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Leidesdorff Bicentennial, a part of California Cultural Heritage 
California Cultural and Historical Endowment prepares to announce the process for the final round of funding to "Tell the California Story." The legacy of Honorable William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr is essential to sharing authentic California's Cultural Heritage....
Posted: Mon, Sep 28, 2009 9:09am PDT
UCSD Students Walk Out September 24 (video/quicktime 57.6MB) UCSD students organized a walkout on the first day of classes, September 24, to protest tuition hikes, pay cuts and furloughs, administration pay raises and privatization of the UC. Over 1000 students, workers, and a few faculty marched from the Gilman parking structure to library walk past the frat and sorority recruitment booths to the Giesel Library, Peterson Hall, the Chancellor's complex and Center Hall. The protesters called for students in Peterson and Center to walk out. Attempts to g...
Posted: Mon, Sep 28, 2009 1:18am PDT
T4CW: School Starts with a Strike '09 (audio/mpeg 56.1MB) In recent weeks the Maestr@s have spoken with teachers in Kent, Washington who started the year on strike, and teachers in Richmond, CA who started the year with a Strike Authorization Vote. There's also an update on the South Central Farm....
Posted: Fri, Sep 25, 2009 6:02pm PDT
Tasering: The New Terror in Our Schools Monday, September 21, 2009 : It seems that there’s a new, easy-way-out solution for security people having to deal with troubled kids who act out or cause disruptions in school: Taser them!...
Posted: Mon, Sep 21, 2009 6:33am PDT
Back to School: Military Recruiters Increasingly Targeting High School Teens Friday, September 4, 2009 :As millions of students prepare for the start of another school year, we focus on an issue that concerns many parents – the increasing presence of military recruiters in the nation's high schools and the military's ability to gather information about students. We speak with journalist David Goodman about his Mother Joes article, "A Few Good Kids?" and with the New York Civil Liberties Union's Ari Rosmarin, who works on the organization's Project on Military Recruitm...
Posted: Fri, Sep 4, 2009 6:50am PDT
"Youth deserve a better future," clip from Revolution, a film of a talk by Bob Avakian (video/x-flv 11.5MB) Youth deserve a better future - clip from "Revolution: Why It's Necessary, Why It's Possible, What It's All About, a film of a talk by Bob Avakian" given in 2003 in the United States....
Posted: Thu, Sep 3, 2009 5:15pm PDT
ACLU Lawsuit Challenges Expulsion Of Middle School Student After Illegal Cell Phone Search Tuesday, September 1, 2009 : SOUTHAVEN, MS – The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Mississippi today filed a federal civil rights lawsuit on behalf of a middle school student wrongfully expelled from school after authorities illegally searched his cell phone and found what they claimed were photos depicting "gang-related activity" – when in reality the photos mainly depicted the student dancing in the bathroom of his own home....
Posted: Wed, Sep 2, 2009 6:43am PDT
The Learning Curve of the Teachers Against the Honduras Coup AUGUST 23, 2009, SABA, HONDURAS: The classrooms were empty but the assembly hall was full. Last Thursday afternoon, more than two hundred striking schoolteachers and other members of the civil resistance from the northeastern state of Colón gathered at the city high school to chart their next steps....
Posted: Mon, Aug 24, 2009 6:32am PDT
Reinventing No Child Left Behind Obama plans to privatize public education...
Posted: Mon, Aug 17, 2009 12:58pm PDT
Let’s Talk Honestly About Improving School Food Wednesday, August 12, 2009 : As students get ready to head back to their classrooms, it’s time to have an honest conversation about how to improve school food, including what the costs really are. After seven years of working for better food in our public schools, one thing I know for sure is that higher quality food costs more money....
Posted: Wed, Aug 12, 2009 7:44am PDT
T4CW: Kevin Kumashiro of Center for Anti-Oppressive Education (audio/mpeg 25.3MB) Kevin Kumashiro speaks with Teachers for Class War on Free Radio SC about reframing education debates, politics of education and realities of classrooms from grade 2 through teacher training programs, looking at intersections of race and sexuality for youth, as well as Asian American experiences....
Posted: Mon, Aug 3, 2009 10:54pm PDT
Military spy outted in Olympia, WA antiwar/SDS/IWW groups Spy for the US Military Exposed: Spent Last Two Years Spying on Activists
“John Jacob” was an activist well liked by many in Tacoma and Olympia, WA.
He was active in the anti-war and anarchist communities in both towns. He
did extensive work with the group Port Militarization Resistance (PMR)
which blocks military shipments to and from Iraq and Afghanistan through
Northwest ports....
Posted: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 8:16pm PDT
The Democrats vs. Public Education Public education in the United States is under heavy attack. And because a so-called “progressive” President is leading the charge, many education activists have been lulled to sleep while on lookout duty.
Obama recently announced his “race to the top” program to “reform” education. Much like Bush’s No Child Left Behind, Obama’s plan represents progress for education in name only....
Posted: Mon, Jul 27, 2009 6:51pm PDT
Allied Media Conference "Best of" Radio Special (includes highlights from closing plenary) (audio/mpeg 27.0MB) The 11th Annual Allied Media Conference took was held on July 16-19, in Detroit, attracting over a thousand participants and grassroots media makers from around the country....
Posted: Fri, Jul 24, 2009 9:25am PDT
Forget a new downtown library in the hinterlands of baseballs First of all the location was a complete compromise to the money grabbing land developers. now people who travel on the bus, including the handicapped and elderly, will have to take an extra bus or trolley ride to the location since it is no longer on the Broadway corridor. Baseball fans, on average, are not big readers. At least put it in Balboa Park...
Posted: Sat, Jul 18, 2009 1:27pm PDT
Greek government attaks indymedia! Indymedia is ours and it will be alive as much as we need it to change the world...
Posted: Fri, Jul 17, 2009 10:16am PDT
Obama tailors community college plan to corporate interests Thursday, July 16, 2009 :
In a speech delivered Tuesday on the campus of Macomb Community College in Warren, Michigan, Barack Obama unveiled the American Graduation Initiative (AGI). The initiative proposes to coordinate the educational goals of community colleges with the interests of the corporate elite in order to provide the latter with a larger cadre of technically trained workers from which to recruit....
Posted: Thu, Jul 16, 2009 7:41am PDT
Texas Could Remove Cesar Chavez, Thurgood Marshall from Public School Studies Tuesday, July 14, 2009 : The Texas State Board of Education is moving toward removing Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall from the social studies curriculum taught to its 4.7 million public school students. According to one of the six “expert reviewers” revising the 1997 curriculum, Chavez “lacks the stature, impact and overall contributions of so many others; and his open affiliation with Saul Alinsky’s movements certainly makes dubious that he is praiseworthy.” Another reviewer concluded tha...
Posted: Tue, Jul 14, 2009 7:21am PDT
In Lead-up to National Chamber of Deputies Election, Oaxaca Teachers Choose a “Punishment Vote” Saturday, June 27, 2009 One week ahead of the national elections for 500 new deputies (300 first-past-the-post and 200 by proportional representation) to sit in the Chamber of Deputies for the 61st Congress of the United States of Mexico, the Oaxaca Education Workers Union (SNTE, by its Spanish initials) Section 22 met in state assembly....
Posted: Mon, Jun 29, 2009 6:54am PDT
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