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Educators demand a fair contract and protest Randolph Ward's intimidation tactics 
More than 100 people turned out on short notice to demand a fair contract and to protest Randolph Ward's intimidation tactics. That night AFSME President Morris Tatum announced that his members have pledged that they will support OEA picket lines in the event of a forced strike....
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 10:55pm PST
You don’t need a diploma to go to jail Town Halls support children of color struggling to learn in West Contra Costa schools...
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:22am PST
How dare SFUSD reject City funds to keep our schools open! f you don’t think that the current San Francisco Unified School District financial crisis is your problem, think again. The following is what all the parents of public, private and parochial school students in the city of San Francisco should be thinking about and then doing in the next few days....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 10:21am PST
San Francisco Unified School District and the recent closures of some schools The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) has NOT allowed the students to have a greater say in the closure and vision of the schools in San Francisco. Again and again in an environment of hostile shouting and fiasco decisions are made at many SFUSD Board Meetings. Parents for sure have a say but the students too have a greater stake in their future in San Francisco....
Posted: Sun, Jan 22, 2006 6:45am PST
Be a Class Traitor for $300 a day Randy Ward, state administrator for Oakland Unified School District's receivership, is already getting ready to hire scabs when the K-12 teacher go out on strike--which it's almost certain they will. But remember that he forced 7,000 district employees to take a 4% pay cuts, while laying off 100 custodians, in 2004. Now this parasite, with privatization of the whole district on his agenda, is going for more blood and wants the teachers to pay more for their healthcare. The working class in th...
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 10:06pm PST
School Beat: Closing Schools Again Schools got closed in San Francisco again last night. After about an hour of passionate public testimony regarding the flaws in the process and the uneven impact on communities (especially African-American communities) as reflected by the schools on the list for closure, merger or relocation, the board deliberated and eventually made their very hard decisions....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 7:32am PST
Labor Studies Courses at SJCC San Jose City College is gearing up for classes starting at the end of this month! Unions want more people to become informed and active in the challenges ahead. Help get your colleages involved by enrolling in one of our 5 week mini classes(Marked *) or our special programs to become a Mediator or assistant with our immigrant Community! These are practical classes taught by excellent instructors that are committed to helping to create a more just society....
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 10:04pm PST
Black Parents Considering Student Strike Over School Closings Black parents met in the memorial room of the Martin Luther King Jr. Waterfall to stop what one city supervisor called the "death of black San Francisco" through the closing of dozens of schools in black and low-income neighborhoods. The decision by the San Francisco Unified board has been delayed until today January 19. Omar Khalif, one of the organizers of the Black Parents Together movement, urged parents to participate at the school board meeting, and says that a school strike m...
Posted: Thu, Jan 19, 2006 7:33am PST
Balboa High School Students tackle Polution Issues in the Bayview Hunters Point In a very bold attempt to think outside the box the students from Balboa High School went out of their way to study and explain the cumulative pollution impacts that have adversely impacted thousands of innocent folks mostly living in Public Housing at Hunters Point....
Posted: Sat, Jan 14, 2006 12:56pm PST
SFUSD gets an 'A' in gentrification On the eve of Martin Luther King Day and two weeks before Black History Month begins, the School Board of the city known as "America's most progressive" is likely to vote against Rosa Parks, Malcolm X, June Jordan, Enola Maxwell, Gloria R. Davis and even Willie Brown - closing nearly all the schools in San Francisco named for Black luminaries and several other schools located in Black neighborhoods. Martin Luther King Middle School is spared for the moment, perhaps because the schoo...
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 9:17am PST
SF Board of Education Halts Decision on School Closings Bowing to overwhelming public pressure, the San Francisco Board of Education voted last night to put off a controversial decision on school closures as city leaders scramble to avoid displacing thousands of students next year. At issue was a proposal to close five schools and merge or relocate nearly two dozen others to balance the San Francisco Unified School District budget. The schools were selected because of low enrollment or proximity to other schools....
Posted: Fri, Jan 13, 2006 7:49am PST
Communities Demand Reprieve From School Closures An energetic mass of over 100 students, teachers, parents and elected officials jammed the steps of City Hall yesterday, calling for a delay in the current plan to shut down 19 schools across San Francisco. Spearheaded by Supervisor Ross Mirkarimi and a grassroots coalition of community members, the rally called attention to the disproportionate affect the closures will have on people of color, as well as the lack of public engagement in creating the plan to shutter schools. Speakers demanded...
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 10:36pm PST
School Beat:Re-Examining School Closures In the face of fiscal pressures, any smart business plan addresses both the bottom line (costs) and the top line (revenue). The San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) school closure process has only discussed costs--why haven’t we discussed the revenue side at all? Cutting costs through closures is short sighted and amounts to an incomplete solution. Attracting families into the public school district is a better strategy....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 9:36am PST
Indian-Americans Decry Attempts by Hindu Supremacist Groups to Rewrite India’s History Palo Alto, CA, January 10, 2006 -- A coalition of American groups representing the immigrant communities from the Indian subcontinent, led by Friends of South Asia (FOSA), have taken strong exception to numerous misrepresentations of India’s ancient history and of Hinduism recently put forward by the Vedic Foundation (VF) and the Hindu Education Foundation (HEF) for incorporation into Grade 6 History/Social Sciences textbooks in California....
Posted: Thu, Jan 12, 2006 12:39am PST
You Don’t need a diploma to go to jail 
Thousands of children of color are struggling to learn in West Contra Costa County. The people organize a Town Hall....
Posted: Wed, Jan 11, 2006 2:38pm PST
1/2Mon7pm Matt Gonzalez Interviews Green Party School Bd Member Sarah Lipson intheRichmond Matt Gonzalez interviews Sarah Lipson Green Party Member of School Bd....
Posted: Mon, Jan 2, 2006 2:41pm PST
Free Skool Classes: Wednesdays January 2006. 6:30pm-8:30pm 1/11/06 - Anxiety, Panic, Stress
Explore these feeling and ways for living w/ them.
1/18/06 - Being an Ally to People with Mental Distress
This is a class for you if you have friends and
family who you want to support. And for every
radical who see addressing Mental Health as a
part of revolutionary struggle.
1/25/06 - Relations...
Posted: Tue, Dec 20, 2005 11:39am PST
Oakland Teacher Replies to Tribune Editorial The 12/16/05 Oakland Tribune attacked Oakland teachers for "boorish behavior" when we attended the 12/14/05 meeting of the Oakland School Board to press our contract demands and confront dictatorial State Administrator Randolph Ward. Here Oakland teacher and OEA activist Jack Gerson replies....
Posted: Sat, Dec 17, 2005 9:53pm PST
Black Farmers in America ~ Restore Agriculture as Foundation of Black Culture 7th Annual ~ California Kwanzaa Agricultural Exposition 2005
'Restoring Agriculture as the Foundation of Black Culture’
2863 35th Avenue @ Broadway ~ Historic Oak Park District
Sacramento, California
Saturday, December 17, 2005 Noon - 5:00 p.m. Free Registration...
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 4:10pm PST
OEA & BAMN Protest State Takeover of Oakland Unified Schools 
12/14/05 - The struggle continues for the Oakland Educators Association (OEA) and student activists from Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, & Immigrant Rights And Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) in their fight against ruthless state administrator Randolph Ward. He is the dictator at the OUSD School Board Meeting. The meeting was on the issue of adding a new Charter School to West Oakland....
Posted: Thu, Dec 15, 2005 11:45am PST
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