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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
School Beat: Why I Hate Standardized Testing April is standardized testing month in the San Francisco Unified School District. For the second week in a row, kids of all ages are sitting down to sheets of multiple-choice questions, armed with newly sharpened pencils for battling sets of fill-in-the-bubble options. This is hardly the image we all have of students guided by creative teachers as they tackle challenging, engaging studies....
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 7:51am PDT
Los Calles Son Del Pueblo 
On Tuesday, May 1, the MIRA Coalition (Movement for Immigrant Rights Alliance) organized a march in solidarity with International Workers day and to denounce the ongoing raids affecting communities all across the country. Students also demanded an end to the militarization of the US-Mexico border, amnesty for undocumented migrants and to close the detention centers being used by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to house entire families and other detained persons. The students met up ...
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 1:37am PDT
May Day 2007 March from UC Santa Cruz to Downtown 
Hundreds of students and workers rallied at UCSC's Baytree Plaza and then marched to downtown Santa Cruz to meet up with families from the Beach Flats. The demonstration, which ended in the Beach Flats, was part of the international workers day celebrations popularly known as May Day. The M.I.R.A. Coalition, Movement for Immigrant Rights Alliance, at UCSC organized students and workers in the march against the current inhumane situation undocumented immigrants are facing and to demand the fo...
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 1:23am PDT
Danny Glover Stands with Workers and Joins Boycott Against UC Berkeley (and 3 other UCs) 
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
APRIL 26, 2007...
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2007 11:37pm PDT
Day 4: Blitz Week DAY 4: CAL STUDENT WORKER BLITZ WEEK
Informational Picket at Clark Kerr Dining Commons
RALLY TOMORROW AT 2PM ON SPROUL PLAZA...
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2007 10:03pm PDT
California Safe Schools Celebrates Pioneering Pesticide Policy Eight Year Anniversary of Embracing the Precautionary Principle...
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2007 9:31pm PDT
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