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textIf California Doesn't Invest in Higher Education, the State will Suffer in the Long Run by New America Media (reposted)
A new study has found that California is at a pivotal moment regarding its funding for higher education. If the state continues make cuts to the state’s extensive university and community-college system, Californians will suffer in the future, its authors assert....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 7:29am PST
textHow many children will they kill? Stop the baby killers. by G. Hitler Bush - Abu Ghraib Prison
USA is planning to test Dangerous Chemicals and Drugs on Orphans and innocent Children worldwide. Stop the cruel Atrocities on Defenseless children. Just say NO to the blood sucking Bush Gestapo....
Posted: Wed, Dec 7, 2005 9:07am PST
textFight Racism & Censorship at New School by Eddie Simpson
New School Administrators are targeting a graduate student because she organized an all-black panel to speak on topics they consider "controversial."...
Posted: Tue, Dec 6, 2005 8:01am PST
imageOde to the president
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by infotaintment
Ode to the great leader of the free world printed in pakistani textbooks for 16 year olds spells out (p)resident bush...
Posted: Mon, Dec 5, 2005 4:20am PST
textHindus and Sikhs Protest Curriculum Changes in Calif. Textbooks by India West, Viji Sundaram (reposted)
Some Hindu and Sikh activists in the U.S. who have been trying in recent months to persuade the California Board of Education to adopt curriculum revisions in textbooks for elementary and middle school students say they are unhappy over the direction their efforts seem to have taken while on the home stretch....
Posted: Sun, Dec 4, 2005 8:48am PST
textGreatest California Gold Rush Legacy ~ William Leidesdorff by Michael Harris
Primary source documentation of William Alexander Leidesdorff, Jr. begins to surface, thus the greatest California Gold Rush Legacy will be told....
Posted: Sat, Dec 3, 2005 5:14pm PST
textNYU Grad Student Strike: A Debate On the Rights of Students to Unionize by Democracy Now (reposted)
The New York University graduate student strike has entered its 24th day. On November 9th, some of the school's graduate student teaching and research assistants went on strike in an effort to force the school to recognize the graduate student union. We host a debate between Michael Palm, chair of the student union, and Paul Boghossian, professor of philosophy who is representing the administration....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 7:12am PST
textHampton Univ. Students Face Disciplinary Action for Anti-Bush Walkout by Democracy Now (reposted)
Seven students at Hampton University in Virginia face disciplinary action for staging a walkout during the World Can't Wait day of action against the Bush administration one month ago. Shortly before their scheduled disciplinary hearing, we speak with one of the walkout's main organizers....
Posted: Fri, Dec 2, 2005 7:11am PST
textlatin america studies - petition by joe mcelligott
latin america studies, cut education, lack of transparency...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 4:35pm PST
textUSA plans Dastardly Attack on Defenseless Orphans. by Maria G. Bush
USA is planning to test Dangerous Chemicals and Drugs on Orphans and innocent Children worldwide. Is there a Body Bag for an Orphan near you? No child left behind....
Posted: Mon, Nov 28, 2005 7:14pm PST
textSneak Attack on Organic food standards by USA by Anita G. Bush
Industry sneak attack on organic standards rammed through congress....
Posted: Sat, Nov 26, 2005 5:30pm PST
imagePhotos: Students of all ages protest UC fee hikes and discrimination
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by josh sonnenfeld
On Thursday, students from every UC and many local schools converged at UC Berkeley to fight for the right to an education. The UC Regents had voted Wednesday to raise student fees yet again (the Regents have raised fees 72% for undergrads in the past 3 years), while simultaneously giving lucrative pay raises to top administrators. Students won a victory Wednesday by saving some degree of financial aid (the Regents had wanted to cut even more than Congress just did with the largest cuts to fi...
Posted: Sun, Nov 20, 2005 6:35pm PST
imageCivil Rights March and Protest at U.C. Regents meeting
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by el greco
The U.C. regents have come to vote for fee hikes, nuclear weapons contracts, and continuing the illegal ban on affirmative action. we were marching today and demanding the same things as we were over 300 years ago. which is justice and equal rights in education and opportunity to live in harmony and equality. we are marching for global justice....
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 6:31pm PST
textTonight! The Spanish Civil War and Picasso's Guernica with L. Jarach of Anarchy Magazine by sea
The Anarchist Library, in collaboration with three other CCSF clubs: Cafe >Musee, Historia and the Hot Rod Conversion Club, invites you to a >presentation on the Spanish Civil War. >...
Posted: Thu, Nov 17, 2005 11:59am PST
videoUC-B Students March - Thursday - November 17th - 9am (video/quicktime 19.6MB) by Bill Carpenter
One of the demands on the Regents will be to enforce the Regents' Code of Conduct regarding sweatshop production of University apparel. Three-minute QT movie. 20MB....
Posted: Wed, Nov 16, 2005 10:58pm PST
textStudents Unite Against the UC Regents November 16th and 17th by Santa Cruz to Berkeley
Make Yourself Seen and Heard to the UC Regents! The UC Regents will be meeting at UC Berkeley's Clark Kerr Campus on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov 16th-17th. Wednesday the Regents will be voting to raise student fees another 8% ($492). Thursday they will be voting to cut financial aid. The regents meeting agenda is here. On Thursday, November 17th, there will be a March to Stop the Fee Hike! People will meet in UC Berkeley's Upper Sproul at 9am. There will be carpools from Santa Cruz u...
Posted: Tue, Nov 15, 2005 12:08pm PST
textJourney from Vision to Reality: Conventions of Colored Citizens, (1855-1865) California by Michael Harris
Establishment of a California Educational Advisory Committe to Commemorate the Conventions of Colored Citizens in California will be announced at the 150th Anniversary Community Rally, Noon, Sunday, November 20, 2005, California State Capitol, you are invited to attend....
Posted: Sat, Nov 12, 2005 1:48pm PST
text11/15: Assembly Hearing on California's High School Dropout Crisis by via assemblymember
When: Tuesday, November 15, 2005 9:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m. Where: Richmond High School Little Theater 1250 23rd Street, Richmond...
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 8:17pm PST
imageRecent High School Grad Wins Seat on School Board
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by Natalie Wood
18 Year-Old Shane Brinton elected to the Northern Humboldt County School Board....
Posted: Thu, Nov 10, 2005 9:58am PST
imageHemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants
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by al-masakin
By Edward Campbell Hemingway doesn’t tell us that his story is about abortion and, without being told, one who is not familiar with abortion would not have guessed the topic of discussion between the man and the girl. He showed his command of the techniques of realism by making his fiction correspond to the reality of people like him who have experienced similar difficulties. But only those so initiated are capable of understanding the theme of the tale....
Posted: Fri, Nov 4, 2005 2:07pm PST
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