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Virginia shooting
A solution I think that would solve the problem of school shootings....
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 8:18pm PDT
Reading, 'Riting adn Recipes: Santa Cruz school takes novel approach to teaching No Child
Branciforte Middle School has been in federal sanctions under the No Child Left Behind Act. They are using a different approach to improving their childrens test scores....
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 7:50pm PDT
SAN FRANCISCO STATE STUDENT WALKOUT!!!
Malcolm X Plaza
San Francisco STate University
1600 Holloway Ave.
San Francisco, CA 94132...
Event Date: Thu, Apr 26, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 6:48pm PDT
Free Film Screening: Uncommon Knowledge
San Francisco State University
Room 587, Humanities Building
For a campus map, go to http://www.sfsu.edu/~sfsumap/...
Event Date: Thu, May 10, 2007 3:30pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 4:46pm PDT
UCSC Needs to Change
UCSC is conforming to the pressures of the UC system, and is losing the freethinking, open-minded aspects that set it apart from other school. Something needs to change, and bring UCSC back to the liberal and creative ebvironment it once was....
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 1:05pm PDT
Peace Camp - 1 week summer camp
Orchard School, Aptos, California...
Event Date: Mon, Aug 6, 2007 9:00am PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 11:10am PDT
Branciforte's approach to No Child Left Behind
Response to article in Santa Cruz Sentinel on 4-22-07....
Posted: Sun, Apr 22, 2007 4:43pm PDT
Entre Los Olvidados - Among the Forgotten (Oaxaca, 2007)
“That’s the women that kidnapped me last time.” Says the 16 year old young women I am conducting a video documentation workshop with in San Isidro Vista Hermosa, as a green Nissan pickup truck passes us by. The women in the truck looks me straight in the face and laughs. She has several small children in the car with her, presumably her own. This is my second time in Vista Hermosa, and it won’t be my last. I am not supposed to be here as a journalist, or human rights activist as in the past, ...
Posted: Sun, Apr 22, 2007 1:28pm PDT
"The Myths of Biofuels"
St. Lawrence Academy
2000 Lawrence Ct.
Santa Clara, CA 95051...
Event Date: Thu, Jun 7, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 4:34pm PDT
Native Youth Movement Tooled by AIM,Inc and ideologically-challenged naivete?
For many years there's been a storm of building hype in indigenous country (especially around the militant aspect of indigenous resistance), but of late, it's become more and more hyped-up in a most curious way, including character assasination attempts against long-time figures without contexts and empathy. All this appears to be having an effect of someone trying to drive a wedge between the vital experience (or praxis) of the elders, and the too often easily-exploited anger of youth just e...
Posted: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 3:26am PDT
Ethnic Studies Strategy Session
Guzman Lounge
Oakes College
(Next to the Cafe)
UCSC...
Event Date: Mon, May 7, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 7:44pm PDT
Ethnic Studies Informational
Oakes Learning Center
Oakes College
UCSC...
Event Date: Thu, May 3, 2007 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 7:40pm PDT
Ethnic Studies at UCSC
WE ASK YOU TO PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ANY E-MAILS YOU HAVE ACCESS TO AND ANYONE YOU FEEL MIGHT BE INTERESTED...
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Teach-In on Military Recruitment Mon, 4/23 5:00 PM
Please circulate widely - apologies for duplicate postings.
COLLEGE NINE, COLLEGE TEN & THE LIONEL CANTU GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS, INTERSEX RESOURCE CENTER PRESENT:...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 2:48pm PDT
Facts behind UCSC protest (of April 5, 2005)
The following Op-Ed was published on April 10 of 2005, a few days after the first major counter-recruitment protest occured on UCSC's campus. It was written by a group of SAW activists to counter the Sentinel's irresponsible journalism and highlight the motives for the protest....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 1:09pm PDT
Massacre Exposes America’s Dirty Campus Secret
As people struggle to understand the violence of the murders at Virginia Tech, NAM writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson suggests it reflects a growing trend in campus violence. Hutchinson's new book The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation between African-Americans and Hispanics (Middle Passage Press and Hispanic Economics New York) in English and Spanish will be out in October....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:30am PDT
The Virginia Tech massacre—social roots of another American tragedy
A day after the mass killing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, along with grief and dismay, some reflections on life in the US are clearly in order. The event was horrifying, but no one who has followed the evolution of American society over the past quarter-century will be entirely shocked. Such psychopathic episodes, including dozens of multiple killings or attempted killings in workplaces and schools, have occurred with disturbing regularity, particularly since the mid-1980s. A tim...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:16am PDT
With Major Protests Imminent, Military Recruiters Withdraw from UCSC Job Fair
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 18, 2007...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 4:36am PDT
Network Neutrality Interview with Jenny Toomey on Rock The Net (audio/mpeg 27.5MB)
Radio Interview with Jenny Toomey about the Rock The Net campaign in support of Network Neutrality and how it concerns independant music kicked off On March 27, 2007...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 4:22pm PDT
Police Presentation: Response to Student Protests
Cervantes & Velazquez Conference Room (D)
Above Baytree Bookstore
UCSC...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 10:05am PDT