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Students Struggle to Support CSU Strike
Two weeks ago, the California State University (CSU) faculty voted overwhelmingly in support of a strike. Yesterday, after a report called for a 25% pay raise over the next four years, the administration agreed to use it as a “framework” to negotiate – in the hopes of averting the strike. But while faculty prepares in the event that a strike becomes necessary, a student body unaccustomed to social movements remains uncertain of its role....
Posted: Mon, Mar 26, 2007 6:13am PDT
Violence & Hip Hop
A brief article and solution to the violence in hip hop...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 9:44pm PDT
California Faculty Association Authorizes First-Ever Strike
(L to R) Senator Gloria Romero, CFA VP Lillian Taiz and CFA President John Travis at Monday's press conference at CSU Dominguez Hills...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 6:17pm PDT
California State University Faculty Strike Looming
San Francisco State and our California State University System is the largest system of higher education in the US with some 400,000 students and 46,000 faculty and staff spread out onto 23 campuses throughout our state. On Thursday we wrapped up a strike vote within our union that many predict will overwhelmingly authorize our union leadership to set strike dates throughout the state sometime in April....
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 6:12pm PDT
As CSU Profs Vote on Strike, It's Time for Sunshine on Executive Compensation
The faculty at San Francisco State University, San Jose State University, and five other California State University (CSU) campuses started voting yesterday on whether or not to strike if labor negotiations with the CSU administration do not soon reach an agreement. Ironically, tomorrow the CSU Board of Trustees is likely to approve a $103,000 executive payout to retiring CSU Dominguez President James Lyons. In addition, the Trustees are expected to approve a ten percent student fee hike at t...
Posted: Fri, Mar 23, 2007 6:10pm PDT
Dialog among Civilizations: Whytalksfail? Part-1
This analysis explores why dialogs among civilizations continually fail to produce results by showcasing one short dialog as an illustrative example. The showcased dialog is meant to illustrate the depth of passion, preconceptions, and self-interests that often formulate opposing view points such that if ever they come together for a discussion, they fail to communicate despite all the rationality and compassion they can muster in the best of cases, friends. The Preamble is informally structu...
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 10:26pm PDT
Bioregional Ecology Workshop
Sausal Creek restoration area of Dimond Park (Fruitvale Avenue at Lyman entrance) in Oakland...
Event Date: Sat, May 19, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 4:42pm PDT
Bioregional Ecology Workshop
Sausal Creek restoration area of Dimond Park (Fruitvale Avenue at Lyman entrance) in Oakland...
Event Date: Sat, May 12, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 4:41pm PDT
School Beat: School Governance and Funding Across the State and in Our District
It’s been a packed two weeks for public schools. At the state level, a long-awaited, Stanford-based analysis of the condition and impact of California public school financing was released. At the City level, new and somewhat disconcerting movement is afoot regarding City supplied funding for schools (the ambiguously defined “third third of Proposition H)....
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 8:17am PDT
Bong Hits for Jesus
Every so often the right to free speech becomes a national issue here in the land of the free and the home of the brave.
It’s no wonder. Despite the hype, free speech is not a right people always feel all warm and fuzzy about. Sometimes it’s a downright royal pain in the butt. It means tolerating all sorts of ideas and opinions that we loathe. Just ask the ACLU. Or Juneau, Alaska high school principal Deborah Morse. She freaked big time when Joseph Frederick, a high school student, unfurle...
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 8:05am PDT
Canadian Muslims Face on Campus Racism
CAIRO — Canadian Universities are failing to accommodate the needs of Muslim students or tackle the chilly climate of discrimination they face, according to a new report by the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS)....
Posted: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 8:00am PDT
ACLU Urges Supreme Court Not to Abandon Landmark Student Free Speech Ruling
WASHINGTON – The American Civil Liberties Union today urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to abandon its famous 1969 ruling that students do not “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”...
Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2007 7:05am PDT
February 15 student antiwar actions collage
A collage of photos from coordinated student antiwar actions of february 15th of this year...
Posted: Wed, Mar 21, 2007 1:44am PDT
Arcata Students Join Nationwide Strike (retrospective)
Commemorating the fourth anniversary of the United States' invasion and subsequent occupation of the nation of Iraq, a look back at the many voices on the road to war — and a reminder of the many more voices needed to stop this war and prevent other wars in the future....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 4:41pm PDT
Schwarzenegger Betrays Students on Tuitions
Advocate groups for free education consider the recent tuition hikes for UC and CSU students to be no less than a tax on college students. California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has done nothing to make education affordable for students since he was elected in 2003. In the past the governor’s office has made it clear that education is a right for K-12, but not for higher education....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 12:30pm PDT
Schwarzenegger Betrays Students on Tuitions
Advocate groups for free education consider the recent tuition hikes for UC and CSU students to be no less than a tax on college students. California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has done nothing to make education affordable for students since he was elected in 2003. In the past the governor’s office has made it clear that education is a right for K-12, but not for higher education....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 9:34am PDT
Anti-terror police raid homes of Sydney University students
Last week’s highly provocative raids by anti-terrorism police on a number of University of Sydney students underscore the real political agenda behind the so-called war on terror. The bolstering of the state apparatus through a series of draconian “anti-terror” laws has been centrally aimed not at protecting ordinary people from the threat of terrorist attack, but rather at suppressing political dissent and intimidating anyone considering challenging the government or the state....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 8:51am PDT
SJSU CENSORSHIP!
San Jose State University is censoring the truth about Occupation of Palestine and Students for Change at SJSU needs your help!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 11:52pm PDT
Increasing Numbers of P.V. Parents Choose to Protect Student Privacy From Military
INCREASING NUMBERS OF PV PARENTS CHOOSE TO PROTECT STUDENT PRIVACY FROM MILITARY RECRUITERS
Two Thirds of Watsonville and Aptos High School Parents Are “Opting Out”...
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 11:28pm PDT
Beyond Petroleum: UC Berkeley Sells Out to Energy Giant
With royal fanfare, British Petroleum just donated big money in research funds for UC Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, and the University of Illinois to develop new sources of energy—primarily biotechnology to produce biofuel crops. This comes on the anniversary of Berkeley’s hapless research deal with seed giant Novartis ten years ago. However, at 500 million dollars, the BP grant dwarfs Novartis’ investment by a factor of ten. The graphics of the announcement were unmistakable: ...
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 8:57pm PDT