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This letter is more about information on the Virginia Tech massacre and why Cho was able to purchase his weapons if he had been labeled by a judge as mentally ill....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 6:52pm PDT
media outlets should be providing students with information pertinent to non-resident students and their struggle to establish a better education for a better nation....
Posted: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 2:31am PDT
“That’s the women that kidnapped me last time.” Says the 16 year old young women I am conducting a video documentation workshop with in San Isidro Vista Hermosa, as a green Nissan pickup truck passes us by. The women in the truck looks me straight in the face and laughs. She has several small children in the car with her, presumably her own. This is my second time in Vista Hermosa, and it won’t be my last. I am not supposed to be here as a journalist, or human rights activist as in the past, ...
Posted: Sun, Apr 22, 2007 1:28pm PDT
As people struggle to understand the violence of the murders at Virginia Tech, NAM writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson suggests it reflects a growing trend in campus violence. Hutchinson's new book The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation between African-Americans and Hispanics (Middle Passage Press and Hispanic Economics New York) in English and Spanish will be out in October....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:30am PDT
A day after the mass killing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, along with grief and dismay, some reflections on life in the US are clearly in order. The event was horrifying, but no one who has followed the evolution of American society over the past quarter-century will be entirely shocked. Such psychopathic episodes, including dozens of multiple killings or attempted killings in workplaces and schools, have occurred with disturbing regularity, particularly since the mid-1980s. A tim...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:16am PDT
Radio Interview with Jenny Toomey about the Rock The Net campaign in support of Network Neutrality and how it concerns independant music kicked off On March 27, 2007...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 4:22pm PDT
We play Part II of our conversation with two of the country's leading dissidents, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn on U.S. wars from Iraq to Vietnam, resistance and academia. We also ask Chomsky about Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz who is lobbying DePaul faculty members to oppose Norman Finkelstein's bid to receive tenure. Chomsky says, "[Dershowitz] launched a jihad against Norman Finkelstein simply to try and vilify and defame in the hope that maybe what he is writing will disappear."...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:23am PDT
In a tragic episode Monday morning, the worst shooting incident in American history, a gunman shot and killed at least 32 students and faculty and wounded dozens of others on the campus of Virginia Tech university in Blacksburg, Virginia. In the end, the gunman turned the gun on himself....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:16am PDT
Over the past two weeks, student protests at the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California have been met with arrests or threats of arrest by the university administrations. In both cases the students were protesting the use of sweatshop labor in the production of university apparel....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:11am PDT
Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association, Letter on the Finkelstein Case:...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 7:21am PDT
Teachers throughout Argentina staged a nationwide strike Monday to protest the cold-blooded police murder on April 4 of one of their colleagues, Carlos Fuentealba, during a protest in the southwestern province of Neuquén, approximately 600 miles from the capital of Buenos Aires....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 10:09pm PDT
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
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
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
( 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
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
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
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
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
A brief article and solution to the violence in hip hop...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 9:44pm PDT