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Greenpeace Organizing Term The Greenpeace Organizing Term (GOT) is an action-filled semester and the best hands-on training for you to become an environmental leader....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 8:18pm PDT
Mexico: Government ultimatum against striking teachers The Mexican government has threatened striking teachers in the city of Oaxaca with police and military repression this week unless they accept a negotiated agreement between the Vicente Fox government, the teachers union and the Oaxacan Peoples Popular Assembly (APPO). On October 12, striking teachers voted to reject the deal....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:36am PDT
Minuteman Founder Jim Gilchrist Storms Off DN! Debate With Columbia Student Organizer The anti-immigration group the Minuteman Project announced yesterday that they are seeking to strip Columbia University of federal funding for what they say are violations of their civil rights. Last week, student demonstrators disrupted a speech by Minuteman founder Jim Gilchrist who was invited to the school by the College Republicans. Gilchrist and student organizer Karina Garcia joins us for a debate that ends when Gilchrist abruptly pulls the plug....
Posted: Wed, Oct 11, 2006 7:49am PDT
Student/Farmworker Alliance Days of Action! 1-2 Punch!
Nationwide McDonald's actions Oct. 27-28th
From 'sweet spot' to sore spot!...
This October 27-28th, join students and young people across the country in standing with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to end sweatshops and modern-day slavery in the fields!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 10, 2006 8:38pm PDT
Commentary: Hooray for the Parents Television Council "Looking at the other panelists here today, I feel somewhat like a skunk in the picnic."...
Posted: Wed, Oct 4, 2006 6:36pm PDT
ANG MGA MANUNULAT AT ARTISTA SA PANAHON NG GLOBALISASYON Kailangang ipaalam sa madla na ang ugat ng mga ideya ng mga naghaharing uri na ipinapakalat ng mga binabayarn nilang mga alagad sa sining at panitikan ay naka-ugat sa kanilang pagnanais na panatiliin ang kaugalian ng kanilang uri...
Posted: Wed, Oct 4, 2006 3:35pm PDT
Bush Administration Says Prominent Muslim Scholar Can’t Teach in the US He’s considered one of the most prominent Muslim intellectual in Europe. Time Magazine calls him of the 100 most likely innovators of the 21st century. But the US government won’t let him into the country. We get reaction from Oxford University professor Tariq Ramadan to the Bush administration’s latest explanation why he can't accept a teaching position in the United States....
Posted: Thu, Sep 28, 2006 5:46pm PDT
FCC approves revised rules for digital kids TV The Federal Communications Commission has unanimously accepted revised rules that limit the amount of commercial material broadcast on digital television intended for children....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 4:16pm PDT
Ward Churchill Defends His Academic Record & Vows to Fight to Keep His Job We speak to the well-known academic and writer Ward Churchill about his future at the University of Colorado and academic freedom. A University panel recently determined that Churchill plagiarized and fabricated material in his scholarship and recommended his dismissal. Colorado Governor Bill Owens has called for his resignation....
Posted: Wed, Sep 27, 2006 7:28am PDT
Horowitz on Campus David Horowitz, the former wacky-left editor of Ramparts magazine turned wacky right smear-monger and foundation pimp, came to Bloomsburg University in rural central Pennsylvania to pick up a $7000 check and spout lies and misinformation in a debate with local college philosophy professor Kurt Smith....
Posted: Tue, Sep 26, 2006 7:29am PDT
Teachers of Oaxaca March to Mexico City 
Over 8,000 teachers left the zocalo at the heart of Oaxaca city today in a march to Mexico City to draw attention to their cause. The teachers and other community organizations have occupied the center of Oaxaca city for 122 days calling for the resignation of the governer Ulises Ruiz....
Posted: Thu, Sep 21, 2006 6:10pm PDT
Take Action: Tell Congress To Oppose Unreasonable School Searches he bad news is that the new broadly worded bill would still
allow school officials to search dozens or even hundreds of students
based on the mere suspicion that one student brought drugs to school....
Posted: Tue, Sep 19, 2006 1:25pm PDT
Detroit teachers vote narrowly to end strike In a close vote, Detroit teachers on Wednesday voted to end their 16-day strike and return to work on the basis of their previous contract, pending a mail ballot on a tentative contract approved by the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) the day before. The new contract includes an estimated $60 million in concessions....
Posted: Thu, Sep 14, 2006 7:35am PDT
Defend the teachers! Mobilize Detroit workers against strike-breaking! As the Socialist Equality Party’s candidate for US Congress in the 12th Congressional District, I fully support the stand taken by the Detroit teachers and call on all working people to defend them against the strike-breaking injunction issued by Wayne County Circuit Court Judge Susan Borman....
Posted: Tue, Sep 12, 2006 8:25am PDT
Detroit teachers defy injunction, but Democrats prepare new trap for strike At a mass meeting held Sunday afternoon in Cobo Hall in downtown Detroit, striking teachers indicated their determination to defy a strikebreaking injunction handed down Friday by Wayne County Circuit Judge Susan Borman....
Posted: Mon, Sep 11, 2006 6:21am PDT
Detroit teachers hold strike rally Thousands of teachers rallied on Friday at Fisher Auditorium in downtown Detroit, voicing their anger over demands from school administrators that they accept pay and benefit cuts....
Posted: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 8:22am PDT
DroppingKnowledge.org : Table of "Free" Voices Dropping Knowledge, (dk) an international non-profit organization based primarily in Germany ( In the U.S., dk is a project of the Tides Center ) gathers 112 thinkers, artists, writers, scientists, social entrepreneurs, philosophers and humanitarians from around the world on September 9th, 2006 in Berlin to answer 100 questions in an experimental forum....
Posted: Sat, Sep 9, 2006 6:09am PDT
Aspartame Awareness Weekend This weekend with Aspartame Awareness globally we will be mailing out the Report to Schools on the release, new reports from world experts on what aspartame does to the brains of our children, in our Save the Children project. Everyone should get involved. It can save the lives of thousands....
Posted: Tue, Sep 5, 2006 11:25am PDT
Exciting News and Updates from the Student/Farmworker Alliance! Thousands of students are returning to campuses across the country and crafting their organizing plans for the year. This fall and beyond, the stakes are high in the struggle for fair food as McDonald's continues its attempts to undermine the CIW's movement for decent wages and dignified working conditions in Florida's fields......
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 2:11pm PDT
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