupation of a Redwood Tree on Sproul Plaza on behalf of The Phoenix Coalition to Free the UC. After UC Police threatened them with arrest yesterday, the two students decided to ‘turn themselves in’ to the police and accept arrrest on behalf of the Coalition and its mission to democratize and demilitarize the University, and divest it from unethi...
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 1:49pm PDT
Support the lost children The state has no record of how many foster children have died. This needs to change....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 12:39pm PDT
Get a Degree to Change the World! 780 Valencia Street, San Francisco...
Event Date: Sat, May 19, 2007 12:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 11:16am PDT
Sonoma State: National Student Walkout to Promote Peace and Immigration Reforms 1721 E. Cotati Ave.
Rohnert Park, CA 94928
Sonoma State University, at the quad between Darwin and Stevenson....
Event Date: Tue, May 1, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 10:28am PDT
Cal tree sitters cited for trespassing BERKELEY — Two University of California, Berkeley, students who had been living in a single redwood tree on Sproul Plaza on the campus came down from their perches Wednesday and were cited for trespassing....
Posted: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 9:24am PDT
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