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UC Santa Cruz Strike updates
UC Santa Cruz Strike 500 and growing at Main Entrance
many people turning away or joining strike.
pics & Audio SCIMC...
Posted: Thu, Apr 14, 2005 12:32pm PDT
UC Berkeley Drug War Event Tonight
Wednesday, April 13 at 6:00pm
FSM Cafe at Moffitt Library...
Posted: Wed, Apr 13, 2005 11:06am PDT
URGENT!!! support Tent University Santa Cruz, defend freedom of assembly!!!
Tent University Santa Cruz (TUSC) is an experiment in radical education reform to take place at UC Santa Cruz, April 18-22. The university and the police want to shut it down. TUSC needs support from communities surrounding to resist the potential eviction of this creative effort toward liberating education!!!!...
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 9:31pm PDT
Rockin' the Boat: UCSC Counter-recruitment protest (audio/mpeg 4.9MB)
On April 5, some 300 students and community members held a raucous demonstration at the UC Santa Cruz campus, where US military recruiters had a booth at the school's Job and Internship fair....
Posted: Tue, Apr 12, 2005 11:40am PDT
Mike Farrell at the 24-Hour Read-In in Salinas (audio/mpeg 5.8MB)
On April 1, Mike Farrell shared some of his feelings about the closing of the Salinas Libraries during the 24-Hour Read-In which took place at the Cesar Chavez Library in Salinas. Mike also read some of his favorite quotes and passages from books. We hear words from great authors and activists such as Cesar Chavez and John Steinbeck as well as Maya Angelou on the life and death of Ossie Davis. Mike also read important words about racism and dissent written by Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court ...
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 6:32pm PDT
Peter Kwiek of the Salinas Action League speaks about Saving our Libraries (audio/mpeg 4.1MB)
On April 1, I spoke with Peter Kwiek of the Salinas Action League. Peter has been a core activist in the struggle to Save the Libraries in Salinas. (9 minutes)...
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 12:10pm PDT
Read In To Save Libraries at State Capitol
Don't miss the Read-In to save the public libraries at the State Capitol on Tuesday, April 12, from 12:00 to 1:00 pm....
Posted: Mon, Apr 11, 2005 12:45am PDT
April 20 - Student Day of Action!
EDUCATION IS A RIGHT! STUDENTS DEMAND ACCESS, AFFORDABILITY AND QUALITY!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 10, 2005 10:30pm PDT
UC Workers Fight for Justice (video/quicktime 44.7MB)
UCSF workers protested on 3/24/05 and this video interviews why the workers are angry about their management and conditions. 15 min. 44.6 MB...
Posted: Sat, Apr 9, 2005 1:08pm PDT
Day of Silence prompts so-called Day of “Truth”
the Religious Reich, here in the name of the Eagle Forum of Sacramento among others, are sponsoring a so-called Day of “Truth” on April 14, the day after the Day of Silence....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 10:16pm PDT
Support UC Berkeley's Campus Workers!
On April 14, campus workers will go on strike to fight for their rights and for a fair contract....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 1:52pm PDT
Coming Together to Save the Salinas Libraries - Sunday
Photos from Sunday afternoon at the Cesar Chavez Library in Salinas....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 8:03pm PDT
Coming Together to Save the Salinas Libraries
Photos from Saturday evening at the Cesar Chavez Library in Salinas....
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 4:32pm PDT
East Bay Free Skool
The Barrington Collective is starting a free school, which will include peer to peer skillsharing aswell as address the current crisis in the OUSD by holding neighborhood meetings, offering free a afterschool/summerschool program for the children and youth of Oakland, and provide adult education classes in things like ESL...
Posted: Sat, Apr 2, 2005 10:19pm PST
Pictures From Coalition Of University Employees Protest Against Bad-Faith Bargaining by UC
UC diverts funds from executive salaries to raise worker wages.... April Fools!
UC says it values its work force but while UC has plenty of money for its "priorities," it does not have a dime for unionized workers?! How much longer can UC get away with this bad joke?...
Posted: Fri, Apr 1, 2005 7:28pm PST
4/2-4/3: SAVE SALINAS' PUBLIC LIBRARIES
24-hour emergency read-in to help save Salinas' libraries
read more at http://santacruz.indymedia.org...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 3:08pm PST
April Fools Day Education Action in Oakland
Oakland ACORN Alert
ACORN LEADERS ARE ISSUING A CHALLENGE TO ARNOLD AND SENATOR PERATA:
BE BOLD ENOUGH TO PUT CHILDREN BEFORE POLITICS!
Friday, April 1st, 4PM at the State Building, 1515 Clay Steet in Downtown Oakland...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 9:53am PST
UC Berkeley Student Senate Bars Military Recruiters!
On March 30, 2005 the UC Berkeley ASUC Senate unanimously passed a resolution denying military recruiters use of facilities and assets because of their discriminatory policies....
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 12:02am PST
Pictures From "Academic Freedom In Peril: Ward Churchill And His Right Of Free Speech"
A Forum on Academic Freedom In Troubled Times...
Posted: Mon, Mar 28, 2005 8:25pm PST