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calendarOakland Board of Education Meeting by
Oakland Unified School District Main Building 1025 Second Avenue Oakland, CA 94606-2212...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 31, 2007 4:30pm PST
Posted: Wed, Dec 20, 2006 8:05pm PST
calendarCORRECTION>AM NOT PM>DISABLED STUDENTS COMMITTEE MEETING>COLLEGE OF MARIN<California Ass. by david quinley
COLLEGE OF MARIN www.marin.cc.ca.us/ - KENTFIELD Campus -IN DS OFFICE - BEHIND LANDSCAPE/DANCE OR AFTER FINE ARTS PARKING - FREE PARKING OFF COLLEGE AVE. IN P.E. BUILDING AREA - Take Laurel Ave to get to event...
Event Date: Tue, Dec 19, 2006 9:00am PST
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2006 5:01pm PST
calendarDISABLED STUDENTS COMMITTEE MEETING>COLLEGE OF MARIN<California Ass. of Community Colleges by david quinley
COLLEGE OF MARIN www.marin.cc.ca.us/ - KENTFIELD Campus -IN DS OFFICE - BEHIND LANDSCAPE/DANCE OR AFTER FINE ARTS PARKING - FREE PARKING OFF COLLEGE AVE. IN P.E. BUILDING AREA...
Event Date: Tue, Dec 19, 2006 9:00pm PST
Posted: Mon, Dec 18, 2006 4:48pm PST
textWhat Do Native College Students Want in a Career? by New American Media (reposted)
A comprehensive survey by Universum Communications provides a new glimpse into the career aspirations and employer preferences of Native American college undergraduates and MBA students, contrasted with those for other ethnic groups including African Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, South Asian Indian Americans, and Latinos....
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 12:50pm PST
textChristians Protest Halloween Then Push for Christmas by kirsten anderberg
Recently a Rabbi asked the Sea-Tac Airport outside Seattle, Wa. to display an 8 foot menorah alongside the 8 large Christmas trees they had on display. The airport blew him off. He threatened to sue. Immediately a Sea-Tac employee went to the local media and made the Rabbi out to be a Grinch, if not anti-Christian. Outraged Christians lodged 500+ complaints with Sea-Tac and threatened the Rabbi with violence. Under public pressure, the Rabbi said he would not sue Sea-Tac so they have now put ...
Posted: Sun, Dec 17, 2006 7:29am PST
textProcessing Information by budgie
U.S. Vice-President, Dick Cheney, today praised the outgoing U.S. Secretary of Defence, Donald Rumsfeld, for his contribution in spreading ‘democracy and liberty’ to the Middle East; Cheney also claimed that Rumsfeld was the “best” Secretary of Defence in U.S. history – additional evidence that the U.S. administration is INSANE is no longer required!...
Posted: Sat, Dec 16, 2006 7:39am PST
textthe truth by procyonlotor
i love it like that if you guru dosent turn you in a god is not work talking to him : be a dreamer is sweat life is live like in the honey pot in permanence sweat live fill with wath the mass call miracle but for me and all the awake one its just a daily observation not many are able to experience many reality in one time but is wath buda theach you or at lease be creating reality as you walk that is wath we call having life then that w...
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2006 8:08am PST
textGrowing Concern over Special Education Conditions in Oakland by Marijke Conklin
The Oakland Education Association (OEA) Special Education Caucus is collecting signatures to raise awareness and build solidarity for addressing alarming special education conditions in Oakland Unified School District....
Posted: Mon, Dec 11, 2006 8:27pm PST
textEqual education, not segregation: Marchers tell high court to uphold school integration by PWW (reposted)
WASHINGTON — As the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Dec. 4 on two lawsuits seeking to terminate voluntary desegregation programs in public schools, a thousand protesters, mostly Black, Latino and white college students, marched outside chanting “Equal education, not segregation” and “They say Jim Crow, we say hell no!”...
Posted: Mon, Dec 11, 2006 7:30am PST
textRacist: A damning report on UK schools by UK Independent (reposted)
Official investigation leaked to 'IoS' reveals widespread 'institutional racism' But ministers refuse to accept sweeping criticisms from experts...
Posted: Sun, Dec 10, 2006 11:33am PST
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by Hamza A. Bajwa
A leading British University is forced into an humiliating climbdown following threats of legal action by a victimised Muslim post-graduate...
Posted: Fri, Dec 8, 2006 7:10pm PST
calendarBerkeley High Human Rights Teach-In (World Can't Wait) by Sergio
Berkeley High School, Little Theater, 1980 Alston Way, Berkeley CA...
Event Date: Mon, Dec 11, 2006 8:00am PST
Posted: Fri, Dec 8, 2006 8:41am PST
textStudents, Faculty Rally for Change at CSUS Multi-Cultural Center by Anthony "A.J." Crisostomo -repost by monica k
Eight students in Coalition for Cultural Opportunities in Leadership and Overall Rention of Students rallied with six faculty members at California State University, Sacramento in mid-October to voice concerns about the direction of the Multi-Cultural Women's Resource Center....
Posted: Fri, Dec 8, 2006 2:05am PST
textSupreme Court Considers School Integration Case: A Debate by Democracy Now (reposted)
The Supreme Court recently heard arguments in a pair of cases that could determine whether local governments can take measures to promote racially desegregated schools. We host a debate on school integration with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the Heritage Foundation....
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2006 7:20am PST
textSocial polarization in American academia: Pay for US university presidents soars by wsws (reposted)
A new report released November 20 by the Chronicle of Higher Education documents the continued rise in pay for college and university presidents in the United States. The figures reflect the growing integration of top academic administrators into the corporate elite, with presidents increasingly seeing themselves as executives tasked with overseeing their institutions in the interests of corporations and wealthy donors....
Posted: Wed, Dec 6, 2006 7:04am PST
calendarSTRATEGIES FOR RETURNING LOCAL CONTROL OF THE OAKLAND SCHOOLS by Socially Responsible Network
Oakland Unified School District Board Room 1025 Second Avenue , first floor...
Event Date: Thu, Dec 7, 2006 7:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Dec 5, 2006 8:43pm PST
calendarFree DVD showing: "History of Oil" & local solar expert Joe Jordon by mary
Louden Nelson Community Center 301 Center Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:30pm PST
Posted: Tue, Dec 5, 2006 10:55am PST
textHigh (And Low) Expectations -- Racist Assumptions Widen Achievement Gap by New American Media (reposted)
Recent media attention to an educational "achievement gap" has fired up racists, who suggest that black and Latino kids just cannot compete academically with their white and Asian peers. It's precisely that attitude, often embraced unconsciously among educators, that helps power the achievement gap. Daffodil Altan is a writer and editor at New America Media....
Posted: Tue, Dec 5, 2006 8:29am PST
calendarFree DVD showing: "History of Oil" & local solar expert Joe Jordon by mary
Louden Nelson Community Center 301 Center Street Santa Cruz, CA 95060...
Event Date: Wed, Jan 18, 2006 6:30pm PST
Posted: Mon, Dec 4, 2006 4:10pm PST
textUAW Local 2865 support for teaches in Oaxaca, Mexico by via uaw2865.org
UAW LOCAL 2865 RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF SECTION 22 OF THE NATIONAL UNION OF EDUCATION WORKERS AND THE POPULAR ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLES OF OAXACA...
Posted: Sun, Dec 3, 2006 1:08am PST
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