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UC regents approve $1 million in improper pay for 60 top execs (from Chronicle) UC Regents approve illegal pay for UC execs...
Posted: Fri, Jul 21, 2006 6:51am PDT
JOE BERRY: Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education Modern Times Bookstore
888 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110...
Event Date: Fri, Aug 4, 2006 7:30pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 8:55pm PDT
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking Open House & Screening of Student Films 2331 Third Street (at 20th Street) SF, CA 94107...
Event Date: Sun, Aug 20, 2006 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 1:19pm PDT
San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking Open House & Screening of Student Films 2331 Third Street (at 20th Street) SF, CA 94107...
Event Date: Sun, Aug 6, 2006 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 1:19pm PDT
Florida's Lawmakers Puts Historians On Notice One way to measure the fears of people in power is by the intensity of their quest for control over knowledge....
Posted: Thu, Jul 20, 2006 8:28am PDT
Homeland Security Spies on Student Anti-War Groups July 18, 2006
You probably know that the Pentagon has been spying on anti-war groups.
Now it turns out that Homeland Security has been working hand in glove with the Pentagon—at least in California.
The ACLU of Northern California released two documents on July 18 that reveal Homeland Security as a source of information for the Pentagon on protests at the University of California Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 3:38pm PDT
Department of Homeland Security Provided Information To Pentagon on UC Students' Anti-War Activities 
The Federal Department of Homeland Security provided the Pentagon with information on anti-war protests at UC campuses last year, according to the most recent government documents released to the ACLU of Northern California....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 3:23pm PDT
Who is the Spy in the UCSC Administration? USCS previously disclosed the existence of its spy who infiltrated the anti-War group. Now it has been disclosed that this spy reported to the FBI, Homeland Security, and other such agencies. The identity of the spy has been blackened out on documents obtained by the ACLU....
Posted: Wed, Jul 19, 2006 9:43am PDT
On Jonathan Kozol's Manifesto The struggle for social justice can begin in schools, with a mass movement to take direct action in order to overcome racist high-stakes tests, and imperialist wars....
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 4:00pm PDT
Radical Teaching! At the Big Yellow Haus. 742 N Branciforte, Santa Cruz...
Event Date: Sat, Jul 15, 2006 6:02pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 12:25pm PDT
SFSDF Open House & Screening of Student Films 2331 Third Street (at 20th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94107...
Event Date: Sun, Jul 23, 2006 12:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 12:13pm PDT
SF Cutters Meeting at The San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking
2565 Third Street, Suite 337 (at 20th Street)
San Francisco, CA 94107...
Event Date: Wed, Jul 26, 2006 6:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Jul 11, 2006 12:08pm PDT
Lessons from Stanford: A Republic or an Empire? Gentle reader, did you know that in April President Bush went to Stanford University to speak to the Hoover Institution fellows at the invitation of former Secretary of State George Shultz but was not allowed on campus? The Stanford students got wind of it and blocked Bush's access to the campus. The Hoover fellows had to go to Shultz's home to hear Bush's pitch for war and more war....
Posted: Mon, Jul 10, 2006 7:29am PDT
Poland: Teachers, students demand resignation of education minister The appointment of neo-fascist Roman Giertych of the League of Polish Families (LPR) to the position of national education minister has provoked protests by concerned workers as well as youth throughout Poland....
Posted: Sat, Jul 8, 2006 8:14am PDT
Peter Alsop to perform in Sacramento Area 
Peter Alsop to perform family concert in Sacramento area July 30, 2006....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 9:04pm PDT
American Indian mascots harm students A University of North Dakota survey using the strict guidelines of the Institutional Review Board shows that the university’s Fighting Sioux team name and logo has real effects on students....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:22am PDT
SF Supervisors Budget Committee votes $480k to open branch libraries on Sundays More branch libraries in the San Francisoc Public Library system could open on Sundays. That is the effect of the Budget and Finance Committee’s action Thursday to place $480,000 on reserve for new Sunday hours at branches that are currently closed on that day....
Posted: Fri, Jul 7, 2006 6:18am PDT
School Beat: Building Integrated Schools Few things are as of much interest to parents of children who will soon be entering elementary, middle or high school then how students are actually assigned to schools. In San Francisco we have had a system of family-ranked preference, called “school choice,” combined with a lottery based on socioeconomic factors for those schools receiving more requests than available openings. That system, known as the “Diversity Index,” was an effort to accommodate individual preferences while simultaneou...
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 6:48am PDT
Germany: Ten thousand demonstrate against university fees On June 29, ten thousand university students, teachers, school pupils and parents from throughout the German state of Hesse demonstrated in Wiesbaden against plans by the CDU (Christian Democratic Union) state administration to introduce a general study fee of 500 euros per term. A limit of up to 1,500 euros per term is envisaged for graduate courses and foreign students from European Union countries. The law is to be introduced in the state parliament in July....
Posted: Thu, Jul 6, 2006 6:25am PDT
Greece: Mass demonstrations protest assault on public education Students and academic staff in Greece have mounted demonstrations, rallies and occupations of universities for the past four months against plans by the New Democracy government of Constantine Karamanlis to break up the state system of higher education and introduce private universities....
Posted: Wed, Jul 5, 2006 7:20am PDT
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