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Pictures From Protest Against Oakland School Closures 
On Thursday January 8th, several hundred students, parents and teachers gathered at the Oakland Public Schools Administration building for a hearing on Oakland school closures. As dozens rallied outside, those trying to get in were met with the news that there might not be space inside since a small room was chosen for the public forum (despite the School District's hiring of extra security guards since they knew there would be many people attending)....
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 7:07pm PST
Education not Incarceration Forum to Respond to the State Budget Education not Incarceration (www.may8.org) Forum to Respond to Schwarzenegger's Proposed Budget
Saturday, January 31st, 11AM-1PM; Laney College, Room TBA...
Posted: Wed, Jan 7, 2004 6:26pm PST
Community College Students Plan to Fight Budget Cuts! Coalition-building to fight budget cuts for community colleges, K-12 and higher education....
Posted: Wed, Jan 7, 2004 4:17pm PST
1/8 Rally, Hearing to Stop Closure of 13 Oakland Schools Rally and Hearing to Stop State Administrator Randolph Ward's Attempt to Close Oakland Schools
Thursday, January 8th:
4:00 pm Protest
5:00 pm Public Hearing
OUSD Administration Building: 1025 2nd Ave//E. 10th St. (across from Laney College)...
Posted: Wed, Jan 7, 2004 10:19am PST
Queer Students to be More Protected after Federal Lawsuit Victory The Morgan Hill (California) Unified School District, where LGBT students have suffered years of harassment and discrimination, including physical violence, has agreed to a staff and student training program and policy protections, ending a five-year federal lawsuit by the ACLU and the NCLR....
Posted: Tue, Jan 6, 2004 8:29pm PST
Success in Puerto Rico's Demilitarization Campaign (No ROTC!) The successful demilitarization campaign of Puerto Rico has extended
from Vieques to the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez in an effort
to expel the ROTC program. On September 15th a group of students
established a civil disobedience camp at the base of a demolished ROTC
structure that was to be rebuilt for the military program....
Posted: Tue, Jan 6, 2004 4:50pm PST
A Letter from Julia Butterfly Hill to U.C. President Designate Robert Dynes I am concerned that a majority of the sources of our drinking water are polluted and that now, in many cases, even our very air is toxic to our health. I am concerned about the millions of children who go to bed hungry, and the statistical fact that it is more likely for a child of color to end up in prison than to get into college. And I am concerned that the United States is leading the world in manufacturing, stockpiling, and "disposing of" weapons of mass destruction....
Posted: Tue, Dec 30, 2003 12:46am PST
Student Group Plans "Million Student March" To Protest Arnold's Attack On SB60 Angry that the movie star-turned-politician abolished a law that would have let illegal immigrants apply for driver's licenses, the teens are trying to persuade a million students to join them in a statewide protest against Schwarzenegger -- and anyone else who has opposed licenses for the undocumented....
Posted: Mon, Dec 29, 2003 9:32pm PST
Student says gay fraternity should have chapter at Cal What clinched Matt Royal's decision to attend UC Berkeley went beyond the university's esteemed academic reputation...[he] placed equal weight on whether he would feel comfortable as an openly gay man on campus...It seemed odd, then, that the campus lacked one detail that some local universities have, a gay fraternity....
Posted: Sun, Dec 28, 2003 12:21pm PST
13 schools in Oakland face the ax OAKLAND -- The Oakland school district has finished making a list of 13 campuses that may be closed next year for both financial and educational reasons....
Posted: Sat, Dec 27, 2003 1:40pm PST
Links to Activist Groups, Unions and News Resources Dealing with Education This page will be updated periodically to remove old links and add new ones. Feel free to contribute links you would like to see on this page by clicking "Add Your Comments" or sending an email to: sfbay-web@lists.indymedia.org
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Links to Student Activist Groups
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2003/12/23/16664101.php...
Posted: Tue, Dec 23, 2003 2:19pm PST
Links to Student Activist Groups This page will be updated periodically to remove old links and add new ones. Feel free to contribute links you would like to see on this page by clicking "Add Your Comments" or sending an email to: sfbay-web@lists.indymedia.org
Also, if you have any suggestions about how the links are arranged, please post those ideas too....
Posted: Tue, Dec 23, 2003 2:19pm PST
US arrests schoolchildren in Iraq for protesting Schoolchildren arrested by armed US soldiers and masked translators for demonstrating against the occupation and in support of Saddam....
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2003 4:41pm PST
Laney College To Offer Course On The Black Panther Party A community college in the East Bay is going to be offering a history course on the Black Panther Party....
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2003 10:43am PST
UC Berkeley To Fire Ignacio Chapela For Criticism of the University's Deal With Novartis 
Ignacio Chapela, an outspoken biotechnology critic, has been denied tenure by the University of California, Berkeley and will be let go when his employment contract expires in June....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 5:53pm PST
Events at New College Peace & Social Justice Events at New College of California, December 11 through December 17....
Posted: Thu, Dec 11, 2003 12:15am PST
THE STUDENT WALK OUT AT FRESNO HIGH (video/mpeg 8.5MB) This is an interview with three of the student leaders from the walk out at Fresno High school. The show was originally broadcast on December 3, 2003 on KFCF 88.1 FM....
Posted: Thu, Dec 4, 2003 8:10pm PST
STUDENT REBELLION AT FRESNO HIGH! 
Students fight for justice at Fresno High School....
Posted: Wed, Dec 3, 2003 11:18pm PST
Universities return to aptitude exams to keep Arabs out The universities did little yesterday to conceal the fact that admissions policies are being altered to benefit Jewish candidates....
Posted: Thu, Nov 27, 2003 2:00pm PST
Snehal Sengavi on campus organizing, war, and UCB repression -- partII (audio/mpeg 6.4MB) Snehal Shingavi is one of three student organizers who is facing sanctions for his part in the campus demonstrations against the Iraq war on March 20th of 2003. In this half hour interview, he discusses campus organizing, the war in Palestine and the war in Iraq, and positions the UC Berkeley sanctions within the context of a nation wide crack down on student activism and political speech, and post-September 11th surveilance of immigrant students. 30 minutes total...
Posted: Thu, Nov 20, 2003 12:26am PST
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