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textThe Assault on Higher Education: The Conservative Push for the Right Student by CounterPunch (reposted)
The news of right-wing assaults on higher education keeps coming: The state of Pennsylvania has a congressional board set up to investigate cases of bias in the classroom, the State University of New York System's Board of Trustees voted unanimously to allow white students to apply for scholarships originally earmarked for black, Hispanic, and American Indian students. Barely a day passes when those of us who work in higher education are not forced to face yet another example of the increasin...
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 6:45am PST
textNew England Anarchist Bookfair || April 21-22 by New England Anarchist Bookfair
NEW ENGLAND ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR Friday and Saturday || April 21-22, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 7:35pm PST
textObservation Of Police Brutality by itai
Internationalilation of Police Brutality...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 3:17pm PST
textFrance: National student protest held against government attack on young workers by wsws (reposted)
Hundreds of thousands of students and young workers staged demonstrations across France yesterday against the Gaullist government’s CPE (First Job Contract) workplace reform. Organisers of the protests estimated that 500,000 students took part—twice the number who participated in the last mass protest held on March 7. The growing mass movement has provoked a serious crisis for the government of Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin....
Posted: Fri, Mar 17, 2006 6:31am PST
imageVirtual Sit-In in Solidarity with the Striking Students of France!
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by EDT & borderlands Hacklab
We invite people from all over the world who support the french students in resistance and oppose the precaritization of life [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precarity] to join the Electronic Disturbance Theatre and borderlands Hacklab on March 16th and 17th, 2006 to engage in a virtual sit-in on french government websites to demand that all of the students be released from prison and that the 'contrat première embauche' (CPE) be revoked. Join the action here: http://sdhacklab.org/fran...
Posted: Thu, Mar 16, 2006 1:48pm PST
textFrance: riot police attack student protesters at the Sorbonne by wsws (reposted)
French riot police on Saturday forcibly removed students who were occupying the Sorbonne to protest the Gaullist government’s bill gutting job protection for newly employed workers. Under orders from Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin, the police stormed the occupied building and ejected some 300 student protesters....
Posted: Tue, Mar 14, 2006 7:23am PST
textA million protest against government attack on job security for young workers by wsws (reposted)
Close to one million students and workers demonstrated March 7 in 160 protests thoughout France against the CPE (First Job Contract) provision being implemented by the Gaullist government. Twice as many people participated as in a mobilization held February 7 to protest the measure....
Posted: Sun, Mar 12, 2006 10:41am PST
textJoin California Safe Schools at the Los Angeles Arboretum by California Safe Schools
The Los Angeles Environmental Education Fair...
Posted: Tue, Mar 7, 2006 3:41am PST
textSupreme Court Decision Allows Military To Circumvent Non-Discrimination Measures by HRC
today's unanimous Supreme Court upheld a federal law that requires universities to allow the military recruiters on campus, circumventing anti-discrimination measures...
Posted: Mon, Mar 6, 2006 4:39pm PST
textACLU Brought In As Ghandian Tactics Bring Whiff of Victory in College Exclusion Case by Arjuna Ahimsananda
Arjuna Ahimsananda has fasted, picketed and complained to the Office of Civil Rights against Santa Barbara City College which excluded him "on trumped up charges fabricated from whole cloth" after he complained about some college policies and penned an article critical of censorhsip in higher education. Today he filed a formal compaling with the California ACLU....
Posted: Fri, Mar 3, 2006 9:05pm PST
textCall to boycott Boston University by Operation: Over
A call for a student boycott of Boston University due to their proposal to build a biosafety level 4 (highest level) biolab in Roxbury, the poorest, minority neighborhood in Boston....
Posted: Mon, Feb 27, 2006 8:11am PST
textLawrence Summers resigns as Harvard president by wsws (reposted)
The resignation this week of Lawrence Summers from the post he has held for the last five years as president of Harvard has provoked an extraordinary firestorm of political controversy far from the ivied halls of what has long been considered one of the premier US universities....
Posted: Fri, Feb 24, 2006 6:22am PST
textImmigration Matters: America Needs the Dream Act for Undocumented Students by New America Media
Denying educational opportunities to children of undocumented immigrants is un-American and self-destructive. Congress must pass the DREAM Act for the country’s sake....
Posted: Thu, Feb 23, 2006 7:00am PST
textFrance: Students mobilise against destruction of working conditions for youth by wsws (reposted)
Organisations representing French university and high school students (lycéens) have called for a week of mass meetings and mobilisations all over France, starting January 30, in preparation for a national demonstration February 7 against the proposed First Job Contract (CPE—Contrat première embauche). Prime Minister Dominique De Villepin’s project, supposedly a response to the youth disturbances that rocked the country for three weeks last October and November, will give employers the right ...
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2006 9:33am PST
textALERT - Stop the Budget Cuts! by Lynda Carson
A vote is possible February 1. Call your representatives toll free and oppose the budget reconciliation bill 1-800-393-1082...
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 5:52am PST
textSegregation Report Sheds Light on Challenges in Diversifying U.S. Schools by New America Media
Schools in the Northeast and West continue to be more segregated than those in the South, with California and New York maintaining schools that are the most segregated, according to a recent report from the Harvard University Civil Rights Project....
Posted: Tue, Jan 24, 2006 5:16pm PST
textBush uses Gulf Coast reconstruction to push for dismantling public education by wsws (reposted)
Over the past four months, the Bush administration and sections of both the Democratic and Republican parties have used the devastation inflicted upon the Gulf Coast during last year’s hurricane season as a justification to push through a broad range of right-wing policies. Among these reactionary projects is the drive to undermine the public education system through the promotion of charter schools and voucher programs....
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 8:23am PST
textRacial Profiling in Public Schools: Black Students Under Fire by CounterPunch (reposted)
By EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON...
Posted: Tue, Jan 17, 2006 7:41am PST
textWho Reads in America? by New America Media (reposted)
While many educators bemoan the decline of literacy in America, one writer says you can still find plenty of readers in the private corners and cracks of society....
Posted: Mon, Jan 9, 2006 9:32pm PST
text3/13-17th: National Week of Campus Action Against the War by via list
NATIONAL WEEK OF CAMPUS ACTION Week of March 13-17 Students Say NO to War in Iraq! College Not Combat, Troops Out Now!...
Posted: Wed, Jan 4, 2006 11:38pm PST
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