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ACLU Urges Federal Appeals Court To Lift Ban On Renowned Scholar Monday, April 28, 2008 : NEW YORK – The American Civil Liberties Union and the New York Civil Liberties Union filed a brief in a federal court today in an appeal challenging the government's refusal to grant a visa to renowned Swiss scholar Tariq Ramadan. The ACLU maintains that the government's stated reason for barring the scholar is a pretext and that Ramadan, a leading European academic whose work addresses Muslim identity and the role of Islam in democratic societies, remains banned from...
Posted: Mon, Apr 28, 2008 7:09pm PDT
Britain: Size of teachers' strike exceeds predictions Teachers voice their anger at government policy Saturday, April 26, 2008 :Two hundred thousand teachers organised in the National Union of Teachers came out on strike on Thursday in opposition to the Labour governments wage-cutting pay deal. NUT members had balloted 3-1 to reject the three-year pay award of 2.45 percent this year, followed by 2.3 percent over the next two years....
Posted: Sat, Apr 26, 2008 8:41am PDT
New website launced for UC Berkeley anti-vivisection campaign After their last website was removed at the behest of the UC, a new website was launched...
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 3:37pm PDT
THE BIG QUESTIONS PHILOSOPHY BOOT CAMP The thinkPhilosophy Outbound Programs Are Site Specific, Philosopher
Led Adventures into Questions of Truth, Goodness, and Beauty....
Posted: Thu, Apr 24, 2008 10:59am PDT
Memorial Oak Grove Supporters visit Simpson's Annual Stockholder's Meeting Supporters of the Memorial Oak Grove in Berkeley visit Simpson's Annual Stockholder's Meeting in Pleasanton requesting their chairman to divest his donation of $25 million to UC Berkeley's current proposed construction project that would raze the Grove, which stands on an Ohlone tribal burial ground and represtns a World War I War Memorial...
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 11:37pm PDT
FUN WITH SCRAP METAL with Trash Orchestra and the Bike Church! (4/26) A Trash Orchestra Build Day with the Bike Church...
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 2:14pm PDT
Students Hunger Strike for Justice for Sami Al-Arian - University of Washington, Seattle On Thursday, April 24th, more than 100 students will participate in a
hunger strike in solidarity with Sami Al-Arian and his struggle for justice. A broad
coalition of student organizations on the University of Washington campus have come
together in solidarity with Sami Al-Arian....
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 1:01pm PDT
Evidence Once Again Shows Abstinence-Only-Until-Marriage Programs Don't Work Wednesday, April 23, 2008 :...
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 7:28am PDT
Britain's teachers and civil servants to take one-day strike action Wednesday, April 23, 2008 :For the first time in 21 years, teachers in the National Union of Teachers (NUT) will come out on a one-day strike on April 24 in opposition to the governments imposition of a 2.45 percent pay award. With the current rate of inflation running at 4.1 percent this represents a pay cut in real terms. To make things worse, the pay award offered in January runs for three yearswith a 2.45 percent increase in September, and just 2.3 percent in each of the following two yea...
Posted: Wed, Apr 23, 2008 7:25am PDT
Yoo decides--the pretzeled logic of a tortured legal prostitute The spotlight is now on John Yoo, the opportunistic legal beagle whose infamous torture memos back in 2002 gave pseudo-legalistic cover to the Bush regime's "harsh interrogation techniques" at America's Gulag Archipelago in Guantanamo....
Posted: Tue, Apr 22, 2008 2:36am PDT
US: Largest student lenders halt private, consolidation loan programs Monday, April 21, 2008 :Following other major lenders, Bank of America, one of the largest student loan issuers, announced April 17 it would no longer offer private student loans because of the ongoing breakdown in the US bond market. Although BoA did not estimate how many students would be affected by the move, the banks private loans accounted for a quarter of its student lending last year, or about $1.1 billion....
Posted: Mon, Apr 21, 2008 8:10am PDT
Thousands Celebrate 420 at Porter Meadow thousands of people got stoned on Four Twenty, 2008, despite university attempts to harsh their mellow. crowd participants noted the numbers appeared to be the biggest crowd ever for 420. diversity was awesome. "nadie es ilegal" and "disarm ucsc no war" appeared on large banners. there were kites, drum circles, face painting, all kinds of joints, bongs, pipes and ounces rolled into blunts....
Posted: Sun, Apr 20, 2008 6:37pm PDT
Join Robina Suwol at Whole Children, Whole Planet Expo 2008 Two-Day Event Features Exhibits, Special Events and Family Fun!...
Posted: Sun, Apr 20, 2008 6:22pm PDT
Allegations of "Elitism" Also Brought Down America's Founding Fathers Smears of "elitism," such as those now made against Barack Obama, are almost as old as the United States itself. Moreover, one can argue that such smears go far to explain why the United States has never achieved the goals set by the Founding Fathers...
Posted: Thu, Apr 17, 2008 6:29pm PDT
Free Speech Under Fire Olympia SDS has been banned as a student group. This article includes story background as well as new developments....
Posted: Wed, Apr 16, 2008 2:27pm PDT
Gaza fuel cuts paralyze education, health and transport sectors Monday, April 14, 2008 :The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) is extremely worried about the continued Israeli ban on fuel supplies required for civilian life in the Gaza Strip. The stoppage in fuel supplies has paralyzed 50 percent of the educational sector as half the students in all educational levels are unable to reach their schools and universities....
Posted: Mon, Apr 14, 2008 7:52am PDT
4/13 UC Berkeley anti-vivisection home demonstration reportback UC Berkeley cat vivisector Ralph Freeman receives a legal home demonstration...
Posted: Sun, Apr 13, 2008 11:40pm PDT
Jackie Goldberg "The Changing Climate of Our Schools: Put Students on the Endangered List" Video and audio of an address by Jackie Goldberg at the 18th annual California Studies Conference at Berkeley City College....
Posted: Sun, Apr 13, 2008 3:26pm PDT
French high school students protest education cuts Friday, April 11, 2008 :On Thursday, April 10, tens of thousands of French high school students and teachers demonstrated for the fifth time in two weeks against measures affecting secondary education. The measures were announced by Xavier Darcos, minister of education in the conservative government of President Nicolas Sarkozy....
Posted: Fri, Apr 11, 2008 9:29pm PDT
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