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Free screening of Eliza Heminway's documentary film "Closing the Books" and a public forum will be held February 24th at SF Public Library to help save the 5.8 acre historic UC Berkeley Extension campus on 55 Laguna Street in San Francisco from the wrecking ball. UC is trying to turn this billion dollar parcel into condos and shops. Neighbors organize to save this historic 1850s treasure and public park area paid for with our tax dollars and ensure it remains in public use, ideally as a univ...

If you need a does of black humor, just pick any random piece of the No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation. This law is replete with outrageous expectations disingenuously posing as the simplest of matters. My favorite joke of the moment comes from the section that details the requirements for involving parents for schools receiving “Title I” funds designed to assist low-income kids....

Sac. State Library Quad Sac. State Campus 6001 J St Sacramento, Ca 95819...

On February 15, 2007, students at UC Santa Barbara, Columbia University, and Columbia College in Chicago will be on strike against the war. Solidarity actions are planned at a dozen other schools - including 5 in the Bay Area: San Francisco State, Lowell High School, Mills College, UC Berkeley, and UC Santa Cruz. Thousands are expected to attend nation-wide....

Friends and comrades mentioned to me that the League of Filipino Students in the US was commemorating its “tenth” anniversary. Colleagues who knew me from my LFS days and were also active during the struggle to bring down the US-Marcos dictatorship would chide me: weren’t you already active in the ‘seventies, and wasn’t the LFS around even longer than that? I would tell them, yes, of course. In fact, the LFS first came into being in the US in September 1983, not September 1997 as some have b...

@ the Peace and Justice Center, 467 Sebastopol Avenue, Santa Rosa...

CONFERENCE OVERVIEW: The year 2008 will mark the 20th Anniversary of the publishing of the book Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Communication (Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky, Pantheon, 1988). In this book, the authors (both of whom will be attending/participating in this conference) put forth a model, the Propaganda Model (PM), as a way of understanding the way our mass media system interrelates with our economy, political system, and society in general. Since putting for...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--The streets of San Jose are heating up, and summer is nowhere in sight. I work with at-risk youth here in East San Jose, and I'm seeing street conflicts rise, even among the lowest levels of junior high and elementary school. We are witnessing a new generation of young people exposed to a gang mentality at a shockingly early age. There is a new era of gang banging ahead of us -- the "G-kid" era....

Countless hours of studying is perhaps the simplest part of preparing for the GED for homeless youth Alex Gutierrez. Gutierrez is a writer for Silicon Valley De-bug....

SAN JOSE CAMPUS POLICE AT INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL CHARGES A STUDENT A FELONY FOR SITTING ON A CAMPUS GOLF CART! THE VICE PRINCIPAL VALVERDE STATED HE WILL DEFEND THE POLICE INSTEAD OF THE STUDENT!...