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U.S. students win ‘new day’ for Honduran workers Friday, November 20, 2009 : In a landmark victory after student protests at U.S. universities, Russell Athletics, the largest supplier of team uniforms and apparel to campuses, has agreed to reopen a Honduran factory that it shut down in January after its workers formed a union....
Posted: Fri, Nov 20, 2009 7:38am PST
Budget Cuts Produce New Protests In California Two-Day Demonstration Only Latest Protest In State This Year....
Posted: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 7:37pm PST
Communique from the UCLA Occupation On 19 November at approximately 12:30 students occupied Campbell Hall at UCLA. The time has come for us to make a statement and issue our demands. In response to this injunction we say: we will ask nothing. We will demand nothing. We will take, we will occupy. We have to learn not to tip toe through a space which ought by right to belong to everyone....
Posted: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 11:06am PST
UCLA Occupation Students have taken over Campbell Hall at UCLA!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 19, 2009 3:06am PST
CRISIS FEST CALL TO ACTION CRISIS FEST CALL TO ACTION
On November 18th, hundreds of union members and students from all over California will converge on UCLA in the leadup to the system-wide protest of the Regents meeting. With the support of union and student groups, there will be a day and night Tent City outside of Pauley Pavillion to house our convergence!...
Posted: Sun, Nov 15, 2009 10:41pm PST
T4CW 11.2.09: Dave Marcus on an Educational Rite of Passage (audio/mpeg 24.3MB) The Teachers spoke with Dave Marcus, about the process known as College Admissions, which generally misses the mark as a rite of passage, which it should be. Rather than SAT tutorials, teens should be finding themselves and self reflecting on the process of what it means to become an adult. Dave talks about what we can do differently for our students on the verge of adulthood. 53:11 mono MP3...
Posted: Mon, Nov 9, 2009 6:00pm PST
Venezuela: The error of being Lusbi Portillo 
* The latest demonstration of political criminalization of autonomous social movements by the Venezuelan government is exposed by Rafael Uzcategui, a member of the anarchist collective El Libertario....
Posted: Mon, Nov 2, 2009 6:57pm PST
Third Paradigm Radio: The Student Loan Mafia (audio/mpeg 33.5MB) Explains how hard-working, responsible graduates become mired in impossible debt. Reviews the history of a predatory industry that has bribed universities, financial aid officers, and Congress to strip all consumer protections. Details the underhanded tactics, usurious fees, and draconian collection practices that have driven borrowers out of jobs, out of the country, and out of their minds. Also reads the poems "All the Hemispheres" by Hafiz, "Caretake This Moment" by Epictetus, and "Life is...
Posted: Sat, Oct 31, 2009 4:35pm PDT
T4CW Oct. 26 09: Jim Loewen (audio/mpeg 13.7MB) On Monday we spoke with James Loewen, researcher, author, teacher, and history-doer. His latest book is a how-to guide for teachers, with the aim of reclaiming history from boring dates and names and replacing a vibrant sense of connection to the past. Teachers for Class War airs every Monday at 6 PM on Freak Radio Santa Cruz. 30 min., mp3 format, mono....
Posted: Fri, Oct 30, 2009 7:44am PDT
T4CW 10.5.09: Update on Oaxaca's Schools, from Activist/Parent of Oaxaca City Schoolchild (audio/mpeg 27.3MB) The Maestr@s spoke with a fellow media activist, Oaxaca City resident, and parent of a school aged daughter about the state of education in Oaxaca, where teachers mounted and led a massive uprising in 2006. We discuss the effects on schools and school children, three years later. 59.36 MP3 format...
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 5:25pm PDT
Parents organize for Spanish-English translators in schools Sunday, October 25, 2009 : NEW HAVEN, Conn.—The grassroots parent organization, Teach Our Children, rallied at the Board of Education recently to protest the lack of translators at mandatory parent orientations. The New Haven Superintendent Dr. Reginald Mayo promised Teach Our Children in an Aug. 5 meeting that he would provide Spanish translators at parent orientations in every school, beginning in the 2009-2010 school year....
Posted: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 6:20am PDT
Reclaim your University! - Message from Vienna, Austria 
We, students from all disciplines at the University of Vienna, independent from political groups or parties and spontaneously gathered in face of catastrophic developments in our university system, have squatted our university's main lecture hall on Thursday afternoon, and have now been occupying a large part of our university for more than 60 hours....
Posted: Sun, Oct 25, 2009 2:14pm PDT
Taliban Attack Islamabad University, kill 6, wound 37 From a Wednesday, October 21, 2009 entry on Informed Comment a blog run by Juan Cole...
Posted: Wed, Oct 21, 2009 7:11am PDT
ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Retaliatory Expulsion Of Student Under Unconstitutional Disciplinary Policy Monday, October 19, 2009 : OLIVE BRANCH, MS – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Mississippi today filed a lawsuit charging DeSoto County, Mississippi school and police officials with retaliation for expelling a ninth grade student who in April filed a federal civil rights lawsuit alleging that county authorities assaulted and racially discriminated against a group of schoolchildren riding home on a school bus. ...
Posted: Mon, Oct 19, 2009 5:26pm PDT
Mexico "Anarcho-Bombings" Spark Student Witch Hunt Saturday, October 10, 2009
Throughout the month of September, over ten bombs were placed in banks, a car dealership, a luxury clothing store, a small police station, and an animal testing laboratory in Mexico City and the states of Guanajuato, Nayarit, and Jalisco. Most exploded; no injuries were reported....
Posted: Mon, Oct 12, 2009 6:41am PDT
Israel: Stop Blocking School Supplies From Entering Gaza (Jerusalem) - Israeli authorities should immediately lift restrictions that have left students in Gaza's public schools without textbooks and the most basic school supplies, such as notebooks and pens, Human Rights Watch said today. Israel severely limits imports into Gaza of a wide variety of basic goods, from food to construction materials....
Posted: Sun, Oct 11, 2009 8:12am PDT
UCSD Student Teach-In September 23 -- Part Two (video/quicktime 63.5MB) UCSD Students organized a teach-in regarding the budget cuts, tuition increases, furloughs, privitization and resistance on September 23, the day before last week's walkout. Part Two discusses neoliberalism - the context for privitization,relationships to workers struggles, increasing instruction by low paid graduate students and adjunct professors, and parallel struggles by students worldwide . Video: 26 min 2 sec 63 mbytes....
Posted: Thu, Oct 1, 2009 12:38am PDT
UCSD Student Teach-In September 23 -- Part One (video/quicktime 63.6MB) UCSD Students organized a teach-in regarding the budget cuts, tuition increases, furloughs, privitization and resistance on September 23, the day before last week's walkout. Part One gives background on the budget situation and its likely effect on students. Video: 24 min 44 sec 63 mbytes....
Posted: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 5:53pm PDT
100 Years Ago, Spain Killed a Teacher: The Legacy of Francisco Ferrer and Anarchist Educat October marks the 100th anniversary of the death of Spanish educator Francisco Ferrer y Guardia. On October 13, 1909, the Spanish government, along with the Catholic Church, executed a teacher. Why?...
Posted: Wed, Sep 30, 2009 3:31am PDT
"For the Children..." (audio/mpeg 1.7MB) The next time I hear a politician promise to do something 'for the children', I may heave....
Posted: Mon, Sep 28, 2009 4:59pm PDT
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