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Dallas High School Student Describes Organizing Mass Walkout We speak with Gustavo Jimenez, a junior at Duncanville High School who helped lead a student walk-out in Dallas last month that saw thousands of students leave classes to protest proposed anti-immigrant legislation....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:33am PDT
audio tape link: Ward Churchill/David Horowitz debate Ward Churchill asked to debate David Horowitz, who wrote a book which called him a horrible professor who indoctrinates students. Horowitz is also leading a campaign calling for government managed affirmative action to ensure equal balance between liberal and conservative professors in academia. They held a first debate on April 6, 2006...
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 7:05am PDT
‘Our children are not for sale’: Baltimore labor slams ‘midnight attack’ on public schools ANNAPOLIS, Md. — “They want to turn our schools over to corporate America to operate at a profit. But our children are not for sale!” So said an angry Marietta English, president of the Baltimore Teachers Union....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 6:52am PDT
Duke University Rape Case Raises Issues of Race and Class in Durham We look at the latest in the Duke University rape case. A black female student from North Carolina Central University says she was beaten, raped and choked by three white members of Duke's Lacrosse team last month. The case is stirring racial and class tensions in North Carolina....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 5:20pm PDT
Thousands of Students Defy Lockdowns and Continue Walkouts to Protest Anti-Immigrant Bill Tens of thousands of high school students have staged walkouts in protest over a House bill that proposes a sweeping crackdown on undocumented immigrants. We go to Los Angeles to speak with Jasmine Chavez, a 17-year old student at Montabello High School and Luis Rodriguez, a community activist, poet and writer....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:23am PST
France: University and high school students continue anti-government protests French university and high school students have continued to demonstrate against the Gaullist government’s “First Job Contract” (CPE) legislation, which allows young workers to be sacked without justification during their first two years of employment. The ongoing protests have further exacerbated the crisis facing Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s government, which has refused to rescind the CPE....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 10:30pm PST
The Assault on Higher Education: The Conservative Push for the Right Student The news of right-wing assaults on higher education keeps coming: The state of Pennsylvania has a congressional board set up to investigate cases of bias in the classroom, the State University of New York System's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to allow white students to apply for scholarships originally earmarked for black, Hispanic, and American Indian students. Barely a day passes when those of us who work in higher education are not forced to face yet another example of the increasin...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:45am PST
New England Anarchist Bookfair || April 21-22 NEW ENGLAND ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
Friday and Saturday || April 21-22, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 7:35pm PST
Observation Of Police Brutality Internationalilation of Police Brutality...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 3:17pm PST
France: National student protest held against government attack on young workers Hundreds of thousands of students and young workers staged demonstrations across France yesterday against the Gaullist government’s CPE (First Job Contract) workplace reform. Organisers of the protests estimated that 500,000 students took part—twice the number who participated in the last mass protest held on March 7. The growing mass movement has provoked a serious crisis for the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 6:31am PST
Virtual Sit-In in Solidarity with the Striking Students of France! 
We invite people from all over the world who support the french students
in resistance and oppose the precaritization of life
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity] to join the Electronic
Disturbance Theatre and borderlands Hacklab on March 16th and 17th, 2006
to engage in a virtual sit-in on french government websites to demand
that all of the students be released from prison and that the 'contrat
première embauche' (CPE) be revoked.
Join the action here: http://sdhacklab.org/fran...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 1:48pm PST
France: riot police attack student protesters at the Sorbonne French riot police on Saturday forcibly removed students who were occupying the Sorbonne to protest the Gaullist government’s bill gutting job protection for newly employed workers. Under orders from Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, the police stormed the occupied building and ejected some 300 student protesters....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 7:23am PST
A million protest against government attack on job security for young workers Close to one million students and workers demonstrated March 7 in 160 protests thoughout France against the CPE (First Job Contract) provision being implemented by the Gaullist government. Twice as many people participated as in a mobilization held February 7 to protest the measure....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 10:41am PST
Join California Safe Schools at the Los Angeles Arboretum The Los Angeles Environmental Education Fair...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 3:41am PST
Supreme Court Decision Allows Military To Circumvent Non-Discrimination Measures today's unanimous Supreme Court upheld a federal law that requires universities to allow the military
recruiters on campus, circumventing anti-discrimination measures...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 4:39pm PST
ACLU Brought In As Ghandian Tactics Bring Whiff of Victory in College Exclusion Case Arjuna Ahimsananda has fasted, picketed and complained to the Office of Civil Rights against Santa Barbara City College which excluded him "on trumped up charges fabricated from whole cloth" after he complained about some college policies and penned an article critical of censorhsip in higher education. Today he filed a formal compaling with the California ACLU....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 9:05pm PST
Call to boycott Boston University A call for a student boycott of Boston University due to their proposal to build a biosafety level 4 (highest level) biolab in Roxbury, the poorest, minority neighborhood in Boston....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:11am PST
Lawrence Summers resigns as Harvard president The resignation this week of Lawrence Summers from the post he has held for the last five years as president of Harvard has provoked an extraordinary firestorm of political controversy far from the ivied halls of what has long been considered one of the premier US universities....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 6:22am PST
Immigration Matters: America Needs the Dream Act for Undocumented Students Denying educational opportunities to children of undocumented immigrants is un-American and self-destructive. Congress must pass the DREAM Act for the country’s sake....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 7:00am PST
France: Students mobilise against destruction of working conditions for youth Organisations representing French university and high school students (lycéens) have called for a week of mass meetings and mobilisations all over France, starting January 30, in preparation for a national demonstration February 7 against the proposed First Job Contract (CPE—Contrat première embauche). Prime Minister Dominique De Villepin’s project, supposedly a response to the youth disturbances that rocked the country for three weeks last October and November, will give employers the right ...
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2006 9:33am PST
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