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OEA & BAMN Protest State Takeover of Oakland Unified Schools 
12/14/05 - The struggle continues for the Oakland Educators Association (OEA) and student activists from Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, & Immigrant Rights And Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) in their fight against ruthless state administrator Randolph Ward. He is the dictator at the OUSD School Board Meeting. The meeting was on the issue of adding a new Charter School to West Oakland....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 11:45am PST
Oakland Teachers & Students Protest Against State Administrator - Randolph Ward 
12/14/05 - The struggle continues for the Oakland Educators Association (OEA) in their fight against ruthless state administrator Randolph Ward. He is the dictator at the OUSD School Board Meeting. The meeting was on the issue of adding a new Charter School to West Oakland....
Posted: Wed, Dec 14, 2005 10:31pm PST
A People's History of UC Weapons Lab Management 
Over the past several decades students and faculty of the University of California, often in tandem with nuclear disarmament NGOs in California and New Mexico, have conducted a series of campaigns to end the UC's involvement in nuclear weapons research, design, testing, and production at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore laboratories. These campaigns represent an important contribution to the global nuclear abolition movement, which historian Lawrence Wittner has described as “the largest...
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 2:02pm PST
BAMN Press Conference: Keeping Katrina Students and Firing Sherman Boyson in U.C.Berkeley 
12/12/2005 - Press Conference in front of California Hall on the U.C. Berkeley campus demanding the firing of racist-sexist-bigot advisor of the social welfare department, Sherman Boyson and also a plead for justice to allow the displaced victims of the Hurrican Katrina disaster to stay at CAL as opposed to being let go after one semester....
Posted: Tue, Dec 13, 2005 12:12pm PST
STANFORD UNIVERSITY HALL OF SHAME 2005 (Cruel and Unnecessary Animal "Research") 
The following are some of the people at Stanford University who abuse animals, in the name of "scientific research", using our federal tax dollars: Alan Schatzberg, Tirin Moore, David Lyons, Emmanuel Mignot, Gregory Corrado, William Newsome, Corinna Darian-Smith, Jennifer Raymond and Krishna Shenoy. For details of how wasteful and unnecessary these experiments are, visit http://www.curedisease.com ....
Posted: Sat, Dec 10, 2005 10:19pm PST
Action Alert: Flyer Syriana We are mobilizing volunteers to distribute educational flyers to moviegoers before and after Syriana....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 9:45pm PST
Cesar E. Chavez Youth Leadership Conference FREE Cesar E. Chavez Youth Leadership Conference and Education Fair on Saturday, March 18, 2006 at Sierra College in Rocklin, CA for 6th to 12th Graders and parents of all school districts in Northern California...
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 2:22pm PST
Breakdown FM: An Interview w/ Snoop Dogg & Stan Tookie Williams mp3 download (audio/mpeg 17.7MB) Today December 8th the Governor of California is holding a private hearing for Tookie Williams to hear him out and will later make a decision…we caught up with Snoop who held an impromptu press conference as he was leaving San Quentin and asked him what he thought about the whole situation… He spoke about the spirit of Tookie and how he was moved by him. he talked about what Tookie meant to fellow gang bangers and why he would be better alive then dead....
Posted: Thu, Dec 8, 2005 11:31am PST
If California Doesn't Invest in Higher Education, the State will Suffer in the Long Run 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
How many children will they kill? Stop the baby killers. 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
Fight Racism & Censorship at New School 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
Ode to the president 
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
Hindus and Sikhs Protest Curriculum Changes in Calif. Textbooks 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
Greatest California Gold Rush Legacy ~ William Leidesdorff 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
NYU Grad Student Strike: A Debate On the Rights of Students to Unionize 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
Hampton Univ. Students Face Disciplinary Action for Anti-Bush Walkout 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
latin america studies - petition latin america studies, cut education, lack of transparency...
Posted: Thu, Dec 1, 2005 4:35pm PST
USA plans Dastardly Attack on Defenseless Orphans. 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
Sneak Attack on Organic food standards by USA Industry sneak attack on organic standards rammed through congress....
Posted: Sat, Nov 26, 2005 5:30pm PST
Photos: Students of all ages protest UC fee hikes and discrimination 
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
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