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Ethnic Studies at UCSC WE ASK YOU TO PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ANY E-MAILS YOU HAVE ACCESS TO AND ANYONE YOU FEEL MIGHT BE INTERESTED...
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Teach-In on Military Recruitment Mon, 4/23 5:00 PM 
Please circulate widely - apologies for duplicate postings.
COLLEGE NINE, COLLEGE TEN & THE LIONEL CANTU GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS, INTERSEX RESOURCE CENTER PRESENT:...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 2:48pm PDT
Facts behind UCSC protest (of April 5, 2005) The following Op-Ed was published on April 10 of 2005, a few days after the first major counter-recruitment protest occured on UCSC's campus. It was written by a group of SAW activists to counter the Sentinel's irresponsible journalism and highlight the motives for the protest....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 1:09pm PDT
Massacre Exposes America’s Dirty Campus Secret As people struggle to understand the violence of the murders at Virginia Tech, NAM writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson suggests it reflects a growing trend in campus violence. Hutchinson's new book The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation between African-Americans and Hispanics (Middle Passage Press and Hispanic Economics New York) in English and Spanish will be out in October....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:30am PDT
The Virginia Tech massacre—social roots of another American tragedy A day after the mass killing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, along with grief and dismay, some reflections on life in the US are clearly in order. The event was horrifying, but no one who has followed the evolution of American society over the past quarter-century will be entirely shocked. Such psychopathic episodes, including dozens of multiple killings or attempted killings in workplaces and schools, have occurred with disturbing regularity, particularly since the mid-1980s. A tim...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:16am PDT
With Major Protests Imminent, Military Recruiters Withdraw from UCSC Job Fair FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 18, 2007...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 4:36am PDT
Network Neutrality Interview with Jenny Toomey on Rock The Net (audio/mpeg 27.5MB) Radio Interview with Jenny Toomey about the Rock The Net campaign in support of Network Neutrality and how it concerns independant music kicked off On March 27, 2007...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 4:22pm PDT
Police Presentation: Response to Student Protests Cervantes & Velazquez Conference Room (D)
Above Baytree Bookstore
UCSC...
Event Date: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 10:05am PDT
Chomsky Accuses Dershowitz of Launching a "Jihad" to Block Finkelstein From Geting Tenure We play Part II of our conversation with two of the country's leading dissidents, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn on U.S. wars from Iraq to Vietnam, resistance and academia. We also ask Chomsky about Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz who is lobbying DePaul faculty members to oppose Norman Finkelstein's bid to receive tenure. Chomsky says, "[Dershowitz] launched a jihad against Norman Finkelstein simply to try and vilify and defame in the hope that maybe what he is writing will disappear."...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:23am PDT
Worst shooting incident in US history: More than 30 dead at Virginia Tech In a tragic episode Monday morning, the worst shooting incident in American history, a gunman shot and killed at least 32 students and faculty and wounded dozens of others on the campus of Virginia Tech university in Blacksburg, Virginia. In the end, the gunman turned the gun on himself....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:16am PDT
Two American universities clamp down on student anti-sweatshop protests Over the past two weeks, student protests at the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California have been met with arrests or threats of arrest by the university administrations. In both cases the students were protesting the use of sweatshop labor in the production of university apparel....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:11am PDT
UCSC Campus Wide Ethics Briefing Missing Pages 
Today the University has required all of its employes participate in an Online Ethics Briefing. Unfrotunatly Several of the ethics pages went missing from the offical distrabution. Fortunatly some pages been recovered and posted here. It would be ideal if people could email the missing ethics pages to ethics@ucsc.edu as well as share them online to ensure that future ethical briefings do not accedentaly misplace these critical pages again....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 3:33am PDT
Virginia Tech rampage (by Latuff) 
Copyleft artwork by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 1:45am PDT
Day of Silence Anywhere...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 8:00am PDT
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 12:53am PDT
Get Involved with Education Not Incarceration In this update:
1. Become a Member
2. General Membership Meeting Monday, April 23, 6-8PM
3. Intern/ Volunteer
4. Help Us Fundraise - Canvassing, Grants, House Parties, Big Donations
5. No Child’s Behind Left… Come see Monty Neil talk on High Stakes
Testing, Tuesday, April 17
6. Come to Sacramento on April 25 to Help Pass a Bill to Support
Incarcerated Youth...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 8:24pm PDT
US university shooting kills 33 A US shooting rampage at the Virginia Tech university has left 33 people, including a suspected gunman, dead....
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 6:06pm PDT
The Day the University Ground to a Halt - April 14, 2005 
On April 14, 2005 thousands of students and workers at UC Santa Cruz shut down the campus in a coordinated statewide strike by low-paid service workers in AFSCME 3299. The strike, organized by AFSCME, clerical workers in the Coalition of University Employees (CUE), T.A.s in the United Auto Workers (UAW), students in the Student and Worker Coalition for Justice (SWCJ) and others, was one of the biggest actions UCSC has seen in recent years and led to a new, better contract for AFSCME workers w...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 1:24am PDT
Stanford Students approach 4th day of fast, Administrators refuse to meet 
SLAC members entering 4th day of fasting for a REAL living wage through a Code of Conduct. Current Living Wage Policy for subcontracted workers effectively covers no workers due to many restrictions which the presidents own advisory committee recommended to be lifted. Despite years of protest, petitions, student senate bills, and the advisory committee's recommendations urging the restrictions to be lifted, administrators continue to refuse to lift the restrictions or meet with students or wo...
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 9:00pm PDT
420 Fest Fresno State Campus Free Speech Area...
Event Date: Fri, Apr 20, 2007 4:30pm PDT
Posted: Sat, Apr 14, 2007 12:20am PDT
Robert Fisk: Fear and loathing on an American campus On the night of 11 September 2001, Al Dershowitz of Harvard law school exploded in anger. Robert Fisk, he roared over Irish radio, was a dangerous man. I was "pro-terrorist". I was "anti-American" and that, Dershowitz announced to the people of County Mayo, "is the same as anti-Semitic"....
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 6:37pm PDT
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