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SCHOOL MATTERS: Report Flunks Kids + Cops
In light of the recent arrest of a central Florida six-year-old African-American girl by police officers at her elementary school, a recent report finds that African American and Latino students are disproportionately affected and targeted when aggressive disciplinary measures, like the use of police in public schools, are enforced. Liz Sullivan is the Human Right to Education Program Director at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) based in New York City....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 8:54am PDT
Student Walkout May 1, 2007!
STOP THE WAR AT HOME & ABROAD!
ORGANIZE A WALKOUT AT YOUR SCHOOL!...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 11:55pm PDT
No free speech for “Voices in Conflict”: High school play about Iraq war cancelled
A high school play about the Iraq war, “Voices in Conflict,” was abruptly cancelled by the school administration in Wilton, Connecticut last month when a student whose brother was serving in Iraq circulated drafts of the play to parents and others in the community in order to get it shut down. After having supported the project of the advanced drama class for almost two months, the school’s principal, Timothy Canty, deemed the play “unbalanced” and potentially inflammatory for its presentatio...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 9:25pm PDT
CJTC Calendar of Events (UCSC) 4/10 - 4/15
In this email (post) you will find information on:
Mexico Solidarity Network's National Speaking Tour on Mexico's Social Movements
The Middle East After Iraq
Indigena as Scribe--The (W)rite to Remember" with Cherrie Moraga
Marc Baer (History, UC Irvine) "Sabbatai Zevi, I Wait for Thee: A 17th Century Ottoman Jewish-Muslim Prophet and his Followers"
CJTC Eighth Annual Spring Speaker with Van Jones...
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 7:05pm PDT
Global School Feeding Program Critical in Fight Against Hunger
The McGovern-Dole Global School Feeding Program is up for reauthorization and possible expansion by the U.S. Congress....
Posted: Mon, Apr 9, 2007 5:00pm PDT
Massive student strike across Israel from April 10
Israeli students are mounting a nationwide strike from Tuesday against tuition hikes and budget cuts, in a protest riddled with contradictions....
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 8:29pm PDT
Attn: Education Not Incarceration new SF Chapter in BVHP, please join, forward Far and Wide
Below are the six programs
that folks have laid out so far for us to work on in SF....
Posted: Sun, Apr 8, 2007 3:15pm PDT
Edible Santa Cruz Bike Tour
Edible Santa Cruz meets at the corner of Bay and High streets near the bike racks, at the base of UCSC campus....
Event Date: Sat, Apr 28, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sat, Apr 7, 2007 11:22am PDT
A School District out of Control
I was surprised to see my child’s school district in the Argus Newspaper in a column by Lynh Tat
Several stories about New Haven Unified Schoo District...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 9:22pm PDT
SPME Learns Finkelstein Denied Tenure At Depaul: Finkelstein Confirms
( Allyson Taylor, formerly of American Jewish Congress and StandWithUs.com has sent SPME a copy of an email from Norman Finkelstein to her that this article by John Wilson "is correct." SPME is waiting for official confirmation.)...
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 6:50am PDT
France: Police attack defenders of immigrant school children
On March 20, police assaulted a group of people seeking to prevent the arrest of an undocumented Chinese immigrant who had come to collect his grandsons from the Rampal infant school in the Belleville district of Paris. The police attack has provoked a wave of revulsion amongst teachers, parents and the working class population in the community and throughout France....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 6:37am PDT
Convergence Not Division: The New and Old SDS
Christopher Phelps has written a timely but ultimately disappointing article in The Nation about the vibrant and growing student movement. [The New SDS (April 16, 2007)] He transforms the tough challenges of movement-building into a set of tepid formulas about what not to do. The new wave of student activism in America and around the world is a hopeful development worthy of our active participation and respect....
Posted: Fri, Apr 6, 2007 6:30am PDT
April 5 - 2 year anniversary!
Two years ago today, UC Santa Cruz students kicked military recruiters off campus for the first time since the early 70's. This was the first action of what The Project newspaper called 'The Spring Insurrection' of 2005, including the 1,000+ strong AFSCME strike and shutdown of campus, Tent U. and more. That spring was a big part of what radicalized our particular generation of activists and organizers....
Posted: Thu, Apr 5, 2007 7:11pm PDT
California State University faculty reach Tentative Agreement!
The California Faculty Association announced today a tentative agreement with the California State University administration in the 23-month dispute for a contract covering the CSU's teachers, librarians, counselors and coaches....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 9:24pm PDT
The Shameless Hilton Hotel
In 1971, after I returned from Peace Corps Kenya, I taught English as a Second Language to Chinatown adult immigrants. After working all day, my students started studying at 6 p.m., and after class walked or took the bus home. Today Chinatown residents and workers continue to rely on City College classes during the evening, afternoon and morning, seven days a week, to learn English, prepare for citizenship, and acquire job skills....
Posted: Wed, Apr 4, 2007 6:41am PDT
4th Annual Frontlines Conference - March 29, 2007 - Bill Graham Auditorium
The 4th Annual Frontlines Confernce. Kudos to Rudy Corpuz and the hommies. There were many good folks around and the workshops were well attended. Good panelists and thanks to everyone that worked hard to make this Frontlines Conference a hit. Missing in Action the Mayor and his cronies that talk the talk but cannot walk the walk....
Posted: Tue, Apr 3, 2007 9:51am PDT
Conversations on Human Rights and Solidarity Dinner
San Jose State University-Martin Luther King Library
2nd Floor
150 E. San Fernando St.
San José, CA 95112...
Event Date: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Mon, Apr 2, 2007 12:26pm PDT
Download 1507 Martin Waldseemuller Map America500 Birthday Extravaganza
In classroom, at home or office....
Event Date: Wed, Apr 25, 2007 10:00am PDT
Posted: Sun, Apr 1, 2007 1:39am PDT
CSU Faculty Strike to Hit Bay Area April 11th If No Agreement Is Reached
Teachers of the California State University system -- the most affordable higher education institution in the state -- vowed to strike if the CSU administration did not offer an acceptable contract. Central to the California Faculty Association's objections are the university system's proposal to drastically increase student tuition by more than 200% over the next couple of years, and a substandard salary schedule that leaves many teachers struggling to survive on less than most k-12 teacher...
Posted: Fri, Mar 30, 2007 11:36pm PDT