Publish to Newswire
Add an EventNewsitem List
49 of 60 
Help us abolish strip mining in Tennessee We are about to kill strip mining for coal in Tennessee...
Posted: Sun, Nov 26, 2006 10:13am PST
Australia: Labor makes cynical promise on public education in Victorian election For empty promises and cheap electioneering, the Labor Party’s ploy on public education in the Victorian state election campaign plumbs new depths....
Posted: Fri, Nov 24, 2006 5:14am PST
Global Action Day for Education (30th Nov.) 
A Global Action Day for Education will take place on the 30th Nov to protest and resist neoliberal reforms (especially within the education sector).
Students of the world Unite!...
Posted: Thu, Nov 23, 2006 4:08am PST
UCLA Police Repeatedly Taser Handcuffed Student For Refusal to Show ID, University Orders Outside Probe Officials at the University of California in Los Angeles are launching an independent investigation into campus police officers' repeated shocking of an Iranian-American student with a Taser stun gun. The student was handcuffed the entire time. The incident was captured on video has and sparked outrage across his campus and the country....
Posted: Mon, Nov 20, 2006 7:00am PST
Global Action Day for Education (30th Nov.) 
A Global Action Day for Education will take place on the 30th Nov to protest and resist neoliberal reforms. Students of the world unite!...
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2006 5:04am PST
Students arrested for blocking UC nuclear labs 
Six UC students and three community members were forcefully dragged from the UC Regents board meeting on Thursday by police after they informed the Regents that they would not allow the board to convene its DOE lab oversight committee, the Regents’ body in charge of UC’s nuclear weapons research, design, and manufacturing labs in Los Alamos, New Mexico and Livermore, California....
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2006 11:35am PST
US: Higher education costs increase for the most needy The College Board, a not-for-profit organization that administers entrance and other standardized tests in the US and whose membership includes more than 5,000 institutions of higher learning, has released several reports on higher education in the United States. All of these studies lead to the inescapable conclusion that since the year 2000, middle- and lower-income students have been paying more for public higher education at a time when they are less able to afford doing so....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 6:22am PST
Message from the Student & Youth Conference in Oaxaca 
A statement from the 2nd National Student & Youth Conference, held November 11th 2006 at the Autonomous University of Oaxaca - Benito Juarez
Palabra del 2do Encuentro Nacional Estudiantil y Juvenil efectuado el 11 de Noviembre 2006 en la UABJO....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2006 3:41pm PST
Greece: Sellout of teachers’ strike paves way for massive government attacks The union bureaucracy’s sellout of the teachers’ struggle against low pay and education reforms will pave the way for the government’s attack on education and other public services....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2006 6:32am PST
Australia: State Labor government slashes education funding for the most needy The Labor government in Victoria has long made claims to be reversing the attacks on education carried out by its predecessor, the right-wing Liberal Kennett government. The reality is that it has continued along precisely the same lines....
Posted: Fri, Nov 3, 2006 6:19am PST
Students at Premier School for the Deaf Block Controversial Appointment Student protesters at the nation’s premier school for the deaf have proclaimed victory after the board of trustees voted Sunday to terminate the appointment of the incoming school president. Gallaudet University had been the scene of ongoing student and faculty protests over the hiring of Jane Fernandes to head the school. We’re joined by campus leader Latoya Plummer....
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2006 7:04am PST
London: Students protest huge hike in tuition fees Bearing placards that read, “Admission impossible: fight for free education,” several thousand students took part in a militant demonstration in central London on October 29 to protest against a massive hike in tuition fees....
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2006 6:35am PST
Alexander Wants Free Education By 2009 The plan Alexander is presenting will unfold over the next three years; first, students will receive a 35 percent reduction in college tuition fees by 2007, by 2008 students will receive an additional 20 percent reduction on fees, and by 2009 all state colleges and universities will offer free education....
Posted: Mon, Oct 30, 2006 9:19am PST
UCSB Students lock down Chancellor's Office 
Protests have been shaking the UCSB campus for almost two weeks now....
A tent city has been built by students and has sat in the center of campus since October 16th....
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2006 11:17am PDT
Lt. Governor Candidates Wants Free Education By 2009 The plan Alexander is presenting will unfold over the next three years; first, students will receive a 35 percent reduction in college tuition fees by 2007, by 2008 students will receive an additional 20 percent reduction on fees, and by 2009 all state colleges and universities will offer free education....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 9:26pm PDT
Join California Safe Schools & Tell EPA Pesticide Labels Should Identify ALL Ingredients Our national pesticide law only requires that certain ingredients in a pesticide (called the active ingredients) be identified on the label. All the others are misleadingly called inert ingredients, and are not identified. These same ingredients escape from most of the testing and evaluation required for active ingredients. They're not really inert, just untested. The public is being kept in the dark It's time for a change!...
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 8:15pm PDT
Student Activist assassinated in Popayan Colombia Popayán, Colombia: Biology student and activist assassinated
Milton Hernan Troyano Sanchez, a radical student leader and participànt of the Huelga de Hambre of 2004, was assinated the night of October 18th, in a city park in Popayán, Colombia....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 1:54pm PDT
Greenpeace Organizing Term The Greenpeace Organizing Term (GOT) is an action-filled semester and the best hands-on training for you to become an environmental leader....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 8:18pm PDT
Mexico: Government ultimatum against striking teachers The Mexican government has threatened striking teachers in the city of Oaxaca with police and military repression this week unless they accept a negotiated agreement between the Vicente Fox government, the teachers union and the Oaxacan Peoples Popular Assembly (APPO). On October 12, striking teachers voted to reject the deal....
Posted: Tue, Oct 17, 2006 7:36am PDT
49 of 60