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textDemolition of People's Park Has Been an Expensive Boondoggle, Costs Rising by Author
According to their own accounting, the University of California has spent roughly 11-million dollars to turn People's Park into a dirt lot. In addition, the expected cost of their development proposal has increased by a third, now expected to cost 400-million....
Posted: Thu, Feb 29, 2024 12:04pm PST
textYouth & Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability: The Personal & the Political by Henry Giroux
Youth and Memories of Hope in the Age of Disposability: Connecting the Personal and the Political. There is a war raging in neoliberal societies, especially in the United States, especially against working-class youth, Black and Brown youth, and impoverished youth....
Posted: Fri, Feb 9, 2024 5:30pm PST
textSFSU Red Week Jan.29-Feb. 2 Rally on Thursday Feb 1 at 12:00 Noon-2PM by CFU SFSU
We're declaring RED WEEK for the first week back to campus at SFSU! Let's build on our strike energy and start our semester grounded in the collective joys and struggles of fighting for the people's university....
Posted: Mon, Jan 29, 2024 10:18pm PST
textOpen Letter To UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ and Berkeley City Council by Nom De Plume
This is an open letter to the Chancellor of UC Berkeley and the Berkeley City Council. Feel free to copy and email or fax this to them. Or print it out and give it to them in person....
Posted: Wed, Jan 10, 2024 1:26pm PST
textThe education crisis - just a symptom of general social failure by Bernd Liske
One aspect of our society, which is oriented towards self-interest rather than the common good, is that the systemic relevance of education is increasingly taking a back seat to being a market to be served and a nice playground for endless political debates and reforms with little substance, the main aim of which is to preserve the market and the hereditary farms......
Posted: Tue, Jan 9, 2024 6:14am PST
textUC Berkeley Violated Injunction as People's Park Case Continues in State Supreme Court by Author
UC Berkeley is under an injunction order, as the status of People's Park continues to be debated in court. That injunction was violated last night by the University....
Posted: Thu, Jan 4, 2024 11:52am PST
textOver 1000 Law Enforcement Personnel Converging in Berkeley for People's Park by Author
Various law enforcement agencies have employees currently staged at UC Berkeley. The number of expected personnel are to exceed a thousand. The People's Park raid is happening....
Posted: Wed, Jan 3, 2024 11:49pm PST
textPeople's Park Berkeley at Risk by Kat
The heart of Berkeley's counterculture is at risk again....
Posted: Fri, Dec 15, 2023 9:18pm PST
textLetter To NEA President and Officers On Palestine by NEA Members On Palestine
NEA members are circulating a letter to the NEA president and officers on Palestine....
Posted: Sun, Dec 10, 2023 11:43am PST
textNeoliberalism, Democracy and the University as a Public Sphere by Henry A. Giroux
What can educators and others concerned about the future of higher education do to make sure it is not colonized by corporate and other antidemocratic interests? First, educators & others need to figure out how to defend more vigorously higher education as a public good & how central it is in producing the formative culture necessary to educate young people to be critical & engaged....
Posted: Fri, Nov 24, 2023 2:33am PST
textPro-Palestine Student Group in Florida Sues University System to Prevent Deactivation by Palestine Legal
University of Florida’s Students for Justice in Palestine is represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Florida, and Palestine Legal...
Posted: Fri, Nov 17, 2023 11:23am PST
textOpen Letter to UPTE by Elizabeth Milos
Open letter to UPTE union leadership from UPTE member and candidate denouncing UPTE president Dan Russell for suppressing Resolution in Solidarity with Palestine and for not calling for a CEASEFIRE....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2023 5:40pm PST
textDeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida by Palestine Legal
Palestine Legal issued the following statement regarding DeSantis’ order to deactivate National SJP in Florida:...
Posted: Thu, Oct 26, 2023 2:03pm PDT
textConference on the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism launches new Institute by Emmaia Gelman
The newly-formed Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism (ICSZ) will hold its inaugural bicoastal conference, Battling the “IHRA Definition”: Theory & Activism, on October 13-14. Through the lens of research on structural racism, state violence, and social justice movements, the conference will analyze political campaigns that seek to codify the “IHRA definition” of antisemitism, and efforts to oppose IHRA policies. This is the first research conference focusing on IHRA campaigns, which ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 6, 2023 9:37am PDT
textFall 2023 National Immigrant Solidarity Network Immigrant Justice News Alert! by Lee Siu Hin - National Immigrant Solidarity
Biden Against Chinese-American and Immigrants—Except the Rich, are Unacceptable!...
Posted: Sat, Sep 30, 2023 10:21am PDT
textElisabeth Bronfen: "What amazes me most is the stubborn ability to repress" by Elisabeth Bronfen
We've greatly reduced the required reading... Five short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, plus the one compulsory piece of Shakespeare from the basic course and vampire and fantasy stories. If very little is read, diversity goes out the window, too....
Posted: Mon, Sep 18, 2023 11:38am PDT
text2023 Intenational Underground Railroad Month: 1854 Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar by Khubaka, Michael Harris
Discover the 1854 Gold Mining District of Negro Hill, Mormon Island and Negro Bar as we featured this 2023 International Underground Railroad Month...
Posted: Mon, Sep 4, 2023 10:16am PDT
text2023 California Admission Day - Discover International Underground Railroad Month by Khubaka, Michael Harris
California Admission Day was an essential part of the 1850 Compromise, a fiercely debated US Congressional Act signed by President Willard Fillmore that strengthened and extended slavery in Utah and New Mexico regions. The passage of the Fugitive Slave Law, which made the federal government financially responsible for capturing and returning freedom seekers to their enslavers...
Posted: Sun, Aug 13, 2023 2:17pm PDT
textOakland Teachers Strike Music Video by Javier’s Organics
Oakland Teachers Strike Music Video...
Posted: Tue, May 9, 2023 6:37pm PDT
textSF Board of Education Gives Green Light to Accommodate Eid Holiday Starting in 2024 by AROC
Arab and Muslim Community says, “We’ll Be Back”...
Posted: Thu, Mar 9, 2023 3:49pm PST
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