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  • French students in new rebellion
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Protests and occupations against the right wing government’s CPE labour law swept France’s universities last week. Danièle Obono, a student at the Sorbonne university in Paris and member of the anti-CPE mobilising committee, writes in a personal capacity about the revolt
    Over half of the 82 universities in France are taking part in strike action against the Tory government’s plans. Twenty five universities are in occupation.
    The anti-CPE movement at the Sorbonne started a week ago - we (…)

  • France : students clash with riot police
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Students clash with riot police protesting first job contract
    Dominique de Villepin showed no signs of bending to student and opposition demands that he abandon a hotly contested measure to combat youth unemployment.
    Hundreds of students clashed with riot police near the Sorbonne University in Paris on Tuesday. The student protests were presenting French President Jacques Chirac’s supposed preferred successor with one of his sternest tests yet in his nine-month tenure as prime minister. (…)

  • Riots in France - against the government’s youth jobs plan
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Students invade Paris school
    Scores of angry students and other demonstrators invaded one of Paris’ most elite schools on Monday and clashed with police in a new escalation of protests against the government’s youth jobs plan.
    About 200 high school and university students swarmed into the College de France to press their demand that Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin withdraw a plan that they fear will hurt job security.
    The protests came a day after Villepin, hoping to defuse the (…)

  • Sweat Shop Workers Tour US Colleges That Sell Their Products
    14 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Swanson
    "It would take half our salary to buy one of the sweat shirts we produce," Josefina Hernandez Ponce told students at the University of Virginia on Wednesday night. The classroom was packed to capacity with students in every seat and squeezed in on the floor.
    A flyer passed around showed where the $39.99 paid for a UVA sweatshirt goes ($2.40 in royalties to the university, $0.20 in pay to the workers who made it).
    But that familiar story wasn’t all that Hernandez Ponce (…)

  • Iraq’s intellectuals : Tortured, shot, ambushed, victims are found dumped outside morgues.
    11 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Dr Mohammed Tuki Hussein Al Talakani Dr Eman Younis Dr Jammour Khammas Dr Mohammed Washed Professor Wajeeh Mahjoub Professor Sabri Al Bayati Professor Laila Al Saad Professor Muneer Al Khiero Professor Emad Sarsaan ProfessorMohammedAl Rawi Professor Munim Al Izmerly Dr Ali Al NaasI The horrific killings of Iraqi intellectuals have left suspicions that occupying forces may be behind some of the cases, says Felicity Arbuthnot.
    It is estimated that between 250 and 500 intellectuals have been (…)

  • Harvard study blasts Bush education policy
    19 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Jason SzepTue
    President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind education policy has in some cases benefited white middle-class children over blacks and other minorities in poorer regions, a Harvard University study showed on Tuesday.
    Political compromises forged between some states and the federal government have allowed schools in some predominantly white districts to dodge penalties faced by regions with larger ethnic minority populations, the study said.
    Bush’s 2001 No Child Left (…)

  • Blocking Truth about 9/11: U.S. Universities are controlled by neocon fascists!
    16 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Blocking Truth about 9/11: U.S. Universities are controlled by neocon fascists! Monday: 02/20: Support the 9/11 March For Truth NYC ’06!
    Did you know that in early 2002, , a front by neocon Daniel Pipes, was installed to manipulate, silence, control and commit espionage against possible opposition groups among professors, scholars and students? The same Daniel Pipes was the author of "Green Peril" (1993), a propaganda piece against alleged Muslim terrorist groups. The same Daniel (…)

  • Worse Than McCarthy
    12 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    By ELLEN SCHRECKER
    When Barrows Dunham, chairman of Temple University’s philosophy department, faced the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1953, he knew that his job was on the line. He was determined not to cooperate with the committee or name names; so, after giving his name, address, and - reluctantly - his date and place of birth, he invoked the Fifth Amendment’s privilege against self-incrimination. He was more forthcoming with Temple’s investigation, explaining to a special (…)

  • Rumsfeld’s Scheme to Spy on Your Kids Pentagon Database Leaves No Child Alone
    6 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By MIKE FERNER
    All over the country, organized citizens are fighting to restrict the military’s presence in schools. But having recruiters troll high schools cafeterias is just one way the Pentagon inundates our youngsters with messages to "Go Army!"
    Since 2002, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has spent a half-million dollars a year creating a database it claims is "arguably the largest repository of 16-25 year-old youth data in the country, containing roughly 30 million records." (…)

  • Teacher Awaits Day in Court
    3 February 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Matthew Rothschild
    Deb Mayer was a teacher of fourth, fifth, and sixth graders at Clear Creek Elementary School in Bloomington, Indiana, during the 2002-2003 school year.
    On January 10, 2003, she was leading a class discussion on an issue of “Time for Kids”-Time magazine’s school-age version, which the class usually discussed on Fridays and which is part of Clear Creek’s approved curriculum.
    There were several articles in the magazine that discussed topics relating to the imminent (…)