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CHOMSKY & HERMAN MEDIA CONFERENCE CONFERENCE OVERVIEW: The year 2008 will mark the 20th Anniversary of the publishing of the book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Communication (Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Pantheon, 1988). In this book, the authors (both of whom will be attending/participating in this conference) put forth a model, the Propaganda Model (PM), as a way of understanding the way our mass media system interrelates with our economy, political system, and society in general. Since putting for...
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 8:16am PST
Anger over Detroit plan to close 51 schools In January, Detroit School Board officials announced the closure of 51 schools, amounting to nearly a quarter of the buildings in the district, which serves 119,000 students. The school closings follow a bitter strike by Detroit teachers last September, in which the Democratic-controlled city administration and state government, as well as the media, denounced teachers for imperiling the interests of the city’s students....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 9:47am PST
School Matters - Future of Gang-Banging Found on Today's Playgrounds SAN JOSE, Calif.--The streets of San Jose are heating up, and summer is nowhere in sight. I work with at-risk youth here in East San Jose, and I'm seeing street conflicts rise, even among the lowest levels of junior high and elementary school. We are witnessing a new generation of young people exposed to a gang mentality at a shockingly early age. There is a new era of gang banging ahead of us -- the "G-kid" era....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 9:45am PST
Free Skool Teacher Deadline In person or cyberspace...
Event Date: Sat, Feb 10, 2007 11:45pm PST
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 5:37pm PST
Getting My GED When I’m Sleeping Outside Countless hours of studying is perhaps the simplest part of preparing for the GED for homeless youth Alex Gutierrez. Gutierrez is a writer for Silicon Valley De-bug....
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 8:13am PST
STATEMENT ON THE POLITICAL KILLINGS IN THE PHILIPPINES We Filipino-American students call for an end to the murder of activists in the Philippines and to a Philippine government that works against rather in the national interest....
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 8:01pm PST
15-year old Armando Castro charged with felony for sitting on a campus golf cart! SAN JOSE CAMPUS POLICE AT INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL CHARGES A STUDENT A FELONY FOR SITTING ON A CAMPUS GOLF CART!
THE VICE PRINCIPAL VALVERDE STATED HE WILL DEFEND THE POLICE INSTEAD OF THE STUDENT!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 10:37am PST
life on other planets Life is common throughout the Universe -NASA...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 1:10am PST
Queer Fest II California State University East Bay, Hayward Campus. Visit the website for map of campus and directions: www.csueastbay.edu.
California State University, East Bay, 25800 Carlos Bee Boulevard, Hayward, CA 94542, (510) 885-3000...
Event Date: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 1:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 3:50pm PST
"Black History Begins in Africa" 1000 Oak Street
Oakland, CA 94607...
Event Date: Sat, Feb 24, 2007 1:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Feb 5, 2007 9:36am PST
'Mission of a Generation' CAMPUS TOUR 
GET INVOLVED with the "Mission of a Generation: Stop the War Now! Drive Out the Bush Regime!" speaking tour putting out the challenge directly to youth and students:
“Will we be remembered as the generation who sat back and allowed illegal wars to spread throughout the Middle East, torture legalized, the rights of women and gays eviscerated, and a fascistic police-state constructed? Or will we refuse to go along with this? Will we lead millions to erupt in political protest and defiant tr...
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2007 9:02pm PST
Discussion of Attack on Higher Education Room 11 of the Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St., Sacramento...
Event Date: Tue, Feb 13, 2007 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sun, Feb 4, 2007 6:09pm PST
Jailed teacher defends her actions-Challenged Bullying and ended up In jail 
A teacher in the Richmond CA school district who tried to stop bullying of her students was
harassed and jailed by police....
Posted: Sat, Feb 3, 2007 7:57pm PST
UC Santa Barbara Students Preparing to Strike Against War 
Students and allies at UC Santa Barbara have called for a student strike on Feb. 15th to oppose the war and occupation of Iraq, further escalation, and the Bush administration's apparent plans for a military strike against Iran....
Posted: Sat, Feb 3, 2007 4:03pm PST
Nonviolent Activism Class - located on UC Berkeley campus UC Berkeley
321 Haviland Hall
(third floor, building is just north of Moffitt Library)...
Event Date: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 4:00pm PST
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 1:04pm PST
G.E.N.T.E. (Getting Educated Now To Empower) UC Santa Cruz Campus College 9/10 Multipurpose Room...
Event Date: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 8:30am PST
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 10:13am PST
Mission of a Generation Stop the War Now, Drive out Bush Regime speaking tour Mission of a Generation Stop the War Now, Drive out the Bush Regime speaking tour of Bay Area high schools and college campuses...
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2007 9:22am PST
ANARCHIST LIBRARY - FIVE YEARS OF ANARCHY AT CITY COLLEGE OF SAN FRANCISCO 
That’s right, five years and we’re still in trouble. But as usual we say screw it, don’t compromise and fuck their bureaucracy! Last year we picked a fight with the cops the socialists the student bureaucracy and refused to pay the DPW any cash for our flier fines. As a result we were kicked out of our office/info shop, denied funding, and saw our fines with DPW go higher and higher. Also the Police Club was given our space along with the International Socialist Organization, which actually r...
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 9:00pm PST
CCSF Biodiesel Club Meeting For New Members City College of San Francisco Evans Campus at Evans and Mandell in the Student Lounge on the second floor...
Event Date: Sat, Feb 3, 2007 12:30am PST
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 7:15pm PST
Free Skool Marks Two Years of Learning Outside the System 
Grassroots project has grown to include hundreds of classes and continues to blur the line between teachers and students...
Posted: Thu, Feb 1, 2007 2:25pm PST
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