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An evening with Alan Haber, founder of S.D.S. and Long Haul Infoshop Long Haul Infoshop
3124 Shattuck Ave. Berkeley...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 11, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 9:28pm PDT
Bill Williams: The Commissar Two-Step at DePaul Monday, July 2, 2007 : Over the last few weeks, as I have thought hard about how the Finkelstein and Larudee tenure denials went down the way they did, I repeatedly stumble upon a troubling, but perhaps plausible, scenario. Imagine the following phone conversation between the Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard, Alan Dershowitz, and John Simon, the Chair of DePaul's Board of Trustees:...
Posted: Mon, Jul 2, 2007 7:02pm PDT
Chipping Away at 'Brown' Saturday, June 30, 2007 : The public secret is that most school systems in the United States have resegregated themselves, if they were ever desegregated to begin with. Now, however, it's more likely that European Americans will be educated apart from schools comprised of Latino and African American students....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 8:44am PDT
Asian Parents and Students Face Challenge of Diversity Saturday, June 30, 2007 :The U.S. Supreme Court struck down voluntary school desegregation plans in Seattle and Louisville, Ky., because they use race to assign some students to schools in an attempt to avoid racial isolation. For many Asian-American students, self-segregation is a part of their high school life. Meanwhile, Asian-American parents navigate between the choice of sending their children to the best school and ensuring that their children can adapt to a diverse society....
Posted: Sat, Jun 30, 2007 8:43am PDT
Luddite Uprising 101 - Free Skool Santa Cruz (1st of 6 classes) Big Yellow House (see original posting: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/06/25/18430590.php)...
Event Date: Thu, Jul 5, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 8:59am PDT
In Landmark Ruling, Supreme Court Strikes Down Voluntary Desegregation in Public Schools Friday, June 29, 2007 :
The narrow 5-4 ruling rejected using race as a criteria for assigning students for different schools, rejecting integration plans for school districts in Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky. We speak with NAACP Legal Defense Fund Director Ted Shaw....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 8:02am PDT
At 150, NEA faces tough education issues Friday, June 29, 2007 : The nation’s largest union, the National Education Association, returns to the city where it was founded in 1857 to hold its annual meeting and representative assembly, June 30-July 5....
Posted: Fri, Jun 29, 2007 7:03am PDT
US Supreme Court rules school districts cannot consider race in integration plans Thursday, June 28, 2007 :On Thursday, the last court session before its traditional summer recess, the Supreme Court struck down school integration plans in Seattle, Washington and Louisville, Kentucky, ruling for the first time that local school officials cannot constitutionally consider the race of their students when implementing plans to maintain racial balance among public schools within their districts....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 10:33pm PDT
Supreme Court Ruling on School Diversity Not Good, Not Horrible Thursday, June 28, 2007 : In another 5–4 ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court today struck down school choice plans in two school districts that were designed to bring diversity and avoid racial segregation to the cities' school systems....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 9:16pm PDT
SF Holds Hearing on Controversial Building Plan Wednesday, June 27, 2007 :SAN FRANCISCO -- The City College of San Francisco will hold a community hearing on the controversial building plan in Chinatown, reports the Chinese-language newspaper Ming Pao Daily. The public hearing would be a good opportunity for Chinese-American residents to express their opinions, the Ming Pao Daily reports....
Posted: Thu, Jun 28, 2007 12:07pm PDT
"My Child Just Got Expelled" - What Every California Parent Should Know About School Discipline Wednesday, June 27, 2007 :When it comes to suspensions, expulsions, and police arrests on school campuses, what are students' rights? NAM education writer Carolyn Goossen interviewed Juniper Lesnik, attorney with the ACLU of Northern California, about the rights of students and parents dealing with disciplinary issues in public schools....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 6:19pm PDT
Timely San Francisco Film! 
Film launches campaign to preserve public use on historic San Francisco campus.
Uncommon Knowlede to screen in two upcoming SF Film Festivals!...
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 12:16pm PDT
Watch Out for the Hug Police at Kilmer Middle School Wednesday, June 27, 2007 : Forget Big Brother. He's got nothing on the scary folks who run Kilmer Middle School in Vienna, West Virginia, where it's against the rules for a kid to hug another kid....
Posted: Wed, Jun 27, 2007 7:39am PDT
UC Biofuel Grant Expected, Contractor Sought For New Lab Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : Federal officials will announce today whether or not a coalition of UC Berkeley-affiliated labs will capture a $125 million grant to fund a new biofuel lab....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 9:06am PDT
Students Protest Treatment in Terror Cases Tuesday, June 26, 2007 : President Bush was presented with a letter signed by 50 high school seniors in the Presidential Scholars program urging a halt to "violations of the human rights" of terror suspects held by the United States....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:58am PDT
Police spy agencies target Australian universities Tuesday, June 26, 2007 :Last week’s revelation that police intelligence sought to recruit University of Sydney Students Representative Council (SRC) leader Daniel Jones to spy on fellow students points to increasing state surveillance of political activity on university campuses....
Posted: Tue, Jun 26, 2007 8:28am PDT
Feminist and Education Equity Pioneer Joy Simonson Dies Monday, June 25, 2007 : Joy Simonson died on June 24, 2007 after many accomplishments on behalf of Title IX and the women's rights movement. From 1975 to 1982, Joy was the executive director of the National Advisory Council on Women's Educational Programs. Under Joy Simonson's leadership the Council helped the Department......
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:11pm PDT
Finkelstein case: Academic freedom loses to Israeli lobby Monday, June 25, 2007 :As an untenured assistant professor on this campus, who thought serious scholarship would find a site of articulation within the university named after St. Vincent de Paul, I have questioned not only my DePaul colleagues’ commitment to academic freedom, but the motivations and rationalizations of many of my colleagues who remain silent in the wake of the grave injustice that took place on 8 June 2007, when Finkelstein and Larudee received their denial letters from Presi...
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:10pm PDT
Why They Want to Fire Ward Churchill Monday, June 25, 2007 :T he latest efforts by folks in support of two well known university professors to either receive tenure or retain it is a little foreign to me but I'm workin' with it. I'm from the generation that shut down universities during college strikes in the 1960's. I can't recall anybody chanting during demonstrations for professor so and so to get tenure....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 6:07pm PDT
ACLU Slams Supreme Court Decision in Student Free Speech Case Monday, June 25, 2007 :WASHINGTON - The American Civil Liberties Union today criticized the Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling in , which held that Alaska public school officials did not violate a student's free speech rights by punishing him for displaying a banner during a public event....
Posted: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 5:55pm PDT
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