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textTwo American universities clamp down on student anti-sweatshop protests by wsws (reposted)
Over the past two weeks, student protests at the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California have been met with arrests or threats of arrest by the university administrations. In both cases the students were protesting the use of sweatshop labor in the production of university apparel....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:11am PDT
imageUCSC Campus Wide Ethics Briefing Missing Pages
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by bigmammoth
Today the University has required all of its employes participate in an Online Ethics Briefing. Unfrotunatly Several of the ethics pages went missing from the offical distrabution. Fortunatly some pages been recovered and posted here. It would be ideal if people could email the missing ethics pages to ethics@ucsc.edu as well as share them online to ensure that future ethical briefings do not accedentaly misplace these critical pages again....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 3:33am PDT
imageVirginia Tech rampage (by Latuff)
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by Latuff
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 1:45am PDT
calendarDay of Silence by
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Event Date: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 8:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 12:53am PDT
textGet Involved with Education Not Incarceration by Jonathan Stribling-Uss
In this update: 1. Become a Member 2. General Membership Meeting Monday, April 23, 6-8PM 3. Intern/ Volunteer 4. Help Us Fundraise - Canvassing, Grants, House Parties, Big Donations 5. No Child’s Behind Left… Come see Monty Neil talk on High Stakes Testing, Tuesday, April 17 6. Come to Sacramento on April 25 to Help Pass a Bill to Support Incarcerated Youth...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 8:24pm PDT
textUS university shooting kills 33 by reposts
A US shooting rampage at the Virginia Tech university has left 33 people, including a suspected gunman, dead....
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 6:06pm PDT
imageThe Day the University Ground to a Halt - April 14, 2005
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by josh sonnenfeld
On April 14, 2005 thousands of students and workers at UC Santa Cruz shut down the campus in a coordinated statewide strike by low-paid service workers in AFSCME 3299. The strike, organized by AFSCME, clerical workers in the Coalition of University Employees (CUE), T.A.s in the United Auto Workers (UAW), students in the Student and Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ) and others, was one of the biggest actions UCSC has seen in recent years and led to a new, better contract for AFSCME workers w...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 1:24am PDT
imageStanford Students approach 4th day of fast, Administrators refuse to meet
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by Stanford Labor Action Coalition
SLAC members entering 4th day of fasting for a REAL living wage through a Code of Conduct. Current Living Wage Policy for subcontracted workers effectively covers no workers due to many restrictions which the presidents own advisory committee recommended to be lifted. Despite years of protest, petitions, student senate bills, and the advisory committee's recommendations urging the restrictions to be lifted, administrators continue to refuse to lift the restrictions or meet with students or wo...
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 9:00pm PDT
calendar420 Fest by Alena Cansler
Fresno State Campus Free Speech Area...
Event Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 4:30pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 12:20am PDT
textRobert Fisk: Fear and loathing on an American campus by UK Independent (reposted)
On the night of 11 September 2001, Al Dershowitz of Harvard law school exploded in anger. Robert Fisk, he roared over Irish radio, was a dangerous man. I was "pro-terrorist". I was "anti-American" and that, Dershowitz announced to the people of County Mayo, "is the same as anti-Semitic"....
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 6:37pm PDT
textUC Berkeley Releases Missing Section Of BP Proposal Under Pressure From Student Campaign by Stop BP-Berkeley
In response to a formal request from the student campaign Stop BP-Berkeley, on April 5, 2007, the office of the UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Research released the appendices to the proposal for the $500 million research deal that is currently under negotiation with oil giant BP Amoco PLC. Previously, the university had released an abridged version of the proposal, hiding the fact that 115 pages of appendices had been omitted. University officials have claimed that they are acting "i...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 2:59pm PDT
textCommittee on Academic Freedom Letter on the Finkelstein Case by CAF (reposted)
Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association, Letter on the Finkelstein Case:...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 7:21am PDT
calendarEmerson School by Parent
New Location : 2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303 Off 101 freeway; Exit at Oregon Expwy....
Event Date: Sat, Apr 21, 2007 8:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 9:42pm PDT
calendarEmerson School - Middle Schools Tours by Emerson
Emerson School new location: 2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303 Off 101 freeway...
Event Date: Thu, May 17, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 9:37pm PDT
calendarEmerson Elementary & Middle School in Palo Alto by Mei
Emerson School - Elementary & Middle School New Location : 2800 W. Bayshore Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303 Off 101 freeway...
Event Date: Thu, May 10, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 9:34pm PDT
calendarUnplug UCSC from the War Machine! by
BAYTREE PLAZA UCSC CAMPUS...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 6:52pm PDT
textWe are not a Market: big tobacco and the impact on young people of color by Winnie Cheung
Young Asian American reflects on her involvement in the import car scene and her work with a non profit organization supporting her and others involved in the scene and the impact it makes in thier lives...
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 3:40pm PDT
calendarSustainability Week @ SJSU by John Thielking
7th street plaza, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA...
Event Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 9:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 3:12pm PDT
calendarSustainability Week/Earth Day @ SJSU by John Thielking
7th street plaza, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 9:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 3:06pm PDT
calendarSustainability Week @ SJSU by John Thielking
San Jose State University, 7th Street Plaza, center of campus off of 7th st....
Event Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 9:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 2:40pm PDT
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