Education

Charlotte Renninger has graduated from Evergreen!
Congratulations, and thanks for all your good work at Media Island!

Story by Bruce A. Dixon, audio interview by Glen Ford

The historic strike of Georgia prisoners, demanding wages for their labor, educational opportunities, adequate health care and nutrition, and better conditions is entering a new phase. Strikers [4] remain firm in their demands for full human rights, though after several days many have emerged from their cells, if only to take hot showers and hot food. Many of these, however, are still refusing their involuntary and unpaid work assignments.

http://www.freehighered.org/index.html

This training will be composed of introductory emergency medicine, support work in radical communities, anti-oppression, folk & herbal medicines. While this will largely focus on medical needs for urban marches and actions, this training is easily tailored to wilderness spaces, your place of work, and all your favorit haunts. We teach from our own manual, with lecture, practical, and scenario-based approaches--(almost) all materials provided.

As in the past, the training will last a 3-day weekend--June 11th -13th (Fri 5-9, Sat/Sun 9-6) and we are hoping to see faces both new & old. Out-of-towners will be accommodated, as well as other needs to the extent possible. Some food will be provided. Childcare references are available upon request.

On the evening of July 5, Olympia will host the Pastors for Peace caravan as they begin their 21rst Friendshipment of material aid to Cuba. The caravan is intended to bring awareness to the illegal U.S. blockade on Cuba. The active blockade stems from obsolete Cold War views and a self-imposed Cuban exile community in Florida that deprive people in Cuba of food, medicine and construction supplies.

June 18, 2009 TVNZ

More than 100,000 university students, children, and teachers took to the streets in cities across Germany to protest at an educational system they called underfunded and unfair.

Activists blocked the entrances to university buildings, occupied administrative offices, and marched in protest parades in cities including Berlin and Munich, as well as in university towns such as Heidelberg and Goettingen.

Libcom.org April 24, 2009

Parents have occupied the roof of a South London primary school in a bid to keep it open.

On the morning of April 23rd, parents of children at Lewisham Bridge Primary School, Elmira Street, Lewisham, occupied the roof of the school buildings. They are protesting against Lewisham Council's decision to demolish the school and replace it with a new school run by a private company for ages 3 through to 16. The school is currently closed and the pupils have to arrive an hour early to be bussed to a vacant site in New Cross. This means a very long day for the children.

Students at New York University are occupying the NYU's Kimmel Center RIGHT NOW with a series of demands. The demands are centered around solidarity with Gaza and for transparency in NYU's investments and accountability of the administration.

The NYPD are on the scene and we need more support for the student sit-in so that we can prevent the cops from taking action against the students inside. This action is part of a growing student movement in NYC and around the country. What happens tonight will affect the future direction of that movement.

Call Conor at
979-204-9253.

Forwarded message from CUNY Students

At 8pm, December 18th, over 75 students reclaimed the cafeteria at the New School University as an autonomous student center. Students from several Universities commandeered this space. Students of City College, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center are here participating in this struggle. This is every student's occupation.

If this can happen at the New School, through the organized activity of 75 dedicated students, it can happen at CUNY. And we certainly have reason to be upset:  On the first day of the Fall 2008 semester, the

ROME (AFP) - Hundreds of thousands of teachers, students and parents took to the streets of Rome and other Italian cities on Thursday, to protest conservative Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's multi-billion-euro education cuts.

Organisers said up to one million people marched in the capital while nine in ten schools across the country were closed.

The Senate on Wednesday approved cuts of more than nine billion euros (11.6 billion dollars) in education spending for the loss of 130,000 jobs in primary schools.

The Freeschool Community is presenting a critical fund-raising benefit
beginning at 7 pm on Thursday evening, November 13th, 2008 at Media
Island, 816 Adams Street, Olympia, WA 98501. Donations are appreciated
but no one will be turned away for lack of funds.

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!!!

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.