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  • Students Not Expelled! ...But Fight Not Over
    7 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By John Robinson
    Hampton University students faced disciplinary hearings on Dec 2, 2005 at 9:00 am in the Student Center cyber lounge. As I arrived I immediately noticed bands of protesters already picketing right outside the University. By the time the six other students and I met with the parents and lawyers in front of the room that the hearing was to be held, there were already over 20 student supporters standing right outside the door. As we made last minute preparations to our (…)

  • Students rebuffing military recruiters. More high schoolers in state opt out of lists
    14 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Maria Sacchetti and Jenna Russell
    More than 5,000 high school students in five of the state’s largest school districts have removed their names from military recruitment lists, a trend driven by continuing casualties in Iraq and a well-organized peace movement that has urged students to avoid contact with recruiters.
    The number of students removing their names has jumped significantly over the past year, especially in school systems with many low-income and minority students, where (…)

  • Intelligent Design Falls Hard. Dover, PA, reams school board over Creationist teaching
    13 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Robert Zeliger
    Tuesday’s school board election in Dover, Pennsylvania, a quiet rural community near the Maryland border where churches seem to outnumber streetlights, was a fitting climax to a year of bitter division there. In a contest with national implications, Dover voters tossed an entire slate of Intelligent Design supporters, replacing them with backers of evolution.
    The eight incumbents, calling themselves “Dover First,” were defendants in a lawsuit over a board decision last (…)

  • Bio-Terror at University of Oklahoma ?
    4 November 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA mpwright9@aol.com
    Just a month ago, during a football game on October 1, University of Oklahoma student Joel Hinrichs detonated a bomb on a bench not far from the west stadium gate and killed himself. The bench was right adjacent to a sidewalk, and the bomb exploded three minutes before half-time. Police confirmed that two days earlier he had attempted to buy ammonium nitrate, and that other explosives were found in his apartment when they (…)

  • Hundreds of Howard U. Students Greet Laura Bush With Protest Threatened With Arrest, Students Refuse to Back Down
    30 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    On Thursday, October 27, hundreds of Howard University students greeted Laura Bush with a militant protest against the war in Iraq, the criminally negligent and racist conduct of the federal government in response to Hurricane Katrina and cuts in education.
    Holding signs that read, "2000 Dead, End Occupation: Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, Haiti..., Money for Education Not War," the students began their demonstration at 11am in protest of Laura Bush’s presence on the Howard University (…)

  • BC Teachers Go Back to Work — Who Won the Battle?
    27 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Bob Rosen
    For the first time in two weeks, public schools in British Columbia were open for business yesterday. Teachers had voted over the weekend by a 77% margin to accept a mediated settlement to the dispute recommended by arbitrator Vince Ready. In the wake of the decision, there is much public debate and discussion, including among the ranks of teachers, about what was achieved in the struggle.
    Last Thursday, Ready released his proposed settlement. It included an award of $40 (…)

  • A Natural Inspiration
    23 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A Natural Inspiration
    Just for a moment, can we all jump ahead, say one or two years from now, into what could be a very real scenario. The draft has been reinstated. Our sons and daughters are faced with the choice of going to war or jail. Parents are in shock. They can’t believe this has happened to their very own. Shock turns to anger and confusion. Their former lack of concern and awareness of their government’s imperialistic agenda is starting to become the biggest mistake of their (…)

  • Cuba Today: A Nation Becoming a University
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Cliff DuRand
    Introduction
    Since the triumph of the Cuban Revolution on January 1, 1959, this beautiful island in the Caribbean has aroused passions everywhere in the Americas. Since its inception, the revolution has had a profound impact on the popular classes throughout Latin America and haunted the political elites and wealthy classes in the United States and oligarchies elsewhere in the hemisphere. Admirers have often praised Cuba as the model for the future; its detractors have (…)

  • Bush ’propaganda’ referred to U.S. attorney
    20 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    October 16, 2005
    WASHINGTON — Investigators at the Education Department have contacted the U.S. attorney’s office regarding the Bush administration’s hiring of commentator Armstrong Williams to promote its agenda.
    The action was disclosed by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.), who has pressed for a criminal fraud investigation focused on questions about whether Williams actually performed the work cited in his monthly reports to the Education Department.
    The Government Accountability (…)

  • Victory for Terrorism at the University of Oklahoma
    18 October 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    [Part of the text was accidentally deleted in the earlier attempt to post this commentary, so please ignore it.] Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma USA mpwright9@aol.com The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation defines terrorism as the" unlawful use of force or violence against persons or property to intimidate or coerce a government, the civilian population, or any segment thereof, in furtherance of political or social objectives. " The fear level has certainly been raised at the (…)