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Lennar BVHP LLC and the San Francisco School Board's Resolution exposing Lennar The San Francisco School Board has taken the initiative to bring to light the adverse impacts imposed on innocent children and others by Lennar BVHP LLC. Several PUBLIC schools have been impacted by Lennar's BVHP LLC activities on Parcel A and massive grading of Ultramaphic Serpentine Rock. Concerned parents, relatives, and concerned constituents have gone before the San Francisco Unified School Board Meetings and expressed their concern linked to the adverse impacts and children. Be there T...
Posted: Fri, Sep 21, 2007 8:03am PDT
School Beat: Salad Days Thursday, September 20, 2007 : Another day, another depressing study about kids’ health – this time it’s Newsweek reporting that a projection by the Center for Disease Control indicates that nearly half of all African American and Latino children born in the US in the year 2000 will become diabetic at some point in their lives. By now everyone knows that today’s youth are facing an obesity crisis that threatens to make their generation the first in modern history to have a shorter life span t...
Posted: Thu, Sep 20, 2007 6:57am PDT
6,154 UAW members publicly call on UC to bargain a fair contract by 9/30 Over 6,000 union members have signed on to the Public Statement calling on the University administration to negotiate fairly and reach agreement on a new contract by the end of this month, when our current contract expires....
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 2:31pm PDT
UC Jobs Campaign at the Regents Meeting, DAVIS The fight for UC jobs at the UC Davis campus dining halls continues at the regents meeting on sept. 19th. The campaign has gotten very little recognition from the administration, and so organizers are turning to the regents to force the administration to acknowledge the wishes of students, workers, and community members by bringing the food workers In-House. We need people to show support of this labor campaign by packing into the Regents meeting during Public Comment at 8:30 in the morning! ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 18, 2007 12:41pm PDT
Banafsheh Akhlaghi: Radical Lawyering in Times of Crisis (video/mp4 64.4MB) Banafsheh Akhlaghi speaks on "radical lawyering in times of crisis"....
Posted: Sun, Sep 16, 2007 1:39pm PDT
Anonymous group of San Francisco State Students demonstrate on September 11th 
While the College Republicans and Democrats wanted to "honor" the lives of Americans lost in the World Trade Center on September 11th and exercise patriotic sentiments, an independent and unaffiliated group of concerned students felt it was necessary to mourn the lives of all those that have died as a result of September 11th including the lives of Iraqi's, Afghanis, and Americans. In addition to mourning the loss of all human life in this unlawful war these students wanted to address an atta...
Posted: Thu, Sep 13, 2007 3:08pm PDT
Administration Proposes Cuts across the Board; UAW Stands Firm Our bargaining team met with the university administration again September 5-7. The administration presented responses to several of our economic proposals. Unfortunately, the administrations proposals were unacceptable and did not set a positive tone for upcoming negotiations. The proposals were unresponsive to members concerns about childcare and represented effective cuts in wages, fee remissions, and health benefits....
Posted: Wed, Sep 12, 2007 4:49pm PDT
SFSU: Stand Up and Fight Back September 11th, 2007 This event will take place near the Malcolm X plaza in the grassy quad area at San Francisco State University....
Event Date: Tue, Sep 11, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Sep 10, 2007 5:09pm PDT
The Populist, Radical School Food Revolution Thursday, September 6, 2007 : Five years ago, parent activists and staff at San Francisco’s Aptos Middle School fought the SFUSD bureaucracy to begin a pilot project banishing junk food sales, which expanded into the districtwide Wellness Policy. Back then, SFUSD sold soda, Twinkies, French fries and other tempting but health-busting items in middle and high schools’ a la carte Beaneries....
Posted: Thu, Sep 6, 2007 7:52am PDT
Oak Grove after Fences and Footbal 
The tree sit at the Oak Grove continues on....
Posted: Wed, Sep 5, 2007 1:54pm PDT
City of Sacramento uses eminent domain; forces pregnant woman to sell her business City of Sacramento uses eminent domain; forces pregnant woman to sell her business...
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 10:38pm PDT
Berkeley Treesit Video (video/mpeg 37.3MB) These videos were shot by a tree-sitter the day UCPD fenced in the treesit at Memorial Grove. The first shows a supporter being violently arrested for handing food to a treesitter. The second video is one of our own doing an interview with the corporate news media....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 6:55pm PDT
Photos from the Berkeley Tree-sit 
These photos were shot by a treesitter in the trees when UCPD fenced in the treesitters on August 29....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 6:29pm PDT
UC Fences In Oak Protesters! 
UC police have cordoned off the oak grove on the UC Berkeley campus that community members and students are trying to save....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 2:45pm PDT
School Beat: Welcome Back to School Thursday, August 30, 2007 : If ever the first week of school felt like a fresh start, this was it. On Monday our children entered new classrooms and our district’s new superintendent of schools, Carlos Garcia, had his real first day on the job with the wheels of the school district fully in motion. Now the real work has begun and it’s safe to say we are all hopeful, eagerly watching, and ready to join in....
Posted: Thu, Aug 30, 2007 6:30am PDT
Cal Student Workers Still Paid Less, Feel Betrayed Cal Dining establishments on and off of the UC Berkeley Campus.After being led to believe that their fight for equal pay was over and won, Cal students employed by Cal Dining learned today that they are still paid less than their coworkers. Though Cal students received a raise in July to $11.25/hour (starting pay), other workers, including high school students, are now getting paid a starting wage as high as $11.93/hour....
Posted: Wed, Aug 29, 2007 8:25am PDT
BMagic in the house - Jeff Adachi and his supporters give away free backpacks to children. Since 2004 BMagic has helped hundreds of youth in the Bayview. BMagic, founded by Jeff Adachi our SF Public Defender, works with other organizations and tries to address the many adverse issues that plague the youth in the Bayview Hunters Point. Hundreds of free backpacks were distributed. Hot dogs, fresh fruit and water and other goodies on the house. It was a nice sunny Saturday, August 25, 2007 and I was there for a short while....
Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2007 10:14am PDT
UAW Bargaining Update: Tentative Agreements Reached on Two Key Articles Our August 13-14 bargaining session proved productive in two key areas: 1) we came to a tentative agreement on the employment files and evaluations article; and 2) we established an electronic method of membership card processing....
Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2007 2:21pm PDT
Watsonville Brown Berets Represent at 7th Annual Youth and Power 
On August 14, local youth from Watsonville, Santa Cruz, and surrounding areas participated in the 7th Annual "Youth and Power" event, presented by the Watsonville Brown Berets. This year's event was extremely successful, with participants, performers, organizations and vendors dedicated to the liberation of oppressed peoples everywhere, with a particular focus on liberation from the violence, discrimination, and racism aimed at immigrant and migrant people in our community....
Posted: Thu, Aug 23, 2007 12:15am PDT
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