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Our national pesticide law only requires that certain ingredients in a pesticide (called the active ingredients) be identified on the label. All the others are misleadingly called inert ingredients, and are not identified. These same ingredients escape from most of the testing and evaluation required for active ingredients. They're not really inert, just untested. The public is being kept in the dark It's time for a change!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 8:15pm PDT
FREE Cesar E. Chavez Youth Leadership Conference and Education Fair on Saturday, March 31, 2006 at Sierra College in Rocklin, CA for 6th to 12th grade students and parents of all school districts in Northern California....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 3:34pm PDT
Popayán, Colombia: Biology student and activist assassinated
Milton Hernan Troyano Sanchez, a radical student leader and participànt of the Huelga de Hambre of 2004, was assinated the night of October 18th, in a city park in Popayán, Colombia....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 1:54pm PDT
Educator Happy Hour for Tracked in America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government Surveillance...
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 9:45pm PDT
Video repost from YouTube. The description: "UCSC Regents locked in a building surrounded by students." It's a 22 second long clip from the craziest moment of the day....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 3:22am PDT
This is an announcement for a series of events designed to both raise consciousness about political repression in the Philippines and build organizations in the US to help fight it....
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 4:27pm PDT
With misinformation rampant about the protest of the UC Regents visit to UC Santa Cruz, here's one student activist's attempt to provide one perspective of the story...
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 12:56am PDT
Thousands of Free Skool Winter Quarter 2006 calendars will be ready for
distribution by next Wednesday, October 25!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 2:06pm PDT
PLEASE VOLUNTEER OR INTERN WITH EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION
(www.ednotinc.org)!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 8:23am PDT
The Greenpeace Organizing Term (GOT) is an action-filled semester and the best hands-on training for you to become an environmental leader....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 8:18pm PDT
The California Faculty Association CFA is organizing a protest to expose the growing attack
on the right to an strike to an education in California....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 10:38am PDT
UC Santa Cruz students and campus police clashed during a visit by the UC regents on Wednesday when protesters blocked entrances at the meeting hall....
Posted: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 11:51pm PDT
The following text was extracted from a flyer passed out at the UC Regents protest today, Oct. 18, 2006, by the organizers of the action. As the media misinformation about the demonstration hits the community, it's important for all of us to know the concerns that the students and workers were demanding be addressed....
Posted: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 11:36pm PDT
From the Santa Cruz Sentinel website:
Demonstrators at UC Santa Cruz shut down a rare public hearing hosted by the University of California’s Governing Board of Regents in a 90-minute standoff that had regents trapped indoors and students scuffling with police....
Posted: Wed, Oct 18, 2006 11:34pm PDT
The Mexican government has threatened striking teachers in the city of Oaxaca with police and military repression this week unless they accept a negotiated agreement between the Vicente Fox government, the teachers union and the Oaxacan Peoples Popular Assembly (APPO). On October 12, striking teachers voted to reject the deal....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:36am PDT
For 40% in England, neither career nor consumption are in first place in their desires but downshifting, exchanging a financially attractive but stress-filled career for a less streneous but more fulfilling way of life with less income....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 5:00am PDT
Bush White House officials secretly mocked evangelical leaders and their trailer trash followers...
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 1:55pm PDT
the infamous Regents of the University of California will be touring the UCSC campus this wednesday and thursday (October 18-19,2006). everyone is encouraged to come to the action being held at BAYTREE PLAZA on WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 18 at 2:45. there will be a march, rally & action to protest the undemocratic ways of the Regents. it is their legal obligation to provide a 15 minute comment period during their visit, which is going to be held at the new Humanities building near Cowell College on we...
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 12:25pm PDT
Adults have fear of the world because they don't know how to deal with that world.. The traps are different. They look very frightening for those over 50 because there is a new communication system that most elders can no longer grasp....
Posted: Mon, Oct 16, 2006 5:11am PDT