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UCSC Music Center Recital Hall (at top of bicycle path!)...

Part 1 of 2 audio clips from a forum held at UC Berkeley on March 19 2007 in which people supportive of the proposed BP-funded Energy Biosciences Institute made presentations and responsed to selected questions. The forum was announced on in an email by Chancellor Birgeneau. The pdfs of the presentations are at http://www.ebiweb.org/forum070319.htm...

UC Santa Cruz Classroom Unit 2. Near the Baytree bookstore. Please inquire at Kiosk at the base of campus (and ask students along the way)....

On May 22, 2007, after a year-and-a-half of organizing and mass actions, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and UC Santa Barbara custodians declare victory, winning substantial wage increases! Also part of the equity fight, UC Irvine groundskeepers win their in-sourcing campaign! The custodian pay equity campaign helps push UC to settle additional increases for AFSCME low-wage workers statewide – marking a step toward statewide equity in our contract....

UCSC Student Union located in front of bookstore redwood building second floor....

San Francisco’s Board of Education (BOE) has identified the finalist whom they hope will be our district’s next Superintendent. Assuming that the formalities of reference checks and final offer negotiations pan out, Carlos Garcia will take over from Interim Superintendent Gwen Chan as head of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD)....

Fellow UC Alumni - We are writing to ask you to join us in supporting the UC Activist Defense Committee's campaign in defense of Alette Kendrick. Alette was targeted as a Black woman and a central organizer of the student speak-out that took place on Oct. 18, 2006, resulting in her arrest. The Office of Doug Zuidema, Student Judicial Affairs, has now announced its intention to suspend Alette for a period of 3 years—essentially a sentence of expulsion for the third year student. For more ...

National and state groups will protest Santa Clara District Attorney's decision not to press charges in the rape of a 17-year-old girl at an off-campus party attended by De Anza College students and athletes. The two De Anza students who came to the aid of the young victim (a local high school student) will be presented with recognition by the California National Organization for Women, and representatives from women's and anti-violence organizations will speak. DA's office in San Jose, 1:0...

Academics don't like academic boycotts. In fact, we detest external limits of any kind. We treasure our own universities for offering precious sanctuary for critical debate (even though they rarely do) and we don't like to see any of them banned, even for ostensibly laudable reasons. Sure, universities in some countries are little more than fig leaves for their regimes. But that's not usually their fault. So we avoid the lectures of state hacks rather than denounce them and we protect the uni...