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Annual Deir Yassin Demonstration at UCB
All out to UC Berkeley for our annual
demonstration in remembrance of the
Deir Yassin Massacre of 1948....
Posted: Wed, Mar 31, 2004 11:47pm PST
4/21: Day of Silence
The Day of Silence, a project of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) in collaboration with the United States Student Association (USSA), is a student-led day of action where those who support making anti-LGBT bias unacceptable in schools take a day-long vow of silence to recognize and protest the discrimination and harassment -- in effect, the silencing -- experienced by LGBT students and their allies....
Posted: Mon, Mar 29, 2004 9:33am PST
I Pledge Allegiance…Until I Am No Longer Forced To
I have not said the Pledge of Allegiance since last forced to in 1976. I do not remember ever swelling with American pride during the Pledge. I do not remember even thinking about what the Pledge of Allegiance meant, until I was old enough to not want to recite it....
Posted: Sat, Mar 27, 2004 1:02pm PST
Open Letter to President ,Harvard University
Open Letter to President ,Harvard University...
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 4:22pm PST
Teacher/ Activist Cesar Cruz Fired For Caring About Students and Parents Instead of Profit
International Activist, Poet, and Elementary Teacher Cesar Cruz was fired Monday at Downer Elementary School. The firing occured after an article was published that documented Cesar's organizing of a 70 mile march on Sacramento by students and parents to protest budget cuts at their 99% people of color school, as well as the presence of the nearby prison and oil refinery. (Un) Coincidentally, Cesar had also recently aided the community in their demands for a new school and site-based manage...
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 3:55pm PST
California College Tuition Likely to Rise Again
California college tuition likely to increase for the second consecutive year. Effects of past and proposed budget cuts on California community college system....
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 3:01pm PST
Politics and the Rising Generation
"Like lemmings, politics abdicates to the supposed practical necessities of an economy oriented in growth and competitiveness. A politics oriented in such a growth fetishism is without a future..Politics must open itself to children and young persons.."...
Posted: Wed, Mar 24, 2004 6:11am PST
John Zerzan to Speak at Sierra College
Anarcho-Primitivist John Zerzan is coming to conservative Placer County....
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 9:24pm PST
Trade Justice Convergence: Organizing to STOP CAFTA coming to LA next weekend
Trade Justice Convergence to build our Action, Skills and Knowledge to Make Trade Fair and Stop the Central American Free Trade Agreement....
Posted: Mon, Mar 22, 2004 1:01am PST
Jessica Marques: No Progress in Juarez Murders
Jessica Marques of the Mexico Solidarity Network will speak on the Juarez Murders at ARC on March 23, 12:30 pm...
Posted: Sun, Mar 21, 2004 5:55am PST
Campaign for Tenure Justice for Ignacio Chapela
Come to the meeting this Thursday March 18 @ 6 PM 132 Mulford Hall Berkeley,
CA. For directions go to: http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/BC23.html
We will give a detailed background of the tenure issue and how to proceed....
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 9:20pm PST
Action to Support Garment Workers Struggle for Justice: Tarrant México Ajalpan Campaign
Mexican workers to visit SF next week prior to NAFTA hearing...
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 2:20pm PST
Thousands Converge on State Capitol for Education Funding on Monday
As they marched, the students chanted and waved signs saying everything from "Hey Arnold, don't terminate our education" to "Thanks Arnold 4 ensuring a stupid future."...
Posted: Tue, Mar 16, 2004 5:31am PST
Portables, Mural and Planter-boxes Bulldozed at Burbank Elementary
A PRESS CONFERENCE was held on Monday, March 15, at 11:30 a.m., at Burbank Elementary School, 3550 – 64th Avenue, Oakland, at the school entrance, to discuss the latest troubling event in the Oakland school closures story – the dismantling of their school buildings and treasures before the very eyes of the children and school community at Burbank....
Posted: Mon, Mar 15, 2004 7:44pm PST
March 16th Urgent Protest for the Schools
On March 16, Oakland must tell our elected leaders:
The State Will Not Close Our Schools!
City Council Hearing on School Closures
Tuesday, March 16 at Rally at 5PM, Hearing begins at 6:00 p.m., Oakland
City Hall, 14th and Broadway (at the 12th Street BART Station)...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 5:15pm PST
Sunday's event discussing UC Berkeley's ties to biotech
A Lunchtime strategy session about corporate control of research at UC
Berkeley and
Ignacio Chapela's tenure case...
Posted: Fri, Mar 12, 2004 5:07pm PST
Virgin teens 'have same STD rate' - BBC
Young Americans who pledge to remain virgins until they marry have the same rates of sexually transmitted diseases as those who do not, a new study says.
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Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 9:53pm PST
SAVE OAKLAND'S SCHOOLS: Rally and Hearing March 16
On March 16, Oakland must tell our elected leaders:
The State Will Not Close Our Schools!
City Council Hearing on School Closures
Tuesday, March 16, Rally at 5PM, Hearing begins at 6:00 p.m., Oakland City Hall, 14th and Broadway (at the 12th Street BART Station)...
Posted: Wed, Mar 10, 2004 5:41am PST
Students Walk Out Against Budget Cuts in Contra Costa
Drastic cuts, including the closure of school libraries and the elimination of athletic programs, were approved by the school board at a meeting Monday night....
Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 1:58pm PST
Anti-Capitalist/Anti-Authoritarian Call for the "March in March" Sacto
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Posted: Tue, Mar 9, 2004 12:16pm PST