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Alexander: California Budget Needs More for Education, Less for Prisons On March 16, 2009, thousands of students will gather in Sacramento at the Capitol Building for a march and rally to protest the budget cuts to education and cuts to community colleges. Stewart Alexander is encouraging students to join the march and rally to keep the community colleges open. For more information regarding the time, location and date for the Mass Community College March/Rally in Sacramento, call (415) 585-2121....
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2009 10:54am PST
Alexander: California Budget Needs More for Education, Less for Prisons On March 16, 2009, thousands of students will gather in Sacramento at the Capitol Building for a march and rally to protest the budget cuts to education and cuts to community colleges. Stewart Alexander is encouraging students to join the march and rally to keep the community colleges open. For more information regarding the time, location and date for the Mass Community College March/Rally in Sacramento, call (415) 585-2121....
Posted: Sat, Jan 17, 2009 8:47am PST
Walkout! Justice for Oscar Grant! Downtown Oakland, Alameda County Courthouse - Fallon and 12th...
Event Date: Fri, Jan 16, 2009 1:00pm PST
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2009 3:16pm PST
Schwarzenegger Attacks Education—Again Thursday, January 15, 2009 : As this article was being written, Governor Schwarzenegger was no doubt adding the final touches to his state of the state address scheduled for Thursday at 10am, a speech that without even being heard, we can assume articulates a plan to once again go after public education funding. His public statements about the budget crisis and his budget proposals have all offered the same ludicrous solution—raiding public school funding in order to maintain tax relief for c...
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2009 7:57am PST
California Bill Would Reinstate Affirmative Action at Public Colleges Originally From New America Media
Saturday, January 3, 2009 : SAN DIEGO -- Assemblymember Ed Hernandez of West Covina has introduced legislation to amend California's constitution to allow public universities and colleges to consider race in their outreach and retention programs, reports La Prensa San Diego....
Posted: Sun, Jan 4, 2009 10:45am PST
Hip-hop and spoken word activist FASCIOUS in Watsonville Jan. 8th 
Hip-hop and spoken word artist
FASCIOUS
at the
BROWN BERETS
Liberation School
Thursday January 8, 2009...
Posted: Wed, Dec 31, 2008 1:49am PST
UC Berkeley Suspends Tree Felling for "the Holidays" 
The felling of the two Acacia trees on the east end of People's Park has been suspended-- for now....
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2008 10:22am PST
Zachary Running Wolf, occupies a tree at People’s park to prevent it from being cut. 
On December 13, Zachary Running Wolf, climbed a tree at Peoples Park to prevent it from being cut by UCB. While in the tree Wolf was presented with a letter stating that if he agrees to come down the trees will not be cut during the holidays....
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2008 3:53pm PST
Ode To San Francisco State Strike 
The ode was presented at the 40th anniversary of the San Francisco State Strike commemoration....
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2008 1:44pm PST
Eco Alert: People's Park Zachary Running Wolf has ascended a scheduled-for-elimination black acacia tree on the west side of People's Park...Arthur Fonseca asks "Where's the decision making process?"..."Where's the public invovlement in this?"...Craig Stehr bursts out laughing at the social idiocy of Berkeley postmodernism....
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2008 12:10pm PST
Watsonville Toy Drive 2008!!! Toys, bikes, books & baby goods will be collected at the Brown Beret Office in Watsonville on December 18 and December 23, 2008. Pick up can be arranged!...
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2008 11:59pm PST
People's Park Tree Felling People's Park in Downtown Berkeley, near Haste and Telegraph...
Event Date: Thu, Dec 18, 2008 8:00am PST
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2008 7:05pm PST
Derretiendo el ICE /Melt the ICE Migrant youth scholars from across the Bay organize a Halloween protest to the brutality of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and the criminalization of migrant peoples...
Posted: Tue, Dec 16, 2008 7:03pm PST
Shakespeare Santa Cruz to close its door forever on December 22nd 
Dear Friends and Family,
I received some unsettling news yesterday that Shakespeare Santa Cruz - the country's fifth largest Shakespeare festival - will close its door forever on December 22nd unless they raise $300,000. If this sounds last minute, it is because they themselves found out only a couple of days ago that UC Santa Cruz will take away their place on campus unless they can come up with those funds. SSC has been a part of the Santa Cruz and Theatre communities for 28 years during w...
Posted: Tue, Dec 16, 2008 10:02am PST
Final Press Conference for Science Hill Tree Sit (audio/mpeg 12.0MB) On December 13th, tree-sit spokespersyn Jennifer Charles, tree-sit supporter Dani Drake, and tree-sitter Sorrel, held a press conference at the base of UC Santa Cruz to read an official tree-sit statement. They also spoke personally about the tree-sit, ongoing struggle against UCSC's expansion into Upper Campus and answered questions from the media, supporters and others in attendance.
The tree-sit drew to a close that morning when UC police seized control of Science Hill and arrested the...
Posted: Tue, Dec 16, 2008 12:16am PST
Computer virus sent to UC-Berkeley vivisector Ralph Freeman Action taken against cat vivisectors at UC Berkeley....
Posted: Mon, Dec 15, 2008 6:51pm PST
Redwoods Cut on UCSC's Science Hill for Biomedical Building (Part II) 
Over four hundred days ago, a handful of activists climbed up into the trees on Science Hill as a symbol of resistance to the university's plan to destroy 120 acres of campus forest. For the past 13 months, the tree sit has drawn attention to UCSC's reckless plan to develop upper campus without regard for the welfare of one of Santa Cruz's last wild ecosystems.
On December 13th at approximately 8 AM, the tree sit drew to a close as police seized control of Science Hill, arresting one tree ...
Posted: Sat, Dec 13, 2008 8:27pm PST
Redwoods Cut on UCSC's Science Hill for Biomedical Building 
Over four hundred days ago, a handful of activists climbed up into the trees on Science Hill as a symbol of resistance to the university's plan to destroy 120 acres of campus forest. For the past 13 months, the tree sit has drawn attention to UCSC's reckless plan to develop upper campus without regard for the welfare of one of Santa Cruz's last wild ecosystems.
On December 13th at approximately 8 AM, the tree sit drew to a close as police seized control of Science Hill, arresting one tree ...
Posted: Sat, Dec 13, 2008 8:18pm PST
Tree Sit Ends But Resistance Continues Santa Cruz, CA -- Over four hundred days ago, a handful of activists climbed up into the trees on Science Hill as a symbol of resistance to the university's plan to destroy 120 acres of campus forest. For the past 13 months, the tree sit has drawn attention to UCSC's reckless plan to develop upper campus without regard for the welfare of one of Santa Cruz's last wild ecosystems....
Posted: Sat, Dec 13, 2008 3:55pm PST
After 13 months, Tree Sit Ends Press Conference at Base of Campus
2pm Today!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 13, 2008 11:33am PST
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