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Dear Arnold: Immigrants Do Want to Learn English Tuesday, June 19, 2007 :New America Media, Commentary, Domenico Maseri Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently challenged Hispanic America to turn off its Spanish television set as a way to learn English. NAM commentator Domenico Maceri says that immigrants do want to learn, but learning takes time and resources....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 9:42am PDT
Ken Garcia Wrong About School Board, Superintendent Tuesday, June 19, 2007 :In his June 16th column for the Examiner, Ken Garcia voiced concern that incoming Superintendent Carlos Garcia will have to deal with a “prickly” School Board. Clearly, he’s not paying attention to recent developments....
Posted: Tue, Jun 19, 2007 9:04am PDT
Section 22 of the SNTE and the APPO establish planton in Oaxaca's Zocalo Oaxaca, Oax. The encampment is made up of around 2000 administrative workers of the SNTE and members of the APPO who set up a barricade today (Monday) in the Zocalo and Alameda of this city to demand the release of prisoners, the removal of the orders of apprehension and the exit of the Oaxacan governor, Ulises Ruiz Ortiz......
Posted: Mon, Jun 18, 2007 11:22pm PDT
An attack on academic freedom Critic of Zionism denied tenure at US university Monday, June 18, 2007 :Earlier this month, DePaul University denied tenure to Norman Finkelstein, a professor of political science who has written numerous works criticizing the policies of Israel and the misuse of the charge of anti-Semitism against opponents of Zionism. The denial of Finkelstein’s tenure, and with it the termination of his position at DePaul, is a clear attack on academic freedom and the victimization of a professor because of his political views....
Posted: Mon, Jun 18, 2007 7:01am PDT
Reason Thinks; Religion Dreams Man is kind enough when is is not excited about religion. Mark Twain...
Posted: Sun, Jun 17, 2007 11:53am PDT
The Organization of Nations is the organization of World War Shaw quote....
Posted: Sun, Jun 17, 2007 11:41am PDT
Educaation: Scheme invented to prevent the young from learning too quickly. Abolish education...
Posted: Sat, Jun 16, 2007 11:39am PDT
Carlos Garcia – Right Fit, Right Time for San Francisco’s Schools Friday, June 15, 2007 :For a decade, San Francisco’s public schools have been best known for corruption, political squabbles and ultimately failures. That was before, as on June 13th the School Board was united in choosing Carlos Garcia to lead its schools....
Posted: Fri, Jun 15, 2007 7:07am PDT
How do you pay for your education? Thursday, June 14, 2007 :Graduating with a college degree is more than ever a necessity today. Students and their families are doing whatever it takes to pay for higher education, including taking on excessive amounts of debt....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 3:44pm PDT
Mexico 2006: Buscando el Cambio Social 
En el aniversario del desalojo de l@s maestr@s de Oaxaca, publico por primera vez un audiodocumental con las voces de luchadores para el cambio social en Oaxaca, Chiapas, y en todo Mexico. En estos dias, hay muchissimas gentes buscando maneras cumplir el cambio, unos politicalmente, unos con accion directo, unos con guerra guerillera. Aqui se encuentra una documental de 58 minutes....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 10:51am PDT
High Schoolers, Anti-War Group Protest Military Recruitment Thursday, June 14, 2007 : Students at Berkeley High School along with an anti-war group held a press conference near the school Monday opposing the war in Iraq and a federal policy requiring student information to be released to military recruiters....
Posted: Thu, Jun 14, 2007 8:51am PDT
Bill Christison: A Grave Injustice at DePaul University Wednesday, June 13, 2007 :I plan to demonstrate publicly but without violence this coming Sunday (June 17, 2007) against the hierarchy of the Catholic Church in Rome for condoning the actions of one of its subordinate units De Paul University in Chicago, Illinois, USA in denying tenure for Dr. Norman Finkelstein because of the latter,s criticism of the policies of the government of Israel and the government of the United States in the Occupied Palestinian Territories....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:34pm PDT
Keith Rosenthal: Workers Score a Victory at Harvard Wednesday, June 13, 2007 :O n Wednesday, June 6, the 265 security guards in SEUI Local 615 overwhelmingly approved their first-ever negotiated contract with Harvard University and AlliedBarton, a private security firm contracted by Harvard, which employs the guards....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:33pm PDT
Students sit-in to demand tenure for Palestine supporting professors Wednesday, June 13, 2007 :This morning, DePaul University students in Chicago began the third day of their sit-in at DePaul President Fr. Holtschneider's office. The students have spent two nights sleeping in the office, a rally is to be held today in solidarity with them and it is possible that the DePaul University Faculty Council will pass a vote of no confidence in the president of the school....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:07pm PDT
Impeccable Scholarship Costs Norman Finkelstein Tenure at DePaul! An impressive record of scholarship was not enough to ensure tenure for DePaul University Professor Norman Finkelstein. An unprecedented yet predictable campaign of hate and slander waged by Israel Inc., commandeered by noted Harvard plagiarist, strident enemy of human rights, and America's leading apologist for Israeli state terrorism, Alan Dershowitz was successful in the denial of tenure to Norman....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 5:54pm PDT
Activist Group Urges Students to Protest Military Opt-Out Policy Tuesday, June 12, 2007 : World Can’t Wait called on all Berkeley High School students Monday to sign a letter protesting the U.S. military’s requirement that Berkeley High give student information to military recruiters unless the students request the school not to....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:20am PDT
Important Action to Defend Fired Worker (6/13) 
FORWARD WIDELY!!!...
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 11:49pm PDT
Workers, Student Groups Announce Back-to-School Boycott of American Eagle Outfitters Tuesday, June 12, 2007 : NEW YORK, June 12 — U.S. and Canadian university students joined apparel and service workers today to announce the beginning of a Back-to-School boycott of American Eagle Outfitters near the retailer’s Union Square store. Today’s rally coincided with American Eagle’s annual shareholder meeting in midtown Manhattan and featured hundreds of activists pledging not to purchase clothing from the chain store until it enforces its Code of Conduct at the company’s Canadian di...
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 2:26pm PDT
Cal Dining Workers Get Pay Raise Monday, June 11, 2007 : Student workers employed by Cal Dining were notified last Friday that they would receive a raise to $11....
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 8:56am PDT
CHANGE Confronts David Rockefeller WE ARE CHANGE visits David Rockefeller at his house....
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 4:16am PDT
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