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Oakland Board of Education Meeting
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
CORRECTION>AM NOT PM>DISABLED STUDENTS COMMITTEE MEETING>COLLEGE OF MARIN<California Ass.
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
DISABLED STUDENTS COMMITTEE MEETING>COLLEGE OF MARIN<California Ass. of Community Colleges
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
What Do Native College Students Want in a Career?
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
Christians Protest Halloween Then Push for Christmas
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
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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
the truth
i love it like that
if you guru dosent turn you in a god is not work talking to him
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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
Growing Concern over Special Education Conditions in Oakland
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
Equal education, not segregation: Marchers tell high court to uphold school integration
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
Racist: A damning report on UK schools
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
UK Student wins victory for academic freedom
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
Berkeley High Human Rights Teach-In (World Can't Wait)
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
Students, Faculty Rally for Change at CSUS Multi-Cultural Center
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
Supreme Court Considers School Integration Case: A Debate
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
Social polarization in American academia: Pay for US university presidents soars
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
STRATEGIES FOR RETURNING LOCAL CONTROL OF THE OAKLAND SCHOOLS
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
Free DVD showing: "History of Oil" & local solar expert Joe Jordon
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
High (And Low) Expectations -- Racist Assumptions Widen Achievement Gap
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
Free DVD showing: "History of Oil" & local solar expert Joe Jordon
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
UAW Local 2865 support for teaches in Oaxaca, Mexico
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