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College Students March on State Capitol to Protest Budget Cuts 
Students and educators from public colleges all over the state converged on Sacramento on March 16, 2009 to demand that California fully fund higher education and not raise tuition. Many had meetings with legislators. While protests were entirely peaceful, one student was arrested by police for no apparent reason....
Posted: Wed, Mar 25, 2009 11:49pm PDT
Open Call: organizers, ideas & workshops for a San Francisco free school Free schools are sprouting up all along the coast from Vancouver to the East Bay, so why not here in the city! If you are interested in bringing decentralized, anti-authoritarian community education to San Francisco please read below....
Posted: Sat, Mar 21, 2009 5:46pm PDT
Thousands of youth in San Francisco put in harms way - City Leaders and Schools to blame. Thousands of students between the ages of 10 to 17 years have been put in harms way - because of inept policies - in the San Francisco Unified School District and the City and County of San Francisco. Student bodies in many of the SF Unified School District are dysfunctional and this is made all the more transparent when thousands of students - do not have a meaningful relationships with their teachers. The City and County of San Francisco has failed miserably to created Safe Havens. Put thou...
Posted: Fri, Mar 20, 2009 9:31am PDT
Workshop Tracks Announced for Santa Cruz Anarchist Convergence 
Workshop Tracks have been announced for the 2009 Santa Cruz Anarchist Convergence, May 7th to 11th....
Posted: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 2:12pm PDT
JROTC: The Struggle Continues Thursday, March 19, 2009 : Opponents of JROTC have learned that Jill Wynns, the Pentagon's most reliable ally on the San Francisco School Board, will introduce a resolution at its March 24 board meeting, aimed at extending JROTC for another year. This is a maneuver to buy time while the pro-JROTC forces try to deal with the fact that JROTC enrollment has plummeted since the school board withdrew PE credit for the program, in accordance with recent changes in state law....
Posted: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 7:53am PDT
Activism Right There, March 10, 2009 ~ UC Berkeley 
Activism Right There is a celebration of the history of student activism at Cal from the 1960s through today. Last year we had over 2000 Cal students and community members gather in Zellerbach Auditorium for an inter-generational panel on the history of activism at Cal, followed by performances by some of the most highly acclaimed spoken word and community-based hip hop artists in the nation.
This year ART is a part of a week of events celebrating the 40th anniversary of the third world Libe...
Posted: Tue, Mar 17, 2009 12:41am PDT
T4CW 3.16.09: PVFT's Pat Lerman on Teacher Lay-Offs 
Teachers For Class War spent a second Monday in a row discussing massive cuts to education. This week: Teacher Lay Offs! CFT Field Representative Pat Lerman of the Pájaro Valley Federation of Teachers took some time out to speak with us: 57:20, MP3, mono....
Posted: Mon, Mar 16, 2009 10:34pm PDT
Black Panther/Asian American Activist Richard Aoki dies at age 71 
Field Marshal of the Black Panther Party, Co-Founder of Asian American Studies at UC Berkeley, Leader of the Third World Liberation Front Richard Aoki dies at age 71....
Posted: Mon, Mar 16, 2009 11:44am PDT
waiting in line to buy tickets for the Dalai Lama…UC Berkeley 
The Dalai Lama is going to appear at the University of California, Berkeley on April 25, 2009 - 2:00 p.m. Doors to the Greek Theatre will open at 12 noon. I assume that tickets have been sold out....
Posted: Sun, Mar 15, 2009 3:33pm PDT
students at UC Berkeley commemorates 40 years of third world Liberation Front (twLF) 
On Tuesday March 10, “Activism Right There (art) Festival” set off Zellerbach Auditorium at UC Berkeley. The Festival, part of a week of events commemorating the 40th anniversary of the founding of the third world Liberation Front (twLF) strikes, featured conscious and radical performances.
In 1969, the third world Liberation Front (twLF) was formed by students of color at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and UC Berkeley to demand that classrooms teach about the struggles of third wo...
Posted: Sun, Mar 15, 2009 1:53pm PDT
Pink Friday: Teacher Lay-Offs Today Stay tuned: Today is 'Pink Friday' and teachers around the state are expecting the lay-offs of over 25,000 education positions....
Posted: Fri, Mar 13, 2009 8:01am PDT
Border Control 
CABRILLO COLLEGE, WATSONVILLE CENTER
318 UNION STREET (IN THE DANCE STUDIO ROOM 4330)...
Event Date: Mon, Mar 16, 2009 6:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Mar 10, 2009 6:10pm PDT
The victimization of public education in California Tuesday, March 10, 2009 :
In an effort to rescue the state treasury and protect the wealth of big business and the rich in California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Democratic Party passed a budget last month that imposes severe cuts in education. These cuts are having a devastating impact and have generated broad opposition throughout the state....
Posted: Tue, Mar 10, 2009 7:34am PDT
Obama administration backs immunity for author of Bush torture memos, Berkeley's John Yoo In legal arguments before a federal court in San Francisco Friday, the Obama administration stepped in to defend one of most notorious figures in the Bush administration, John Yoo, author of legal memoranda used to justify torture and indefinite detention without trial as part of the "war on terror."...
Posted: Mon, Mar 9, 2009 7:29am PDT
Et YOO too, Barack! On Friday, a lawyer from the U.S. Justice Dept. argued against a lawsuit by a tortured American citizen Jose Padilla(originally claimed by the Bush regime as a "dirty bomb" terrorist but since convicted of an unrelated charge)on John Yoo, the current UCBerkely law prof who infamously wrote the torture memos in 2002 to justify U.S. investigators' torture of terrorism suspects....
Posted: Sat, Mar 7, 2009 11:52pm PST
PVUSD Board attacks Class Size Reduction, votes to lay off hundreds The Pajaro Valley Unified School District board of trustees approved Thursday night a budget that closes a $14 million dollar deficit. The cuts eliminate Class Size Reduction in Kindergarten and 3rd grade (eliminating 50 teacher positions from the elementary schools), slash funding for nurses, custodians, aides, and counselors, but leave top-level administrators' contracts untouched....
Posted: Fri, Mar 6, 2009 11:13am PST
Devin Cohee: A passionate fighter for justice 
Alessandro Tinonga pays tribute to Devin Cohee, a dedicated activist and socialist....
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 10:20pm PST
Free Quality Education For All Community college students from throughout the state will hold a nearly two-hour march and rally on March 16 – from Raley Field in West Sacramento to the State Capitol – to demand relief from the budget ax. The Peace and Freedom Party has endorsed the march....
Posted: Thu, Mar 5, 2009 11:49am PST
Walkout/March To CCSF SF State students will meet at Malcolm X Plaza.
CCSF Students will start rallying at 1:30....
Event Date: Thu, Mar 12, 2009 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Mar 2, 2009 8:21pm PST
Free Skool Spring 2009 Calendar Available! The Free Skool Spring 2009 calendar is out! The best place to pick them up is at the SubRosa, 703 Pacific Ave....
Posted: Mon, Mar 2, 2009 2:52pm PST
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