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If California Doesn't Invest in Higher Education, the State will Suffer in the Long Run A new study has found that California is at a pivotal moment regarding its funding for higher education. If the state continues make cuts to the state’s extensive university and community-college system, Californians will suffer in the future, its authors assert....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 7:29am PST
Hindus and Sikhs Protest Curriculum Changes in Calif. Textbooks Some Hindu and Sikh activists in the U.S. who have been trying in recent months to persuade the California Board of Education to adopt curriculum revisions in textbooks for elementary and middle school students say they are unhappy over the direction their efforts seem to have taken while on the home stretch....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:48am PST
Greatest California Gold Rush Legacy ~ William Leidesdorff Primary source documentation of William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. begins to surface, thus the greatest California Gold Rush Legacy will be told....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 5:14pm PST
Photos: Students of all ages protest UC fee hikes and discrimination 
On Thursday, students from every UC and many local schools converged at UC Berkeley to fight for the right to an education. The UC Regents had voted Wednesday to raise student fees yet again (the Regents have raised fees 72% for undergrads in the past 3 years), while simultaneously giving lucrative pay raises to top administrators. Students won a victory Wednesday by saving some degree of financial aid (the Regents had wanted to cut even more than Congress just did with the largest cuts to fi...
Posted: Sun, Nov 20, 2005 6:35pm PST
Civil Rights March and Protest at U.C. Regents meeting 
The U.C. regents have come to vote for fee hikes, nuclear weapons contracts, and continuing the illegal ban on affirmative action. we were marching today and demanding the same things as we were over 300 years ago. which is justice and equal rights in education and opportunity to live in harmony and equality. we are marching for global justice....
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 6:31pm PST
Tonight! The Spanish Civil War and Picasso's Guernica with L. Jarach of Anarchy Magazine The Anarchist Library, in collaboration with three other CCSF clubs: Cafe
>Musee, Historia and the Hot Rod Conversion Club, invites you to a
>presentation on the Spanish Civil War.
>...
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 11:59am PST
UC-B Students March - Thursday - November 17th - 9am (video/quicktime 19.6MB) One of the demands on the Regents will be to enforce the Regents' Code of Conduct regarding sweatshop production of University apparel. Three-minute QT movie. 20MB....
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2005 10:58pm PST
Students Unite Against the UC Regents November 16th and 17th Make Yourself Seen and Heard to the UC Regents!
The UC Regents will be meeting at UC Berkeley's Clark Kerr Campus on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov 16th-17th. Wednesday the Regents will be voting to raise student fees another 8% ($492). Thursday they will be voting to cut financial aid. The regents meeting agenda is here.
On Thursday, November 17th, there will be a March to Stop the Fee Hike! People will meet in UC Berkeley's Upper Sproul at 9am.
There will be carpools from Santa Cruz u...
Posted: Tue, Nov 15, 2005 12:08pm PST
Journey from Vision to Reality: Conventions of Colored Citizens, (1855-1865) California Establishment of a California Educational Advisory Committe to Commemorate the Conventions of Colored Citizens in California will be announced at the 150th Anniversary Community Rally, Noon, Sunday, November 20, 2005, California State Capitol, you are invited to attend....
Posted: Sat, Nov 12, 2005 1:48pm PST
11/15: Assembly Hearing on California's High School Dropout Crisis When: Tuesday, November 15, 2005
9:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
Where: Richmond High School Little Theater
1250 23rd Street, Richmond...
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 8:17pm PST
Recent High School Grad Wins Seat on School Board 
18 Year-Old Shane Brinton elected to the Northern Humboldt County School Board....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 9:58am PST
Why Parents Should Give a Damn: Prop. 76 May Mean Less Money for California Schools New America Media, Q & A, Carolyn Goosen and Daffodil Altan, Nov 03, 2005...
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 10:55pm PST
Foothill Anti-Capitalist Action Committee Shuts Down Military Recruiters by Default (audio/mpeg 1.9MB) The Foothill Anti-Capitalist Action Committee spread the word of a protest on November 1, 2005 against the military recruiters who table in the quad every Tuesday at Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California. However on this Tuesday, the military recruiters failed to show up. It looks like the military learned about the protest and thought it would be a better idea to stay away from it, rather than be the focus of the demonstration.
About 15 people marched from the
Smithwick Theate...
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 5:30pm PST
Native Black Californians and enslaved Black Californians completely disenfranchised Proceedings of the California Colored Convention of 1855 document a struggle against racial discrimination by early California pioneers. We celebrate that struggle and hold a community rally which will include a special message urging Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to grant clemency to Stanley Williams....
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 2:29pm PST
Keynotes from the 3rd Annual Practical Activism Conference at UC Santa Cruz 
The 3rd Annual Practical Activism Conference, Tools for Local and Global Change,
was a day-long conference which took place on October 29, 2005 at the University of California at Santa Cruz. It offered
a series of workshops addressing activism and change in the local and global context, as well as
keynote speeches from Daniel "Nane" Alejandrez and Nzingha Dugas.
Daniel "Nane"
Alejandrez is recognized for his commitment to developing alternatives to youth violence, his work
in the En...
Posted: Thu, Nov 3, 2005 2:14pm PST
Casa Grande Anti-Recruitment Protests 
On October 7th and 20th of this school year the Military Recruiters showed up on the Casa Grande Campus. The first time the date of the protest was spread by word of mouth, the second time Nate passed out fliers to get the word around. We chanted, made signs, danced, made peace sign armbands, and talked to the recruiters. Both times we have had a great turn-out! If there is a next time, we will be bigger....
Posted: Wed, Nov 2, 2005 11:42pm PST
LECTURE ON ANARCHIST IDEOLOGY AND CUBAN CIGAR MAKERS IN HAVANA, SOUTH FLORIDA AND NEW YORK Teacher: Evan M. Daniel
Day: Thu.
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Date: Nov. 10th
Location: Downtown Campus- 88 4th St., San Francisco ( across from the Metreon )
Room #: 319...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 2:05pm PDT
Free Community Anarchist Class on Russian Revolution, Nov. 2nd THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Teacher: Tom Wetzel
Day: Wed
Time: 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Class Begins Nov. 2nd
next classes Nov. 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, Dec. 7th
Location: Downtown Campus- 88 4th St., San Francisco ( across from the
Metreon )
Room #: 725...
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 1:50pm PDT
Mills College Students Staging Sit-In as Board of Trustees Meets Mills College students with a long list of grievances are at this moment staging a sit-in at the library as the Board of Trustees meets inside....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 12:35pm PDT
Bay Area school workers fight for contracts School workers and teachers here and across the bay in Oakland are ramping up their struggle in long and difficult contract talks....
Posted: Fri, Oct 28, 2005 6:41am PDT
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