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US: Investigation exposes extensive corruption in student loan dealings A widening investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office into dealings between college financial aid administrators and for-profit student loan companies has revealed extensive conflicts of interest, payments, and arrangements benefiting company shareholders at the expense of students and their families....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 10:07pm PDT
SCHOOL MATTERS: Report Flunks Kids + Cops In light of the recent arrest of a central Florida six-year-old African-American girl by police officers at her elementary school, a recent report finds that African American and Latino students are disproportionately affected and targeted when aggressive disciplinary measures, like the use of police in public schools, are enforced. Liz Sullivan is the Human Right to Education Program Director at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) based in New York City....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 8:54am PDT
No free speech for “Voices in Conflict”: High school play about Iraq war cancelled A high school play about the Iraq war, “Voices in Conflict,” was abruptly cancelled by the school administration in Wilton, Connecticut last month when a student whose brother was serving in Iraq circulated drafts of the play to parents and others in the community in order to get it shut down. After having supported the project of the advanced drama class for almost two months, the school’s principal, Timothy Canty, deemed the play “unbalanced” and potentially inflammatory for its presentatio...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:25pm PDT
SPME Learns Finkelstein Denied Tenure At Depaul: Finkelstein Confirms ( Allyson Taylor, formerly of American Jewish Congress and StandWithUs.com has sent SPME a copy of an email from Norman Finkelstein to her that this article by John Wilson "is correct." SPME is waiting for official confirmation.)...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 6:50am PDT
France: Police attack defenders of immigrant school children On March 20, police assaulted a group of people seeking to prevent the arrest of an undocumented Chinese immigrant who had come to collect his grandsons from the Rampal infant school in the Belleville district of Paris. The police attack has provoked a wave of revulsion amongst teachers, parents and the working class population in the community and throughout France....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 6:37am PDT
Convergence Not Division: The New and Old SDS 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....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 6:30am PDT
African Student Leadership Conference coverage on Uhuru Radio 
This Sunday from 11:00 - 14:00 (U.S. Eastern) Uhuru Radio brings you in-depth coverage of this historic African Student Leadership Conference taking place March 30 - 31 at the Alabama A&M University in Huntsville, Alabama....
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 6:12am PDT
3/30: Nationwide School Walk Out to HONOR THE CÉSARCHÁVEZ HOLIDAY! (BAMN) MARCH 30, 2007:
HONOR THE
CÉSAR CHÁVEZ HOLIDAY!
Close All Schools, Government Offices & Workplaces on Friday, Mar. 30
Para español, vea el _BLOG_ (http://blog.myspace.com/chavezdayofaction)...
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 5:19pm PDT
Violence & Hip Hop A brief article and solution to the violence in hip hop...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 9:44pm PDT
Bong Hits for Jesus Every so often the right to free speech becomes a national issue here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
It’s no wonder. Despite the hype, free speech is not a right people always feel all warm and fuzzy about. Sometimes it’s a downright royal pain in the butt. It means tolerating all sorts of ideas and opinions that we loathe. Just ask the ACLU. Or Juneau, Alaska high school principal Deborah Morse. She freaked big time when Joseph Frederick, a high school student, unfurle...
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 8:05am PDT
ACLU Urges Supreme Court Not to Abandon Landmark Student Free Speech Ruling WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union today urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to abandon its famous 1969 ruling that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”...
Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2007 7:05am PDT
Anti-terror police raid homes of Sydney University students Last week’s highly provocative raids by anti-terrorism police on a number of University of Sydney students underscore the real political agenda behind the so-called war on terror. The bolstering of the state apparatus through a series of draconian “anti-terror” laws has been centrally aimed not at protecting ordinary people from the threat of terrorist attack, but rather at suppressing political dissent and intimidating anyone considering challenging the government or the state....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 8:51am PDT
Drug Policy Alliance Rallies Students 4 Free Speech Students are rallying outside the U.S. Supreme Court today as the court hears oral arguments in
a case where DPA has been working to protect the freedom of speech in public high
schools--including speech critical of current government policies....
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 4:23pm PDT
TRAILER: "el machete: la lucha por el poder popular" (video/quicktime 51.7MB) "el machete: la lucha por el poder popular" is proyecto autogestion's debut film project. All the camera-persons are indigenous community members, mostly women and youth, organizing under the auspices of CODEP the Committee Organized in Defense of the People's Rights. The editing was completed through collective media arts workshops, which now, along with donated equipment, have contributed to the ability of CODEP to edit its own film projects from now on....
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 1:52am PDT
camarograf@s del film de proyectoautogestion.org "el machete: la lucha por el poder" (video/quicktime 5.2MB) Documentation of some of the indigenous women and youth participating in digital video workshops through the auspices of proyecto autogestion and CODEP Comite de defensa de los Derechos del Pueblo. Oaxaca 2007...
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 1:20am PDT
Australian state election: Major parties ignore public school decay Every media poll shows that education is a key concern among voters in the March 24 New South Wales state election. Parents, teachers and students have faced years of neglect and decline in the government school system, especially in working class areas, while every year millions more dollars have been poured into wealthier private schools....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 7:18am PDT
Don't Come to Ann Arbor: Scenes from a Cop Riot If the specter of another US foray into regime change disturbs you, google the word "Tanter." If the prospect of another country's being bombarded with US weapons outrages you, and if inserting the adjective "nuclear" into the narrative sends a chill up your spine, go to the "Guardian" website and search "Tanter." Or if you hanker to find out what a Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator can do to humankind, click onto the Union of Concerned Scientists....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:51am PDT
Germany: New university tuition fees threaten students with poverty As a new term approaches, tens of thousands of German university students face new tuition fees of as much as €500 for each semester. The new fees threaten many students with poverty and will inevitably force a considerable number to end their studies. At a time when the current German government—a “grand coalition” of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and Social Democratic Party (SPD)—is encouraging the development of so-called elite universities, the German higher education system is inc...
Posted: Sat, Mar 10, 2007 8:24am PST
WARNING: The Nazification of the American University 
There is a deeply intertwined agenda of right-wing political forces and Christian fascists, which finds concentrated expression at this time in the Bush regime, is working to remold the institutions of higher learning and turn them into active partners of empire, repression, and theocracy and, is already taking a heavy toll....
Posted: Tue, Mar 6, 2007 3:46pm PST
Defend African Children in American Schools - Tune in Sunday Tune in Sunday for Special Live Programs on UhuruRadio.com including the show Uhuru on the Move, addressing the topic: Defending African Children in American Schools....
Posted: Sat, Mar 3, 2007 11:37am PST
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