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Starving for Justice - Fast 4 Education article from Fault Lines, June 2004 “Never before has the assembly floor been forced to stop business as usual and grant full attention to an issue as it did when those of you Fasting for Education rolled onto the floor, except once when the Black Panther Party stormed in, wielding rifles and shot guns…”...
Posted: Sat, Jun 12, 2004 11:20am PDT
UCLA Students on Day Three of Hunger Strike Students at UCLA are on hunger strike until UCLA decides to honor its strict code of conduct and stops doing business with Taco Bell!...
Posted: Fri, Jun 11, 2004 1:40pm PDT
Secondary Illiterates: The Crisis of Education in Western Industrial Countries "European literacy and the schooling of society were not generous civilizing gifts to people but part of that process described as `inner colonialization'.. Infrastructural institutions are not market enter-prises but overall social conditions for the market economy.."...
Posted: Fri, Jun 11, 2004 9:30am PDT
6/15: YouthSpace to be Created on Steps of City Hall YouthSpace to be Created on Steps of City Hall
Teenagers mark end of school year with a community rally to demand safe space for
young people...
Posted: Thu, Jun 10, 2004 1:45am PDT
SFSU Classes Cancelled Friday for RAYGUN! Idiotic This is insane. The man who armed Iraq in the 80s is a reason to close school? I hope that students and others will organize and use this to educate people on who Raygun really was. Other government agencies are also closing that day. What BS!!! This needs to be the massively educate on Ronnie Raygun day. Hang banners at the very least....
Posted: Wed, Jun 9, 2004 11:31am PDT
Fast 4 Education: East Bay hunger strikers end fast at Capitol "This would have been a victory even if the governor had not partly agreed to one of our demands," Cesar Cruz said afterward. It still would have been a victory because of the support we got from people here in Sacramento and all over the Bay Area."...
Posted: Sun, Jun 6, 2004 2:21am PDT
Fast 4 Education Day 24 Update - Rally on Thursday at 12pm Dolores Huerta, still standing besides the fasters, spent most of the day lobbying the Assemblypeople to support the fasters and repeatedly came down to speak with the CHP herself. Rally from 12-2pm, Thursday 6/03....
Posted: Thu, Jun 3, 2004 1:37am PDT
Fast 4 Education in 24th Day It is now day 24 of the fast,
It is obvious to everyone that the fasters are losing weight.... Dolores Huerta joins fasters, action in the Assembly....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 1:15pm PDT
RESPONSIVE EDUCATION Making education more responsive to the needs of the student...
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 6:27am PDT
Hungry for Education: Fast 4 Education enters Day 24 - Update and Call for Solidarity Dolores Huerta has committed to speaking at the SPEAK-OUT this Thursday (flyer available at the fast4education.org website) and has volunteered her assistant's help with outreach.The HUNGRY 4 EDUCATION solidarity fast has already gathered the committments from statewide supporters of the fast.......
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 4:10am PDT
Fast 4 Education Update: Fast Enters 4th Week The three fasters, Jessica Vasquez, Israel Haros, and Cesar Cruz, along with the six other original fasters and their supporters, believe that equal education for all children is a moral imperative. The time for action in education is now....
Posted: Wed, Jun 2, 2004 3:05am PDT
Fast 4 Education Day 22: Call for Solidarity and Update THIS IS NOT A BAY AREA CAUSE BUT A STATEWIDE ONE, NOT A LATINO/AFRICAN AMERICAN CAUSE BUT A HUMAN RIGHTS MOVEMENT WITH POTENTIAL FOR OPENING UP A NEW DIALOGUE AND SETTING A NEW PRECEDENT FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION....
Posted: Tue, Jun 1, 2004 10:51pm PDT
Right Wing Charter Schools Not only have charter (schools) failed to deliver the goods as promised, but their champions have often used a double standard to evaluate them....
Posted: Mon, May 31, 2004 8:59pm PDT
Iraq's education setback The Iraqi education system has witnessed two setbacks in the last 14 years, which has left it in ruins....
Posted: Sun, May 30, 2004 3:25pm PDT
Fast 4 Education Introduced on the Assembly Floor The Fast for Education was introduced on the Assembly floor on Friday
http://www.fast4education.org. It is currently entering its 21st day!...
Posted: Sun, May 30, 2004 9:50am PDT
Day 19 of the Fast 4 Education: Not too late to help - Save Our Schools, Si se puede!! The following is a plea for solidarity with the fasters on their 19th day and down to 5 fasters. Below that is an update about the progress the Fast 4 Education folks, community members, and certain helpful legislators have made because of the pressure that the fasters and supporters of education in Cali have put on folks....
Posted: Fri, May 28, 2004 9:50pm PDT
Professor advocates blood and fire To avoid dismissal, the professor should take a test on the subject of why “the prophet and the demagogue do not belong on the academic platform.”...
Posted: Thu, May 27, 2004 7:26pm PDT
Students cut class to protest state takeover Castlemont boycott aims to hold Oakland school
district 'accountable'...
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 10:49am PDT
5/27, 12noon, Fast 4 Education Rally Thursday May 27th at Noon, they will be
holding a Rally and Youth Speak Out on the West side lawn of the Capitol
Building in Sacramento....
Posted: Wed, May 26, 2004 9:38am PDT
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