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Schwarzenegger Betrays Students on Tuitions Advocate groups for free education consider the recent tuition hikes for UC and CSU students to be no less than a tax on college students. California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has done nothing to make education affordable for students since he was elected in 2003. In the past the governor’s office has made it clear that education is a right for K-12, but not for higher education....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 12:30pm PDT
Schwarzenegger Betrays Students on Tuitions Advocate groups for free education consider the recent tuition hikes for UC and CSU students to be no less than a tax on college students. California Governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, has done nothing to make education affordable for students since he was elected in 2003. In the past the governor’s office has made it clear that education is a right for K-12, but not for higher education....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 9:34am PDT
Anti-terror police raid homes of Sydney University students Last week’s highly provocative raids by anti-terrorism police on a number of University of Sydney students underscore the real political agenda behind the so-called war on terror. The bolstering of the state apparatus through a series of draconian “anti-terror” laws has been centrally aimed not at protecting ordinary people from the threat of terrorist attack, but rather at suppressing political dissent and intimidating anyone considering challenging the government or the state....
Posted: Tue, Mar 20, 2007 8:51am PDT
SJSU CENSORSHIP! San Jose State University is censoring the truth about Occupation of Palestine and Students for Change at SJSU needs your help!...
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 11:52pm PDT
Increasing Numbers of P.V. Parents Choose to Protect Student Privacy From Military INCREASING NUMBERS OF PV PARENTS CHOOSE TO PROTECT STUDENT PRIVACY FROM MILITARY RECRUITERS
Two Thirds of Watsonville and Aptos High School Parents Are “Opting Out”...
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 11:28pm PDT
Beyond Petroleum: UC Berkeley Sells Out to Energy Giant With royal fanfare, British Petroleum just donated big money in research funds for UC Berkeley, Lawrence Livermore Laboratories, and the University of Illinois to develop new sources of energy—primarily biotechnology to produce biofuel crops. This comes on the anniversary of Berkeley’s hapless research deal with seed giant Novartis ten years ago. However, at 500 million dollars, the BP grant dwarfs Novartis’ investment by a factor of ten. The graphics of the announcement were unmistakable: ...
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 8:57pm PDT
Drug Policy Alliance Rallies Students 4 Free Speech Students are rallying outside the U.S. Supreme Court today as the court hears oral arguments in
a case where DPA has been working to protect the freedom of speech in public high
schools--including speech critical of current government policies....
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 4:23pm PDT
TRAILER: "el machete: la lucha por el poder popular" (video/quicktime 51.7MB) "el machete: la lucha por el poder popular" is proyecto autogestion's debut film project. All the camera-persons are indigenous community members, mostly women and youth, organizing under the auspices of CODEP the Committee Organized in Defense of the People's Rights. The editing was completed through collective media arts workshops, which now, along with donated equipment, have contributed to the ability of CODEP to edit its own film projects from now on....
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 1:52am PDT
camarograf@s del film de proyectoautogestion.org "el machete: la lucha por el poder" (video/quicktime 5.2MB) Documentation of some of the indigenous women and youth participating in digital video workshops through the auspices of proyecto autogestion and CODEP Comite de defensa de los Derechos del Pueblo. Oaxaca 2007...
Posted: Mon, Mar 19, 2007 1:20am PDT
‘Hilton Butt Out!’ Say Chinatown Community Groups Community activists and civil rights groups have clashed with the Hilton Hotel over its attempts to block the construction of a new Community College campus in the heart of Chinatown. Mark Schurmann is a writer for New America Media....
Posted: Sun, Mar 18, 2007 12:23pm PDT
CISPES event to confront US repression in el salvador (3/23) The Bay Area CISPES chapter is inviting you to an event on Friday, March 23rd to commemorate the lives of Oscar Romero and Rufina Amaya and to support El Salvador's continued struggle against CAFTA (Central American Free Trade Agreement) and the ILEA -- the new SOA for the police based in San Salvador....
Posted: Sat, Mar 17, 2007 7:38pm PDT
Australian state election: Major parties ignore public school decay Every media poll shows that education is a key concern among voters in the March 24 New South Wales state election. Parents, teachers and students have faced years of neglect and decline in the government school system, especially in working class areas, while every year millions more dollars have been poured into wealthier private schools....
Posted: Fri, Mar 16, 2007 7:18am PDT
Windrush Presents: Raising Media Savvy Kids Windrush School (Multipurpose Room)
1800 Elm Street
El Cerrito, CA 94530
(510) 970-7580
http://windrush.org...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 22, 2007 7:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 7:13pm PDT
Idealist Silicon Valley Start-Up Meeting 2.0 Eastside Neighborhood Center, 2150 Alum Rock Ave, San Jose, CA 95116...
Event Date: Sun, Mar 18, 2007 2:00pm PDT
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 10:12pm PDT
Midwest Academy's "Organizing for Social Change" Training The training will be held at the Mercy Center, 2300 Adeline Drive, Burlingame, CA 94010....
Event Date: Mon, Jun 25, 2007 9:30am PDT
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 11:40am PDT
Don't Come to Ann Arbor: Scenes from a Cop Riot If the specter of another US foray into regime change disturbs you, google the word "Tanter." If the prospect of another country's being bombarded with US weapons outrages you, and if inserting the adjective "nuclear" into the narrative sends a chill up your spine, go to the "Guardian" website and search "Tanter." Or if you hanker to find out what a Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator can do to humankind, click onto the Union of Concerned Scientists....
Posted: Wed, Mar 14, 2007 6:51am PDT
Rally for First Contested Teacher Union Election in 14 Years! 
Supporters of Francisco Rodriquez, candidate for President Pajaro Valley Federation of Teachers rally in Watsonville on Tuesday to inform teachers in PVUSD of the upcoming elcetion and issues....
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 10:57pm PDT
P R O T E C T P U B L I C Z O N I N G Lawn in front of City Hall...
Event Date: Thu, Mar 15, 2007 4:30pm PDT
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 6:03pm PDT
New Haven teacher who admitted having had sex with a minor in the early 1990s Failure to take action by all agencies involved is this the Good Ole Boys Network coverup?...
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 5:38pm PDT
Teacher fights to keep credentials Admin hearing continues today for man who admits sex w Our students are not safe from predators, and school district fails to act what does it take?
This is outrageous....
Posted: Tue, Mar 13, 2007 1:02pm PDT
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