Upcoming Education Events in the Bay Area

1. School Board Meeting on Closures: Dec 15th
2. Regional Meeting on Education: Dec 12
3. Forums on No Child Left Behind, Tuesday
4. Californians for Justice Holiday Party, Wednesday

1. Please Mobilize Your Members to the Oakland School Board meeting and rally on Wednesday, December 15, beginning at 4PM at Oakland Technical High School, 4351 Broadway (accessible from Macarthur BART and Bus Route 51). It is at this meeting where the Oakland State Occupier (Administrator) Randy Ward will attempt to push through his plan to close 5 more Oakland schools in Oakland's poorest neighborhoods and privatize countless others. Now is the time to speak out!! Also, call his office at 510.879.8200 and let him know how you feel.

His plan and more information can be found at http://www.indybay.org

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2. Regional Meeting on Education by A.I.D.E


Friends,

As the year rolls around, another wave of budget cuts
and school closures is coming around. This year,
we are trying to connect our forces with all the
other forces fighting for education. As we continue
to build the AIDE network, we invite all of you to
help us build a stronger movement for education.

Started in the Bay Area, A.I.D.E. is a network of
folks concerned with educational issues. In a
Statewide conference held in October, people from SF
State, UC Berkeley, De Anza Community College, and
other schools and organizations of the Bay met with
students organizing in Santa Cruz, Long Beach, Santa
Barbara, Sonoma and San Diego.

Our objective is to get more representation in order
to collectively strategize for building a more unified
movement to reprioritize education. We aim to connect
the issues of higher education with those of K-12, and to
learn to diversify and escalate our tactics to include
collaborative use of information, outreach,
organizing, mass community mobilization and direct
action as guiding principles.
With these objectives in mind we invite you to a
regional call-out meeting to dialogue about our organizing efforts in
the
bay area and how we can support each other.

The meeting will be held Sunday
Dec. 12 from 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Richmond Making Changes
Freedom School. The address is 633 17th St, Richmond,
CA. Three blocks from the Richmond BART.

Contact us an aide [at] riseup.net or call Robyn: (510) 508-6093

AIDE Network
S.F. Bay Area
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3. Organizing Against No Child Left Behind Act

Tomorrow (Tuesday)
4PM, the Oakland Education Association is hosting an
information session on the No Child Left Behind Act at
our office at 272 East 12th Street (OEA Members Only).


7-10pm, March4Education hosts a forum against No Child
Left Behind
Easter Hill United Methodist Church
3911 Cutting Blvd., Richmond, CA
March 4 Education and Richmond Federation of Teachers
members-at-large are organizing a forum about "No
Child Left Behind" to discuss how parents, teachers,
and the community can organize against state or
corporate takeovers or "restructuring" of our schools.
For more info, contact Diane Brown 510-501-7347.
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4. CALIFORNIANS FOR JUSTICE
END OF YEAR RECEPTION

COME CELEBRATE WITH US!!

2004 has been a year of important struggles in the
fight for racial justice in California schools. CFJ
successfully fought to defend college outreach
programs, celebrated the 50th anniversary of the
historic Brown V Board of Education Supreme Court
Decision and with allies from the Campaign for Quality
Education demanded that the governor settle the
Williams V. State of California lawsuit. Come hear
about the victories and challenges from this year and
our exciting plans for next year. Also come meet our
new Executive Director!


Pleas join us:
Wednesday December 8, 2004
6:00-8:00 pm
Applied Research Center
3781 Broadway (37th ST)
Oakland, CA
Refreshments provided. Please bring your checkbook to
support CFJ’s work.
RSVP (510)452-2728
or ed [at] caljustice.org