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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....

Matt Gonzalez interviews Sarah Lipson Green Party Member of School Bd....

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....

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....

Over the past several decades students and faculty of the University of California, often in tandem with nuclear disarmament NGOs in California and New Mexico, have conducted a series of campaigns to end the UC's involvement in nuclear weapons research, design, testing, and production at the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore laboratories. These campaigns represent an important contribution to the global nuclear abolition movement, which historian Lawrence Wittner has described as “the largest...

The following are some of the people at Stanford University who abuse animals, in the name of "scientific research", using our federal tax dollars: Alan Schatzberg, Tirin Moore, David Lyons, Emmanuel Mignot, Gregory Corrado, William Newsome, Corinna Darian-Smith, Jennifer Raymond and Krishna Shenoy. For details of how wasteful and unnecessary these experiments are, visit http://www.curedisease.com ....

Today December 8th the Governor of California is holding a private hearing for Tookie Williams to hear him out and will later make a decision…we caught up with Snoop who held an impromptu press conference as he was leaving San Quentin and asked him what he thought about the whole situation… He spoke about the spirit of Tookie and how he was moved by him. he talked about what Tookie meant to fellow gang bangers and why he would be better alive then dead....

Some Hindu and Sikh activists in the U.S. who have been trying in recent months to persuade the California Board of Education to adopt curriculum revisions in textbooks for elementary and middle school students say they are unhappy over the direction their efforts seem to have taken while on the home stretch....

On Thursday, students from every UC and many local schools converged at UC Berkeley to fight for the right to an education. The UC Regents had voted Wednesday to raise student fees yet again (the Regents have raised fees 72% for undergrads in the past 3 years), while simultaneously giving lucrative pay raises to top administrators. Students won a victory Wednesday by saving some degree of financial aid (the Regents had wanted to cut even more than Congress just did with the largest cuts to fi...

The Anarchist Library, in collaboration with three other CCSF clubs: Cafe >Musee, Historia and the Hot Rod Conversion Club, invites you to a >presentation on the Spanish Civil War. >...