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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
This article looks at what it means to not be "college material" and its implications....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 11:42pm PDT
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 Sacto rally against Arnold....
Posted: Thu, May 26, 2005 11:35am PDT
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
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
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
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
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
Student hunger strike = CSUFresno prez promises freedom but¿? 1.5 minute video...
Posted: Thu, May 19, 2005 11:13am PDT
Sacramento
State Capitol
4:30 to 6:30 p.m.
(Rally program starts at 4:30 with groups arriving at 3:00)...
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 8:47pm PDT
i and my family are being gang stalked/terror stalked on the East Coast (from Pittsburgh to Raleigh) by the membership of fanatic anti-democratic zionist institutions and their assets in the police and city workers. This is a growing phenomenon within the U.S. and it is meant to terrorize and silence political activists and artists such as myself....
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 12:27pm PDT
NCLR REPORT HIGHLIGHTS NEED FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO THE HEAD START PROGRAM FOR HISPANIC CHILDREN...
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 9:54am PDT
Citizens of San Francisco it is about time we step up to the plate and petitition the local government over MUNI....
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 8:51am PDT
What's next? A Crossword Puzzle? A Comics Feature?...
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 8:42am PDT
On the 51st anniversary of Brown vs Board of Education, hundreds of Bay Area high school students walked out of their schools to attend Take Back Our Schools Day. They rallied in front of Oakland's City Hall and the State Building to call attention to continued inequalities in local public schools....
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 2:38am PDT
Take BAck Our Schools Day Apparently has the Highway Patrol Out in Droves...
Posted: Wed, May 18, 2005 12:17am PDT
All week from Monday May 16-May 20th, a low-key demo is being carried out at UC Berkeley with the purpose of creating awareness about the new 12-storey bioengineering building under construction at the mining circle, awareness about the changing source of funding for the university away from taxpayer funds towards higher student tuition and private research funds with an incentive for patent generating choices of research, and awareness about Professor Ignacio Chapela's lawsuit against the un...
Posted: Tue, May 17, 2005 8:07pm PDT