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Student/Farmworker Alliance: Summer Encuentro & Call for Donations Join students and youth from around the country for a week of skill shares, reflection, community-building, trainings, and a two-day national strategy session as we plan for the next phase of youth activism after the historic and precedent-setting victory of the Taco Bell boycott. The Encuentro will take place in Immokalee, FL, from August 1-7....
Posted: Mon, Jun 13, 2005 3:13pm PDT
Tenure Granted to Chapela 
Controversial UC Berkeley biology professor, Ignacio Chapela (above) was granted tenure (job security at a university) this month after a 3 year struggle....
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 6:29pm PDT
Tent U Santa Cruz: a chance to win in the face of repression 
Activist networks in the U.S. and around the world were buzzing on the morning of April 19 with the news that 19 people were brutally arrested the night before at Tent University Santa Cruz. Tent U, an experiment in "liberated education," has captured the interest of thousands of students while creating fright and paranoia among UC administrators who, in the words of one well-connected UCSC faculty member, are afraid that "the torch-carrying hordes are coming to raze UCSC to th...
Posted: Thu, Jun 9, 2005 6:20pm PDT
Don’t Let Oakland’s Children Be Sacrifices For Jerry Brown's Political Career (A Plea) Don't Let Oakland's Kids Be Sacrifices for Jerry Brown's Political Career!
Below Anita of Raparation Records and the Measure Y Coalition makes a solid case for why we should start treating Oakland kids with the dignity and respect they deserve before we stand by and watch martial law go into full effect in Oakland.
Also below is reposted info on the next Measure Y Coalition meeting.
Seen a few sideshows in my time, but Jerry's looks like the most wack and dangerous this kids seen i...
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 9:43pm PDT
NO CHILD LEFT UNTESTED <br>no union left unbusted 
An Oakland school teacher talks about the effects of No Child Left Behind....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 1:11am PDT
The No Child Left Behind Disaster: how many schools left behind? 
There is a growing crisis in our schools and, contrary to George Bush’s claims, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is making it worse. Jessie Muldoon, a teacher in Oakland and member of the Oakland Education Association, explains why....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 12:58am PDT
UC Regents Ignore Massive Resistance, Vote to Build Nukes 
On May 25, a passionate display of concern and anger erupted from Berkeley students and anti-nuke warriors at the decision that the University of California will bid with corporate war profiteer, Bechtel, for the nuclear labs at Los Alamos....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 4:45pm PDT
Mobilizing against Education- and Social Cuts This struggle is imperative from the knowledge that the political measures of the neoliberal project are morally and economically false.. We can nly resist this false policy together. Students must convince fellow students that interests of workers are also their interests....
Posted: Tue, Jun 7, 2005 7:06am PDT
Rolling Stone: The Girl Who Tried to Save the World On the afternoon of Saturday, April 16th, Marla Ruzicka sat in her unarmored Mercedes, talking on the phone with her friend Colin McMahon, a reporter in the Baghdad bureau of the Chicago Tribune. She'd had a "great" round of meetings in the Green Zone, she told McMahon, and was just leaving the fortified compound in the hopes of squeezing in one last meeting before the end of the day. The Green Zone, which sits on the west bank of the Tigris River, used to be the heart of Saddam's e...
Posted: Sun, Jun 5, 2005 12:53pm PDT
Bee Article on Anti-Arnold Rally Here's the Sacramento Bee article on the rally at the capitol on Wednesday. It was sent out on the portside list....
Posted: Sat, May 28, 2005 10:47am PDT
"Not College Material: What it Means and What it Means to Today's Youth This article looks at what it means to not be "college material" and its implications....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 11:42pm PDT
Oakland Activists Protest "Fiscal Recovery Plan" For Schools (audio/mpeg 1.1MB) IN OAKLAND ON 5/25/05 TEACHERS, STUDENTS, AND PARENTS DISRUPTED THE SCHOOL BOARD MEETING, PROTESTING STATE-APPOINTED DISTRICT ADMINISTRATOR RANDOLPH WARD’S “FISCAL RECOVERY PLAN.” THEY BLASTED THE PLAN AS PART OF A NATION-WIDE RIGHT-WING ATTACK ON CIVIL RIGHTS AND IMMIGRANT RIGHTS – AND VOWED TO KEEP UP THEIR NATION-WIDE FIGHT TO DEFEND THEM....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 2:31pm PDT
Pictures from the Anti-Arnold Rally Pictures from the Sacto rally against Arnold....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 11:35am PDT
Labeling An op-ed on how the practice of labeling reduces and denies the experiences of people and society....
Posted: Wed, May 25, 2005 11:00am PDT
Punk Rock Activism An article about three organizations started by punk rockers to educate and mobilize the youth and citizens of today....
Posted: Tue, May 24, 2005 9:44pm PDT
Bay Area Students Demand Educational Equity 
High School and Middle School Students walked out of classes and marched to Frank Oglala Plaza to demand
- Non-compliance with No Child Left Behind
- Restore Local Control to Oakland Schools
- Fully Fund Prop 98 and Equally Distribute These Funds
- End the High School Exit Exam...
Posted: Sat, May 21, 2005 12:35am PDT
Tenure Granted! I am proud to contact you with extraordinary news. Yesterday afternoon,
the Dean of the College of Natural Resources at Berkeley communicated to
me the intention of our new Chancellor to grant tenure to my position at
Berkeley.
This decision is a clear message of vindication not only of myself, but
also of the innumerable individual and collective efforts put into this
process by all of you. You have generously added your voices to the many
questions raised around my tenure review ...
Posted: Thu, May 19, 2005 5:46pm PDT
We, The Students: UC Students Rise Up to Oppose UC-Bechtel! 
Dozens of students from across the UC system will converge at the UC Regents meeting at UC San Francisco Laurel Heights to speak out in opposition to the UC's join bid with Bechtel for management of the nation's nuclear weapons labs. After meeting at 9 a.m. outside of the Laurel Heights building, the students will command the floor during the Regents' public comment period at 10 a.m. At roughly 11:20, we will conduct a rally outside the conference building. Please join us in opposing the nuc...
Posted: Thu, May 19, 2005 2:58pm PDT
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