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4/13: GLSEN Breaks the Silence with Launch of TEACH RESPECT Campaign GLSEN, or the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, announced today that it would launch a public education campaign entitled Teach Respect on April 13, 2005. The launch of the campaign will coincide with the culmination of the Day of Silence, where in over 4,000 schools an estimated 450,000 students in all 50 states and Puerto Rico will take a vow of silence to
bring attention to the bias and harassment experienced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) students and their a...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 11:08pm PDT
FIRE: Dream Act and PPIA USSA is working to pass The DREAM Act, the Student Adjustment Act, and the Permanent Partners Immigration Act (PPIA), which, together, would increase access to postsecondary education for undocumented students. Read the campaign details for more information....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 9:30pm PDT
Education Organizations Release Groundbreaking Legal Guide Regarding LGBT Issues in School In the fall of 2004, a consortium of national organizations, with leadership from the National School Boards Association (NSBA), published a resource document to help schools address legal issues surrounding students’ sexual orientation and gender identity....
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 9:26pm PDT
Day of Silence on April 13th GLSEN Breaks the Silence with Launch of Teach Respect Campaign;
Estimated 450,000 Students Will Take Part in Day of Silence 2005...
Posted: Thu, Apr 7, 2005 9:20pm PDT
Take Action:From the Ongoing Sit-In at Washington University in St. Louis 
The following is from a student participating in the ongoing sit-in/occupation in the main administrative building of Washington University in St. Louis. The sit-in is in support of campus workers who do not currently receive a living wage. Currently the sit-in has been going on for over 24 hours(as of noon april 5). Below this message is a list of ways you can take action....
Posted: Tue, Apr 5, 2005 8:07pm PDT
SIECUS Launches 'Families Are Speaking Out' to Help Parents Voice Concerns w/ New HHS Site U.S. Government Should Meet the Needs of ALL Families; SIECUS Launches 'Families Are Speaking Out' to Help Parents Voice Concerns Over New HHS Web Site, 4parents.gov...
Posted: Mon, Apr 4, 2005 4:30pm PDT
4/16-24: NYSPC National Books Not Bombs Week of Action! Join us from April 16th to 24th in our fight
for the Books Not Bombs Agenda:
H Fund Education - Not Empire!
H Military Out of Our Schools - No to the Poverty
Draft!
H Protect Our Civil Liberties!
H Campuses For Peace - Not War!
H Schools Not Jails!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 31, 2005 11:36pm PST
3/21 Update on Ward Churchill Ward was considering a settlement with CU in the hopes that it would
forestall a more general erosion of academic freedom and allow him to
return to his research and writing. Last week this possibility was
subverted by another round of personal attacks on Ward and by political
threats against the Regents......
Posted: Fri, Mar 25, 2005 6:11pm PST
States slam Bush education law PHILADELPHIA — The No Child Left Behind Act has wreaked havoc on our nation’s public school system, according to state lawmakers. A bipartisan panel of state legislators issued a scathing report, Feb. 23, on President Bush’s education law, calling it unworkable, inflexible, impractical and unconstitutional. The report accuses NCLB of setting unobtainable goals and not funding the demands it makes....
Posted: Fri, Mar 11, 2005 11:42am PST
56 members of Congress introduce the RISE Act A record number of 56 members of
Congress introduced the Removing Impediments to Students' Education (RISE)
Act yesterday....
Posted: Thu, Mar 10, 2005 7:01pm PST
Hemp - Could Save America 
The Weed That Can Change The World
From Varied Sources...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2005 8:56pm PST
"Postcards from Buster" the Bunny Creates Nationwide Flap Controversy has been brewing this year, since the news came out that in one episode, called "Sugartime!," Buster goes to Vermont and learns about making maple syrup. Buster is visiting Karen, who used to work with his mom. Karen's partner is a woman named Gillian, and they have kids. (!!!)...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:45pm PST
World Festival of Students and Youth in Caracas Aug.5-13th The Hands Off Venezuela Campaign is offering as a service to all those groups and LOC's organizing for the WFSY in Caracas, Venezuela on August 5-13th, our website to enhance and spread the word on your efforts towards it( see our main menu sub-section on left hand side).This is being done in a friendly way to help, since our site is viewed by alot of people interested in Venezuela and the Bolivarian Revolution....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2005 11:16am PST
The Justice of Roosting Chickens: Ward Churchill Speaks The Governor of Colorado has called for his "termination." Fox's Bill O'Reilly has attacked him consistently for weeks. He says he won't apologize and he won't back down. We speak with Ward Churchill, the professor at the center of the controversy over free speech and academic freedom on college campuses....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2005 9:23am PST
Ward Churchill has rights, and he’s right Ward Churchill has a right to speak about 9/11.
And Ward Churchill is right about 9/11....
Posted: Mon, Feb 14, 2005 6:20pm PST
The further hemorrhaging of Detroit—city to shut 34 public schools Detroit parents, students and teachers reacted with shock and anger to Thursday’s announcement that 34 of the city’s public schools will close their doors this June. More than 10,000 of the district’s 140,000 students will be uprooted and shifted to different schools when the academic year ends and the facilities are shut down....
Posted: Fri, Feb 11, 2005 10:31pm PST
Is Buster the rabbit bad for kids? On only her second day at work Margaret Spellings, Rod Paige’s replacement as U.S. Education Secretary, made her mark — she condemned PBS for producing a children’s television show that included two families headed by lesbian couples.
Unlike her predecessor in his infamous comment on the National Education Association, however, Spellings stopped short of calling the popular cartoon rabbit “Buster” a terrorist....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:54pm PST
The new McCarthyism: the witch-hunting of Ward Churchill The witch-hunt spearheaded by the ultra-right, with the assistance of the media, against University of Colorado professor Ward Churchill has dangerous implications for academic freedom and free speech in the US. It represents the latest manifestation of the new McCarthyism, the drive to suppress and silence critics of Bush administration policy and its “global war on terror” in particular....
Posted: Thu, Feb 10, 2005 9:50pm PST
New York’s public schools marred by corporate model, police repression On February 3, a New York City school principal and an aide were arrested for defending a student against a cop in a school located in the borough of the Bronx....
Posted: Wed, Feb 9, 2005 10:56pm PST
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