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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
Sellout danger in Detroit teachers strike With the strike by 7,000 Detroit teachers only three days old, a sellout concessions deal between the leadership of the Detroit Federation of Teachers (DFT) and the school district is already in the works. On Wednesday it was reported that DFT negotiators along with those from the school district had agreed to a court-imposed gag order....
Posted: Thu, Aug 31, 2006 7:44am PDT
New threats against Detroit teachers as strike begins As thousands of Detroit teachers manned picket lines in the first day of their strike against the school district’s demands for wage cuts and other concessions, state and local Democratic Party politicians denounced the walkout and demanded they return to work prior to the scheduled beginning of classes on September 5. At the same time, school officials said they would apply for a court order to end the strike....
Posted: Tue, Aug 29, 2006 8:09am PDT
Detroit teachers strike against concessions Detroit teachers are set to man picket lines Monday morning following a nearly unanimous vote to strike at a mass meeting held Sunday at the Cobo Arena in downtown Detroit. The strike, by more than 7,000 teachers and support staff, is the first since a nine-day walkout in 1999 that ended in a stalemate. Seven years later, the stakes are much higher....
Posted: Sun, Aug 27, 2006 10:16pm PDT
Detroit teachers need a new political strategy 
The following statement will be distributed by supporters of the Socialist Equality Party at a mass meeting of Detroit teachers on Sunday, August 27. The teachers are meeting to vote on strike action against the demand of the school district for drastic cuts in wages and benefits in a new contract. The leaflet is also posted as a PDF file. We urge teachers to download and distribute it at Sunday’s meeting....
Posted: Sat, Aug 26, 2006 10:03am PDT
US education failing once again... 
video interview reveals lack of knowledge regarding draft and counter recruiting info....
Posted: Sun, Aug 20, 2006 1:26pm PDT
US education fails again 
youth are unprepared when it comes to fending off military recruiters......
Posted: Sun, Aug 20, 2006 12:54pm PDT
Detroit public school workers face new concessions threat The Detroit Public School district is threatening a new round of mass layoffs unless teachers and other school employees accept $105 million in concessions from wages and benefits to offset a projected budget shortfall for the 2006-2007 school year. Teachers are expected to bear the brunt of the concessions, and are being asked to give up $89 million in cuts from wages, medical benefits and changes in work rules....
Posted: Wed, Aug 16, 2006 7:23am PDT
The New McCarthyism: Academic Freedom After 9/11 Immediately after September 11, the American Council of Trustees and Alumni (ACTA), founded by Lynn Cheney and Senator Joseph Lieberman, published a report accusing universities of being the weak link in the war against terror and a potential fifth column. As if the general hint at treason was not enough, an appendix to the report listed the names of 117 "un-American" professors, staff members, and students, and the offending statements they had made....
Posted: Sat, Aug 5, 2006 10:06am PDT
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