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Branciforte's approach to No Child Left Behind Response to article in Santa Cruz Sentinel on 4-22-07....
Posted: Sun, Apr 22, 2007 4:43pm PDT
Ethnic Studies at UCSC WE ASK YOU TO PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO ANY E-MAILS YOU HAVE ACCESS TO AND ANYONE YOU FEEL MIGHT BE INTERESTED...
Posted: Thu, Apr 19, 2007 7:30pm PDT
Facts behind UCSC protest (of April 5, 2005) The following Op-Ed was published on April 10 of 2005, a few days after the first major counter-recruitment protest occured on UCSC's campus. It was written by a group of SAW activists to counter the Sentinel's irresponsible journalism and highlight the motives for the protest....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 1:09pm PDT
Massacre Exposes America’s Dirty Campus Secret As people struggle to understand the violence of the murders at Virginia Tech, NAM writer Earl Ofari Hutchinson suggests it reflects a growing trend in campus violence. Hutchinson's new book The Latino Challenge to Black America: Towards a Conversation between African-Americans and Hispanics (Middle Passage Press and Hispanic Economics New York) in English and Spanish will be out in October....
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:30am PDT
The Virginia Tech massacre—social roots of another American tragedy A day after the mass killing at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, along with grief and dismay, some reflections on life in the US are clearly in order. The event was horrifying, but no one who has followed the evolution of American society over the past quarter-century will be entirely shocked. Such psychopathic episodes, including dozens of multiple killings or attempted killings in workplaces and schools, have occurred with disturbing regularity, particularly since the mid-1980s. A tim...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 6:16am PDT
With Major Protests Imminent, Military Recruiters Withdraw from UCSC Job Fair FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 18, 2007...
Posted: Wed, Apr 18, 2007 4:36am PDT
Chomsky Accuses Dershowitz of Launching a "Jihad" to Block Finkelstein From Geting Tenure We play Part II of our conversation with two of the country's leading dissidents, Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn on U.S. wars from Iraq to Vietnam, resistance and academia. We also ask Chomsky about Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz who is lobbying DePaul faculty members to oppose Norman Finkelstein's bid to receive tenure. Chomsky says, "[Dershowitz] launched a jihad against Norman Finkelstein simply to try and vilify and defame in the hope that maybe what he is writing will disappear."...
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:23am PDT
Worst shooting incident in US history: More than 30 dead at Virginia Tech In a tragic episode Monday morning, the worst shooting incident in American history, a gunman shot and killed at least 32 students and faculty and wounded dozens of others on the campus of Virginia Tech university in Blacksburg, Virginia. In the end, the gunman turned the gun on himself....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:16am PDT
Two American universities clamp down on student anti-sweatshop protests Over the past two weeks, student protests at the University of Michigan and the University of Southern California have been met with arrests or threats of arrest by the university administrations. In both cases the students were protesting the use of sweatshop labor in the production of university apparel....
Posted: Tue, Apr 17, 2007 7:11am PDT
Get Involved with Education Not Incarceration In this update:
1. Become a Member
2. General Membership Meeting Monday, April 23, 6-8PM
3. Intern/ Volunteer
4. Help Us Fundraise - Canvassing, Grants, House Parties, Big Donations
5. No Child’s Behind Left… Come see Monty Neil talk on High Stakes
Testing, Tuesday, April 17
6. Come to Sacramento on April 25 to Help Pass a Bill to Support
Incarcerated Youth...
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 8:24pm PDT
US university shooting kills 33 A US shooting rampage at the Virginia Tech university has left 33 people, including a suspected gunman, dead....
Posted: Mon, Apr 16, 2007 6:06pm PDT
Robert Fisk: Fear and loathing on an American campus On the night of 11 September 2001, Al Dershowitz of Harvard law school exploded in anger. Robert Fisk, he roared over Irish radio, was a dangerous man. I was "pro-terrorist". I was "anti-American" and that, Dershowitz announced to the people of County Mayo, "is the same as anti-Semitic"....
Posted: Fri, Apr 13, 2007 6:37pm PDT
UC Berkeley Releases Missing Section Of BP Proposal Under Pressure From Student Campaign In response to a formal request from the student campaign Stop
BP-Berkeley, on April 5, 2007, the office of the UC Berkeley Vice
Chancellor for Research released the appendices to the proposal for the
$500 million research deal that is currently under negotiation with oil
giant BP Amoco PLC. Previously, the university had released an abridged
version of the proposal, hiding the fact that 115 pages of appendices had
been omitted. University officials have claimed that they are acting
"i...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 2:59pm PDT
Committee on Academic Freedom Letter on the Finkelstein Case Committee on Academic Freedom, Middle East Studies Association, Letter on the Finkelstein Case:...
Posted: Thu, Apr 12, 2007 7:21am PDT
We are not a Market: big tobacco and the impact on young people of color Young Asian American reflects on her involvement in the import car scene and her work with a non profit organization supporting her and others involved in the scene and the impact it makes in thier lives...
Posted: Wed, Apr 11, 2007 3:40pm PDT
Police killing of teacher provokes national strike in Argentina Teachers throughout Argentina staged a nationwide strike Monday to protest the cold-blooded police murder on April 4 of one of their colleagues, Carlos Fuentealba, during a protest in the southwestern province of Neuquén, approximately 600 miles from the capital of Buenos Aires....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 10:09pm PDT
US: Investigation exposes extensive corruption in student loan dealings A widening investigation by New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo’s office into dealings between college financial aid administrators and for-profit student loan companies has revealed extensive conflicts of interest, payments, and arrangements benefiting company shareholders at the expense of students and their families....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 10:07pm PDT
Open Letter to President of Depaul University On the merit of Dershowitz vs. Finkelstein
http://humanbeingsfirst.blogspot.com/2007/04/open-letter-to-president-of-depaul.html...
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 2:31pm PDT
Strong Program in School District Sees Success, But Needs Expansion According to the California Department of Education, over 30% of students do not graduate from high school—numbers which should make anyone look twice at what we are doing in our schools. The good news is that the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) already has a program with the potential to make school relevant to students again, and keep our youth from abandoning their education....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 9:14am PDT
SCHOOL MATTERS: Report Flunks Kids + Cops In light of the recent arrest of a central Florida six-year-old African-American girl by police officers at her elementary school, a recent report finds that African American and Latino students are disproportionately affected and targeted when aggressive disciplinary measures, like the use of police in public schools, are enforced. Liz Sullivan is the Human Right to Education Program Director at the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative (NESRI) based in New York City....
Posted: Tue, Apr 10, 2007 8:54am PDT
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