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Student Walkouts at Pajaro Valley and Watsonville High Schools Against HR 4437 On Monday March 27th, word spread fast around high schools in the Pajaro Valley School District that students would be walking out of their classes at 11:00am in protest of anti-immigrant legislation known as HR 4437. The message of the students was that the United States is nothing without Mexicans and HR 4437 is nothing short of racist....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 2:24pm PST
Portola District - San Bruno Avenue in San Francisco The Portola District has contributed a lot to the making and history of San Francisco. Many great activists have lived in and around San Bruno Avenue and in the Portola District from the early 1900 to today. The City of San Francisco has only now officially declared the Portola District - official and incorporated Portola District into the official San Francisco map. Of course every one knows that the Portola District has San Bruno Avenue where all the activity takes place and where most ever...
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 6:25am PST
France: University and high school students continue anti-government protests French university and high school students have continued to demonstrate against the Gaullist government’s “First Job Contract” (CPE) legislation, which allows young workers to be sacked without justification during their first two years of employment. The ongoing protests have further exacerbated the crisis facing Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s government, which has refused to rescind the CPE....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 10:30pm PST
Racists tend to be republicans, study shows. As if we didn't already know this, the study found that supporters of President Bush and other conservatives had stronger self-admitted and implicit biases against blacks than liberals did....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 3:25pm PST
Whiny babies grow up to be republicans, study shows. How to spot a baby conservative
KID POLITICS | Whiny children, claims a new study, tend to grow up rigid and traditional. Future liberals, on the other hand ......
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 3:14pm PST
The Assault on Higher Education: The Conservative Push for the Right Student The news of right-wing assaults on higher education keeps coming: The state of Pennsylvania has a congressional board set up to investigate cases of bias in the classroom, the State University of New York System's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to allow white students to apply for scholarships originally earmarked for black, Hispanic, and American Indian students. Barely a day passes when those of us who work in higher education are not forced to face yet another example of the increasin...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:45am PST
New England Anarchist Bookfair || April 21-22 NEW ENGLAND ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
Friday and Saturday || April 21-22, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 7:35pm PST
Observation Of Police Brutality Internationalilation of Police Brutality...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 3:17pm PST
Cal Student Activists are Threatened and Detained in UCB Administration Building Students with the Sweat-Free Campaign were threatened and detained by UC police after entering a UC Berkeley Administration building (California Hall) to deliver a letter to Chancellor Birgeneau. This event is the latest in an escelating series of actions by Students Organizing for Justice in the Americas to pressure the UC into ending the sourcing of collegiate apparel from sweatshops....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 3:56pm PST
France: National student protest held against government attack on young workers Hundreds of thousands of students and young workers staged demonstrations across France yesterday against the Gaullist government’s CPE (First Job Contract) workplace reform. Organisers of the protests estimated that 500,000 students took part—twice the number who participated in the last mass protest held on March 7. The growing mass movement has provoked a serious crisis for the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 6:31am PST
School Beat: District Elections Aren't What SFUSD Needs Just a few weeks ago, altering the rules of the game for who sits on the Board of Education seemed like an intriguing possibility that wasn't necessarily the top priority on anyone's list (see the March 2nd “School Beat”). But as it turns out, people have in fact been thinking about those school board positions, as indicated by a proposal out of nowhere by Supervisor Michela Alioto-Pier (District 2) to amend the City's charter regarding how Board of Education members are elected...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 10:10am PST
The Anarchist Library Goes to Court The Anarchist Library has found itself once again in deep shit. Tomorrow the Anarchist Library, as consequence for fliers found adhered to certain lamp posts in the Mission District of San Francisco, will be going to court to fight fines mounting to a total of $2400, so far. Just today we recieved more citations so more is to be expected.
The citations were first issued ..... by the SF Green Patrol, an offshoot of DPW, that makes sure that the Mission district stays clean of anarchist propag...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 12:23am PST
1968 The only way that today remains practicable is to observe carefully, with minuzia and patience, that has been - but, only, in order to find that it would have to be, or, in alternative, that is it. No eruditism is more acceptable....
Posted: Wed, Mar 15, 2006 7:10am PST
France: riot police attack student protesters at the Sorbonne French riot police on Saturday forcibly removed students who were occupying the Sorbonne to protest the Gaullist government’s bill gutting job protection for newly employed workers. Under orders from Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, the police stormed the occupied building and ejected some 300 student protesters....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 7:23am PST
1968 The only way that today remains practicable is to observe carefully, with minuzia and patience, that has been - but, only, in order to find that it would have to be, or, in alternative, that is it. No eruditism is more acceptable....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 6:30am PST
Samoans and Educational Issues in our San Francisco Unified School District Pacific Islanders and among them Samoans have got been able to get the benefits that the San Francisco Unified School District offers to so many students and from so many other ethnic groups.Samoans serve our Nation and many have died for this Nation all over the world. Right now many have laid their lives down in Iraq. Samoans and Pacific Islanders pay taxes and should share in the benefits offered to all students in San Francisco. Again and again we notice that false statistics prevent Samo...
Posted: Mon, Mar 13, 2006 9:27am PST
UC SweatFree Coalition stages sit-in at the Office of the President On Friday, March 10, 17 students from 5 UC campuses (San Diego, Riverside, Santa Cruz, Berkeley, and Davis) participated in a mini-sit-in at the University of California Office of the President (UCOP). Lasting about an hour, we staged the sit-in to protest the lack of action taken by President Dynes to enforce our university's Code of Conduct for Trademark Licensees and cut contracts with Coca-Cola....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 8:50pm PST
The Project, March 2006 The Project is a monthly radical newpaper for the UCSC campus and Santa Cruz Community. It is run is a non-hierarchical fashion mainly by UCSC students, with an emphasis in anti-capitalism and local activism aimed at democratizing the university system.
The purpose of this newspaper collective is to document and inspire strategic radical actions that are relevant to local, regional, and global socioeconomic justice. We believe independent media plays a crucial role in facilitating dialogue,...
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 3:58pm PST
A million protest against government attack on job security for young workers Close to one million students and workers demonstrated March 7 in 160 protests thoughout France against the CPE (First Job Contract) provision being implemented by the Gaullist government. Twice as many people participated as in a mobilization held February 7 to protest the measure....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 10:41am PST
"WALK FOR A DREAM MARCH" March March for a DREAM is a march organized by JIFM (Jovenes Inmigrantes Por Un Futuro Mehor/ Young Immigrant For A Better Future) Each year thousand of students are graduating from high schools and now colleges and unable to work in the United States. Why? The answer is because of their status. The DREAM Act, a piece of legislation addresses this issue and if passed thousands of students across the United States would be able to have greater access to higer education and a life of basics needs su...
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 6:39am PST
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