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This article is about the need for a coalition between different communities....

UCSC is conforming to the pressures of the UC system, and is losing the freethinking, open-minded aspects that set it apart from other school. Something needs to change, and bring UCSC back to the liberal and creative ebvironment it once was....

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The following Op-Ed was published on April 10 of 2005, a few days after the first major counter-recruitment protest occured on UCSC's campus. It was written by a group of SAW activists to counter the Sentinel's irresponsible journalism and highlight the motives for the protest....

Today the University has required all of its employes participate in an Online Ethics Briefing. Unfrotunatly Several of the ethics pages went missing from the offical distrabution. Fortunatly some pages been recovered and posted here. It would be ideal if people could email the missing ethics pages to ethics@ucsc.edu as well as share them online to ensure that future ethical briefings do not accedentaly misplace these critical pages again....

On April 14, 2005 thousands of students and workers at UC Santa Cruz shut down the campus in a coordinated statewide strike by low-paid service workers in AFSCME 3299. The strike, organized by AFSCME, clerical workers in the Coalition of University Employees (CUE), T.A.s in the United Auto Workers (UAW), students in the Student and Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ) and others, was one of the biggest actions UCSC has seen in recent years and led to a new, better contract for AFSCME workers w...

In response to a formal request from the student campaign Stop BP-Berkeley, on April 5, 2007, the office of the UC Berkeley Vice Chancellor for Research released the appendices to the proposal for the $500 million research deal that is currently under negotiation with oil giant BP Amoco PLC. Previously, the university had released an abridged version of the proposal, hiding the fact that 115 pages of appendices had been omitted. University officials have claimed that they are acting "i...

Young Asian American reflects on her involvement in the import car scene and her work with a non profit organization supporting her and others involved in the scene and the impact it makes in thier lives...

According to the California Department of Education, over 30% of students do not graduate from high school—numbers which should make anyone look twice at what we are doing in our schools. The good news is that the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) already has a program with the potential to make school relevant to students again, and keep our youth from abandoning their education....

In this email (post) you will find information on: Mexico Solidarity Network's National Speaking Tour on Mexico's Social Movements The Middle East After Iraq Indigena as Scribe--The (W)rite to Remember" with Cherrie Moraga Marc Baer (History, UC Irvine) "Sabbatai Zevi, I Wait for Thee: A 17th Century Ottoman Jewish-Muslim Prophet and his Followers" CJTC Eighth Annual Spring Speaker with Van Jones...