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Black parents met in the memorial room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Waterfall to stop what one city supervisor called the "death of black San Francisco" through the closing of dozens of schools in black and low-income neighborhoods. The decision by the San Francisco Unified board has been delayed until today January 19. Omar Khalif, one of the organizers of the Black Parents Together movement, urged parents to participate at the school board meeting, and says that a school strike m...

On the eve of Martin Luther King Day and two weeks before Black History Month begins, the School Board of the city known as "America's most progressive" is likely to vote against Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, June Jordan, Enola Maxwell, Gloria R. Davis and even Willie Brown - closing nearly all the schools in San Francisco named for Black luminaries and several other schools located in Black neighborhoods. Martin Luther King Middle School is spared for the moment, perhaps because the schoo...

An energetic mass of over 100 students, teachers, parents and elected officials jammed the steps of City Hall yesterday, calling for a delay in the current plan to shut down 19 schools across San Francisco. Spearheaded by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and a grassroots coalition of community members, the rally called attention to the disproportionate affect the closures will have on people of color, as well as the lack of public engagement in creating the plan to shutter schools. Speakers demanded...

Palo Alto, CA, January 10, 2006 -- A coalition of American groups representing the immigrant communities from the Indian subcontinent, led by Friends of South Asia (FOSA), have taken strong exception to numerous misrepresentations of India’s ancient history and of Hinduism recently put forward by the Vedic Foundation (VF) and the Hindu Education Foundation (HEF) for incorporation into Grade 6 History/Social Sciences textbooks in California....

Matt Gonzalez interviews Sarah Lipson Green Party Member of School Bd....

The 12/16/05 Oakland Tribune attacked Oakland teachers for "boorish behavior" when we attended the 12/14/05 meeting of the Oakland School Board to press our contract demands and confront dictatorial State Administrator Randolph Ward. Here Oakland teacher and OEA activist Jack Gerson replies....

12/14/05 - The struggle continues for the Oakland Educators Association (OEA) and student activists from Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, & Immigrant Rights And Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) in their fight against ruthless state administrator Randolph Ward. He is the dictator at the OUSD School Board Meeting. The meeting was on the issue of adding a new Charter School to West Oakland....

Over the past several decades students and faculty of the University of California, often in tandem with nuclear disarmament NGOs in California and New Mexico, have conducted a series of campaigns to end the UC's involvement in nuclear weapons research, design, testing, and production at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore laboratories. These campaigns represent an important contribution to the global nuclear abolition movement, which historian Lawrence Wittner has described as “the largest...

The following are some of the people at Stanford University who abuse animals, in the name of "scientific research", using our federal tax dollars: Alan Schatzberg, Tirin Moore, David Lyons, Emmanuel Mignot, Gregory Corrado, William Newsome, Corinna Darian-Smith, Jennifer Raymond and Krishna Shenoy. For details of how wasteful and unnecessary these experiments are, visit http://www.curedisease.com ....

Today December 8th the Governor of California is holding a private hearing for Tookie Williams to hear him out and will later make a decision…we caught up with Snoop who held an impromptu press conference as he was leaving San Quentin and asked him what he thought about the whole situation… He spoke about the spirit of Tookie and how he was moved by him. he talked about what Tookie meant to fellow gang bangers and why he would be better alive then dead....