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New G.I. Bill Would Help Vets Get College Education Saturday, May 24, 2008 : While passing the extension of unemployment assistance by a veto-proof margin yesterday, the Senate also overwhelmingly approved a new bill to help veterans pay for college....
Posted: Mon, May 26, 2008 9:12am PDT
Social Justice students need YOUR help! Local high school students have one week to get your support in order to bring $50k to their program. Vote for "LCC Social Justice" at the link below......
Posted: Sun, May 25, 2008 5:29pm PDT
Denouncing ICE Raids Press Conference and Rally on May 30th There will be a (press conference with various community advocates denouncing the raids in the Bay area) and rally followed by a community celebration....
Posted: Sun, May 25, 2008 11:29am PDT
ICE Raids in the Canal on May 22, 2008 Agents from Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) launched raids of Canal neighborhood homes at 5 am Thursday May 22, 2008, only two days after Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey held a hearing on the impact of immigration enforcement on children. It’s reported that 17 people were taken, including the father of a Bahia Vista student who was due to have cancer surgery today. His young son was terrified that his father was going to die....
Posted: Sat, May 24, 2008 9:20pm PDT
Juan Gonzalez on the Puerto Rico Primaries and a NYC Middle School's Student Uprising Against Standardized Testing Friday, May 23, 2008 :Juan Gonzalez reports on Puerto Rico's contentious primary, where voters can choose a presidential candidate but can't vote for them in the general election. And he details a remarkable boycott at a South Bronx middle school, where more than 160 students recently refused to take a three-hour standardized test. [includes rush transcript]...
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 9:10pm PDT
Something Rotten In Hungary Microsoft is seeking to monopolize the use of their operating system in Hungary and around the world...
Posted: Fri, May 23, 2008 8:25am PDT
STRIKE Results for 20,000 UC Workers Press Conference on Friday The central issue has been that wages have fallen dramatically behind other hospitals and California's community colleges where workers are paid an average of 25% higher for the same work....
Posted: Thu, May 22, 2008 11:46am PDT
Free Skool Picnic & Running a Free Skool - Saturday and Sunday We have fun, we meet people, we eat, we talk, we have workshops, we play futból....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2008 12:04pm PDT
Britain: University Students face worsening conditions, rising debt Wednesday, May 21, 2008 :Recent studies reveal that students in the UK face higher fees and growing levels of debt, coupled with cutbacks in universities. The Labour governments of Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have made far-reaching and historic attacks on higher education. In 1998, the Labour government legislated to allow universities to charge tuition fees....
Posted: Wed, May 21, 2008 7:31am PDT
Never Forget - Conscience Above All Must Lead Before The Beijing Games! Reporting on the selling, and the harvesting of organs and tissues; and the transplant surgeries by the Communist Chinese in Mainland China....
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2008 8:59am PDT
Australia: Demand mass meetings to reject Victorian teachers' union sell-out! Monday, May 19, 2008 :Victorian teachers should reject the sell-out agreement negotiated by the Australian Education Union (AEU) and the state Labor government of Premier John Brumby, and fight to mobilise teachers, parents, and the working class as a whole in defence of teachers wages and conditions and the public education system itself....
Posted: Tue, May 20, 2008 6:42am PDT
Phyllis Schlafly and Academic Integrity -- An Oxymoron? Friday, May 16, 2008 : Say it isn't so!
Ultra-conservative Phyllis Schlafly, identified with opposition to the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) but equally contrarian about most progressive advances of the past half century, received an honorary degree from Washington University in St. Louis today despite protests from faculty and students....
Posted: Sun, May 18, 2008 9:55am PDT
France: One million strike in defence of education and social services Saturday, May 17, 2008 :Over one million public sector workers went on strike, and 300,000 demonstrated in the streets in all major cities and towns in France on Thursday. The strikers were protesting government plans to eliminate 11,200 teaching positions and cut some 30,000 public service jobs....
Posted: Sat, May 17, 2008 12:06pm PDT
BEYOND TOXIC - by Alicia Sangiuliano BEYOND TOXIC - Alicia Sangiuliano...
Posted: Fri, May 16, 2008 7:57am PDT
Bio-Jet Fuel Airbus and Honeywell plan to create bio-jet fuel...
Posted: Thu, May 15, 2008 7:50pm PDT
Letter Sent to SFSU Students, From Your Friendly President, Robert A. Corrigan Fees to go up by $276!!
This is the exact letter that was sent to San Francisco State University students May 14, 2008....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 9:15pm PDT
FIRE JOHN YOO! Roundtable discussion and plan of action FIRE JOHN YOO!Roundtable Discussion & Plan of Action Thursday, May 15 6:30 - 8:30 pm
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists 1924 Cedar Street (at Bonita Avenue), Berkeley...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 12:10pm PDT
Defend public education against Sarkozy's cuts! Unite workers and youth across Europe and internationally! Wednesday, May 14, 2008 :The following statement will be distributed by the International Students for Social Equality at demonstrations throughout France on May I5. The teacher and student unions have called a one-day strike in opposition to government cuts in education....
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 7:38am PDT
1968, 40 Years Later: Student, Worker Protests Sweep France, Leaving Indelible Mark on the Country, and the World Wednesday, May 14, 2008 :May 1968 was a watershed month for France, when a wave of student and worker protests swept the country and changed French society forever. We speak to George Katsiaficas, author of numerous books including "The Imagination of the New Left: The Global Analysis of 1968."...
Posted: Wed, May 14, 2008 7:35am PDT
D-Q University Tribal College March to Board of Trustees Meeting 5/17/08 11am D-Q University Tribal College March to Board of Trustees Mtg 5/17/08 11am. JOIN US FOR ANOTHER MARCH ON THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES TO DEMAND OUR RIGHTS TO AN EDUCATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY FROM THE BOARD!!! The Next Board of Trustees Meeting will be May 17, 2008 11am on D-Q University Campus. We will be meeting at the Safeway on Covell and Sycamore St. in Davis, CA at 7am and walking to D-Q U from there!...
Posted: Tue, May 13, 2008 1:48pm PDT
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