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ACLU Brought In As Ghandian Tactics Bring Whiff of Victory in College Exclusion Case Arjuna Ahimsananda has fasted, picketed and complained to the Office of Civil Rights against Santa Barbara City College which excluded him "on trumped up charges fabricated from whole cloth" after he complained about some college policies and penned an article critical of censorhsip in higher education. Today he filed a formal compaling with the California ACLU....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 9:05pm PST
Compromise Reached on California Textbook Controversy About Hinduism SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Following an impassioned, emotionally charged meeting here Feb. 27 at the California Department of Education, where hundreds of Indian Americans presented their views in front of a Board of Education subcommittee, the five-member panel unanimously voted to recommend adoption of staff recommendations for edits and corrections proposed by the Hindu Education Foundation and Austin, Texas-based Vedic Foundation for its sixth-grade textbooks....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 5:39pm PST
Save Our Languages Rally (3/8) *** SAVE OUR LANGUAGES RALLY ***...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 11:24pm PST
Sweat-Free Campus Campaign Heats Up (audio/mpeg 4.0MB) United Students Against Sweatshops have been organizing on college campuses around the US, to pressure school officials into adopting policies that strengthen the rights of garment workers who produce university apparel. A clothing optional rally drew about three dozen students to the base of UC Santa Cruz on March 1. Vinny Lombardo has more....
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 2:19pm PST
Santa Cruz Students Strip for Sweat-Free UC 
On Wed, March 1, students at UC Santa Cruz engaged in a creative "clothing-optional" protest against collegiate apparel produced by sweatshop labor. The protest was also against alleged comments by UCSC Chancellor Denice Denton that 'no one cares about sweatshops.' The students, associated with United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and the Student and Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ), are part of a national campaign to urge colleges to sign on to a designated suppliers progra...
Posted: Thu, Mar 2, 2006 12:52am PST
The Project: February 2006 
The purpose of The Project, a student organized newspaper from UC Santa Cruz, is to document and inspire strategic radical actions that are relevant to local, regional, and global socioeconomic justice. We believe independent media plays a crucial role in facilitating dialogue, organizing mass mobilizations, and encouraging daily acts of resistance.
The February 2006 edition of The Project can be found at various locations on and off campus, such as cafes, mailrooms and libraries, and is n...
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 11:25pm PST
Call to boycott Boston University A call for a student boycott of Boston University due to their proposal to build a biosafety level 4 (highest level) biolab in Roxbury, the poorest, minority neighborhood in Boston....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:11am PST
Free Skool Santa Cruz Begins Spring Quarter 
This quarter, Spring 2006, is Free Skool's one year anniversary and the most ambitious yet. 50 different classes taught by 46 different teachers, with classes sessions almost every day of the next three months....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 12:56am PST
Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST): Education & Resistance in Latin America (3/10) 
Andreia Borges Ferreira, of Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST), is coming to Watsonville, CA on Friday, March 10th. The MST is the largest social movement in Latin America, with an estimated 2 million members organized in 23 of Brazil’s 27 states. Since 1985, the MST has peacefully occupied and won title to unused land for over 300,000 landless families. On these lands, the MST has established cooperative farms, constructed houses, schools, and health clinics, and promoted gender equali...
Posted: Sun, Feb 26, 2006 6:03pm PST
2/28: People to Tell SF Board of Ed to Cut all School Ties to the Military TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 7:00 PM
Irving G. Breyer Board Meeting Room
555 Franklin Street, First Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Posted: Sat, Feb 25, 2006 9:47pm PST
Lawrence Summers resigns as Harvard president The resignation this week of Lawrence Summers from the post he has held for the last five years as president of Harvard has provoked an extraordinary firestorm of political controversy far from the ivied halls of what has long been considered one of the premier US universities....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 6:22am PST
Immigration Matters: America Needs the Dream Act for Undocumented Students Denying educational opportunities to children of undocumented immigrants is un-American and self-destructive. Congress must pass the DREAM Act for the country’s sake....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 7:00am PST
School Beat: A Bigger, Better School Board The rough ride we've all taken this academic year has mobilized the public school community, raising anger but also the level of expectations. Much of the frustration with the recent string of crisis-level events is being taken out on the Board of Education (BOE). Some of this is justified. They are the policy making body and the problems that have come to a head have not been sprung on us suddenly, but for the most part were lurking unpleasantly in the background for quite some time....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 7:00am PST
Randy Ward's Agenda of Charterizing, Privatizing & Impoverishing Oakland Schools 
With a looming strike by teachers in the Oakland Schools, more background on Randy Ward and his roots in the Broad Foundation is necessary. Broad’s goals are to reduce overall funding for public education while using his foundation’s grants to promote high stakes standardized testing and widespread charterization....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 6:12pm PST
Community Meeting Thurs to Save Our Languages! (2/23) ** SAVE OUR LANGUAGES ***...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 2:29pm PST
This School MUST NOT be moved!!! 
Students, parents and families of the Fill-no-mo/Western Addition face more displacement and removal . This time its from the San Francisco School Board...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 10:18am PST
Oaklander stages 5-day, 24-hour protest against war in park 
On Monday morning, February 20, Hyim Jacob Ross unfolded his camping chair in Splash Pad Park across from the Grand Lake Theater in Oakland, California and began a five-day, around the clock one-person vigil to oppose the war on Iraq, and for peace and education. At Splash Pad tonight and tomorrow: Wednesday night, February 22, 5:30 pm vigil "Lies, Torture, Spying? Not in Our Name!" * Thursday night, February 23, 6:30 pm vigil in solidarity with Hyim on the last night of his protest...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 12:11am PST
ISOnuts: One Stop Activism and the Gentrification of the Left A student activist's take on meddling in student activism by the International Socialist Organization....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 12:38pm PST
Indian Groups Contest California Textbook Content HAYWARD, Calif. – Even as the California Board of Education (CBE) is trying to grapple with the contentious and loudly debated issue of what corrections requested from Hindu groups in proposed textbooks for sixth-graders, another group is trying to make its voice heard over the din....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 7:22am PST
How an Oakland Teacher's strike can be won A suggestion for an obvious, easy and effective step in the event of an Oakland school walk-out......
Posted: Thu, Feb 16, 2006 4:26pm PST
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