Education

David Rovics and the Goods for Cuba Friendshipment -- TONIGHT in Olympia, TOMORROW in Portland!!

Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:55:10 -0400

The 19th Annual Caravan for Cuba, sponsored and organized by the Pastors for Peace (http://pastorsforpeace.org), is passing through Washington and Oregon and is in Olympia Washington tonight, June 19th. They're on their way to deliver humanitarian aid to Cuba, in defiance of the 47 year blockade against the island nation.

David Rovics (http://davidrovics.com), activist musician extraordinaire, will be performing at both events.

June 19th, 6 pm (with a film festival this afternoon)
Media Island, Olympia
816 Adams St.

June 20th, 6 pm
Liberty Hall, Portland
311 N. Ivy

Free, Donations Welcome (501C3 tax exempt)

ALL WELCOME!!!

Hempfield students protest arts cutback

pirate — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:35:32 -0400

By Chris Foreman TRIBUNE-REVIEW Saturday, May 10, 2008

A vocal group of Hempfield Area High School students walked out of classes for an hour Friday to protest a proposed curriculum restructuring that would affect the district's art and music programs and eliminate the high school activity period. read more »

Steven Pinker's "The Stuff of Thought"

Sat, 10 May 2008 16:30:09 -0400

STEVEN PINKER'S "THE STUFF OF THOUGHT"

Thomas Riggins

This is a reflection on a review by Barbara King, a biological anthropologist at the College of William and Mary of Steven Pinker’s new book, “The Stuff of Thought” in the April 11, 2008 issue of TLS. Pinker is a very influential cognitive scientist who made a name for himself with his 1994 book “The Language Instinct.” read more »

Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl UNIVERSITY STUDENTS AND ELDERS ARRESTED EARLY THIS MORNING

pirate — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:10:30 -0400

Monday March 31, 2008 PGA North America

Davis, CA- Student Leaders at Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl are preparing a demonstration at 5:30 pm tonight in front of the Yolo County Detention Facility after a series of arrests that took place today on D-Q University campus early this morning around 9:30 am. Seventeen Youth and Elders were arrested, most without being given the option of leaving. The Board of Trustees, accompanied by the Yolo County Sheriff’s Department have attempted to remove all the students from campus and brought in a locksmith to replace all the locks. read more »

Berkeley has a Tree Sit on the central part of Campus - 13 days

pirate — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 00:32:40 -0400

March 9, 2008 Indybay.org

On February 28 a tree sitter called Fresh climbed into a deodar cedar tree and hung a banner that listed some of the worst injustices at the university. It listed poor treatment of workers, the 13,000 Native American remains that the University stores in a basement under the pool and how the University has helped build every nuclear weapon in the US arsenal. The tree sit attracted lots of attention from students who wanted to know what it was all about and others came to support. read more »

Alameda high school students walk out to protest budget cuts

pirate — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:04:25 -0500

Tanya Schevitz, Chronicle Staff Writer

Wednesday, March 5, 2008

(03-05) 16:07 PST ALAMEDA -- Hundreds of students from Alameda's two high schools walked out of class today and marched to the district superintendent's office to protest $2.56 million in budget cuts approved by the school board Tuesday night. read more »

Support the Teachers of Puerto Rico

pirate — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:24:22 -0500

SUPPORT THE TEACHERS OF PUERTO RICO,

WHO FIGHT FOR THE RIGHTS OF US ALL! read more »

School stops cutting down trees after student protest

pirate — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:34:02 -0500

March 1, 2008

LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Lincoln High School has stopped cutting down trees around the school after students staged a walkout.

More than 200 students walked out of class Thursday afternoon to protest the removal of campus trees for a construction project.

LHS Principal Mike Wortman says he'll work with students and parents to talk about the project next week.

Information from: Lincoln Journal Star, http://www.journalstar.com

Police respond to reports of large protest at Miami school

pirate — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 14:59:59 -0500

Feb. 29, 2008

MIAMI (AP)-- Police responded Friday in force at a high school where a student protest turned unruly, with more than a dozen students being hauled away in handcuffs.

The disturbance at Miami Edison Senior High School occurred during a protest over the arrest Thursday of another student, a Miami-Dade County schools police spokesman said.

"That protest became very unruly," Charles Hurley, a schools police commander, told WSVN-TV. He said some students threw water bottles, books and other items at police officers. read more »

Students Walk Out Of Class In Protest

pirate — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 00:45:40 -0500

Fri Jan 18, 2008 The New Mexico Channel

Sixth-grade students at Carlsbad Middle School walked out of class on Friday in protest.

"We thought we'd stage a peaceful protest to address some issues that the students thought were important, and make our voices heard to the principal," said teacher Lezlie Gravens.

"It's not fair about the seventh and eighth-graders getting laptops and sports and us getting nothing," said sixth-grader Julie Wilcox. read more »