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Proposed California budget slashes education Amid looming budget deficits, school districts across California are preparing to fire teachers, close schools, cut programs, and increase class sizes, to cover reduced state funding. Like Democratic and Republican governors across the country, Democratic Governor Jerry Brown is trying to force workers to pay for the economic crisis, while corporations make record profits. Within the state the richest Californian, Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, has a net worth of $27 billion, more than the entire...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2011 8:18am PST
Protect Ethnic Studies UNIDOS demands:
* We want a meeting where TUSD Governing Board meets with students, alumni and parents!
* Save our classes! Save our teachers!
* Expand the success of the program to all districts!
* The TUSD Governing Board, the State Board of Education and the State of Arizona must act in accordance to international human rights law!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 15, 2011 3:51pm PST
Federal & State Officials Hear Testimony Regarding Impact of Pollution at Schools California has one of the largest school construction programs in the country, siting over hundreds of new schools in the past decade. Many more are still to be built....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2011 12:50am PST
Sitting in a tree is not a crime! Sitting in a tree is not a crime, and it doesn't take away your right to defend yourself against an attacker. Free Midnight Matt, and drop the charges....
Posted: Sat, Jan 29, 2011 3:01pm PST
Howard Zinn Presente! Anti-imperialist Historian and Author Howard Zinn, born August 24, 1922, passed last year on this day....
Posted: Thu, Jan 27, 2011 1:59pm PST
Education crisis in California After several years of continuous budget cuts, California’s schools are in dire straits. The state superintendent of public instruction, Tom Torlakson, went so far as to call it a “state of financial emergency.” Newly re-elected Democratic Governor Jerry Brown’s proposed budget, however, includes widespread cuts to higher education and social services in an attempt to close the $25.4 billion deficit. Inequality in California is so staggering that the wealth of the richest Californian, Lawren...
Posted: Wed, Jan 26, 2011 7:41am PST
Oppose Brown’s cuts in California! Education must be a social right! In his latest budget, California Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, is proposing drastic cuts that will affect the lives of students and workers throughout the state, including $1.4 billion in cuts to higher education. The net wealth of the 19 richest Californians is more than ten times the entire amount of proposed budget cuts!...
Posted: Tue, Jan 25, 2011 7:28am PST
Schools and Environmental Health: At a Crossroads Come speak to local,state,and federal
public officials about school environmental
health issues and their importance in your
community.We want to hear your concerns
and give you an opportunity to influence
policy on this important issue....
Posted: Thu, Jan 20, 2011 7:41pm PST
KUSF License to Be Sold The University of San Francisco announced today that the license for KUSF, 90.3, is to be sold....
Posted: Tue, Jan 18, 2011 2:03pm PST
Video of Rally to Bail Out Schools Not Banks/Stop Foreclosures - 1/13/2011, Oakland Brief video (2:24 length) shows start of a campaign to Bail Out Schools, Not Banks/Stop Foreclosures...
Posted: Mon, Jan 17, 2011 4:06pm PST
Free Skool Teachers Wanted/Se Necesitan Maestros para Free Skool Free Skool welcomes new teachers for Spring Quarter...
Posted: Sat, Jan 8, 2011 10:27pm PST
Breaking News - Governor Brown Announces Appointments The Governor's Office has just announced Brown's appointments, including John Laird to the position of Natural Resources Secretary....
Posted: Wed, Jan 5, 2011 1:37pm PST
The end of American Studies at UCSC UCSC has suspended the American Studies program with a possible permanent termination of the major. This is a very sad day for UCSC considering that the school already doesn't have an Ethnic Studies program. "American Studies has been an important site for studying US culture and politics and one of the programs where students can pursue ethnic studies and critical race studies at UCSC."
American Studies is the second major at UCSC to be suspended in the past year. It is speculated th...
Posted: Tue, Jan 4, 2011 6:09pm PST
Global release of "Zeitgeist: Moving Forward" Zeitgeist: Moving Forward, by director Peter Joseph, is a feature length documentary work which will present a case for a needed transition out of the current socioeconomic monetary paradigm which governs the entire world society.
This subject matter will transcend the issues of cultural relativism and traditional ideology and move to relate the core, empirical "life ground" attributes of human and social survival, extrapolating those immutable natural laws into a new sustainable social parad...
Posted: Mon, Dec 27, 2010 10:07am PST
Puerto Rico Student Strike Intensifies, Public Education and Civil Rights at Stake Listen to live coverage of the student strike from Puerto Rico on Radio Huelga: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/radiohuelga
Facebook updates: http://www.facebook.com/RadioHuelga
Video of police violence: http://www.primerahora.com/violenciaenlaupr-455182.html...
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2010 9:09pm PST
A.L.F. Snitch Resurfaces In Video: The FBI-Mozilla Connection Where is former Animal Liberation Front prisoner and FBI informant Justin Samuel now? Designing the internet browser you may be using to read this....
Posted: Tue, Dec 21, 2010 7:22pm PST
Challenging the Achievement Culture in Education Kate Raphael speaks with Vicki Abeles, producer of the film Race to Nowhere....
Posted: Thu, Dec 9, 2010 9:52am PST
(Video) Leeds UK - student walkout and occupation You guys have been a source of inspiration to loads of us for the past year. Now hopefully we can return the favour. Please spread around US and international networks!!
Love and solidarity from the UK...
Posted: Fri, Nov 26, 2010 5:26pm PST
The capitalist In the mid-1930s, the great threat to Western democracies was the expansion of fascism, already on display in Germany and Italy. Fearing the same fate for Spain, volunteers from more than 50 countries came to fight....
Posted: Fri, Nov 19, 2010 2:52pm PST
UC Protestors Stand Off With Cops At Mission Bay Police got serious on the University of California protesters this morning, pulling out the pepper spray, batons, and even a gun on the 300+ students and faculty participating in the demonstration against a proposed 8 percent student fee hike and retirement plan changes....
Posted: Thu, Nov 18, 2010 5:41am PST
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