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Take Action:From the Ongoing Sit-In at Washington University in St. Louis 
The following is from a student participating in the ongoing sit-in/occupation in the main administrative building of Washington University in St. Louis. The sit-in is in support of campus workers who do not currently receive a living wage. Currently the sit-in has been going on for over 24 hours(as of noon april 5). Below this message is a list of ways you can take action....
Posted: Tue, Apr 5, 2005 8:07pm PDT
Hundreds of Students Kicked Out of Freemont Schools SUNNYVALE (KRON) -- Some 300 students heading into one of the five high schools in the Fremont Union High School district were sent home early and for good Monday.
"We asked them to come to the office, we called their parents and told them they don't go to school here anymore," said Superintendent Steve Rowley.
The school district is enforcing a policy that limits enrollment to only those students who can prove that they live in the district....
Posted: Tue, Apr 5, 2005 7:33pm PDT
Coming Together to Save the Salinas Libraries - Sunday 
Photos from Sunday afternoon at the Cesar Chavez Library in Salinas....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 8:03pm PDT
Coming Together to Save the Salinas Libraries 
Photos from Saturday evening at the Cesar Chavez Library in Salinas....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 4:32pm PDT
SIECUS Launches 'Families Are Speaking Out' to Help Parents Voice Concerns w/ New HHS Site U.S. Government Should Meet the Needs of ALL Families; SIECUS Launches 'Families Are Speaking Out' to Help Parents Voice Concerns Over New HHS Web Site, 4parents.gov...
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 4:30pm PDT
East Bay Free Skool The Barrington Collective is starting a free school, which will include peer to peer skillsharing aswell as address the current crisis in the OUSD by holding neighborhood meetings, offering free a afterschool/summerschool program for the children and youth of Oakland, and provide adult education classes in things like ESL...
Posted: Sat, Apr 2, 2005 10:19pm PST
Pictures From Coalition Of University Employees Protest Against Bad-Faith Bargaining by UC 
UC diverts funds from executive salaries to raise worker wages.... April Fools!
UC says it values its work force but while UC has plenty of money for its "priorities," it does not have a dime for unionized workers?! How much longer can UC get away with this bad joke?...
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2005 7:28pm PST
4/16-24: NYSPC National Books Not Bombs Week of Action! Join us from April 16th to 24th in our fight
for the Books Not Bombs Agenda:
H Fund Education - Not Empire!
H Military Out of Our Schools - No to the Poverty
Draft!
H Protect Our Civil Liberties!
H Campuses For Peace - Not War!
H Schools Not Jails!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 11:36pm PST
4/2-4/3: SAVE SALINAS' PUBLIC LIBRARIES 24-hour emergency read-in to help save Salinas' libraries
read more at http://santacruz.indymedia.org...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 3:08pm PST
April Fools Day Education Action in Oakland Oakland ACORN Alert
ACORN LEADERS ARE ISSUING A CHALLENGE TO ARNOLD AND SENATOR PERATA:
BE BOLD ENOUGH TO PUT CHILDREN BEFORE POLITICS!
Friday, April 1st, 4PM at the State Building, 1515 Clay Steet in Downtown Oakland...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 9:53am PST
UC Berkeley Student Senate Bars Military Recruiters! On March 30, 2005 the UC Berkeley ASUC Senate unanimously passed a resolution denying military recruiters use of facilities and assets because of their discriminatory policies....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 12:02am PST
Pictures From "Academic Freedom In Peril: Ward Churchill And His Right Of Free Speech" 
A Forum on Academic Freedom In Troubled Times...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 8:25pm PST
UC Berkeley- academic freedom forum- w/ Ward Churchill (audio/x-wav 44.1MB) on March 28th, a forum on the topic of academic freedom was held at UC Berkeley. There was a disproportionate focus on the case of Ward Churchill at University of Colorado at Boulder, and he and Natsu Saito were on this panel along with Prof. Carlos Munoz, dean of arts and humanities Ralph Hexter, and the head of the ethnic studies department Ling-chi Wang. This was the day right after Spring break, and the student newspaper did not advertise the event, so there were relatively few students,...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 6:30pm PST
Patriot Act At SFSU: Administration Demands Secret Meetings To Threaten Students reposted from ucbstopthewar@yahoogroups.com...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 10:07am PST
A Fair Contract Will Keep Good Teachers in Oakland "As conditions get too hard and many of us see ourselves forced into roles where we no longer feel capable of supporting and loving our students, we will leave Oakland."...
Posted: Sun, Mar 27, 2005 11:23pm PST
3/21 Update on Ward Churchill Ward was considering a settlement with CU in the hopes that it would
forestall a more general erosion of academic freedom and allow him to
return to his research and writing. Last week this possibility was
subverted by another round of personal attacks on Ward and by political
threats against the Regents......
Posted: Fri, Mar 25, 2005 6:11pm PST
Report on the selective slavery system and military recruitment in schools ‘Kill all you can see’ : A PNN Youth in Media report on the selective slavery system and military recruitment in schools...
Posted: Fri, Mar 25, 2005 10:58am PST
Something To Talk About An attempt to figure out why, on a college campus or into the work field, it is easy to strike up a conversation about a topic such as sports or celebrity gossip, but political discussion clears the room....
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 8:59pm PST
William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. First U.S. Millionaire Honored William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. Memorial Highway Sign installed in preparation for Leidesdorff Day celebrations....
Posted: Thu, Mar 24, 2005 3:03pm PST
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