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The Oakland School District Names Five Schools It May Close "The state administrator running the financially troubled Oakland public schools dropped the hammer Friday on five elementary schools that he plans to close this summer to save money. "...
Posted: Sat Jan 10, 2004 12:48PM
More On Randolph Ward and the Occupation Of Oakland Schools 
More On Randolph Ward and the Occupation Of Oakland Schools...
Posted: Fri Jan 9, 2004 9:07PM
Revelations about Randolph Ward, State Occupier of Oakland Schools! Randolph Ward, the State Occupier (Superintendent) of Oakland's schools who is threatening to close many schools, is a member of Segregationist George Wallace's American Independent Party, who want the end of affirmative action, bilingual education, the expelling of undocumented immigrants, to close the Department of Education, Repeal the Voting Rights Act, and the elimination of federal income taxes....
Posted: Fri Jan 9, 2004 12:58PM
Berkeley Denies Tenure to Ecologist Who Criticized University's Ties to the Biotechnology Berkeley Denies Tenure to Ecologist Who Criticized
University's Ties to the Biotechnology Industry
By SHARON WALSH...
Posted: Thu Jan 8, 2004 10:37PM
Speakers At Oakland Schools Rally 
These are pictures of some of those who spoke outside in front of where a public forum was held to discuss Oakland school closings. (if you have names and information about the speakers, post them as comments I can update this post to have those above the pictures)...
Posted: Thu Jan 8, 2004 7:21PM
Pictures From Protest Against Oakland School Closures 
On Thursday January 8th, several hundred students, parents and teachers gathered at the Oakland Public Schools Administration building for a hearing on Oakland school closures. As dozens rallied outside, those trying to get in were met with the news that there might not be space inside since a small room was chosen for the public forum (despite the School District's hiring of extra security guards since they knew there would be many people attending)....
Posted: Thu Jan 8, 2004 7:07PM
Education not Incarceration Forum to Respond to the State Budget Education not Incarceration (www.may8.org) Forum to Respond to Schwarzenegger's Proposed Budget
Saturday, January 31st, 11AM-1PM; Laney College, Room TBA...
Posted: Wed Jan 7, 2004 6:26PM
Community College Students Plan to Fight Budget Cuts! Coalition-building to fight budget cuts for community colleges, K-12 and higher education....
Posted: Wed Jan 7, 2004 4:17PM
1/8 Rally, Hearing to Stop Closure of 13 Oakland Schools Rally and Hearing to Stop State Administrator Randolph Ward's Attempt to Close Oakland Schools
Thursday, January 8th:
4:00 pm Protest
5:00 pm Public Hearing
OUSD Administration Building: 1025 2nd Ave//E. 10th St. (across from Laney College)...
Posted: Wed Jan 7, 2004 10:19AM
Queer Students to be More Protected after Federal Lawsuit Victory The Morgan Hill (California) Unified School District, where LGBT students have suffered years of harassment and discrimination, including physical violence, has agreed to a staff and student training program and policy protections, ending a five-year federal lawsuit by the ACLU and the NCLR....
Posted: Tue Jan 6, 2004 8:29PM
A Letter from Julia Butterfly Hill to U.C. President Designate Robert Dynes I am concerned that a majority of the sources of our drinking water are polluted and that now, in many cases, even our very air is toxic to our health. I am concerned about the millions of children who go to bed hungry, and the statistical fact that it is more likely for a child of color to end up in prison than to get into college. And I am concerned that the United States is leading the world in manufacturing, stockpiling, and "disposing of" weapons of mass destruction....
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2003 12:46AM
Student Group Plans "Million Student March" To Protest Arnold's Attack On SB60 Angry that the movie star-turned-politician abolished a law that would have let illegal immigrants apply for driver's licenses, the teens are trying to persuade a million students to join them in a statewide protest against Schwarzenegger -- and anyone else who has opposed licenses for the undocumented....
Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2003 9:32PM
Student says gay fraternity should have chapter at Cal What clinched Matt Royal's decision to attend UC Berkeley went beyond the university's esteemed academic reputation...[he] placed equal weight on whether he would feel comfortable as an openly gay man on campus...It seemed odd, then, that the campus lacked one detail that some local universities have, a gay fraternity....
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 12:21PM
13 schools in Oakland face the ax OAKLAND -- The Oakland school district has finished making a list of 13 campuses that may be closed next year for both financial and educational reasons....
Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 1:40PM
Laney College To Offer Course On The Black Panther Party A community college in the East Bay is going to be offering a history course on the Black Panther Party....
Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 10:43AM
UC Berkeley To Fire Ignacio Chapela For Criticism of the University's Deal With Novartis 
Ignacio Chapela, an outspoken biotechnology critic, has been denied tenure by the University of California, Berkeley and will be let go when his employment contract expires in June....
Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 5:53PM
Events at New College Peace & Social Justice Events at New College of California, December 11 through December 17....
Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2003 12:15AM
THE STUDENT WALK OUT AT FRESNO HIGH (video/mpeg 8.5MB) This is an interview with three of the student leaders from the walk out at Fresno High school. The show was originally broadcast on December 3, 2003 on KFCF 88.1 FM....
Posted: Thu Dec 4, 2003 8:10PM
STUDENT REBELLION AT FRESNO HIGH! 
Students fight for justice at Fresno High School....
Posted: Wed Dec 3, 2003 11:18PM
Snehal Sengavi on campus organizing, war, and UCB repression -- partII (audio/mpeg 6.4MB) Snehal Shingavi is one of three student organizers who is facing sanctions for his part in the campus demonstrations against the Iraq war on March 20th of 2003. In this half hour interview, he discusses campus organizing, the war in Palestine and the war in Iraq, and positions the UC Berkeley sanctions within the context of a nation wide crack down on student activism and political speech, and post-September 11th surveilance of immigrant students. 30 minutes total...
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2003 12:26AM