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Berkeley: Assert Control over UCPD--Stop Police Brutality
Steps of Sproul Hall, UC Berkeley at Noon, and then to California Hall at 1pm....
Event Date: Mon, Nov 20, 2006 12:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2006 1:47pm PST
Global Action Day for Education (30th Nov.)
A Global Action Day for Education will take place on the 30th Nov to protest and resist neoliberal reforms. Students of the world unite!...
Posted: Sat, Nov 18, 2006 5:04am PST
Students arrested for blocking UC nuclear labs
Six UC students and three community members were forcefully dragged from the UC Regents board meeting on Thursday by police after they informed the Regents that they would not allow the board to convene its DOE lab oversight committee, the Regents’ body in charge of UC’s nuclear weapons research, design, and manufacturing labs in Los Alamos, New Mexico and Livermore, California....
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2006 11:35am PST
School Beat: Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy—A Long Way From Ohio
When the school administrators in Columbus, Ohio, told us our son was low functioning and that Inclusion would not be the "least restrictive environment" for him, we knew we had to look elsewhere. Jack was bored in his special education classroom, and they took his disinterest to mean that he was functioning at a low cognitive level. If he was to have a chance to show us what he was capable of, we'd have to find a community that believed in him....
Posted: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 9:46am PST
BERKELEY DIGITAL FILM INSTITUTE OFFERS THE MOST ADVANCED NARRATIVE FILM EDUCATION
Today, the Berkeley Digital Film Institute opens its doors as the most advanced 35mm and high definition narrative film production program in Northern California, offering advanced training in the producing and directing of narrative fiction, commercials and music videos....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 12:16pm PST
US: Higher education costs increase for the most needy
The College Board, a not-for-profit organization that administers entrance and other standardized tests in the US and whose membership includes more than 5,000 institutions of higher learning, has released several reports on higher education in the United States. All of these studies lead to the inescapable conclusion that since the year 2000, middle- and lower-income students have been paying more for public higher education at a time when they are less able to afford doing so....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 6:22am PST
TONIGHT: SF School Board to Vote to Eliminate ROTC
SF SCHOOL BOARD TO VOTE TO ELIMINATE Junior ROTC - Tuesday, 11/14...
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 8:51am PST
More Background about JROTC in SF Public Schools
Tuesday, November 14th, 7:00 P.M.
(This will be a big meeting. You should show up at 6:00 P.M.)
555 Franklin Street, 1st Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 7:42am PST
SF Board of Ed Addresses Issue of JROTC in Public Schools
555 Franklin Street, 1st Floor
San Francisco, CA 94102...
Event Date: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 6:00pm PST
Posted: Tue, Nov 14, 2006 7:39am PST
Message from the Student & Youth Conference in Oaxaca
A statement from the 2nd National Student & Youth Conference, held November 11th 2006 at the Autonomous University of Oaxaca - Benito Juarez
Palabra del 2do Encuentro Nacional Estudiantil y Juvenil efectuado el 11 de Noviembre 2006 en la UABJO....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2006 3:41pm PST
Greece: Sellout of teachers’ strike paves way for massive government attacks
The union bureaucracy’s sellout of the teachers’ struggle against low pay and education reforms will pave the way for the government’s attack on education and other public services....
Posted: Mon, Nov 13, 2006 6:32am PST
Lifting the Fog on 9/11: Experts Present Scientific Evidence at UC Berkeley
An all day symposium, titled "Lifting the Fog", took place Saturday at the Valley Life Science Building at UC Berkeley. To an auditorium full of attentive listeners, a number of experts (most notably Dr. Steven Jones, a renowned physicist) gathered to present their findings about the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001....
Posted: Sun, Nov 12, 2006 3:18am PST
Revolution Books Open House
2425 Channing Way (1/2 block west of Telegraph Ave in Berkeley...
Event Date: Wed, Nov 15, 2006 7:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Nov 11, 2006 5:48pm PST
Karina Garcia at Brown Beret meeting!
Brown Beret Office
406 Main St. Suite 408A
Watsonville, CalifAztlan...
Event Date: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 8:00pm PST
Posted: Sat, Nov 11, 2006 1:28pm PST
TIME GOD unearthed –TIME GOD revealed –TIME GOD discovered 11/11
WORSHIP TIME GOD – A New God was in making or was there before universe began. According to the founder-discoverer-revealer ‘Time God is a no chocolate God’- Naresh Sonee ‘Sohum Sutra’ launches his God once again .The founder believes that in very near future- New Age - Next Generation is going to adopt and realize his real genuine God which is none other then TIME GOD. This God believes or tolerate in no non sense. Time God who creates and destroys all....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 7:07pm PST
Community Meeting Stirs Up Bad Memories
The Jack Leary Healing Forum was held to support abuse survivors, but may have done more harm than good...
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 4:51pm PST
book review: China and the new world order
How entrepreneurship, globalization and borderless business are reshaping China and the world....
Posted: Fri, Nov 10, 2006 12:32am PST
SF: Film & Speakers: "Uncommon Knowledge: Closing the Books at UC Berkeley Extension"
ROXIE Film Center at New College
3117 16th Street, San Francisco...
Event Date: Thu, Nov 16, 2006 6:30pm PST
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 11:30pm PST
School Beat: Election Day Not Bad for Schools
The returns from the November 2006 election are in and the results for education in California are quite interesting. Locally, San Francisco's Board of Education (BOE) will have all new members filling the open spots, all of whom are closely connected to students in our schools. Statewide, except for re-electing Governor Schwarzenegger, voters came through for clearly identified needs (facilities bonds Proposition 1D and A) and rejected the strategically unsound and ill-defined fiscal solutio...
Posted: Thu, Nov 9, 2006 7:23am PST
San Rafael: Life After Exoneration Program. Benefit For Exonorees
Marin Academy Theatre
1600 Mission Ave
San Rafael, CA 94901...
Event Date: Sun, Nov 19, 2006 4:00pm PST
Posted: Wed, Nov 8, 2006 5:32pm PST