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We are at a crossroads in stopping the closure of schools and getting
back local control for Oakland. The good news is we have a bill to
return local control (AB 45), in the state assembly and it looks like
it may pass. However the work to stop the school closures is at a
turning point with only a month and a half before closure, we are
bringing our resolution for a moratorium on closures to the school
board and we are turning up the heat on State education official Jack
O'Connell. Edu...
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007 2:14pm PDT
"A group of citizens of the Bay Area are seeking a lawyer to take legal action to stop the open air explosions set off by Livermore Lab in Tracy, California......
Posted: Sat, May 12, 2007 1:19pm PDT
The Student/Farmworker Alliance announced that May 11th and 12th would be Days of Action vs. Burger King calling on the world's #2 burger chain to take responsibility for the conditions of farmworkers in the fields. On May 11th, four students from the University of California at Santa Cruz and one loyal Burger King customer went to the Burger King on Mission Street / Highway 1 in Santa Cruz to drop off a letter to manager calling attention to the human rights crisis in Florida's tomato field...
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 10:06pm PDT
Boots Riley Withdraws Plans for Keynote Speech at Saturday's UC Berkeley's Black Graduation
Comes Out in Support of Custodian Union's Fight to End Poverty-Level Wages...
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 1:23pm PDT
Next week, legislators in the Senate will vote on the Student Civil Rights Act,
which protects all youth, including those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and
transgender (LGBT), by strenghtening student civil rights standards in California
public schools....
Posted: Fri, May 11, 2007 9:32am PDT
Do you have unique skills and knowledge? Do you want to see change in the world? Are you willing to share what you know in a non-authoritarian and interactive way in an informal setting?...
Posted: Thu, May 10, 2007 2:44pm PDT
UC Berkeley students, faculty and staff demonstrated against a proposed half billion dollar deal between British Petroleum and the university. Campus custodians also marched for a living wage....
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 10:04pm PDT
UC BERKELEY STUDENTS AND FACULTY RALLIED ON CAMPUS TODAY TO OPPOSE A NEW MULTI MILLION DOLLAR PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP WITH UC BERKERLY AND BP, ONE OF THE WORLDS LARGEST ENERGY AND OIL COMPANIES. THE PARTNERSHIP WILL CREATE the ENERGY BIOSCIENCES INSTITUTE, TO research AND DEVELOP NEW FORMS OF ALTERNATIVE FUELS, BUT STUDENTS AND FACULTY SAY THE PARTNERSHIP WILL TURN UC BERKELEY INTO A RESEARCH HUB FOR BP PROFITS, NOT PUBLIC GOOD....
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 5:31pm PDT
May 9th will see the beginning of a hunger strike to demand that the University of California stop engineering, testing and manufacturing nuclear bombs. This bold act of civil resistance is being coordinated by students and community members across multiple UC campuses. Some of us have pledged to go without solid food - permanently, if necessary -- unless our demand is met!...
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 12:26pm PDT
The Academic Senate recently pushed through a resolution supporting the EBI, amidst much fear-mongering among the engineering sciences about "academic freedom". This hasn't reassured us about BP's motives, nor, we're sure, has it reassured you!...
Posted: Tue, May 8, 2007 3:02am PDT
Palestine Awareness Week is taking place at UC Santa Cruz from May 7th through May 10th and began with a Check Point established in the Baytree Plaza. Five Palestinians were being detained for no apparent reason while two Israeli soldiers mentally and physically abused the detainees and prevented them from leaving the prison cell. One Palestinian women plead over and over to be released because she was pregnant and worried should would lose her baby. Unsympathetically, the solider told her to...
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 6:58pm PDT
Custodians at UCSC need your support. After a very unproductive negotiation session with UC Administration last Friday, UC custodians are moving full steam ahead for a Commencement March for Custodian Wage Equity at UC Berkeley on Tuesday, May 8th. UC was given $8.5 million earmarked for custodians on 4 UC campuses, but the administration is only offering a fraction of that. We're aiming to fill a charter bus with workers, students and community members to demand they hand all of the money ov...
Posted: Mon, May 7, 2007 12:40pm PDT
CAL STUDENT WORKER RALLY FOR EQUAL PAY, FRIDAY 2PM SPROUL PLAZA...
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2007 9:03am PDT
Among the findings of a statewide survey of Californian's thoughts on the state's public education system, is the fact that African Americans are steadily losing faith in the system, while Latinos remain optimistic. Carolyn Goossen writes on education and other issues for NAM....
Posted: Fri, May 4, 2007 7:07am PDT
We have fun, we meet people, we eat, we talk, we have workshops, we play soccer, we have music....
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 11:33am PDT
April is standardized testing month in the San Francisco Unified School District. For the second week in a row, kids of all ages are sitting down to sheets of multiple-choice questions, armed with newly sharpened pencils for battling sets of fill-in-the-bubble options. This is hardly the image we all have of students guided by creative teachers as they tackle challenging, engaging studies....
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 7:51am PDT
On Tuesday, May 1, the MIRA Coalition (Movement for Immigrant Rights Alliance) organized a march in solidarity with International Workers day and to denounce the ongoing raids affecting communities all across the country. Students also demanded an end to the militarization of the US-Mexico border, amnesty for undocumented migrants and to close the detention centers being used by ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) to house entire families and other detained persons. The students met up ...
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 1:37am PDT
Hundreds of students and workers rallied at UCSC's Baytree Plaza and then marched to downtown Santa Cruz to meet up with families from the Beach Flats. The demonstration, which ended in the Beach Flats, was part of the international workers day celebrations popularly known as May Day. The M.I.R.A. Coalition, Movement for Immigrant Rights Alliance, at UCSC organized students and workers in the march against the current inhumane situation undocumented immigrants are facing and to demand the fo...
Posted: Thu, May 3, 2007 1:23am PDT
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APRIL 26, 2007...
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2007 11:37pm PDT
DAY 4: CAL STUDENT WORKER BLITZ WEEK
Informational Picket at Clark Kerr Dining Commons
RALLY TOMORROW AT 2PM ON SPROUL PLAZA...
Posted: Wed, May 2, 2007 10:03pm PDT