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San Francisco Teachers Vote to Authorize Strike Teacher Voted Overwhelming to Strike...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 10:08pm PST
Students From Six High Schools March in Santa Cruz Against HR4437 (audio/mpeg 2.4MB) On Wednesday, March 29th, hundreds of students from Santa Cruz High, Santa Cruz Community, Habor, Aptos, Soquel and Cesar Chavez (Barrios Unidos) left class at 10:00am to meet at the Clock Tower and march to the Santa Cruz County Courthouse. They marched for immigrant rights and justice and against HR4437.
After the walkout and march, I went over to Santa Cruz High and spoke to a small group of students. Ricky, a student at Santa Cruz Community and Edwin, a student at Santa Cruz High, dis...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 6:18pm PST
The Empire Strikes Back! Day 3 of Student Walkouts in Fresno 
Students continued to walk out of school in protest of HR 4437. On Wednesday the police and school administration changed their tactics and began detaining students....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 5:44pm PST
3/29, Thousands of California Students Walk Out Despite Enforcement of Truancy Laws These young folks make me proud and give me hope! You go!...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 4:45pm PST
2,000 Phoenix Students Defy "Closed" Campuses, Stage Walkout to Gather at AZ Capital Valley students again walk out, rally...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 4:26pm PST
Dallas Schools on Lockdown After Student Walkouts and "Swarming" City Hall DISD Officials Cracking Down On Student Protests...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 4:16pm PST
Hollister Students Protest Immigration Bill With School Walkout The event was apparently set in motion during the middle of the assembly when a female student stood up and declared in Spanish that no one would notice the students' disapproval of the immigration bill, HR 4437, while they were in the high school auditorium. And once the first ones crossed the street they got more momentum, more kids just kept joining them....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 4:12pm PST
Houston students take to streets again Protests draw critics, supporters — and efforts from schools to stop them...
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 3:52pm PST
Student Walkouts Continue Tuesday; Officials Vow Crackdown Student Walkouts Continue; Officials Vow Crackdown
Baca and Bratton say their agencies will begin aggressively enforcing truancy laws against youths walking out of class to join protests....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 3:45pm PST
Commentary: Immigrant Movements, Xenophobia, Racism The legislation, entitled the “Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005” lumps different reactionary symbols together creating a powerfully xenophobic, racist, and militaristic trope. All at once it evokes themes of threatening terrorist who seek to destroy America with swift and violent action, alongside the threat of a racial other who will destroy America slowly via a silent invasion....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 12:00pm PST
Watsonville Student Legal Defense Dear Friends,
Students in Watsonville have joined with others across the country in expressing outrage at proposed immigration legislation attacking workers from outside the United States....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 10:47am PST
SF: The D5 School Merger Controversy District 5 Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi held up poster showing the school district’s plan to have administration offices at John Swett Alternative Elementary School. Many are upset at the planned merger of John Swett and John Muir Elementary Schools. At a press conference yesterday at the Public Utilities Commission community advocates, teachers and parents were in attendance to voice their concerns. All speakers urged the San Francisco Board of Education to rescind their vote....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:43am PST
Thousands of Students Defy Lockdowns and Continue Walkouts to Protest Anti-Immigrant Bill Tens of thousands of high school students have staged walkouts in protest over a House bill that proposes a sweeping crackdown on undocumented immigrants. We go to Los Angeles to speak with Jasmine Chavez, a 17-year old student at Montabello High School and Luis Rodriguez, a community activist, poet and writer....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:23am PST
Help Student Protesters 3/29 Teacher & Ally Meeting @4PM Watsonville Pass to all who would be interested in attending...
YWCA Watsonville
4-5:30PM
340 East Beach Street
Watsonville CA 95076...
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 9:43pm PST
Accounts of Police Violating Civil Rights of Students in Watsonville on 3/27 (audio/mpeg 6.4MB) On Monday, March 27th, 2006, high school students went on strike to protest against HR 4437. In Watsonville, police responded by violating the civil rights of students, including detaining students at 2:00pm for "walking out of school" even though their school, Renaissance High School, had gotten out at 1:15pm. Another student at Renaissance was arrested after refusing to get on a bus. She was already out of school and did not walkout. (Audio is 18 minutes and 30 seconds)...
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 5:34pm PST
Immigrant Rights - The Protests and Walkouts are Growing Larger in Fresno 
In Fresno, the immigrant rights marches and walkouts by high school students are growing in strength and numbers. On Monday there were over 500 students at the march and rally. Today the estimates were as high as 6,000....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 1:43pm PST
FRSC: Jenn and Ramiro of the Brown Berets discuss Student Walkouts, HR 4437 and more (audio/mpeg 4.2MB) Agusto Cesar Sandino Segundo talks with Jenn Laskin and then Ramiro Medrano. Jenn and Ramiro called into the Global Local program on Freak Radio Santa Cruz, 101.1FM on Monday, March 27 to discuss the student walkouts which took place at local high schools....
Posted: Tue, Mar 28, 2006 7:49am PST
Students' peaceful immigration rights rally turns ugly WATSONVILLE - More than 800 high school students from Watsonville and Aptos walked out of school and onto the street this morning in support of immigration rights....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 8:59pm PST
Over 500 Students Walk Out in Fresno 
Hundreds of students from multiple high schools in Fresno walked out today in protest of HR 4437. The students marched to City Hall where they held a rally....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 7:08pm PST
Student Walkouts at Pajaro Valley and Watsonville High Schools Against HR 4437 On Monday March 27th, word spread fast around high schools in the Pajaro Valley School District that students would be walking out of their classes at 11:00am in protest of anti-immigrant legislation known as HR 4437. The message of the students was that the United States is nothing without Mexicans and HR 4437 is nothing short of racist....
Posted: Mon, Mar 27, 2006 2:24pm PST
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