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UCSC Needs to Change
UCSC is conforming to the pressures of the UC system, and is losing the freethinking, open-minded aspects that set it apart from other school. Something needs to change, and bring UCSC back to the liberal and creative ebvironment it once was....
Posted: Mon, Apr 23, 2007 1:05pm PDT
Branciforte's approach to No Child Left Behind
Response to article in Santa Cruz Sentinel on 4-22-07....
Posted: Sun, Apr 22, 2007 4:43pm PDT
Ethnic Studies at UCSC
WE ASK YOU TO PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ANY E-MAILS YOU HAVE ACCESS TO AND ANYONE YOU FEEL MIGHT BE INTERESTED...
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Teach-In on Military Recruitment Mon, 4/23 5:00 PM
Please circulate widely - apologies for duplicate postings.
COLLEGE NINE, COLLEGE TEN & THE LIONEL CANTU GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS, INTERSEX RESOURCE CENTER PRESENT:...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 2:48pm PDT
Facts behind UCSC protest (of April 5, 2005)
The following Op-Ed was published on April 10 of 2005, a few days after the first major counter-recruitment protest occured on UCSC's campus. It was written by a group of SAW activists to counter the Sentinel's irresponsible journalism and highlight the motives for the protest....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 1:09pm PDT
With Major Protests Imminent, Military Recruiters Withdraw from UCSC Job Fair
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 18, 2007...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 4:36am PDT
UCSC Campus Wide Ethics Briefing Missing Pages
Today the University has required all of its employes participate in an Online Ethics Briefing. Unfrotunatly Several of the ethics pages went missing from the offical distrabution. Fortunatly some pages been recovered and posted here. It would be ideal if people could email the missing ethics pages to ethics@ucsc.edu as well as share them online to ensure that future ethical briefings do not accedentaly misplace these critical pages again....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 3:33am PDT
Get Involved with Education Not Incarceration
In this update:
1. Become a Member
2. General Membership Meeting Monday, April 23, 6-8PM
3. Intern/ Volunteer
4. Help Us Fundraise - Canvassing, Grants, House Parties, Big Donations
5. No Child’s Behind Left… Come see Monty Neil talk on High Stakes
Testing, Tuesday, April 17
6. Come to Sacramento on April 25 to Help Pass a Bill to Support
Incarcerated Youth...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 8:24pm PDT
The Day the University Ground to a Halt - April 14, 2005
On April 14, 2005 thousands of students and workers at UC Santa Cruz shut down the campus in a coordinated statewide strike by low-paid service workers in AFSCME 3299. The strike, organized by AFSCME, clerical workers in the Coalition of University Employees (CUE), T.A.s in the United Auto Workers (UAW), students in the Student and Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ) and others, was one of the biggest actions UCSC has seen in recent years and led to a new, better contract for AFSCME workers w...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 1:24am PDT
Stanford Students approach 4th day of fast, Administrators refuse to meet
SLAC members entering 4th day of fasting for a REAL living wage through a Code of Conduct. Current Living Wage Policy for subcontracted workers effectively covers no workers due to many restrictions which the presidents own advisory committee recommended to be lifted. Despite years of protest, petitions, student senate bills, and the advisory committee's recommendations urging the restrictions to be lifted, administrators continue to refuse to lift the restrictions or meet with students or wo...
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 9:00pm PDT
UC Berkeley Releases Missing Section Of BP Proposal Under Pressure From Student Campaign
In response to a formal request from the student campaign Stop
BP-Berkeley, on April 5, 2007, the office of the UC Berkeley Vice
Chancellor for Research released the appendices to the proposal for the
$500 million research deal that is currently under negotiation with oil
giant BP Amoco PLC. Previously, the university had released an abridged
version of the proposal, hiding the fact that 115 pages of appendices had
been omitted. University officials have claimed that they are acting
"i...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 2:59pm PDT
Unplug UCSC from the War Machine!
BAYTREE PLAZA UCSC CAMPUS...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 6:52pm PDT
We are not a Market: big tobacco and the impact on young people of color
Young Asian American reflects on her involvement in the import car scene and her work with a non profit organization supporting her and others involved in the scene and the impact it makes in thier lives...
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 3:40pm PDT
Sustainability Week at SJSU
Martin Luther King Library @ E San Fernando St & 4th St, San Jose, CA, Room 225/229...
Event Date: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 12:30pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 1:52pm PDT
Strong Program in School District Sees Success, But Needs Expansion
According to the California Department of Education, over 30% of students do not graduate from high school—numbers which should make anyone look twice at what we are doing in our schools. The good news is that the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) already has a program with the potential to make school relevant to students again, and keep our youth from abandoning their education....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:14am PDT
Student Walkout May 1, 2007!
STOP THE WAR AT HOME & ABROAD!
ORGANIZE A WALKOUT AT YOUR SCHOOL!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 11:55pm PDT
CJTC Calendar of Events (UCSC) 4/10 - 4/15
In this email (post) you will find information on:
Mexico Solidarity Network's National Speaking Tour on Mexico's Social Movements
The Middle East After Iraq
Indigena as Scribe--The (W)rite to Remember" with Cherrie Moraga
Marc Baer (History, UC Irvine) "Sabbatai Zevi, I Wait for Thee: A 17th Century Ottoman Jewish-Muslim Prophet and his Followers"
CJTC Eighth Annual Spring Speaker with Van Jones...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 7:05pm PDT
Attn: Education Not Incarceration new SF Chapter in BVHP, please join, forward Far and Wide
Below are the six programs
that folks have laid out so far for us to work on in SF....
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 3:15pm PDT
April 5 - 2 year anniversary!
Two years ago today, UC Santa Cruz students kicked military recruiters off campus for the first time since the early 70's. This was the first action of what The Project newspaper called 'The Spring Insurrection' of 2005, including the 1,000+ strong AFSCME strike and shutdown of campus, Tent U. and more. That spring was a big part of what radicalized our particular generation of activists and organizers....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 7:11pm PDT