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Oakland Teachers Plan Labor Day Rally KAISER & HEALTH NET: STEP UP!
YOU HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO HELP SOLVE THE EDUCATION
CRISIS IN OAKLAND
Freeze Charges to Protect Programs and School Workers’
Health
Monday, September 5 at 11 AM
Assemble at Health Net Offices 155 Grand near Webster
St., 1 block west of Lake Merritt
March to Kaiser Regional Headquarters
Leaflet at Art and Soul Festival Downtown, Frank Ogawa
Plaza and City Center...
Posted: Tue, Aug 30, 2005 1:27pm PDT
The Struggle for Racial Justice and Educational Equity in SF Schools 
100 years ago the all-white San Francisco Board of Education declared: “Our children should not be placed in any position where their youthful impressions may be affected by association with pupils of the Mongolian race.” (1905, SF Board of Education.) In response to a 1884 lawsuit brought by Chinese immigrant parents Joseph and Mary Tape challenging the SF School District’s racial exclusion of their 8-year old daughter Mamie and other Chinese students from the all-white Spring Valley Element...
Posted: Thu, Aug 25, 2005 9:53pm PDT
Activist's Organizer Tool Page Information Is The Key... A Handy Tool Page Worth Saving Which May Help You To Find What You Seek... By Lynda Carson...
Posted: Sat, Aug 20, 2005 1:36am PDT
Fresno high schools get $1.7 million to peddle pop¡! 
Fresno high schools get $1.7 million to peddle pop¡! 2 minute video....
Posted: Fri, Aug 19, 2005 11:43am PDT
California Safe Schools AB 405 - Stop Human Experimentation! Kids &Teachers Are Not Lab Rats!...
Posted: Thu, Aug 18, 2005 12:19am PDT
Exam Action Alert: Exit Scam Phone Jam - August 15th thru 26th!! 
Make your voice HEARD on August 15th thru 26th!!
Speaker Nunez (Los Angeles) and Senator Perata (Oakland) are both leaders with powerful influence in the Legislature. We must send them a strong message in the next couple of weeks to keep
SB 517 (Romero) and AB 1531 moving!...
Posted: Wed, Aug 17, 2005 12:35pm PDT
Oakland Green Gathering: Request for Workshop Proposals The Green Party of California is requesting proposals for workshops to be held at their gathering in Oakland on Saturday, September 17. The purpose of the gathering is to discuss, debate and, deepen our understanding of the crucial political issues facing our people and our planet.
Proposals are welcome from Members and Friends of the Green Party...
Posted: Thu, Jul 28, 2005 9:04pm PDT
Free Skool Santa Cruz Summer Quarter Begins 
From Spanish language classes to forage and storage, Free Skool Santa Cruz offers a decentralized educational network outside the system for $19,926 less than UCSC...
Posted: Sat, Jul 23, 2005 11:15pm PDT
High School Students to hold ANTI-WAR RALLY on campus!!! 
These articles are about a victory gained by students for peace and justice in regards to an anti-war rally that they wanted to hold on campus. The school's administration had denied them their rights (though the military was granted the right to have a "rock band" play on campus). The ACLU were contacted after the students were "suspended" for "alledged" charges of harrassing military recruiters. The days they recieved on campus suspention however was coincident...
Posted: Fri, Jul 15, 2005 8:43pm PDT
TONIGHT: Stop Jerry Brown from Criminalizing Oakland's Youth Who: A Broad Coalition of Oakland community
organizations who want alternatives for Oakland's
youth, the Measure Y Coalition
What: Rally and Press Conference before the Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee meeting where Mayor Jerry Brown will push his opportunistic proposal to criminalize Oakland's youth for simply being present while a sideshow is occurring in order to advance his campaign for Attorney General
Where: Oakland City Hall, 14th and Broadway
When: 6:30PM Rally Up; Pr...
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 8:54am PDT
Urgent Letter from Hardknock Radio Family, Friends, Allies, Supporters, All Concerned and Involved:
It is with profound urgency that we write this letter to the people with
whom we have built this great community institution we call Hard Knock
Radio (HKR). Without your genuine love and support, we never would have
made it this far....
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2005 8:25am PDT
Radio Summer Camp - 0 to 100 watts in 4 days 
Learn how to build an FM transmitter and set up a low power FM broadcast station....
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2005 12:21pm PDT
Berkeley School Board Votes Against School Name Change (audio/mpeg 5.5MB) The Berkeley School Board has voted not to change the name of Jefferson school to Sequioia. The vote culminated an effort begun by some Jefferson parents two years ago to change the name of the elementary school because Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. (5:57)...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 7:21pm PDT
6/28 Mobilize for Alternatives, Not Criminalization of Sideshows Jerry Brown's opportunistic proposal to criminalize
youth for watching sideshows is not dead yet. Please join the Measure Y Coalition, including Let's Get Free, Education not Incarceration, All of Us or None, Raporation Records, Oakland ACORN, Oakland CAN, PUEBLO, Critical Resistance and many more next Tuesday as we
mobilize to demand alternatives for our youth, not
criminalization....
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 4:18pm PDT
Student/Farmworker Alliance: Summer Encuentro & Call for Donations Join students and youth from around the country for a week of skill shares, reflection, community-building, trainings, and a two-day national strategy session as we plan for the next phase of youth activism after the historic and precedent-setting victory of the Taco Bell boycott. The Encuentro will take place in Immokalee, FL, from August 1-7....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 3:13pm PDT
Tenure Granted to Chapela 
Controversial UC Berkeley biology professor, Ignacio Chapela (above) was granted tenure (job security at a university) this month after a 3 year struggle....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 6:29pm PDT
Tent U Santa Cruz: a chance to win in the face of repression 
Activist networks in the U.S. and around the world were buzzing on the morning of April 19 with the news that 19 people were brutally arrested the night before at Tent University Santa Cruz. Tent U, an experiment in "liberated education," has captured the interest of thousands of students while creating fright and paranoia among UC administrators who, in the words of one well-connected UCSC faculty member, are afraid that "the torch-carrying hordes are coming to raze UCSC to th...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 6:20pm PDT
Don’t Let Oakland’s Children Be Sacrifices For Jerry Brown's Political Career (A Plea) Don't Let Oakland's Kids Be Sacrifices for Jerry Brown's Political Career!
Below Anita of Raparation Records and the Measure Y Coalition makes a solid case for why we should start treating Oakland kids with the dignity and respect they deserve before we stand by and watch martial law go into full effect in Oakland.
Also below is reposted info on the next Measure Y Coalition meeting.
Seen a few sideshows in my time, but Jerry's looks like the most wack and dangerous this kids seen i...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 9:43pm PDT
NO CHILD LEFT UNTESTED <br>no union left unbusted 
An Oakland school teacher talks about the effects of No Child Left Behind....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 1:11am PDT
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