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In this email (post) you will find information on: Mexico Solidarity Network's National Speaking Tour on Mexico's Social Movements The Middle East After Iraq Indigena as Scribe--The (W)rite to Remember" with Cherrie Moraga Marc Baer (History, UC Irvine) "Sabbatai Zevi, I Wait for Thee: A 17th Century Ottoman Jewish-Muslim Prophet and his Followers" CJTC Eighth Annual Spring Speaker with Van Jones...

Israeli students are mounting a nationwide strike from Tuesday against tuition hikes and budget cuts, in a protest riddled with contradictions....

Edible Santa Cruz meets at the corner of Bay and High streets near the bike racks, at the base of UCSC campus....

( Allyson Taylor, formerly of American Jewish Congress and StandWithUs.com has sent SPME a copy of an email from Norman Finkelstein to her that this article by John Wilson "is correct." SPME is waiting for official confirmation.)...

Christopher Phelps has written a timely but ultimately disappointing article in The Nation about the vibrant and growing student movement. [The New SDS (April 16, 2007)] He transforms the tough challenges of movement-building into a set of tepid formulas about what not to do. The new wave of student activism in America and around the world is a hopeful development worthy of our active participation and respect....

Two years ago today, UC Santa Cruz students kicked military recruiters off campus for the first time since the early 70's. This was the first action of what The Project newspaper called 'The Spring Insurrection' of 2005, including the 1,000+ strong AFSCME strike and shutdown of campus, Tent U. and more. That spring was a big part of what radicalized our particular generation of activists and organizers....

In 1971, after I returned from Peace Corps Kenya, I taught English as a Second Language to Chinatown adult immigrants. After working all day, my students started studying at 6 p.m., and after class walked or took the bus home. Today Chinatown residents and workers continue to rely on City College classes during the evening, afternoon and morning, seven days a week, to learn English, prepare for citizenship, and acquire job skills....

San Jose State University-Martin Luther King Library 2nd Floor 150 E. San Fernando St. San José, CA 95112...

Teachers of the California State University system -- the most affordable higher education institution in the state -- vowed to strike if the CSU administration did not offer an acceptable contract. Central to the California Faculty Association's objections are the university system's proposal to drastically increase student tuition by more than 200% over the next couple of years, and a substandard salary schedule that leaves many teachers struggling to survive on less than most k-12 teacher...

The recently announced $500 million 10 year deal between BP (formerly British Petroleum) and the University of California at Berkeley marks a leap in corporate control of the University. It will alter the universities research agenda, and, despite the claims of its proponents will actually INCREASE global warming....