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Reports from the field are still scattered and incomplete, but a picture of the March 4 Day of Action is beginning to come into focus....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 2:25pm PST
Hundreds of students from Fresno State and a wide variety of surrounding public education institutions marched through the streets of Fresno followed by rally of five-hundred plus. The rally and march were in protest of the massive budget cuts to social services in the State of California from which public education institutions are by no means immune....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 2:12pm PST
Hundreds of K-12 students have walked out and protesting on Telegraph Avenue....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 1:57pm PST
The Richmond Progressive Alliance's banner on I-80 on the morning of March 4 called for the end of wra and the funding of education...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 1:10pm PST
we won't take credit for this beautiful poster, but we thought that it should at least be made into a .pdf for easy printing and distribution. half-sheet, double sided. flip. on. short. edge....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 10:06am PST
Crucial to any struggle is labor for it is labor that creates all wealth and when labor withdraws its hand, nothing moves. One of the best labor-education sites is that of the University Professional Technical Employees-Communications Workers of America Local 9119. Throughout the day in September 2009, there were constant updates and photos....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 7:58am PST
The following list of demands is a screaming indictment of he bankrupt social order in which we live....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 7:42am PST
This March 4, for the first time in California history, all sectors of the state’s education system— K-12, community colleges, CSUs, and UCs— will rally together to fight for public education. With California confronting a $21 billion budget deficit this year — and with legislators likely to balance the budget on the back of public education — the stakes could not be higher....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 7:38am PST
Students, faculty, and workers gathered at 5 am at UC Santa Cruz to protest the privatization of public education in California. The students called a strike, and campus is shut down, with traffic prevented from going up to campus. As of 7 am, hundreds of students, faculty and workers have gathered at all campus entrances. Thousands more are expected throughout the day, especially for the 9 am and noon rallies, and the 5 pm general assembly, all at the base of campus at mission and bay....
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 7:31am PST
March 4th is here! Tell everyone! Spread the word! Walk out of class! Walk out of work! Go on strike!...
Posted: Thu, Mar 4, 2010 12:03am PST
Narrative account from the 5 students arrested while hosting a non violent direct action (study in) in Assemblyman Jim Neilsen's (R-Yuba City) office on March 1st....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 6:51pm PST
Oakland North correspondents Shannon Service and Josh Wolf sit down to review footage of last week’s dance party at UC Berkeley and discuss their impressions of what they saw that night....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 5:40pm PST
POLICE CLAIM TO HAVE "UPPED THE ANTE" IN PREPERATION FOR THURSDAY STATEWIDE PROTESTS...
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 4:19pm PST
University of California, Santa Cruz—
The protest held Wednesday afternoon, February 24, 2010 came in response to racially themed parties held at UCs San Diego and Santa Barbara, and in response to the state of diversity at UC Santa Cruz.
REAL PAIN.
REAL ACTION....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 1:55pm PST
A new report and campaign are calling for major changes in the way the University of California is governed. Amidst the proposed changes are elections of Regents by faculty, citizens, staff and students, and new term lengths and eligibility requirements for Regents appointed by the governor and legislature....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 1:09pm PST
Gerald Sanders, former Black Panther, gives an overview of the Black Panthers, discusses the issues with Haiti, Mumia Abu-Jamal, Haiti, and censored history topics....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 12:30pm PST
The following is a piece written by a BLAST member in response to the recent activity of the student movement against the budget cuts to education in California. While this is not representative of the opinions of the entire BLAST body, it does serve as a decent analysis of the situation from the perspective of a Black student militant....
Posted: Wed, Mar 3, 2010 2:16am PST
A dissenting view on the March 4 Strike and Day of Action to Defend Public Education...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2010 5:43pm PST
This letter was sent to UC Berkeley Academic Senate members from Chairman Chris Kutz...
Posted: Tue, Mar 2, 2010 10:54am PST




