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Community College Students Plan to Fight Budget Cuts!
Coalition-building to fight budget cuts for community colleges, K-12 and higher education....
Posted: Wed, Jan 7, 2004 4:17pm PST
1/8 Rally, Hearing to Stop Closure of 13 Oakland Schools
Rally and Hearing to Stop State Administrator Randolph Ward's Attempt to Close Oakland Schools
Thursday, January 8th:
4:00 pm Protest
5:00 pm Public Hearing
OUSD Administration Building: 1025 2nd Ave//E. 10th St. (across from Laney College)...
Posted: Wed, Jan 7, 2004 10:19am PST
Queer Students to be More Protected after Federal Lawsuit Victory
The Morgan Hill (California) Unified School District, where LGBT students have suffered years of harassment and discrimination, including physical violence, has agreed to a staff and student training program and policy protections, ending a five-year federal lawsuit by the ACLU and the NCLR....
Posted: Tue, Jan 6, 2004 8:29pm PST
Success in Puerto Rico's Demilitarization Campaign (No ROTC!)
The successful demilitarization campaign of Puerto Rico has extended
from Vieques to the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in an effort
to expel the ROTC program. On September 15th a group of students
established a civil disobedience camp at the base of a demolished ROTC
structure that was to be rebuilt for the military program....
Posted: Tue, Jan 6, 2004 4:50pm PST
A Letter from Julia Butterfly Hill to U.C. President Designate Robert Dynes
I am concerned that a majority of the sources of our drinking water are polluted and that now, in many cases, even our very air is toxic to our health. I am concerned about the millions of children who go to bed hungry, and the statistical fact that it is more likely for a child of color to end up in prison than to get into college. And I am concerned that the United States is leading the world in manufacturing, stockpiling, and "disposing of" weapons of mass destruction....
Posted: Tue, Dec 30, 2003 12:46am PST
Student Group Plans "Million Student March" To Protest Arnold's Attack On SB60
Angry that the movie star-turned-politician abolished a law that would have let illegal immigrants apply for driver's licenses, the teens are trying to persuade a million students to join them in a statewide protest against Schwarzenegger -- and anyone else who has opposed licenses for the undocumented....
Posted: Mon, Dec 29, 2003 9:32pm PST
Student says gay fraternity should have chapter at Cal
What clinched Matt Royal's decision to attend UC Berkeley went beyond the university's esteemed academic reputation...[he] placed equal weight on whether he would feel comfortable as an openly gay man on campus...It seemed odd, then, that the campus lacked one detail that some local universities have, a gay fraternity....
Posted: Sun, Dec 28, 2003 12:21pm PST
13 schools in Oakland face the ax
OAKLAND -- The Oakland school district has finished making a list of 13 campuses that may be closed next year for both financial and educational reasons....
Posted: Sat, Dec 27, 2003 1:40pm PST
Links to Activist Groups, Unions and News Resources Dealing with Education
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Links to Student Activist Groups
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/12/23/16664101.php...
Posted: Tue, Dec 23, 2003 2:19pm PST
Links to Student Activist Groups
This page will be updated periodically to remove old links and add new ones. Feel free to contribute links you would like to see on this page by clicking "Add Your Comments" or sending an email to: sfbay-web@lists.indymedia.org
Also, if you have any suggestions about how the links are arranged, please post those ideas too....
Posted: Tue, Dec 23, 2003 2:19pm PST
US arrests schoolchildren in Iraq for protesting
Schoolchildren arrested by armed US soldiers and masked translators for demonstrating against the occupation and in support of Saddam....
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2003 4:41pm PST
Laney College To Offer Course On The Black Panther Party
A community college in the East Bay is going to be offering a history course on the Black Panther Party....
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2003 10:43am PST
Events at New College
Peace & Social Justice Events at New College of California, December 11 through December 17....
Posted: Thu, Dec 11, 2003 12:15am PST
Universities return to aptitude exams to keep Arabs out
The universities did little yesterday to conceal the fact that admissions policies are being altered to benefit Jewish candidates....
Posted: Thu, Nov 27, 2003 2:00pm PST
Berkeley student paper locks out photographers
Six student photographers are fighting exploitive working conditions at the student newspaper....
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 9:06pm PST
URGENT -- Berkeley 3 Found Guilty; Your Support is Needed for Student Antiwar Activists
Free speech at Berkeley is under attack. Antiwar student organizers need
your immediate help.
UC Berkeley Dean of Students Karen Kenney turned the clock back decades by approving
sanctions against three Berkeley students for their part in a peaceful on campus sit-in on March 20, the day after the War on Iraq started....
Posted: Tue, Nov 18, 2003 1:22am PST
Children Terrorized In S.C. School Drug Raid
Fascism Amerikan Style Terrorizes Children Over Alleged Drug Activity!...
Posted: Sat, Nov 8, 2003 3:08am PST
Report back from Finkelstein lecture
Great lecture, but not quite worthy of a standing ovation. Why? Read on......
Posted: Thu, Oct 9, 2003 12:58am PDT
Dude ! Where's My Country ?
I have seven questions for you, Mr Bush. I ask them on behalf of the 3,000 who died that September day, and I ask them on behalf of the American people. We seek no revenge against you. We want only to know what happened, and what can be done to bring the murderers to justice, so we can prevent any future attacks on our citizens...
Posted: Tue, Oct 7, 2003 1:37am PDT
Peter Camejo will be at SFSU on Thursday, UCB on Friday
Peter has worked to defend the rights of Latino workers in the U.S. and to free political prisoners in Latin America. In 1976 he ran for President as a socialist, gaining ballot status in 30 states. He marched in Selma, Alabama with Martin Luther King and was active against the War in Vietnam. In college at UC Berkeley and MIT, he studied math and history. After winning a student council election at UC Berkeley, he was suspended for “using an unauthorized microphone.”...
Posted: Wed, Oct 1, 2003 12:03pm PDT