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Dallas High School Student Describes Organizing Mass Walkout We speak with Gustavo Jimenez, a junior at Duncanville High School who helped lead a student walk-out in Dallas last month that saw thousands of students leave classes to protest proposed anti-immigrant legislation....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:33am PDT
In Remembrance: April 5, 2005 
Just over a year ago, on April 5, 2005, Students Against War organized over 300 students to kick military recruiters (and the CA Dept. of Corrections, randomly) out of a campus job fair. It was a starting point for many things on the UC Santa Cruz campus. It was the first major event in a whole Spring of radical actions that shook the school, as it was the first opportunity for many students to realize their own power. The protest also landed the students on a list of "credible threats&q...
Posted: Mon, Apr 10, 2006 3:36am PDT
Rally to Honor Student Walkout Leader Driven to Suicide By Our Education System Rally to Honor the Student Walkout Leader Driven to
Suicide By Our Education System and to Demand an
Education System that Works for All Youth...
Posted: Sun, Apr 9, 2006 3:42pm PDT
SAW to protest Military Recruiters on April 11 SAW will protest military recruitment and the Iraq war on April 11. Protest is at McHenry Library, starting at 9AM. This event comes after April 5, 2005's counter-recruitment action for which SAW was labeled a "credible threat" by the Pentagon and the October 18, 2005 Queer kiss-in. This year SAW approached the Administration with some reasonable suggestions as to how a peaceful protest can occur without disrupting the rest of the career fair. These suggestions have not been adopted...
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 9:30pm PDT
Abstinence-Only-Education Teen Esteem/AWAIT & FIND Abstinence Only Education is not legal in California public schools but in spite of this fact, programs such as Teen Esteem and AWAIT & FIND continue promote their irresponsible and illegal programs in our classrooms. According to the Public Policy Institute of California the majority of parents across the state want comprehensive sexuality education for their teens. It's time parents speak out against these irresponsible programs and speak up for the health and well being of our teens....
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 2:17pm PDT
First Casualty of Student Walk Outs! Eighth grader Anthony Soltero shot himself through the head on Thursday, March 30, after the assistant principal at De Anza Middle School told him that he was going to prison for three years because of his involvement as an organizer of the April 28 school walk-outs to protest the anti-immigrant legislation in Washington. The vice principal also forbade Anthony from attending graduation activities and threatened to fine his mother for Anthonys truancy and participation in the student protests...
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 12:26pm PDT
West Contra Costa School District may grant diplomas to all who earn them Thousands complete high school but are denied diploma due to exit exam...
Posted: Sat, Apr 8, 2006 10:38am PDT
Thousands of Students March and Rally in Watsonville for Immigrant Rights 
On Friday, March 31st, thousands of students from local schools, including Watsonville High, Pajaro Valley High, Aptos High and Renaissance High, marched and rallied against HR 4437 in Watsonville.
In anticipation of the walkout, both Pajaro Valley High and Watsonville High decided to close their school doors in an effort to keep students safe.
Here are some photos from the march from St. Patricks Church to the Watsonville Plaza, Mayor Antonio Rivas and Vice-Mayor Manuel Quintero Bersa...
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 1:51pm PDT
No School: Rally in Watsonville for Immigrant Rights (audio/mpeg 17.8MB) On Friday, March 31st, thousands of students from local schools, including Watsonville High, Pajaro Valley High, Aptos High and Renaissance High, marched and rallied against HR 4437 in Watsonville.
In anticipation of the walkout, both Pajaro Valley High and Watsonville High decided to close their school doors in an effort to keep students safe.
The following three bilingual audio mp3s were recorded on Friday, March 31st. The first mp3 is from the rally in the Watsonville Plaza and star...
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 1:20pm PDT
audio tape link: Ward Churchill/David Horowitz debate Ward Churchill asked to debate David Horowitz, who wrote a book which called him a horrible professor who indoctrinates students. Horowitz is also leading a campaign calling for government managed affirmative action to ensure equal balance between liberal and conservative professors in academia. They held a first debate on April 6, 2006...
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 7:05am PDT
‘Our children are not for sale’: Baltimore labor slams ‘midnight attack’ on public schools ANNAPOLIS, Md. — “They want to turn our schools over to corporate America to operate at a profit. But our children are not for sale!” So said an angry Marietta English, president of the Baltimore Teachers Union....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 6:52am PDT
Miami-Dade Schools ban book about Cuba 
Miami-Dade County School District is banning a travel book which describes Cuba in non-negative way. Check out the BS statement from Joseph Garcia - this is not, apparently, censorship! Maybe they're going to burn the books as well ......
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 9:53pm PDT
280 High School Students attend Student Initiated Outreach Programs (4/7) PRESS ADVISORY...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 9:24pm PDT
School Beat: A Contract for Teachers The 2006-2007 school year will no doubt go down in local history as one of the most exhausting, tumultuous years in the existence of the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). From the near-strike with school support staff (SEIU 790), to a second round of school closures, to the departure of former Superintendent Arlene Ackerman, to the expiration of the Consent Decree and the resultant obligation to create a new assignment system, we have been living in a public education maelstrom. ...
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 5:03pm PDT
The Man Made Plagues In 1992 I walked into the University of North Dakota Library to do some research of Congressional documents. I remember quite well the bitter cold of -40 below 0 and wind chills that would freeze you to the bone with some speed. However this cold is a warm summer day at the beach, in comparison to the documents I found....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 1:46pm PDT
Immigration Officers Arrest School Children In Firebaugh, two unmarked ICE vans pulled up alongside a school bus on Friday morning around 6:30, said Brian Walker, superintendent of the Dos Palos Oro Loma Joint Unified School District. One van drove in front of the bus, forcing the driver to stop. Agents approached the bus, but the driver, following protocol, refused to open the door....
Posted: Thu, Apr 6, 2006 1:43pm PDT
Submissions for an Anthology on the 1960s Calling all young activists to publish your thoughts on the 1960s!!!...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 11:49pm PDT
Protesting Yoo In Berkeley A small but committed group in Berkeley targets the notorious law professor who gave Bush the justification to torture detainees...
Posted: Wed, Apr 5, 2006 7:34pm PDT
Student Debt, Agressive Collectors Collection Agencies are getting aggressive and ruining opportunities, health and viability for many. Who are they? How do they get their government contracts?...
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 6:35pm PDT
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