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  • From Teachers’ Strike Towards Dual Power The Revolutionary Surge in Oaxaca
    1 September 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    From Teachers’ Strike Towards Dual Power The Revolutionary Surge in Oaxaca
    By GEORGE SALZMAN
    Oaxaca, Mexico.
    Oaxaca shares, with Chiapas and Guerrero, the distinction of being the one of the three poorest states of Mexico. These three bastions of extreme poverty, albeit among the richest states of Mexico in natural resources, lie along the Pacific coastline in southeastern Mexico. Oaxaca is flanked to its east by Chiapas and to its west by Guerrero. Its population, about 3.5 million (…)

  • COURAGE AND RESISTANCE IN OAXACA AND MEXICO CITY
    30 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Courage and Resistance in Oaxaca and Mexico City - by Stephen Lendman
    It began on May 15 this year when teachers belonging to the 70,000 strong National Union of Education Workers in Oaxaca, Mexico took to the streets for the first time to press their demands to the state government to address their long-neglected needs. They included restructuring teachers’ salaries, improving the deplorable educational infrastructure forcing teachers to conduct classes in laminated cardboard shacks, a (…)

  • Alarming Prank "Terror" Attack in University of Oklahoma Library
    23 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Michael P. Wright — Norman, Oklahoma, USA — mpwright9@aol.com This information is the product of research I am doing for a book about the corrupt atmosphere of the University of Oklahoma under the rule of former U.S. Senator David Boren, widely known as the mentor and patron of George Tenet. I am willing to ask my confidential source to contact journalists and writers who would like to interview him. Email me with this request. Those reporting this information are asked to (…)

  • Four-Fifths of U.S. High School Graduates Not Ready for College
    17 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Four-Fifths of U.S. High School Graduates Not Ready for College
    Aug. 16 (Bloomberg) — Almost four-fifths of U.S. high school graduates failed to pass this year’s standard examinations designed to show their readiness for college, test designer ACT Inc. reported.
    Scores on the four-part ACT test, taken this year by more than 1.2 million U.S. students, ranged from only 27 percent passing in biology to 69 percent in English, the company reported. A total of 21 percent met the benchmark in (…)

  • Kashmir students condemn Israeli aggression in Lebanon and Palestine
    9 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Kashmir students condemn Israeli aggression in Lebanon and Palestine By our correspondent in Kashmir Monday, 07 August 2006
    Only class war can stop imperialist aggression
    On August 1st more than 200 students of JKNSF (Marxists) organised a rally in Rawalakot (Kashmir) to condemn the Israeli aggression on Lebanon and Palestine. They were chanting slogans like “Down with imperialism.... Long live Socialism”, “No religious war nor national war...Class war, Class war” and were flying red (…)

  • Can You Say Hidden Agenda?
    8 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Discovery Institute’s True Raison d’être and Why We Need to Be Deeply Concerned
    by Jason Miller
    "In 1998, members of a Seattle nonprofit think tank drafted a secret five-year plan with an ambitious goal: to "defeat scientific materialism" and "replace materialistic explanations with the theistic understanding that nature and human beings are created by God."
    Discovery Institute, a Seattle-based think tank which champions socially conservative causes, has become heavily invested in (…)

  • THE HEBEGOGIA:SCIENCE OF THE EDUCATION OF THE ADOLESCENTS
    1 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The education of the man is a process that is fulfilled throughout all the life. And the life constutuye a set of perfectly connected stages, where each one contributes, absolutely enriches and projects the necessary conditions for the progressive integration, that includes the profit of the total humanización.
    And that total humanización is an infinitely collective process, of mutual relation between the people in the social conglomerate where each one is including. But also he is finite, (…)

  • Florida’s Fear of History: New Law Undermines Critical Thinking
    24 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Jensen
    One way to measure the fears of people in power is by the intensity of their quest for certainty and control over knowledge.
    By that standard, the members of the Florida Legislature marked themselves as the folks most terrified of history in the United States when last month they took bold action to become the first state to outlaw historical interpretation in public schools. In other words, Florida has officially replaced the study of history with the imposition of (…)

  • Government Monitored Anti-War Group E-Mails. DOD UC Berkeley Students’ Plans To Hold Protest
    19 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Government Monitored Anti-War Group E-Mails Report Shows Department Of Defense Surveillance Of UC Berkeley Students’ Plans To Hold Protest By Kaitlin Anderson, Contribution Writer Thursday, July 13, 2006 Newly surfaced government surveillance reports reveal that the U.S. Department of Defense monitored anti-war and anti-military e-mails sent by UC Berkeley students in April. The students’ e-mails contained plans to host a campus protest against the war in Iraq and against the presence of (…)

  • Students Call NZ To Speak Out On Israel Aggression
    17 July 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Students Call NZ To Speak Out On Israel Aggression
    The University of Auckland’s Students for Justice in Palestine call on the New Zealand government to pressure Israel to end the callous bombing raids in occupied Gaza and nearby Lebanon that has resulted in the death of civilians on both sides. The international community has failed yet again to address the core issues of the Middle East conflict by only calling for ’restraint’ alone, thereby paving the way for another regional conflict. (…)