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Christopher Phelps has written a timely but ultimately disappointing article in The Nation about the vibrant and growing student movement. [The New SDS (April 16, 2007)] He transforms the tough challenges of movement-building into a set of tepid formulas about what not to do. The new wave of student activism in America and around the world is a hopeful development worthy of our active participation and respect....

Two years ago today, UC Santa Cruz students kicked military recruiters off campus for the first time since the early 70's. This was the first action of what The Project newspaper called 'The Spring Insurrection' of 2005, including the 1,000+ strong AFSCME strike and shutdown of campus, Tent U. and more. That spring was a big part of what radicalized our particular generation of activists and organizers....

In 1971, after I returned from Peace Corps Kenya, I taught English as a Second Language to Chinatown adult immigrants. After working all day, my students started studying at 6 p.m., and after class walked or took the bus home. Today Chinatown residents and workers continue to rely on City College classes during the evening, afternoon and morning, seven days a week, to learn English, prepare for citizenship, and acquire job skills....

San Jose State University-Martin Luther King Library 2nd Floor 150 E. San Fernando St. San José, CA 95112...

Teachers of the California State University system -- the most affordable higher education institution in the state -- vowed to strike if the CSU administration did not offer an acceptable contract. Central to the California Faculty Association's objections are the university system's proposal to drastically increase student tuition by more than 200% over the next couple of years, and a substandard salary schedule that leaves many teachers struggling to survive on less than most k-12 teacher...

The recently announced $500 million 10 year deal between BP (formerly British Petroleum) and the University of California at Berkeley marks a leap in corporate control of the University. It will alter the universities research agenda, and, despite the claims of its proponents will actually INCREASE global warming....

he Academic Performance Index is one of the most important indicators for California parents of how their children are doing compared with other schools and with the state average. Bruce Fuller, professor of education at U.C. Berkeley, answers your questions about how to make sense of your school’s results and what rights you have as a parent....

The CSUEB Teachers are going on strike, which side will you be on....

Womens Building 3543 18th St. San Francisco, California 94110...

Officials at Brigham Young University in Utah have received emails raising concerns on the University's invitation for Dick Cheney to speak at commencement. Known around D.C. circles as the real Power behind the White House Occupier, Dickie C is best known in Public as the man who shot his pal last year in a hunting trip, and then refused a sobriety test afterwards......