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Support Oaxaca teachers on strike! (Videos + article)
Below is some raw fottage of what's happening....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 9:53pm PDT
Burning Cole: NeoCons Try To Silence Dissent And Maintain Control of Academia
Neoconservatism is an elite calling. It thrives in think tanks, not union halls; its proponents want most of all to influence the powerful. No wonder Ivy League labels have always been important to neocons. This fixation on intellectual prestige explains the recent neocon uprising over the possibility that Juan Cole, scholar and blogger, would become a Yale professor. It was one thing for Cole to hold forth from the University of Michigan, where he has been a professor for twenty years. But Y...
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 7:36am PDT
All New Orleans Public School Teachers Fired, Federal Aid Channeled to Private Schools
Immediately after Hurricane Katrina hit, the Louisiana state legislature voted to take over most of New Orleans' public schools and effectively fire the 7,500 teachers who work in them. The city schools are now part of the state-run recovery school district and control of many of schools is being given to private charter organizations. We speak with a member of the United Teachers of New Orleans....
Posted: Tue, Jun 20, 2006 7:10am PDT
Where were the Protestors when it counted
Where were all the marchers when their voices mattered most? Why did so few liberals vote?...
Posted: Mon, Jun 19, 2006 10:07pm PDT
In Oaxaca Mega-March, 400,000 Send A Firm No to the Repression by Governor Ortíz
Blockades and Occupations Throughout the State; San Blas Atempa Takes Back its Autonomous City Hall...
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 7:24pm PDT
Indynewswire: UCSC Diversity Coalition Rails Administrators (audio/mpeg 18.8MB)
Segment from The Indynewswire Show covering June 6th student demo for diversity in student and faculty retention at UCSC campus.
20:33...
Posted: Sun, Jun 18, 2006 6:32pm PDT
Testing Only Hurts Low-Income Students of Color Looking to Graduate
Every year in June, high school students don their sharpest outfits and pack school auditoriums to celebrate a key rite of passage: Graduation. The accomplishment typically generates so much excitement and pride in students, parents and teachers. That’s the way it should be....
Posted: Sat, Jun 17, 2006 9:46pm PDT
Emergency Protest at Mexican Consulate - Support Mexican Teachers!
Mexican Counsulate
532 Folsom St....
Event Date: Fri, Jun 16, 2006 12:00pm PDT
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 3:29pm PDT
Panel Recommends Firing Ward Churchill
A University of Colorado committee recommended on Tuesday firing a professor who called some of the World Trade Center victims "little Eichmanns," citing repeated research misconduct....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 1:30pm PDT
Dr. Martin Luther King Middle School in the Portola District in San Francisco
Solar is in and there is a lot of talk about it. It is nice when some organizations have been holding events to encourage youth to particpate and compete in events with Solar on their mind. It was fun going to such a Solar Event with the youth that were so well behaved and from San Francisco. The youth had a nice time but I must say the organizers put a lot of effort and fed the youth too besides giving me all some nice prizers. Kudos to the youth and the organizers....
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 10:45am PDT
School Beat: Last Day Of School
It's official. Today is the last day of the school year and most of us are breathing a sigh of relief. This was a tough one. Paired with continued successes throughout classrooms all over the City was enough heartbreak for all of us to have an ample portion. We all need and would like a bit of a summer vacation from the challenges around us. But, the upcoming year is already too packed with significant issues for us not to take advantage of the relative quiet of these interim months to become...
Posted: Thu, Jun 15, 2006 7:11am PDT
Stand-off Continues as Oaxaca Teachers Strike enters Fourth Week
Teachers Soliciting Signatures to Impeach Governor Ulises Ruiz Ortiz in a Struggle Between Civil Society and the PRI...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 10:41pm PDT
A Girl's World?
author is critical of article in newsweek about "studies" that say the classroom environment is not conducive to boys' learning styles...
Posted: Mon, Jun 12, 2006 2:44pm PDT
Mayor Gavin Newsom where do you stand on this one?
The Joseph Lee Gym is closed because it is under construction. Keeping in mind turf wars the YOUTH have no place to go to play. Now add to this problem other gyms shut down and the youth adversely affected. So the youth gather to talk and who do you think comes to round them? Who do you think comes to haress them? Who do you think is responsible to harm our youth by using dubious ploys? Now tell me do you really think Mayor Gavin Newsom - talks the talk or does he really walk the walk? What h...
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2006 2:10pm PDT
BTL:Librarians Who Challenged Patriot Act Win Right To Speak Out
Interview with George Christian, executive director of the Library Connection in Windsor, Conn. conducted by Between the Lines' Scott Harris...
Posted: Fri, Jun 9, 2006 12:40pm PDT
Polynesian Youth Attend Retreat at South Lake Tahoe
Polynesian youth from the Bay Area and Southern California attended the Annual Retreat at South Lake Tahoe and came out with flying colors. It was awe inspiring to see our beloved Polynesian youth shine when they spoke, in the dances they performed, the sports they played and the way they all behaved. Kudos to the Mentors and the Chaperones for doing such a wonderful job....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 11:13pm PDT
Denton giving in to watching the students' skit (video/quicktime 12.7MB)
Unsatisfied with more of Denton's ambiguous statements, students pull off a skit in front of her (Actual skit not filmed). Afterwards, Denton leaves surrounded by the voices of discontent from the crowd....
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 9:13pm PDT
Asking Questions About UCSC's Missing Journalism Program
On June 7th, UC Santa Cruz students concerned about their missing journalism program asked questions of Bill Ladusaw, UCSC's Vice Provost and Dean for Undergraduate Education. Ladusaw seemed to place blame on UCSC's faculty for the loss of the journalism program, while dodging questions about the misappropriation of funds at the administrative level, including Chancellor Denice Denton's extravagant dog-run. Ladusaw encouraged students to seek support from faculty members and the academic sena...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 7:53pm PDT
Surprising Denton (video/quicktime 32.7MB)
Students and workers fighting for diversity at UC Santa Cruz silently gather outside a meeting with Chancellor Denton inside and surprise her...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 4:13pm PDT
Students & Workers charge institutional racism & sexism; Demand affirmative diversity
On Tuesday, June 6, coalitions of students and workers charged UCSC with institutional racism and sexism, declaring that seemingly passive and apolitical administrative practices and policies as well as subtle forms of racism and sexism have the effects of producing inequality, particularly for communities of color. Students and workers demanded affirmative diversity, arguing that for diversity not to be empty rhetoric, UCSC would need to provide infrastructural support for student initated o...
Posted: Wed, Jun 7, 2006 11:41am PDT