Publish to Newswire
Add an EventNewsitem List
35 of 63 
State Universities versus State Prisons; And Marijuana Legalization as a Solution From a Thursday, December 4, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Thu, Dec 4, 2008 7:07am PST
Greece – Commemoration day of the student revolt in 1973 turns to Riot 
Greece – Commemoration day of the student revolt in 1973 turns to Riot...
Posted: Tue, Nov 25, 2008 9:08am PST
Israeli army storm Hebron college and arrests eight students Tuesday, November 25, 2008 :On 30 October 2008, at 10:15am, the Israeli army stormed the faculty of the Palestine Technical College in Arroub refugee camp, Hebron and arrested students from some of the classrooms. The students were blindfolded, shackled, and then repeatedly beaten, slapped, and punched all over the body. They were then taken to Gush Etzion military detention center....
Posted: Tue, Nov 25, 2008 8:09am PST
Leeds University referendum threatens to silence Palestinian activists Monday, November 24, 2008 :
Leeds University Union agreed last week, by a vote of 12 to 11, to send a motion to referendum which will label anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism and silence pro-Palestinian groups on campus....
Posted: Mon, Nov 24, 2008 7:06am PST
Greece: standoffs with police on anniversary of student revolt 17th of November is the day where the student revolt against the dictatorship in Athens, Greece in 1973 is being commemorated. The 3days festivities lead to a march at the streets of every city in Greece but mainly in central Athens where a usually massive march is organized towards the American embassy that is being blamed of co-operating and imposing the junta at the time....
Posted: Mon, Nov 24, 2008 7:04am PST
Italy: Student protests continue against cuts in education Friday, November 21, 2008 :On November 14, students in Italy continued to protest against government cuts in higher education. According to organisers, up to 500,000 students demonstrated in a national mobilisation in Rome. Students came to the capital from scores of towns and cities including Milan, Turin, Pisa and Naples. Traffic ground to a halt during the day as the students made their way to the main final rally, held in Piazza Navona....
Posted: Sat, Nov 22, 2008 8:05am PST
Italy: Student protests escalate Students, teachers and lecturers in Italy are continuing to protest the attacks on the right to education and the 130,000 sackings being proposed by the government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. By the November 7 weekend, students had been demonstrating nationally against the measures for more than three weeks. A further mass demonstration is scheduled to go ahead on November 14....
Posted: Wed, Nov 12, 2008 7:18am PST
100 Students Rally Against Gun Ranges in City Schools! 
In San Diego today, under the leadership of this martial, blood-bitten, corporate owned, school board; students have become mere objects, their futures, their goals, determined by others. The San Diego School Board meeting brought together titanic forces both ancient and distant.Peace faced perpetual war, non-violence confronted militarism, another generation faced another epoch of age-istic control.They belong to the 21st Century and have no interest in pre-emptive wars, wars against terror,...
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 9:01pm PDT
In defense of Bill Ayers Friday, October 17, 2008 :Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and his supporters are continuing to pursue their smear campaign against former Weatherman radical Bill Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago....
Posted: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 7:57am PDT
Photos of Repression in Morelos 
On Oct. 7, 8, and 9, the army and state and federal paramilitary police were sent in to brutally smash the movement. This model is a mirror of the crackdown that occurred in Oaxaca in 2006 and has enraged teachers and the public across Mexico....
Posted: Thu, Oct 16, 2008 2:53pm PDT
Call us FAGS... [ students choose FAGS
as name of campus group]...
Posted: Tue, Oct 14, 2008 10:17am PDT
Tijuana March Remembers Slaughtered Students 
Several hundred young Mexicanos and Mexicanas took to the streets to remind their countrymen and the world that they would not stand by while their country marched back to those dark times; when governments could massacre peaceful protesters and their families....
Posted: Sun, Oct 12, 2008 11:43am PDT
Campus Antiwar Network National Conference, Chicago, Oct. 10-12 The Campus Antiwar Network is hosting their annual National Conference at DePaul University in Chicago, IL on October 10-12.
It's up to US to stop the war!!!!...
Posted: Mon, Oct 6, 2008 7:37am PDT
Ya Basta De Asesinatos Contra Los Que Luchan Por La Justicia Y Libertad! 
Sali Grace, nos enseño y aprendió de nosotros no sea en vano, que sea un escalón para seguir adelante, mejor dicho para acabar lo que Sali Grace empezó, tratando de mejorar el estado de Oaxaca....
Posted: Tue, Sep 30, 2008 9:07am PDT
On Oct 6 World Teachers Day: All Out to Join International Solidarity Movement- Japanese teachers issued a statement for international solidarity on World Teachers Day for for an international labor rally on November 2,2008 in Tokyo....
Posted: Fri, Sep 26, 2008 9:50pm PDT
Press Release: ATOMIC BOMB SURVIVORS FROM HIROSHIMA, JAPAN SPEAK TO UC REGENTS Two survivors of the US atomic bombing from Hiroshima, Japan spoke yesterday to the University of California Board of Regents, who manage the nations two premiere nuclear weapons laboratories at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore. The survivors, known in Japanese as hibakusha, spoke at the UC Irvine campus during the Regent’s meeting public comment period to speak of their experiences surviving the atomic bomb, and of their friends and family members who did not survive the attack, with the of...
Posted: Fri, Sep 19, 2008 3:58pm PDT
Eyewitnesses: Palin Asked Repeatedly about Removing Books: Eyewitness: "No Way it was Rhetorical." From a Wednesday, September 10, 2008 entry on Informed Comment, Juan Cole's blog...
Posted: Wed, Sep 10, 2008 7:29am PDT
Attorney Graham Berry Presents a Speech on Scientology Attorney Graham Berry presents a landmark discussion of Scientology's abuse of the American legal system as part of a German government symposium oo Scientology fraud and abuse....
Posted: Mon, Sep 8, 2008 2:31am PDT
Israel turns Gaza into prison for Fulbright Scholar Friday, September 5, 2008 : As a Palestinian from the Gaza Strip, I could not have been more proud to learn last June that I had earned a prestigious Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States....
Posted: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 7:45am PDT
Video Of Puerto Rican Teachers 
Two videos about the struggle of Puerto Rican teachers are now on line and also a statement of support for for them...
Posted: Wed, Sep 3, 2008 3:27pm PDT
35 of 63