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Arnold Picketed in Santa Barbara The Terminator showed up for an unannounced visit at the Davidson Library at UCSB today....
Posted: Sun, May 7, 2006 6:35pm PDT
University of Central Florida violates students' civil rights!!! At UCF, a PhD student was subject to the harrassment and stalking of the Assistant Director of Graduate Studies in 2004. When the student petitioned the court, the student was arrested by UCF police for exercising his civil right to do so. The student was then subjected to a hearing by the Office of Student Conduct, which violated his civil right to face his accuser. After a hard fought battle, the student gained the right to another hearing, where his rights were again violated. This con...
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 10:52pm PDT
Advocacy Workshop for Special Needs Children Recognizing the need for further parent training and education, parents and community groups, including Learning Disabilities Association of Orange County and California Safe Schools, are organizing the free Parent Workshop at the Goldy S. Lewis Community Center in the city of Rancho Cucamonga....
Posted: Thu, May 4, 2006 9:02pm PDT
Why Leftists Mistrust Liberals Some of my best friends are liberals. Really. But I have found it is best not to rely on them politically....
Posted: Fri, Apr 28, 2006 6:18am PDT
Virginia students sit in, 17 arrested in solidarity with campus workers for living wage Seventeen University of Virginia students were arrested on the Charlottesville campus April 15 because they staged a four-day sit-in at the university president’s office. The students demanded the administration accept its “moral responsibility” and commit to paying a living wage to university workers....
Posted: Fri, Apr 21, 2006 6:53am PDT
Greece: Anarchists/Leftists clash with fascists at Panteion University Greece: Anarchists/Leftists clash with fascists at Panteion University...
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 10:55pm PDT
Villaraigosa Offers Plan for LAUSD Control Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa finally provided details to his plan to take over the Los Angeles Unified School District Tuesday during his first State of the City address....
Posted: Thu, Apr 20, 2006 7:49pm PDT
New York City: random searches for public school students In a further erosion of democratic rights in New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced that after April 24, School Safety Agents and police officers will perform random searches with metal detectors of students attending the city’s middle and high schools. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said the searches might affect as many as 10 schools a day, noting that the Police Department already had the necessary material and personnel. The president of the United Federation of Teachers, Ran...
Posted: Wed, Apr 19, 2006 6:32am PDT
Black is White; White is Black: Bush and Freedom of Speech I suspect Andrew Jones and George W. Bush have never consulted one another on their plans. But I do know that they need each other. A founding member of the Bruin Alumni Association, Jones wants to pay students to monitor the speech of professors in order to uncover any ideologically inappropriate and/or seditious speech. Jones and I are also connected because we are both UCLA grads. But while I embraced disparate ideas at UCLA, Jones feared them....
Posted: Thu, Apr 13, 2006 9:08am PDT
Sweat Free UC Sweat Free UC: Send a Message to UC President through Local Impact's Website...
Posted: Wed, Apr 12, 2006 7:35pm PDT
Dallas High School Student Describes Organizing Mass Walkout We speak with Gustavo Jimenez, a junior at Duncanville High School who helped lead a student walk-out in Dallas last month that saw thousands of students leave classes to protest proposed anti-immigrant legislation....
Posted: Tue, Apr 11, 2006 9:33am PDT
audio tape link: Ward Churchill/David Horowitz debate Ward Churchill asked to debate David Horowitz, who wrote a book which called him a horrible professor who indoctrinates students. Horowitz is also leading a campaign calling for government managed affirmative action to ensure equal balance between liberal and conservative professors in academia. They held a first debate on April 6, 2006...
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 7:05am PDT
‘Our children are not for sale’: Baltimore labor slams ‘midnight attack’ on public schools ANNAPOLIS, Md. — “They want to turn our schools over to corporate America to operate at a profit. But our children are not for sale!” So said an angry Marietta English, president of the Baltimore Teachers Union....
Posted: Fri, Apr 7, 2006 6:52am PDT
Duke University Rape Case Raises Issues of Race and Class in Durham We look at the latest in the Duke University rape case. A black female student from North Carolina Central University says she was beaten, raped and choked by three white members of Duke's Lacrosse team last month. The case is stirring racial and class tensions in North Carolina....
Posted: Tue, Apr 4, 2006 5:20pm PDT
Thousands of Students Defy Lockdowns and Continue Walkouts to Protest Anti-Immigrant Bill Tens of thousands of high school students have staged walkouts in protest over a House bill that proposes a sweeping crackdown on undocumented immigrants. We go to Los Angeles to speak with Jasmine Chavez, a 17-year old student at Montabello High School and Luis Rodriguez, a community activist, poet and writer....
Posted: Wed, Mar 29, 2006 7:23am PST
France: University and high school students continue anti-government protests French university and high school students have continued to demonstrate against the Gaullist government’s “First Job Contract” (CPE) legislation, which allows young workers to be sacked without justification during their first two years of employment. The ongoing protests have further exacerbated the crisis facing Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin’s government, which has refused to rescind the CPE....
Posted: Wed, Mar 22, 2006 10:30pm PST
The Assault on Higher Education: The Conservative Push for the Right Student 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
New England Anarchist Bookfair || April 21-22 NEW ENGLAND ANARCHIST BOOKFAIR
Friday and Saturday || April 21-22, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 7:35pm PST
Observation Of Police Brutality Internationalilation of Police Brutality...
Posted: Mon, Mar 20, 2006 3:17pm PST
France: National student protest held against government attack on young workers 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
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