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Cesar Chavez Yoouth Leadership Conference FREE Cesar E. Chavez Youth Leadership Conference and Education Fair on Saturday, March 31, 2006 at Sierra College in Rocklin, CA for 6th to 12th grade students and parents of all school districts in Northern California....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 3:34pm PDT
Student Activist assassinated in Popayan Colombia Popayán, Colombia: Biology student and activist assassinated
Milton Hernan Troyano Sanchez, a radical student leader and participànt of the Huelga de Hambre of 2004, was assinated the night of October 18th, in a city park in Popayán, Colombia....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 1:54pm PDT
10/26: Educator Happy Hour with ACLU-NC Educator Happy Hour for Tracked in America: Stories from the History of U.S. Government Surveillance...
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 9:45pm PDT
5-Week Digital Filmmaking Class Starting Soon: MAKE YOUR OWN DOCUMENTARY!!! 
MAKE YOUR OWN DOCUMENTARY in only 5 weeks at the San Francisco School of Digital Filmmaking!...
Posted: Tue, Oct 24, 2006 2:46pm PDT
Regents Meeting (Short Video) Video repost from YouTube. The description: "UCSC Regents locked in a building surrounded by students." It's a 22 second long clip from the craziest moment of the day....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 3:22am PDT
Highlights from UC Regents Protest at UCSC 
Much has been said and written about the UC Regents protest at UCSC on Wednesday, Oct. 18. These photos aren't meant to explain the situation in full, but to fill in some gaps in coverage and highlight some of the most interesting and inspiring moments....
Posted: Mon, Oct 23, 2006 1:06am PDT
Victims of Violence: When UC Police Attack 
If you've taken a glance at the corporate press' headlines recently, you'd see something like this: "UC Santa Cruz Protest Turns Violent," or, my favorite, "Police Break Up Violent Protest at UC Regents Meeting." The mainstream media blatently suggests that it was the students - the protesters - that were violent. Yet, to have violence you have to have victims. 'cus if nothing or no one was hurt, how can you claim that any crime has been committed?
If you look at Wednesday's (Oct. 18, 200...
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 8:20pm PDT
Weeping Wednesday: A Protest Against the UC Regents 
The first big protests of the 2006-2007 school year at UC Santa Cruz took place on October 18th, 2006, the day the UC Regents came to visit campus. It had been five years since all 26 UC Regents came to UCSC. During the second demonstration of the day by hundreds of students outside the new Humanities Building at Cowell College, police pushed, swung and jabbed with their batons before taking three students hostage and hurling streams of pepper spray directly into the eyes of demonstrators....
Posted: Sun, Oct 22, 2006 3:00pm PDT
Stop the Killings! A Series of Events Addressing Political Repression in the Philippines This is an announcement for a series of events designed to both raise consciousness about political repression in the Philippines and build organizations in the US to help fight it....
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 4:27pm PDT
Students and Workers (Re)United for Justice! 
On October 18th, AFSCME workers and students at UC Santa Cruz held a rally in the Baytree Plaza and then marched to the base of campus calling on UC President Dynes to release funds promised by the California Legislature to low-paid UC workers. AFSCME workers and students are also demanding wages comparable to those of neighboring colleges and universities where people are paid up to 30% more for doing the same amount or less work.
At the base of campus, people immediately marched into the...
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 2:06pm PDT
Summary of Events: UCSC Protests Regents Visit With misinformation rampant about the protest of the UC Regents visit to UC Santa Cruz, here's one student activist's attempt to provide one perspective of the story...
Posted: Sat, Oct 21, 2006 12:56am PDT
AFSCME and Friends March for Wage Parity, Justice 
At noon on Wednesday, October 18, 2006, members of AFSCME 3299 and their supporters marched from the Bay Tree Plaza to the base of campus, where a roving picket line was held, followed by a rally. The workers have been engaged in a year-long struggle to receive wages similiar to those of neighboring colleges and universities where people can make up to 30% more for the same (or less) work. Over the summer, the California State Assembly passed legislation funding these wage increases, yet UC P...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 4:59pm PDT
Free Skool Santa Cruz DISTRO DAY Santa Cruz Farmer's Market...
Event Date: Wed, Oct 25, 2006 3:45pm PDT
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 2:08pm PDT
Free Skool Santa Cruz DISTRO DAY Thousands of Free Skool Winter Quarter 2006 calendars will be ready for
distribution by next Wednesday, October 25!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 2:06pm PDT
From the Oaxaca Commune, we´re still waiting... 
10.20.06 update from the Oaxaca Commune; with fotos from Canal 9, the central Zócalo, and the streets of Oaxaca City, with audio interview with a Oaxacan teacher in three parts, and a beautiful poem, read by a nine-year old boy, the child of a political prisoner here in Oaxaca....
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 9:02am PDT
Volunteer/ Intern with Education Not Incarceration PLEASE VOLUNTEER OR INTERN WITH EDUCATION NOT INCARCERATION
(www.ednotinc.org)!...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 8:23am PDT
Students Hold Speak-Out for Visiting Regents, Police Give Response 
UCSC students held a protest against various UC policies and practices when the Regents visited the campus on Wednesday. Police tried to force their way through the crowd, but eventually pulled back, pepper spraying the crowd and arresting three. Protestors wouldn't leave until the arrested persons were released....
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 5:36am PDT
Grim Pictures from UC Regents Protest at UCSC 
Santa Cruz students were confronted by police as they attempted to voice concerns about many heated issues of UC policy, during a protest at a regents meeting. Here are a few photographs taken from the front lines of the Santa Cruz protest against the UC Regents, hopefully they will provide a clearer account of what actually happened during the chaos....
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2006 2:03am PDT
Greenpeace Organizing Term The Greenpeace Organizing Term (GOT) is an action-filled semester and the best hands-on training for you to become an environmental leader....
Posted: Thu, Oct 19, 2006 8:18pm PDT
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