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textTONIGHT: Stop Jerry Brown from Criminalizing Oakland's Youth by Measure Y Coalition
Who: A Broad Coalition of Oakland community organizations who want alternatives for Oakland's youth, the Measure Y Coalition What: Rally and Press Conference before the Oakland City Council Public Safety Committee meeting where Mayor Jerry Brown will push his opportunistic proposal to criminalize Oakland's youth for simply being present while a sideshow is occurring in order to advance his campaign for Attorney General Where: Oakland City Hall, 14th and Broadway When: 6:30PM Rally Up; Pr...
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 8:54am PDT
textSydney's Hate Machine 2GB and Alan Jones by Kabul
Prior to 06-06-2005 Jim Ball was denying the existence of abuse and desecration of Quran by the US forces and the same time he was injecting his never ending anti-Muslim, anti-Arab slurs and slanders. However at about 12.15 am of 06-06-2005 Jim Ball turned around and found valid reasons and grounds for the desecration and abuse of Quran....
Posted: Tue, Jun 28, 2005 2:35am PDT
textUrgent Letter from Hardknock Radio by Supporter
Family, Friends, Allies, Supporters, All Concerned and Involved: It is with profound urgency that we write this letter to the people with whom we have built this great community institution we call Hard Knock Radio (HKR). Without your genuine love and support, we never would have made it this far....
Posted: Mon, Jun 27, 2005 8:25am PDT
imageRadio Summer Camp - 0 to 100 watts in 4 days
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by m heffernan
Learn how to build an FM transmitter and set up a low power FM broadcast station....
Posted: Fri, Jun 24, 2005 12:21pm PDT
audioBerkeley School Board Votes Against School Name Change (audio/mpeg 5.5MB) by Kellia Ramares/KPFA News
The Berkeley School Board has voted not to change the name of Jefferson school to Sequioia. The vote culminated an effort begun by some Jefferson parents two years ago to change the name of the elementary school because Thomas Jefferson owned slaves. (5:57)...
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 7:21pm PDT
text6/28 Mobilize for Alternatives, Not Criminalization of Sideshows by Measure Y Coalition
Jerry Brown's opportunistic proposal to criminalize youth for watching sideshows is not dead yet. Please join the Measure Y Coalition, including Let's Get Free, Education not Incarceration, All of Us or None, Raporation Records, Oakland ACORN, Oakland CAN, PUEBLO, Critical Resistance and many more next Tuesday as we mobilize to demand alternatives for our youth, not criminalization....
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 4:18pm PDT
textOakland Teachers Not the Source of District's Woes by Oakland Teacher
The following Op Ed from the Oakland Tribune by OEA President Ben Visnick provides a good perspective of the issues and struggle we face around Oakland's teachers' contracts....
Posted: Thu, Jun 23, 2005 3:45pm PDT
textBlack Panthers, Mau Mau, and Buffalo Soldiers. by Francisco Da Costa
If it were not for the Buffalo Soldiers much that we see in California and in other neighboring would not be possible. If not for the Black Panthers a lot of empowerment that spread to all parts of the United States and deeply affected people of color would not be possible. The Mau Mau also played a role in empowering emerging Nations....
Posted: Fri, Jun 17, 2005 7:26pm PDT
textKollyfornia Reamin' by marc cooper repost
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Posted: Wed, Jun 15, 2005 12:18am PDT
textJerry Springer, Transgressing the Boundaries by anon
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Posted: Tue, Jun 14, 2005 5:05pm PDT
textStudent/Farmworker Alliance: Summer Encuentro & Call for Donations by SF Alliance
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
textAttack of the Knuckle-Head Mutli-Culties! by Marc Cooper
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Posted: Sun, Jun 12, 2005 1:26pm PDT
imageTenure Granted to Chapela
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by Ali Tonak
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
imageTent U Santa Cruz: a chance to win in the face of repression
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by Will Parish
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
textDon’t Let Oakland’s Children Be Sacrifices For Jerry Brown's Political Career (A Plea) by MYC's Anita of Raparations via Jen of Pueblo
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
imageNO CHILD LEFT UNTESTED <br>no union left unbusted
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by Inessa Armand
An Oakland school teacher talks about the effects of No Child Left Behind....
Posted: Wed, Jun 8, 2005 1:11am PDT
imageThe No Child Left Behind Disaster: how many schools left behind?
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by Jessie Muldoon
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
imageUC Regents Ignore Massive Resistance, Vote to Build Nukes
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by Santa Cruz Indymedia
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
textMobilizing against Education- and Social Cuts by Klemens Himpele
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
textRolling Stone: The Girl Who Tried to Save the World by Janet Reitman, Rolling Stone
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 &quot;great&quot; 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
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