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Police confiscate material, arrest one at Berkeley Oak Tree-Sits University of California, Berkeley-UC Police today, 2/22/07, conducted a sweep of the support presence at the tree-sit in the oak grove now in its 82nd day. One person was arrested....
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2007 12:49am PST
"South of the Border" Isn't a Party, It's a Disgrace A Latina Santa Clara University student writes about the "South of the Border" party at SCU, where white students dressed up as Latino stereotypes....
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 6:38pm PST
Tonight! Pelosi Watch! Reminder: Pelosi Watch tonight!
Join the 1st Pelosi Watch discussion on Thursday February the 22nd at 6:30pm at The San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin St. (at Grove), Latino/Hispanic Community Meeting Room, located on the Library's lower level, (Enter 30 Grove St., proceed down stairs).
Thursday evening's discussion will include:
Alan Benjamin, Executive Board, San Francisco Labor Council (AFL-CIO)
Medea Benjamin, cofounder of CODEPINK and Global Exchange
Antonia Juhasz, policy-...
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 1:22pm PST
School Beat: NCLB and Civil Rights No Child Left Behind (NCLB) is very clearly another masterful sleight of hand by George Bush and Co. Like his many other tricks (remember the “Clear Skies” program that actually weakened the Clean Air Act), NCLB is full of seemingly lofty goals and requirements ostensibly focused on improving education for all children, while actually attacking the entire project of public education. Most strikingly, its supporters have positioned it as an unshrinking effort to address the racial and class in...
Posted: Thu, Feb 22, 2007 9:27am PST
UCSC Student Government Resolution for Wage Parity A few weeks ago, the official (Regent-endorsed) student government of UC Santa Cruz, the Student Union Assembly, unanimously approved the following resolution demanding that low-paid workers receive wages in accordance with other nearby institutions. The UC promised thousands of dollars to the lowest paid workers, many of which are members of AFSCME 3299, yet, up to this date, have not released this money.
60 workers were arrested outside the UC Office of the President last Thursday, Febru...
Posted: Wed, Feb 21, 2007 5:33pm PST
Youth and Student Antiwar Event: From Protest to Resistance, Mar.3 6pm AntiWar Youth & Student SpeakOut: From PROTEST to RESISTANCE
Political Discussion, Cultural Performances, Food and Drinks
Sat. March 3, 6pm
2489 Mission St. Rm.24, San Francisco
at 21st st., near the 24th St. BART station/#14, #49 MUNI buses...
Posted: Tue, Feb 20, 2007 1:35pm PST
Support Ward Churchill. Stop the Inquisition. The following is an essay that deconstructs the charges of research misconduct that were leveled against Ward Churchill – charges that were obvious retaliation for his comments concerning 9-11.
Please take the time to read this report. Internal appeals are now underway and it is possible that Ward Churchill may be fired from his tenured position at the University of Colorado at any time now.
If this happens, we cannot let it go unchallenged........
Posted: Mon, Feb 19, 2007 1:58pm PST
Who Asked Us? -- Alternative School Means No School A report just released by the California Legislative Analyst's office says the state's alternative schools are doing a poor job of tracking students who are at risk of dropping out. "Sneezie" is a high-school senior in San Francisco who has been through a string of alternative programs. She's getting her work done but not sure she's learning anything anymore....
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 1:38pm PST
US Professor Decries Racism at MIT BOSTON — An American stem-cell professor of African origin ended a12 -day hunger strike on Friday, February17 , saying his protest brought attention to racism at the US higher education....
Posted: Sat, Feb 17, 2007 1:36pm PST
Brandeis Donors Exact Revenge For Carter Visit Major donors to Brandeis University have informed the school they will no longer give it money in retaliation for its decision last month to host former President Jimmy Carter, a strong critic of Israel....
Posted: Fri, Feb 16, 2007 6:37am PST
School Beat: Son of NCLB If you need a does of black humor, just pick any random piece of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. This law is replete with outrageous expectations disingenuously posing as the simplest of matters. My favorite joke of the moment comes from the section that details the requirements for involving parents for schools receiving “Title I” funds designed to assist low-income kids....
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 9:18am PST
Cal State East Bay: We Are Still Here! a letter to all campus activists...
Posted: Thu, Feb 15, 2007 7:52am PST
On the League of Filipino Students in the United States Friends and comrades mentioned to me that the League of Filipino Students in the US was commemorating its “tenth” anniversary. Colleagues who knew me from my LFS days and were also active during the struggle to bring down the US-Marcos dictatorship would chide me: weren’t you already active in the ‘seventies, and wasn’t the LFS around even longer than that? I would tell them, yes, of course. In fact, the LFS first came into being in the US in September 1983, not September 1997 as some have b...
Posted: Mon, Feb 12, 2007 5:54pm PST
CHOMSKY & HERMAN MEDIA CONFERENCE CONFERENCE OVERVIEW: The year 2008 will mark the 20th Anniversary of the publishing of the book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Communication (Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Pantheon, 1988). In this book, the authors (both of whom will be attending/participating in this conference) put forth a model, the Propaganda Model (PM), as a way of understanding the way our mass media system interrelates with our economy, political system, and society in general. Since putting for...
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2007 8:16am PST
Anger over Detroit plan to close 51 schools In January, Detroit School Board officials announced the closure of 51 schools, amounting to nearly a quarter of the buildings in the district, which serves 119,000 students. The school closings follow a bitter strike by Detroit teachers last September, in which the Democratic-controlled city administration and state government, as well as the media, denounced teachers for imperiling the interests of the city’s students....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 9:47am PST
School Matters - Future of Gang-Banging Found on Today's Playgrounds SAN JOSE, Calif.--The streets of San Jose are heating up, and summer is nowhere in sight. I work with at-risk youth here in East San Jose, and I'm seeing street conflicts rise, even among the lowest levels of junior high and elementary school. We are witnessing a new generation of young people exposed to a gang mentality at a shockingly early age. There is a new era of gang banging ahead of us -- the "G-kid" era....
Posted: Thu, Feb 8, 2007 9:45am PST
Getting My GED When I’m Sleeping Outside Countless hours of studying is perhaps the simplest part of preparing for the GED for homeless youth Alex Gutierrez. Gutierrez is a writer for Silicon Valley De-bug....
Posted: Wed, Feb 7, 2007 8:13am PST
STATEMENT ON THE POLITICAL KILLINGS IN THE PHILIPPINES We Filipino-American students call for an end to the murder of activists in the Philippines and to a Philippine government that works against rather in the national interest....
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 8:01pm PST
15-year old Armando Castro charged with felony for sitting on a campus golf cart! SAN JOSE CAMPUS POLICE AT INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL CHARGES A STUDENT A FELONY FOR SITTING ON A CAMPUS GOLF CART!
THE VICE PRINCIPAL VALVERDE STATED HE WILL DEFEND THE POLICE INSTEAD OF THE STUDENT!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 10:37am PST
life on other planets Life is common throughout the Universe -NASA...
Posted: Tue, Feb 6, 2007 1:10am PST
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